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SRI LANKA: Constitutional Change Undermines Political Checks
- Inter Press Service
If Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa appears unassailable after the September ratification of a constitutional amendment lifting a limit on presidential terms, blame the main opposition party.
PAKISTAN: Floods Bring Out Another Crisis — Maternal Risks
- Inter Press Service
The floods that have submerged one-fifth of Pakistan have begun to recede, but the crisis has brought to fore one of the country’s hidden miseries: the plight of mothers, who are dying in tens of thousands each year.
Financing Public Health in Africa
- Inter Press Service
Campaigners for increased health financing welcome the commitment by African Union member states to direct more resources to health. But as the September MDG review of progress towards health and other development goals approaches, the needs of the continent seem to dwarf available budgets.
KENYA: Primary School Teachers Test Poorly in Mathematics
- Inter Press Service
Like many primary school teachers in Kenya, Nemwel Mokua is not coping. He has to teach a least six subjects a day, which include a mix of arts, mathematics and science.
DEVELOPMENT: Fewer Hungry, but More Hunger Waits
- Inter Press Service
Figures the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) presented here Tuesday revealing a reduction in the world's number of hungry people in 2010 for the first time in 15 years should be a cause for celebration. In reality it is a hollow success.
LABOUR: Newly Emboldened Burmese Workers Press for Change
- Inter Press Service
When nearly 1,000 Burmese migrant workers launched a strike at a fishnet factory in north-east Thailand a week ago, activists expected it to be a short burst of anger. After all, this frequently abused labour force was often gripped with fear during brief work stoppages in the past elsewhere in this South-east Asian kingdom.
BIODIVERSITY: Japan Cooks Up New Ideas as Fish Consumption Depletes Stocks
- Inter Press Service
A processed fish cake, made of a mixture of deep sea fish species pounded into paste and sold either deep fried or frozen, is the brain child of Takuhira Kaneko, head of Act for Company, which trades in fish and located in western Fukuoka city in Japan.
Kidnapping Spurs Fresh Call to End Impunity in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
Civil society is calling for an end to impunity for the harassment of human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The renewed call comes as an activist kidnapped at the end of August have described their detention and torture by uniformed captors.
World Bank Boosts Ag Lending Ahead of MDG Meet
- Inter Press Service
With the Millennium Development Goals review summit just one week away, the World Bank is the latest international player to announce its strategy to help achieve those goals by their 2015 deadline.
Summit Failure on Water, Sanitation Would Be Recipe for Disaster
- Inter Press Service
A weeklong international conference here has transmitted a strong political message to next week's U.N. summit meeting of world leaders: what good is the fight against poverty, hunger, maternal mortality and child deaths if water and sanitation are not given the high priority they deserve?
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