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Global Development Blueprint Reveals Urgent Uphill Battle
- Inter Press Service
A document outlining the U.N.'s strategy to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 was finalised Thursday after months of heated negotiations.
Local Decisions Have Big Impact on Ecosystems
- Inter Press Service
What do New York City, Vienna, Quito and Rio de Janeiro have in common? They all get their high quality drinking water through aqueducts connected to protected areas in nearby hills and mountains.
SOUTH AFRICA: Greening Project Creates Income and Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Frances Mandla is visibly filled with pride. Together with her colleague, Nouniform Nqevu, she stands tall and smiling in front of a wide bed of lush spinach. The harvest will be their ticket to a better life. A life where there is enough money to buy food, clothes and pay school fees.
Harvesting Water to Save Crops and Lives
- Inter Press Service
Peter Kivuti, a 51-year-old farmer from Eastern Kenya, never relied on meteorological weather predictions all his life - until three years ago. It was then that rainfall in the region become less predictable.
AFRICA: Governments Failing to Take the Threat of HIV Seriously
- Inter Press Service
Experts worry that African governments are failing to take the threat of HIV seriously enough by not dedicating enough of their resources to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) efforts.
MEXICO: Responsible Tourism in a Lost Rural Paradise
- Inter Press Service
It's a mixture of volunteer work and tourism. The visitor pays to spend a few weeks in contact with nature and carry out the chores of an organic farm. The idea behind it all is to cultivate environmental awareness.
DEVELOPMENT: Cambodia Mulls Affirmative Action for Women
- Inter Press Service
Cambodian authorities must take sweeping measures to boost the number of women who sit in parliament if the country is to meet a key part of its global commitment to gender equality, advocates say.
NEPAL: Adoption Suspension Leaves Children in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
A big question marks looms over the future of many Nepali children in various child homes in the country in the wake of the suspension by 11 countries of their child adoption programmes for this Himalayan nation.
ZIMBABWE: A Long Dry Season
- Inter Press Service
Headmaster Njabulo Mpofu has weathered long dry spells before, but the water troubles affecting his school in the arid Midlands region of Zimbabwe are severe.
U.N. Chief Returns from 'Damage Control' Trip to Rwanda
- Inter Press Service
U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon returned Thursday from what has been described as a damage control trip to Rwanda, in an attempt to reassure President Paul Kagame that his concerns over the recently leaked Mapping Exercise report are being heard.
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