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Mixed Civil Society Response to New EU Aid Funds
- Inter Press Service
Civil society organisations welcomed the announcement of an additional 1.27 billion dollars in development aid funding by European Commission president José Manuel Durâo Barroso, but said it was insufficient to reduce extreme poverty by 2015, as stipulated by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Kenyan Women Sceptical Over Constitution's Promise
- Inter Press Service
Charity Karemi operates a pay-phone booth and sells mobile phone scratch cards in a Nairobi suburb east of the capital. She has mixed expectations of the benefits she will gain from Kenya’s new constitution.
Scarce Water Diverted by Greased Palms
- Inter Press Service
The battle to resolve the global water crisis is being grossly undermined by bad governance: bribery, extortion, embezzlement and high-level corruption.
INDIA: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
- Inter Press Service
He had decided to grow watermelons this summer on his one-acre (.405 hectare) plot, and so Veera Narayana went about preparing the arid red earth by first ploughing it and then lighting fires in the furrows.
U.N. Climate Body Urged to Take Lead in Gender Focus
- Inter Press Service
Two weeks before the 2010 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) review summit at the United Nations, concerns are being raised that gender equality is still largely divorced from efforts to address climate change, even though women have a critical role to play in solving - and are often most affected by — the problem.
AFRICA: Stronger Will Needed from Governments to Save Poorest Children
- Inter Press Service
'Herding goats is tough with the thirst, sun, loneliness and hunger each day. And it can last forever. You herd as a girl, then as a wife, as a pregnant woman, as a mother and even as a grandmother,' says Rukia Ibrahim whose 13-year-old younger sister was married off to a herdsman.
Fighting Dirty Water Is World's New Ecological Battle
- Inter Press Service
A primary topic of discussion at a weeklong international water conference here can best be summed up in two words: 'dirty water'.
AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase
- Inter Press Service
After weeks of rumours sparked by the leaking of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has officially released its report on the surge in farmland purchases and leasing which have elicited controversy for over two years.
Biking Across the Americas, Spotlight on Children
- Inter Press Service
Damián López, of Argentina, has been riding his bicycle the length of the Americas for the past three years. His mission? In addition to completing the long journey, he wants to shine the spotlight on children who are at risk due to violence or abandonment.
U.N. Weighs Sanctions Against Perpetrators of DRC Mass Rapes
- Inter Press Service
The U.N. Security Council is considering leveraging sanctions against the perpetrators of the mass rapes that occurred last month in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following a meeting held on the recent violence Tuesday.
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