News headlines for “Third World Debt Undermines Development”, page 1291
ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Mining Project Digs Up Locals’ Ire
- Inter Press Service
Depending on who one talks to, Mt Mantalingahan is either a treasure trove of untapped minerals lying underneath the earth’s crust, or a biodiversity hotspot that is home to some of the worlds rarest and threatened animals.
HEALTH: H1N1 Pandemic Is Over, But Vigilance Needed - WHO
- Inter Press Service
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging countries in Asia to remain vigilant about the spread of the H1N1 influenza virus, which the international body declared was no longer a pandemic a month ago.
UNICEF Shifts Gears to Target Poorest of Children
- Inter Press Service
A focus on the children at the very bottom of the economic ladder is the most effective and efficient way to help children and communities in need, concludes a new report from the United Nations children's agency UNICEF released Tuesday.
Adapt or Perish
- Inter Press Service
A changing climate will prompt changes in behaviour across Southern Africa. And when it comes to adaptation, Swazi farmer Bongani Phakathi is a frustrated man a few steps ahead of his neighbours.
Q&A: Cuban Vaccines Cross Borders, But Barriers Remain
- Inter Press Service
Even today, many years after it was proved effective, the Cuban vaccine against meningitis B is still ignored by industrialised countries, whose medical literature usually states there is no immunisation against that strain of the disease.
ANGOLA: More Mothers Survive Childbirth and Poverty Slowly Reduces
- Inter Press Service
As darkness falls on a cool evening in Luanda, a group of women sit huddled under threadbare blankets outside one of the city’s few maternity hospitals. 'I have to be here,' Paula Silva, 45, said, shivering slightly.
Mexican Fishers Throw a Lifeline to Lobsters
- Inter Press Service
Faced with the voracious international demand for lobsters from the Mexican Pacific and Atlantic, fishers and environmental organisations have come together to institute sustainable lobstering practices -- although the financial benefits are slow in coming.
ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North’s Biopiracy
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South.
ENVIRONMENT: South Still Battling to Stop North’s Biopiracy
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issue of biopiracy is still pitching North against South.
PAKISTAN: Floods Leave Afghan Refugees Down and Out
- Inter Press Service
When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.
Powered by
Web feed for Third World Debt Undermines Development news headlines