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JAPAN: Househusbands Giving Birth To More Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
US-MIDEAST: Light At End of Tunnel Elusive Despite Obama’s Efforts
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama will try this week to underline his progress in extricating the United States from the morass his predecessor's 'global war on terror' in the Greater Middle East.
SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Tea Bag’ Filter Provides Safe Drinking Water
- Inter Press Service
Though it may look like a tea bag, straining water through this recently developed filter could provide a cheap, easily replenished source of water for those who need it most.
EAST AFRICA: Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator
- Inter Press Service
Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results - for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake.
US: New Banking Overhaul More Like An Under-Haul
- Inter Press Service
On July 21, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping financial industry regulatory reform since the Great Depression of the 1930s. But, experts point out that the bill does not address some of the real problems behind the structural instabilities of the U.S. economic system.
Embattled U.N. Chief on Charm Offensive, Says Press Corps
- Inter Press Service
When an Asian ambassador hosted a sumptuous lunch for more than a dozen U.N. correspondents in his swanky New York apartment many moons ago, he confessed he had a hidden agenda.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Environment Lawsuits Often Become Lonely Fights
- Inter Press Service
Feng Jun's fight against a local government and the steel mills he believes polluted the water that killed his daughter has cost him nearly everything.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Mob Brutality Raises Painful Questions
- Inter Press Service
A breakdown in Pakistan’s justice system, a sign of a society desensitised to violence, an example of mob brutality.
BURMA: Military Shake-up Reveals Junta’s Plans for New Gov’t
- Inter Press Service
As the November general election in Burma approaches, the country’s junta is revealing the political designs underway in order to place the powerful military under civilian authority after a lapse of 22 years.
Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians
- Inter Press Service
As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.
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