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Gender Equality Goals Miss the Mark, Women's Groups Say
- Inter Press Service
A month ahead of the 2010 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) review summit at the United Nations, some women's groups are voicing concern that member states' commitment to women's issues is insufficient and slowing progress towards gender parity worldwide.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Doubts Simmer Around New Labour Rules
- Inter Press Service
Faced with strikes in recent months, China’s southern Guangdong province is crafting revisions to labour regulations that would allow workers to negotiate pay increases and elect representatives to bargain on their behalf.
INDIA: Cotton Farmers Reap Hope from New Techniques
- Inter Press Service
Meruga Padma, 33, and her husband Veeramallu, 40, can still remember when cotton farmers here in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were in such dire straits that many were soon thrown into depression. Some of the farmers, in fact, were eventually driven to taking their own lives.
Civil Society Watchdogs Crucial in New Global Order
- Inter Press Service
Six hundred delegates from more than 80 countries flocked to Montreal Aug. 20-23 for the CIVICUS World Assembly in search of innovative ways to approach global challenges like poverty and climate change.
HEALTH-KENYA: Attempts to Modernise Traditional Circumcision Rites
- Inter Press Service
During every year that ends in an even number, the month of August is a special occasion for young men in Kenya’s Western Province. During this month thousands of boys aged between 10 and 18 undergo male circumcision — something that is seen as an important rite of passage into manhood among their communities. But it is also a time were nearly half the young men circumcised will have to fight for their lives.
CUBA: Expansion of Self-Employment Poses Challenges for Socialism
- Inter Press Service
The announcement of a plan to expand the practice of self-employment in Cuba as an alternative for the 'excess' workers who are to be slashed from the public workforce presents several challenges to the socialist model that the government is seeking to modernise.
Q&A: 'Democracy Deficit Is the Biggest Obstacle to Development'
- Inter Press Service
Three scenarios were laid before the delegates here attending the CIVICUS World Assembly, a venue that attracts civil society, donors, government and business leaders from every region of the world.
Caribbean Civil Society Unites to Tap EU Development Funds
- Inter Press Service
Roosevelt King, the secretary general of the Barbados Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (BANCO), believes that Caribbean governments have dropped the ball when it comes to their commitment to support the initiatives of civil society.
Brazil Aims for World's 'Most Perfect' Population Census
- Inter Press Service
Come Dec. 31, about 68 countries are expected to complete the arduous task of taking an accurate head count of the number of people living within their geographical borders.
HEALTH: S. Africa Becomes a Victim of its ARV Treatment Success
- Inter Press Service
Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if the South African government keeps to its implementation plan.
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