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PAKISTAN: Schools Cross Extremism Out Of Textbooks
- Inter Press Service
Turn schools into hate-free zones, and achieving peace in violence-wracked Pakistan may not be far behind.
ZAMBIA: Water Committee Prospers in Lusaka
- Inter Press Service
Residents of Lusaka's George Compound remember the bad old days in the early 1990s, when the area suffered ugly outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Poor management and maintenance caused the water infrastructure in the dense low-income settlement to collapse. People resorted to using water from shallow, easily-contaminated wells.
Fears for South Africa's Press Freedom
- Inter Press Service
International media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders ranks South Africa's press as among the freest on the continent. Two proposed new measures are drawing unfavourable comparisons to repressive laws in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
COLOMBIA: The Violent 'Agrarian Counter-Reform' Conspiracy
- Inter Press Service
An unknown number of agribusiness owners and public employees at all levels, as well as far-right paramilitaries, have a common link with rural people who have been forced off their farms or killed in Colombia: the land stolen from the latter group in the armed conflict.
HEALTH-UGANDA: Breastfeeding Dilemma for HIV-positive Mothers
- Inter Press Service
The new World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation that HIV-positive mothers on antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) can exclusively breastfeed their babies for up to twelve months without infecting them has created confusion among HIV-positive mothers in Uganda as information about the new guidelines struggles to reach them.
AFRICA: Maputo Protocol a Work in Progress
- Inter Press Service
Kenyans are still euphoric over the referendum endorsing a progressive new constitution; but the heat generated by its opponents around their main rallying point - abortion rights - is a reminder of the wide gap between law and implementation in Africa, particularly when it concerns women's rights.
BOTSWANA: Acquiring a Taste for Recycled Water
- Inter Press Service
Many Batswana are quick to recoil at the mere mention of drinking treated wastewater.
Q&A: Native Women in Bolivia's Lowlands Build Leadership Skills
- Inter Press Service
In the northeastern Bolivian department (province) of Beni, a region of wetlands, savannah and jungle where three-quarters of the population lives in poverty, indigenous women are building a new kind of leadership to help develop their communities.
POLITICS: Cambodia Seeks to Internationalise Temple Row with Thailand
- Inter Press Service
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is threatening an international showdown with neighbouring Thailand over the vexed question of managing a 10th- century Hindu temple, an architectural jewel of Cambodia’s ancient Khmer civilisation.
PHILIPPINES: Past Starting to Haunt New President
- Inter Press Service
The past, centred around the democratic records of his popular politician parents, may have sent Benigno Aquino III to the Philippine presidency, but it is now also biting at his heels, less than two months after he assumed office.
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