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POLITICS-INDIA: In Kashmir, Tensions Put Life on Hold
- Inter Press Service
The doctors at the hospital that Khalida Begum’s husband brought her to in the frontier district of Kupwara knew she was in a dangerous state. They thus recommended that she be transferred soonest to the maternity hospital here in Srinagar, where she was sure to receive far better care.
AFRICA: Woman Researcher Tackles Aflatoxin Poisoning
- Inter Press Service
Despite a bumper harvest of maize just a few months ago, many residents in the eastern part of Kenya are facing hunger and starvation. While granaries in the region may be full, the grain cannot be sold, let alone eaten.
BURMA: U.S. Support Boosts Calls for U.N. War Crimes Inquiry
- Inter Press Service
An international campaign seeking a war crimes inquiry into the alleged systematic abuses by Burma’s military regime finally has a strong ally in U.S. President Barack Obama.
AFRICA: Bearing Witness and Celebrating the Everyday
- Inter Press Service
'I had a lump in my breast for a few years that I ignored [mainly because] it didn’t hurt. It’s so easy to try to deny illness,' says Tracey Derrick. When she finally went to see a doctor for a biopsy, she got a big shock. The result came back positive: breast cancer.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Rallying Around Mugabe While Economic Unity Lags
- Inter Press Service
Southern African leaders used the 30th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit of government leaders to rally around Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s land seizures in a move that undermines regionalism while lamenting their own failure to implement their decisions on regional economic integration.
DEVELOPMENT: China Wants Business with Latin America
- Inter Press Service
China, now the world’s second largest economy with a ferocious appetite for resources, is aggressively strengthening relations with Latin American countries, but this has not been without roadblocks.
Q&A: 'We Must Move from a Masculine to a Feminine Economy'
- Inter Press Service
It is necessary to move from a 'masculine' economy based on competition and a win-lose mentality to a 'feminine' win-win economy based on the concept of collaboration, says writer Rose Marie Muraro, one of the pioneers of Brazil's feminist movement.
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Not All Working Women Are Equal
- Inter Press Service
Fifty-one year old Miharu juggles two part-time jobs at a law firm and at a design company, but is barely able to make ends meet in one of the world’s richest economies.
ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
- Inter Press Service
'A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption,' says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the Earth Uruguay.
SWAZILAND: Finding Ways to Care for HIV Orphans
- Inter Press Service
In the poor, drought-stricken community of Kangcamphalala, AIDS orphan Nomvula Dladla* is in tears. The 17-year-old has been told that her aunt, the only surviving relative she could live with, passed away a few hours ago of an HIV-related illness. And if she had been living anywhere else in the country, it would have made Dladla destitute.
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