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PAKISTAN: Controversial Drug Welcomed by Some, Worries Others
- Inter Press Service
With its latest hotline a surefire hit, the non-government group Aware Girls could not be any happier.
BURMA: Call for War Crimes Inquiry Foils U.N. Envoy’s Trip
- Inter Press Service
When a U.N. human rights investigator for Burma called for an international inquiry to look into possible war crimes by the country’s military regime, he added significant weight to similar calls that had been made in other quarters.
SINGAPORE: Youth Games Expose Olympic-sized Cracks
- Inter Press Service
Just a month after the buzz from the vuvuzelas ended at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Singapore is busy preparing to host the next major event in the world sports calendar — the Youth Olympic Games. But few seem to know, or care, about the inaugural youth version of the venerable Olympic Games.
INDIA: End to Fuel Subsidies Brings Damaging Diversions
- Inter Press Service
While India's opposition parties are agitating against moves by the pro-reform government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remove subsidies on petrol and other fuels, experts say the country has laboured too long under price distortions that have not benefited poorer people -- or the environment.
Shark Slaughter Advances Into Red Sea
- Inter Press Service
Six Yemeni fishing boats captured in Egyptian territorial waters in June might have gone unnoticed if not for their unusual cargo -- several kilometers of long lines and over 20 tons of dead sharks.
AUSTRALIA: Enough of Uranium Mining, Say Aboriginal Communities
- Inter Press Service
As a mining giant prepares to open a major uranium mining site in Western Australia next year, the clamour for the state to once more ban mining of the radioactive mineral has become louder.
PERU:: Transparency a Challenge for Mining and Oil
- Inter Press Service
Peru is the only Latin American country that has made steps towards joining the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), but has a difficult stretch ahead as it tries to overcome industry resistance to reporting profits and the government's own obstacles.
WORLD: Cooking Up a Climate Deal
- Inter Press Service
Another round of negotiations towards a global treaty on climate change concluded in Bonn on Aug. 6, with activists calling on parties to rediscover a spirit of compromise and make offers rather than demands.
AFRICA: Bring Water Into Climate Change Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
Longer periods of drought, decreased river flow, higher rainfall variability and lower soil moisture content: water is at the heart of the impacts of climate change. Yet the precious commodity scarcely features in climate negotiations.
MEXICO: Conservation Gaining Ground on Private Lands
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government is promoting the notion of private lands dedicated to sustainable use, a tool created in 1997 in this country with great biodiversity, but experts say there are still many shortcomings in the plan.
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