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RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Slowly, Women Gain Ground through Land Ownership
- Inter Press Service
'I told my husband if he ever hits me (again), I’ll pack up and go to my parents who live just round the corner, and he will lose the land I got,' says Jannat Gul of Tando Bagho village here in this southern Pakistani district. Her husband has not hit her for the past six months — since Gul became the owner of some 1.6 hectares of land.
THAILAND: For Transgenders, Identity Papers Are No Simple Matter
- Inter Press Service
In New Zealand, where Sujinrat Prachathai enjoys resident status, she is a woman able to append ‘Mrs’ to her name to signify that she is married. Here in Thailand, however, she has to be addressed as ‘Mr’ since she is still considered male even though she underwent a sex-change operation years ago.
Six Months On, Shelter Still a Main Priority
- Inter Press Service
Six months ago Monday, an earthquake rocked the western hemisphere's poorest country, driving it deeper into poverty and burying it under its nascent infrastructure.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - So Far
- Inter Press Service
The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and water-borne diseases is rising in Uruguay in tandem with climate change, while dengue fever and malaria lurk at the country's borders. Higher temperatures are encouraging the presence of insect vectors carrying diseases that were eradicated decades ago, experts say.
ZAMBIA: Women Welcome Equality Commission
- Inter Press Service
The Zambian National Constitution Conference (NCC) concluded its business recently with the adoption of a clause for the creation of a Gender Equality Commission.
INDIA: ‘Green Cremation’ Gets A Second Look
- Inter Press Service
Unmindful of the monsoons lashing the Dehradun area in the Himalayan foothills in northern India, Girdhari Singh returns from work daily with a headload of wood that he finds along the road, and stacks it to dry in the cattleshed.
AFRICA: Widening Tax Bases 'Key to Development and Democracy'
- Inter Press Service
African countries should deepen their tax bases to collect more revenues to finance their development, build state institutions and to improve national dialogue and, more generally, their social contracts with citizens.
Guyana Has No Regrets over Holding Out on EPA
- Inter Press Service
Two years after 14 Caribbean countries signed a wide-ranging and controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo still maintains that his country was right in holding out until the last minute to get a 'better deal' for the Caribbean.
EDUCATION: Taking Science into the Streets
- Inter Press Service
A group of 80 students, broken into smaller groups with their notebooks in tow, troop through the boroughs of New York City to survey the produce that populates farmers' markets and grocery stores in their neighbourhoods. Across the world, a similar image emerges in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where female students are learning to grow edible mushrooms in their villages.
AUSTRALIA: Apprehended Sex Tourists Just ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
- Inter Press Service
The high-profile case of an accused Australian paedophile in India and the recent arrest of an Australian man on child sex charges in Thailand represent just the 'tip of the iceberg' when it comes to Australians involved in child sex tourism in the Asia-Pacific, children’s rights advocates here say.
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