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Flooded with NGOs, Haiti Looks to Fall Presidential Polls
- Inter Press Service
They descended in droves after the Jan. 12 earthquake devastated the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country, killing an estimated 300,000 people and leaving more than one million homeless.
PAKISTAN: More Action, Less Words, Needed to Ease Population Bulge
- Inter Press Service
While militancy, power outages and skyrocketing food prices hog the limelight in parliamentary and media discussions in Pakistan, health experts warn that it is a neglected issue — the population bulge — that will prove to be a more insidious problem.
RIGHTS-THAILAND: Imam’s Widow Takes on Legal System in South
- Inter Press Service
She is better known for her cooking, her hospitality and her soft-spoken demeanour in this southern region torn apart by an insurgency. But now, 52- year-old Nima Kaseng is heading for a bigger, more public role — as a crusader for justice.
ZAMBIA: Parent’s Fears Slowing Uptake of Paediatric AIDS Treatment
- Inter Press Service
Diana Banda* is quickly running out of excuses to give her six-year-old son about why he has to take a schedule of drugs every day.
COLOMBIA: Palm Planters and Displaced People Wait for New Government
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-three African palm plantation owners, who invested 34 million dollars in Colombia up to 2003 and have spent another 15 million dollars on a palm oil refinery, are soon to be sentenced by a court.
The Return of the Bicycle
- Inter Press Service
The bicycle has many attractions as a form of personal transportation. It alleviates congestion, lowers air pollution, reduces obesity, increases physical fitness, does not emit climate-disrupting carbon dioxide, and is priced within the reach of the billions of people who cannot afford a car.
ETHIOPIA: Unique Community Leads on Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
Married at just 13 years of age, Fantaye Adem wishes her life had been different.
AUSTRALIA: Hunger Far from Unknown in A Land of Plenty
- Inter Press Service
Devina Celeste, 50, waits in a queue of about 40 people at the neighbourhood centre in the Australian inner-city suburb of Newtown for the only hot meal she will get on this cold winter night.
DEVELOPMENT-LAOS: Water Flows from Villagers’ Own Toil
- Inter Press Service
With just 13.4 percent of the country’s 6.3 million people having access to piped water at present, Lao authorities would have to work more than double time if the rest of the population are to have clean and safe water within a decade.
SRI LANKA: After Decades of Bloodshed, Home Calls
- Inter Press Service
For almost two decades, Athanayakemudiyanselage Punchibanda lived without hope of ever returning here to his native village.
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