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AMERICAS: We Need Sustainable Development Banks, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
Non-governmental organisations from across the Americas are demanding that the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank institute policies that favour sustainable energy and help mitigate climate change.
Egypt Practises for Bigger Rigging
- Inter Press Service
Egypt's recently concluded Shura Council elections were accompanied by widespread reports of serious electoral breaches by the ruling party. According to analysts and opposition figures, such voting 'irregularities' bode poorly for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.
GERMANY: Nature vs. Nurture in Forest Recovery
- Inter Press Service
Amidst criticism and applause from environmentalists and experts, a programme is emerging in Germany to expand the total area covered by forests -- to as much as five percent of national territory. The debate centres on just how much human intervention there should be.
WEST AFRICA: New Cocoa Agreement Is a Sweet One, Producers Say
- Inter Press Service
The new international cocoa agreement will provide a positive shake-up in the international cocoa market and ensure better prices for stakeholders, including small farmers.
CHINA: School Attacks Expose Quiet Crisis Around Mental Illness
- Inter Press Service
When a distraught landlord wielding a kitchen cleaver stormed into a kindergarten classroom in south-east China’s Fujian province in May and killed several people, including children, it was the bloodiest of five recent attacks at schools across the country.
PAKISTAN: Afghans Find Their Welcome Running Out
- Inter Press Service
The number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan who will return to their homeland this year is expected to be double the 2009 figure, but it’s not only a longing for their native soil that is fuelling the Afghans’ departure.
MEXICO: Conservation Can Be a Weapon Against Poverty
- Inter Press Service
'I cut down all of that section,' said Esteban Martínez as he pointed to a rectangle of land cleared of trees in the central Mexican state of Querétaro.
SRI LANKA: U.S. Labour Review Comes on Top of EU Pressure
- Inter Press Service
When garment factory workers outside Colombo once organised a noisy protest over a bonus issue, police threatened to file charges — of hostage taking -- against them.
Latin America Keeps Poverty Goals in Sight Despite Harsh Times
- Inter Press Service
Nine million more people have fallen into poverty in Latin American and Caribbean countries since the global financial crisis struck, threatening the achievement of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline, according to a report released Thursday by 18 U.N. agencies.
MADAGASCAR: Calls for Equality to be Written into New Constitution
- Inter Press Service
Madagascan female activists are asking that the right of women to participate directly in politics be included in a new draft of the country’s Constitution, so that there can be 30 percent of female politicians in parliament by 2012 and 50 percent by 2015.
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