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SRI LANKA: A Former Woman Combatant Struggles to Pick Up the Pieces
- Inter Press Service
As a young woman, Ranjani (not her real name), a 32-year-old Tamil from Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa district, only had bright hopes for tomorrow.
MALDIVES: Education Reforms Herald Digital Learning, Radical Changes
- Inter Press Service
When students walk into the Majeediya Boys School in this capital of the Maldives every morning, they are invariably drawn to the digital notice board in the courtyard that carries important announcements.
Despite Gains, South Korean Women Still Struggle for Equality
- Inter Press Service
Forty-six year-old language professor Kwon Hye Yang views her life as a typical example of the growing confidence of modern women in her home country, South Korea.
ZAMBIA: Need to Mainstream Gender Equality into all Policies
- Inter Press Service
Despite the adoption almost a decade ago of a national gender policy that aims to ensure fair participation of men and women in the development process, most of the Zambian government’s policies still remain gender blind, say civil society and women's rights associations.
SPAIN: Women Entrepreneurs Pledge Support for African Counterparts
- Inter Press Service
Senegalese businesswoman Marie Thiaré makes her business cards by hand, because she has no way to have them printed -- a sharp contrast with the situation faced by women entrepreneurs in Europe, where it is easy to order business cards, and most people even have their own home computer and printer.
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Will Change Way of Life on Xingú River
- Inter Press Service
At dawn, the 'captain' fired on the village leader and the shooting began. 'The forest trembled,' says one survivor: the local indigenous people fled, leaving their dead behind. Only one young girl remained. But she sank her teeth into the chest of one of the assailants with such force that they slit her throat to pull her off him.
TRADE-SOUTHERN AFRICA: The End of EPA Acrimony May Be in Sight
- Inter Press Service
Southern African trade ministers have pledged to sign a significantly scaled down economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) before the end of 2010. Could this be the conclusion to years of divisive negotiations?
MALAYSIA: Thousands of Refugees Living in Constant Fear of Arrest
- Inter Press Service
As Rajoo, 27, makes tea at a rundown shed in Brickfields, a depressed suburb of the capital inhabited by hundreds of Tamil immigrants from Sri Lanka, he evinces no sign of anxiety and a deep yearning for something.
AUSTRALIA: New PM Called On to Tackle Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Australia’s newly appointed prime minister, Julia Gillard, has hardly warmed her seat, yet she has already been urged to take action on climate change.
UGANDA: Too Young to Know, Yet Too Young to Die
- Inter Press Service
Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it 'doing bad manners'. But when you ask her what she knows about sex, she breaks into a shy smile, looks to her feet and giggles.
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