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Q&A: 'There Is Almost Total Impunity for Rape in Congo'
- Inter Press Service
Sexual violence against women has become part of modern warfare around the world. In some countries, women cannot even go out to draw water without fear of being attacked and raped.
WORLD: 'Anti-Counterfeit Deal Threatens Accessibility of Drugs'
- Inter Press Service
A proposed anti-counterfeit trade deal between 10 countries and the European Union (EU) could create 'a new set of barriers to the export of generic medicines to low income countries'.
PAKISTAN: Water Trickles Back into Village, Thanks to Solar Desalination
- Inter Press Service
Ismail Achar never thought a day would come when his island village would be reduced to a barren tract of land with hardly a drop of water to drink.
ENVIRONMENT: Thailand Fights Addiction to Plastic Bags
- Inter Press Service
Buy a hairpin and the sales clerk has a microscopic plastic bag for it. A soda purchase from a corner store may end up having the liquid poured into a plastic bag, and then topped off with a plastic straw. There is no plastic bag yet that could fit a car, but if there was one country that could come up with one, Thailand would probably be it.
BRAZIL: Forestry Law Reforms Augur More Disasters
- Inter Press Service
While the Brazilian authorities tally the death toll and the economic losses caused by recent torrential rains in the northeast, activists warn that a legislative bill to modify the Forestry Code will only worsen the effects of extreme weather, which is increasingly frequent in the context of climate change.
Wrangling Continues over New U.N. Women's Entity
- Inter Press Service
Ahead of a week-long meeting on gender equality starting Monday at the United Nations, women's rights activists have been pushing for concrete progress on a pledge made last September by the world body to create a new, better-funded U.N. agency for women.
Activists Slam G8's Aid Shell Game
- Inter Press Service
The G8 bloc of wealthy nations promised five billion dollars Saturday for health and nutrition programmes that benefit women and children in developing countries.
ENVIRONMENT: Honduran Caribbean on a Tightrope
- Inter Press Service
The biodiversity of Capiro Calentura National Park, on the northern coast of Honduras, could disappear as a result of tourism, agricultural expansion and drug trafficking.
URUGUAY: Río de la Plata Under Land-Based Attack
- Inter Press Service
Unregulated population growth along Uruguay's southern coast has hurt the Río de la Plata (River Plate) along an extensive stretch where the freshwater mixes with the Atlantic's salty seas, warn scientists.
Time to Give Wall Street the Axe, Say Progressive Groups
- Inter Press Service
As heads of state from the Group of 20 (G20) most developed and economically powerful emerging nations meet in Toronto, Canada this weekend, some activists at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit are urging a more realistic look at the roots of the global economic crisis - and an end to the free-wheeling capitalist model embodied by Wall Street.
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