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Connecting the Dots from Detroit to Dakar
- Inter Press Service
Africa's continued struggle for political and economic independence in many ways mirrors the very own struggles of communities in the U.S. that are now being tabled at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.
Produce More Food, Naturally
- Inter Press Service
With the world's population predicted to reach 9 billion by mid-century, the notion that a form of agriculture aimed at producing more from less can put food in everyone's mouth may appear Utopian. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the right to food, begs to differ. The Belgian professor is a champion of agro-ecology, a science that stresses the need to work with nature, rather than to try and conquer and replace them with technology developed in laboratories.
Doubts Over Zimbabwe Diamonds
- Inter Press Service
Three days of tense deliberations by members of the Kimberley Process have failed to reach consensus on whether diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields should be certified as conflict-free. Zimbabwe has already announced that it intends to resume exports of the precious stones immediately.
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Selling Scrap Metal to Scrape By
- Inter Press Service
Gugulethu Mkhwananzi is another one of the many unemployed women who have become features of everyday life in Bulawayo’s poor working class suburbs as she moves from house to house, looking for 'rusted gold': scrap metal.
PAKISTAN: Prevalence of Hepatitis Infection Still Alarming
- Inter Press Service
Unable to afford treatment for his disease, Azizur Rehman, 29, has been suffering from hepatitis C for the past one year. 'My elder sister died of the same killer ailment one year ago for lack of treatment,' he laments.
LAOS: Water Headaches Follow Growth of Cities
- Inter Press Service
At 63, Kingkham Duoangsavanh has it made. Now retired after decades of working as a nurse, she lives happily with her grown-up children in a well- appointed home with all the amenities. But up until recently, a constant shortage of water has marred her comfortable existence.
ZIMBABWE: 'We Too Want to be Wealthy'
- Inter Press Service
Saddled with debts of more than $7 billion, Zimbabwe is anxious to resume diamond exports, suspended in May amidst international condemnation of alleged human rights violations in the Marange diamond fields. But the treatment of people living in the fields themselves suggests the country's record on rights bears further examination.
Not Everyone in Peru Is Winning 'Championship' Against Poverty
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government is taking advantage of the broadcasts of the World Cup football games in South Africa to air an ad touting a reduction in the poverty rate from 48 to 34 percent between 2005 and 2009 as an achievement of the administration of President Alan García.
HEALTH: 'I Have Never Opposed Generics' - British Ex-Politician
- Inter Press Service
Baroness Lynda Chalker, a former British government minister, has been at the forefront of the intellectual property rights crusade to pass laws against counterfeits in east Africa. These laws threaten the use of life-saving generics in countries that depend on such medicines for some 90 percent of their healthcare needs.
DEVELOPMENT: Women Adamant for Change as the Maldives Struggles to Reform
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in the Maldives view women’s issues as a core human rights problem and are keen to tackle them head on, but cultural and religious issues often stand in the way.
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