News headlines for “Third World Debt Undermines Development”, page 1338
Rewriting 195 Million Stories of Childhood Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
In a vast field, a sinewy, dark-skinned man bends at the waist, slicing stalks of wheat with a small machete. In a village, a mother gently places her infant son, slung in a piece of blue fabric, onto a vegetable scale housed in a makeshift clinic.
BRAZIL: 'Gol de Letra' Scores Goals off the Playing Field
- Inter Press Service
In a country where many poor children dream of 'making it big' through football or modeling, Brazilian football stars Leonardo and Raí could have simply basked in their fame. But they decided instead to combine sport with education, art and skills training.
AFRICA: Less Funds will Cause Unnecessary AIDS Deaths
- Inter Press Service
Backtracking by international donors in funding the fight against HIV/AIDS risks widening the treatment gap in Africa, undermining years of positive achievements in the field, warns a new Medecins Sans Frontieres report. And many more unnecessary HIV-related deaths will be caused by these shifts in international donor funding
HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Community Mobilisation Key to Fight TB
- Inter Press Service
African medical experts have realised they need to make a much bigger effort to educate rural communities if they want to effectively contain the continent’s tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.
CHINA: Paying the Price of Missing Girls
- Inter Press Service
In a country like China, that regularly exorcises the ghosts of the past, few understand the importance of oral history better than Chinese writer Xinran.
POLITICS: China-Burma Talks a Step Forward in Thawing Relations
- Inter Press Service
Relations between China and Burma have been shaky of late — due in large part to border skirmishes in Burma that have frustrated Beijing. But one would not know it from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s state visit, which ended today.
TRADE: Resistance Persists Against Early Harvest in Doha Round
- Inter Press Service
Although the issue of an early harvest for least developed countries (LDCs) has been raised time and again, there remains 'a certain reluctance' to prioritise it in the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks, according to South African trade minister Dr Rob Davies.
BAHRAIN: Passport Confiscation Still Hounds Migrant Workers
- Inter Press Service
When Abdulkhaliq Mohammed arrived in Bahrain as a contract labourer 20 years ago, the first thing he did on setting foot in the oil-rich Gulf state was to hand his passport over to his employer.
DR CONGO: Rights Defender's Death Renews Calls to End Impunity
- Inter Press Service
Floribert Chebeya, executive secretary of human rights group Voice of the Voiceless, was discovered dead in his car early in the morning of Jun. 2. Numerous journalists and human right activists have been killed in suspicious circumstances in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past five years.
EAST AFRICA: New Arsenal Against Armyworms
- Inter Press Service
Farmers across Eastern and Southern Africa will soon have a new organic insecticide effective enough to kill one of their most deadly foes — the armyworm.
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