News headlines for “Third World Debt Undermines Development”, page 1341
Q&A: Diversity the Best Option for Cuban Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Cuban biodiversity scientist Humberto Ríos, one of the six recipients of the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize, probably won't be able to collect the 150,000 dollars in prize money, though that setback is unlikely to cause him to lose any sleep -- or keep him from singing.
MALAWI: Gay Couple Released After Presidential Pardon
- Inter Press Service
Five months and a day after their arrest, the gay Malawian couple who dared to publicly declare their union with a traditional engagement party were pardoned by the president and released without conditions.
North-South Conservation Divide: 'Show Me the Money'
- Inter Press Service
Developing countries rich in plants and animals but poor in financial and technical resources refused to make binding commitments to halt the unraveling of the planet's biological infrastructure at the close of a major meeting Friday at the U.N.'s African headquarters in Nairobi.
BIODIVERSITY: Imagine a World Without Bluefin Tuna
- Inter Press Service
The bluefin tuna, an 'apex predator' fish of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, is condemned to extinction within two years by the inaction of the industrialised North and international regulatory bodies, predict marine biologists and environmentalists.
ECONOMY: 'G20 Meeting Should Address Plight of Poorest States'
- Inter Press Service
The Group of 20 should show its concern about those that the global economic crisis 'is leaving behind' by putting the plight of least developed countries on the agenda at its meeting later this month.
CHINA: Social Networking Sites Vibrant and Thriving Among Activists
- Inter Press Service
Last June, when thousands of Iranians — many organised through social networking websites such as Twitter — took to the streets to protest the outcome of the country’s presidential election, a Chinese English-language newspaper, ‘Global Times’, published an editorial critical of the Western media’s coverage of the protests.
ITALY: Daring to Put Mafia Assets to Social Utility
- Inter Press Service
In the small town of Corleone in central Sicily, 13 people, five of whom suffer from psychiatric distress, run a farm on lands confiscated from the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia.
PAKISTAN: Women Intensify Push to Pass Law Against Acid Attacks
- Inter Press Service
Almost seven years after Naila Farhat, 20, became another victim of an acid throwing attack by a spurned suitor, she is finally seeing more vigorous efforts toward the passage of a law seeking to amend existing legislation to reinforce protection of women against violent assaults.
PAKISTAN: Lake Disaster Triggers New Displacements
- Inter Press Service
Up until Saturday the Attabad Lake in northern Pakistan had been rising one metre every day and was thus on the verge of breaking its banks, observed Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmed, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Taking Stock of the International Criminal Court
- Inter Press Service
The first Review Conference of the International Criminal Court will open in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on May 31. The conference is the first opportunity to propose amendments to the treaty that established the ICC, the Rome Statute, and to assess the implementation and impact of the ICC.
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