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BRAZIL: Bridge to Drive Urban Growth in Heart of Amazon
- Inter Press Service
The 74 pillars that will hold up the bridge over the Negro river to join this major city in Brazil's Amazon jungle to nearby urban districts have mostly been laid, without environmental protests or major debates on the impact of a fast-growing metropolitan area in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
SRI LANKA: Garment Sector, Gov’t Optimistic about Trade Pact with EU
- Inter Press Service
Relations between Sri Lanka and European Union (EU), which turned frosty around six months back, appear to be thawing as the government makes a last- ditch stand to regain a crucial trade concession that has been suspended over human rights issues hounding the south Asian island state.
NGOs Call on Obama to Move Swiftly Against LRA
- Inter Press Service
A coalition of nearly 50 Western and African human rights and humanitarian groups is calling on President Barack Obama to 'move swiftly' in implementing a law he signed Monday committing Washington to step up U.S. and regional efforts to defeat Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
NICARAGUA: Nature as a Sword of Damocles
- Inter Press Service
More than 1.8 million Nicaraguans are at high risk due to the various natural disasters that strike this Central American country, according to Civil Defence authorities.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America, EU Set Sights on Cancún Summit
- Inter Press Service
Governments from the European Union and from Latin America and the Caribbean are confident that at year's end the international climate conference will produce a concrete legal mandate to truly protect the environment.
SRI LANKA: War-Affected Women Bewail Their Plight
- Inter Press Service
Although unmarried, Rajini Padamaraj, 32, is burdened with the responsibility of looking after the needs of her entire household, composed of her mother and two younger siblings.
Q&A: 'Militarisation of Zimbabwe’s Diamond Fields Continues'
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year after a review mission of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) found Zimbabwe guilty of 'serious non-compliance' with the scheme’s minimum criteria on conflict diamonds, the militarisation of the southern African country’s diamond mining operations continues.
GULF: Search On For Green Options to Forestall Water Shortage
- Inter Press Service
Realising that achieving water security in the future is not an option but a necessity, oil-rich Gulf countries are striving to find new environment-friendly and more economical ways of producing freshwater.
Child Mortality Rates Falling Faster than Expected
- Inter Press Service
With only five years left to meet the Millennium Development Goals' 2015 deadline for reducing child mortality, progress toward that goal may be coming faster than was previously thought.
Namibia Stands Up to EU 'Bullying'
- Inter Press Service
Tensions between the European Union and Africa have once again erupted, with Namibia accusing the Brussels elite of resorting to bullying tactics in trade negotiations.
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