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JAPAN: Women Changing the Face of Politics, Slowly but Almost Surely
- Inter Press Service
Junko Hamada, 59, is now in her 12th year as an elected member of the city council of Isehara, a sprawling bed town west of Tokyo with an estimated population of 150,000.
Seeds of Hope Take Root in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
Countries have paid too little attention to the importance of biodiversity, and as result, species and ecosystems are in sharp decline and the public does not understand the concept.
MEXICO: Murders Strengthen Resolve of Autonomous Indigenous Community
- Inter Press Service
'We feel defenceless, but we're going to return to San Juan Copala and accompany the family of our dead friend and colleague,' Jorge Albino, spokesperson for his autonomous village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, told IPS Friday.
Agrobiodiversity Key to Adaptation
- Inter Press Service
Mechanisation, increased use of fertilisers, and the planting of hybrid seeds have underpinned huge increases in the world's agricultural output over the past 40 years. Biotechnology is the latest gambit, but agronomists warn that climate change could wipe out that progress unless farmers begin combining these with indigenous knowledge.
EAST AFRICA: Global Players Behind Anti-Counterfeit Law Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The international push behind Kenya’s controversial Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 dates back as far as October 2006 when the World Customs Organisation held its first intellectual property rights (IPRs) seminar in Kampala, the capital of neighbouring Uganda, focusing on East African governments’ enforcement of these rights.
MALAYSIA: Encroaching Forest, Oil Palm Plantations Alarm Villagers
- Inter Press Service
A increasing number of natives in Sarawak state in north Borneo are alarmed at encroaching forest and oil palm plantations, which are taking over their native customary land and destroying their traditional lifestyles and biodiversity.
INDIA: Rising Use of Emergency Contraceptives Raises Alarm
- Inter Press Service
When Sunita Sanyal (last name changed) complained of intense headache and vomiting, her mother presumed it was just pre-examination jitters. After all, Sunita’s business management finals were just a week away.
EGYPT: Historically Apolitical, Sufis Now Side With the State
- Inter Press Service
Although Egypt's many Sufi orders have traditionally been known for keeping a safe distance from politics, recent events suggest they are now closer than ever to the ruling regime.
Malawi Gays Had No Chance
- Inter Press Service
Rejecting the argument that the arrest and trial of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga amounted to a violation of their rights to freedom of concsience and expression as protected by Malawi's constitution, Blantyre chief resident magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa Usiwa sentenced the two men to 14 years hard labour for 'unnatural acts' and 'gross indecency'.
COLOMBIA: Initiative for Water as a Human Right Sinking in Congress
- Inter Press Service
Colombian civil society organisations gathered more than two million signatures to ask Congress to hold a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would make access to water a fundamental human right.
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