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DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Garment Woes Dampen Labour Day
- Inter Press Service
Though the global economic crisis has eased in most of Asia, latest reports about falling demand for garments in markets like Europe and the United States have become a new source of concern to Sri Lanka’s troubled garment labour force.
Poor Communities Struggle to Attend U.N. Indigenous Meet
- Inter Press Service
'You will never suffer from fatal diseases like cancer and ulcer if you drink mare's milk,' says Anna Postnikova, who is currently attending a major U.N. meeting on indigenous issues.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Some For You, Some For Me: Sharing the Inkomati River
- Inter Press Service
At Ekuvinjelweni village, in South Africa's Mpumalanga Province, the Komati River flows clear and fast through the mountains. Along its banks here are commercial farms with intensive irrigation works, mixed with subsistence farmers who rely on rain for their fields and livestock - a tricky proposition in an area that has endured severe droughts in the past.
KENYA: Successful Weather Prediction Uses Old and New
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of ever-changing climatic conditions, a study in western Kenya has discovered that combining traditional methods of weather prediction with meteorological forecasting is the best way of obtaining more accurate forecast data.
ECUADOR: Native Groups in Showdown Over Water Bill
- Inter Press Service
The second and final parliamentary debate of a new water bill to regulate water resource management in Ecuador is due to begin May 4, amid stark divisions among indigenous movements and between them and the government of left-leaning President Rafael Correa.
Native Delegates Challenge Development Orthodoxy
- Inter Press Service
While aboriginal peoples represent approximately five percent of the world's population, they are 10 percent of the world's poor, according to a new World Bank report on 'Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Development'.
ASIA: Journalists Lament Media Bias vs Ethnic Minorities
- Inter Press Service
Despite issues of discrimination and violence hounding ethnic minorities, they continue to lack ‘voice’ in the mainstream press and suffer prejudices from journalists themselves.
If Only Just A Billion Were Hungry
- Inter Press Service
The bad news is that 1.02 billion people are going hungry in today's world of plentiful supplies. The even worse news is that this figure only tells part of the global food insecurity story.
CHINA: Stigma Stays Despite Lifting of Ban on HIV/AIDS Carriers
- Inter Press Service
China’s lifting of its longstanding ban on foreign visitors with HIV removes a restriction that many Chinese doctors and activists find discriminatory, but removing the stigma attached with the virus remains one of the biggest challenges ahead in facing the disease.
HEALTH: Uganda Bill Shouldn’t Block Generics, Minister Agrees
- Inter Press Service
Uganda’s trade minister is in agreement that his government’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill should not restrict the manufacture or import of life-saving generic medicines.
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