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Will Polio Go the Way of Smallpox?
- Inter Press Service
Only one disease has ever been totally eradicated by human beings: smallpox, the last natural instance of which was reported in 1975. Two doctors are now making the case for adding a second disease to the list.
BOLIVIA: 'Living Well' in Harmony with the Environment
- Inter Press Service
The philosophy of 'Living Well' enshrined in Bolivia's new constitution is being put forward by the government as the basis for a global movement against consumerism, depredation of natural resources for profit, and current models of development.
UGANDA: Fresh Concerns About Women in Captivity
- Inter Press Service
The fate of thousands of women and girls held as sex slaves and child soldiers by Uganda’s Lords Resistance Army rebels hangs in the balance.
THAILAND: As Military Threat Rises, Protesters Dig in Heels
- Inter Press Service
Even as the Thai military warned that its troops would fire live bullets in any imminent confrontation with anti-government protesters in Bangkok, women like Supaporn Sonnorp did not flee.
Haitian-Dominican Relations Warming After Quake
- Inter Press Service
Angela Solis de Pena remembered the story that her parents told her of a Haitian man who tried to rape a Dominican woman; after the woman escaped the man chased her and hacked her to death.
URUGUAY: Tools Needed for Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Water-borne diseases and illness related to natural disasters are on the agenda for plans of officials and civil society to help the precarious settlements in the outskirts of the metropolitan area of Montevideo and in other Uruguayan cities.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras Pushing for End to Isolation
- Inter Press Service
More than nine months after the coup d'etat that overthrew the government of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, the country is still isolated and remains outside of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Organisation of American States (OAS).
POLITICS-NEPAL: Himalayan Nation Split Over Federalism
- Inter Press Service
Agreeing to turn Nepal from a constitutional monarchy into a federal state is turning out to be much easier than agreeing on exactly what kind of federal system is best for this Himalayan country.
CHINA: Slowly, Transparency in Public Funds Taking Root
- Inter Press Service
For six decades, governmental budgets and spending in China have remained classified and inaccessible to the general public. Yet this may be about to change.
Q&A: Africa’s Mid-2000s Economic Boom Fuelled Capital Flight
- Inter Press Service
The African continent has lost between 859 billion and 1.06 trillion dollars due to illicit financial flows during the 39-year period from 1970 to 2008.
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