News headlines for “Third World Debt Undermines Development”, page 1373
UGANDA: Government Pushes Ahead With Repressive Media Law
- Inter Press Service
The proposed media law is a monster, says Dr George Lugalambi, chair of a coalition fighting to preserve press freedom in Uganda. Publishers and journalists would have to apply annually for a licence, which could be revoked at will in the interests of 'national security, stability and unity,' or if coverage was deemed to be 'economic sabotage.'
SOUTH AFRICA: Racist's Death Highlights Rural Tension
- Inter Press Service
Eugene Terre'Blanche, killed on his farm on Easter weekend, is catalysing racial tension in South Africa in death much as he did in his life.
CHINA: Women Want to Hold Up the Half the Sky — in Style
- Inter Press Service
— For decades, women have been 'holding up half the sky in China,' as the late Chairman Mao Zedong had exhorted them to do. But in recent years, a growing number of Chinese women want to do so with loads of charm and more than a hint of the social graces.
POLITICS-SRI LANKA: New Parliament, New Hopes, New Fears
- Inter Press Service
Voter turnout in the Apr. 8 election was one of the lowest in Sri Lanka's post- independence history. But the result was a landslide win that has strengthened the hand of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s administration like never before.
Q&A: Equality for Women - 'The Core of the Problem is Care'
- Inter Press Service
'Women help to reduce poverty and raise family incomes, but they pay too high a price for it, because in every country their working days are longer than men's,' said Sonia Montaño, head of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) Division for Gender Affairs.
SUDAN: Problems Lead to Extension of Vote
- Inter Press Service
Voting in Sudan - the first democratic elections in 24 years - has been extended by three days by the National Election Commission in response to widespread problems with voters' lists and ballot papers.
DISARMAMENT: Developing World Lags in Arms Manufacture
- Inter Press Service
The world's developing nations are still far behind Western industrial countries in the latest Top 20 rankings in one of the most lethal industries: arms manufacture.
HAITI: Disorganised Diaspora on Fringe of Post-Quake Decisions
- Inter Press Service
For years, Haitians living overseas have been the lifeline of the troubled country, sending billions of dollars to relatives back home.
Q&A: 'Kyrgyzstan Has Undergone a Grassroots Revolution'
- Inter Press Service
Apas Kubanychbek, who hails from the high mountainous area of Ysyk-Ata in the Chuyskaya province of Kyrgyzstan, was involved in the political movements and democratic struggles of the former Soviet republic in the early 1990s.
ENVIRONMENT-NIGER: French State-Owned Company 'Poisoning' Poor
- Inter Press Service
Recent research by Greenpeace suggests that French state-owned company Areva’s public claims of decontamination of populated areas near uranium mines in Niger are false. High radio-activity persists in towns and rural areas near the mines, affecting some 80,000 people.
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