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Q&A: IBSA Summit Aims to Strengthen South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
When the political leaders of three of the world's major democracies in the global South - India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) - gather at a high-powered summit meeting in Brasilia next week, one of the key items on the agenda would be how best to strength economic cooperation among developing nations.
HAITI: Displaced Fear Expulsion from Makeshift Camps
- Inter Press Service
For decades, the Saint Louis de Gonzague school has groomed some of Haiti's most elite political players. Francois Duvalier, the iron-fisted dictator who ruled Haiti for 14 years, sent his son to the school. About 1,500 children of Haiti's wealthiest class attend each year.
Q&A: 'EPAs Will Undermine Democracy in Africa'
- Inter Press Service
The current course of the talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) is particularly destructive for low income African countries and may contract democratic space in such countries even further.
RIGHTS-NEPAL: Laws Have Changed, Mindsets Haven’t
- Inter Press Service
When Ranjit Thapa applied for citizenship by descent through his mother at the Kathmandu District Administration Office, little did he know that the road ahead was fraught with obstacles.
SRI LANKA: Islamic Convert’s Detention Sparks Debate on Tolerance
- Inter Press Service
Issues of religious tolerance, the rule of law and freedom of expression in this mainly Buddhist country are being thrown into debate by the detention of a Sri Lankan Buddhist woman who converted to Islam and was writing a book on her conversion.
UGANDA: Trying to Blow the Whistle on Corruption
- Inter Press Service
The Ugandan Parliament is debating a Bill that will involve citizens in the fight against corruption following an increase in embezzlement of public funds by public servants.
HEALTH: Putting the Focus on Cities
- Inter Press Service
The world's public health policy-makers should focus on urban health problems, since for the last three years the majority of the planet's population is living in cities, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts say.
PERU: Miners Call Off Protests for Talks; Six Killed in Clashes
- Inter Press Service
In response to a government promise to negotiate, small-scale gold miners in southern Peru temporarily called off protests Wednesday in which six people were killed and as many as 30 injured when the police attempted to clear a roadblock.
URUGUAY: Fighting Climate Change from the Countryside
- Inter Press Service
'We would get up and go to bed every day looking up at the sky, hoping for something to fall, but nothing happened, not even a drop fell,' says María Inés Queiros, who makes artisanal cheese in the southern Uruguayan province of San José.
HAITI: Rebuilding Waits on Promised Aid
- Inter Press Service
A week ago, 59 U.N. member states, international institutions and NGO coalitions pledged nearly 10 billion dollars towards rebuilding Haiti over the next decade.
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