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ENVIRONMENT: Forests at a Climate Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
Billions of dollars are being mobilised to protect and increase the world's forests under a climate protection mechanism known as REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). But many experts are unsure that it will work, and some fear it could end in disaster.
HEALTH-INDIA: Trained Birth Attendants Save Rural Mothers’ Lives
- Inter Press Service
It was her fourth unplanned pregnancy, but Sani Jani still made it a point to have a monthly checkup at the nearest primary health centre — even if she always had to walk two kilometres to get there.
BURMA: Ahead of Poll, Junta Prepares to Score Political Points
- Inter Press Service
As election fever grips Burma, the ruling junta is busy preparing a series of steps, including an amnesty of political prisoners, to try to make the vote more credible in the international community.
WATER: Swazi Village Gets a Self-Sustaining Water Supply
- Inter Press Service
No one loves the bill collector, and Sifiso Shongwe gets a chilly welcome as he goes from household to household collecting money for Maphilingo's community water scheme.
UGANDA: Farmers Boxing Clever To Get Ahead
- Inter Press Service
Mayuge district has 31,000 farming families served by just nine agricultural extension workers. In Wainha village, an internet centre run by the Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative is more than filling the gap in assisting farmers.
RIGHTS: As Taiwan Debates Death Penalty, China Stays Mum on It
- Inter Press Service
Just as the death penalty is becoming a hot public issue in Taiwan, here in China it remains so much a matter of state secrecy that the numbers of those executed are kept under wraps from the public.
POLITICS-SUDAN: Stage Set For Bashir Victory
- Inter Press Service
While there is a growing desire for change in Sudan - particularly among the younger urban population in the north - there is no atmosphere of heated campaigning or supporters mobbing candidates in the south, as campaigning for general elections concludes.
LATIN AMERICA-EU: Labour Pains
- Inter Press Service
Trade with the European Union has not significantly improved the situation of workers in Latin America, in spite of its volume having doubled between 1990 and 2007, according to a study by two Chilean academics.
GHANA: Political Parties Urged to Come Clean
- Inter Press Service
There are growing fears that lack of transparency on how political parties are being funded has given rise to corruption.
ASIA: Mistrust Lingers as China Confronts Thorny Mekong Issues
- Inter Press Service
Lost in the deluge of accusations that China’s dams are the culprit in the Mekong River’s unusually low levels is the fact that Beijing has actually become much less tightlipped about thorny issues with its neighbours than in the past.
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