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URUGUAY: Agro-Export Boom May Have Lethal Consequences
- Inter Press Service
Behind the explosive growth of the agriculture and plantation forestry industries in Uruguay lies clear proof of the indiscriminate use of chemical products that pose serious threats to the environment and human health.
LAOS: Doubts Hound World Bank-backed Dam as Its Turbines Start Up
- Inter Press Service
It has been just over a week since the turbines came to life at Laos’ largest hydropower project, but questions are already dogging this World Bank showpiece that marks the financial institution's return to the business of big dams.
SRI LANKA: First Political Manifesto for Women Gets Good Reviews
- Inter Press Service
Political manifestos are often met with cynicism and even ridicule, but Sri Lanka’s first such manifesto for women is proving an exception to the rule as rights activists laud its recent launch.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Indigenous Groups Still Say No to Gov’t ‘Help’
- Inter Press Service
'We don’t want to have any part of this. We want to move out of it so we have a bit of freedom and be able to determine our own future,' says Richard Downs, an elder of the Alyawarra people of central Australia.
Q&A: EPAs Are Still Not Developmental, Despite EU Promises
- Inter Press Service
The contentious trade deals known as the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) will in their current form not do African countries any good as they still do not take those countries’ development needs into consideration, despite such an undertaking by the European Union (EU).
HAITI: Artists Join UN to Rebuild Cultural Life
- Inter Press Service
As international donors prepare to meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss ways to rebuild Haiti, after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, the country’s artistic community has been mobilising to make culture a key aspect of reconstruction.
HEALTH-ZAMBIA: Government’s SMS System for HIV Test Results
- Inter Press Service
HIV-positive Bupe Mwamba, 22, lies next to her newborn baby girl at the rural clinic she just gave birth in and wonders if her baby is HIV-positive too.
SOUTH AFRICA: Ready To Tackle Human Trafficking?
- Inter Press Service
The expected arrival of 350,000 football fans in South Africa for the World Cup in June has provoked fears of increased levels of human trafficking. A new study suggests that one major obstacle to preventing this is the lack of accurate information about the extent of the problem.
BRAZIL: Bringing the Multicoloured Soul of the Favela to Life
- Inter Press Service
The 'favelas' or shanty towns of Brazil are a uniform red ochre, the colour of unplastered brick walls. But two visual artists from the Netherlands want to paint them every colour under the sun, a facelift intended to showcase the colourful soul of these poverty-stricken neighbourhoods.
SRI LANKA: Attack Over ‘Offensive’ Music Video Revives Old Fears
- Inter Press Service
Anger against the popular rap and hip-hop singer Akon, whose music video has footage of bikini-clad women dancing near a Buddha statue, may have been just a ruse used in this week’s attack on a private media house in Sri Lanka, media advocates fear.
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