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RIGHTS: Arab Women Caught Between Extremes
- Inter Press Service
The status of women in a predominantly male-chauvinistic Arab world continues to fluctuate from one extreme to another.
UGANDA: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements
- Inter Press Service
Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies.
U.S.: Grassroots Groups Get More Bang for Donors' Bucks
- Inter Press Service
While 'community organising' has become a punch line for late- night comedians since the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the activity 'delivers enormous benefits to communities,' according to a new study conducted by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP).
CLIMATE: The Thirsty Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding to confront a drought that threatens the regional economy and which experts warned about years ago.
DR-CONGO: EU Urged to Ban 'Conflict Minerals'
- Inter Press Service
After the United States senate’s move to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fuelling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the watchdog group Global Witness (GW) is calling on Europe to follow suit.
POLITICS: Indonesians Complain About ‘Noise’ of Democracy
- Inter Press Service
Is there such a thing as too much freedom in a democracy?
RIGHTS: U.N. Women's Agency Remains Politically Paralysed
- Inter Press Service
A longstanding proposal for the creation of a special U.N. agency for women - officially called a 'gender entity' - is apparently moving at the sluggish pace of a paralytic snail.
DR CONGO: Will Poultry Project Live up to Expectations?
- Inter Press Service
For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only meat and poultry they could buy to eat since the 1980s was frozen imports from Western countries, distributed locally by a few local businessmen.
GUATEMALA: Off Track for Millennium Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
Guatemala knows that when it comes time to demonstrate compliance with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of global anti-poverty and development target to be met by 2015, it will make a poor showing.
CHILE: Cost of Rebuilding Still Unclear
- Inter Press Service
Chile has begun to think about the costs and challenges of rebuilding a large part of the areas hit by the Feb. 27 earthquake and tsunami, while rescue and aid operations continue.
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