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MEDIA-ASIA: Community Radio Carves Out Space for Itself
- Inter Press Service
Community radio is moving from the margins to the mainstream in many countries in Asia, carving out spaces from where they respond to public needs ranging from disaster management to gender awareness, cultural identity and belonging.
AFGHANISTAN: Traffickers Step Up Import of Heroin-Making Chemicals
- Inter Press Service
Drug traffickers are increasing imports of precursor chemicals used for processing opium poppy into heroin and morphine, according to a new State Department report released here Monday.
ENVIRONMENT-LEBANON: Coastal Pollution Threatens Fisherfolk
- Inter Press Service
Pollution, oil spills and difficult living conditions are some of the challenges that fishermen in this eastern Mediterranean country face daily.
ENVIRONMENT: Wanted - An Effective Multilateral System
- Inter Press Service
The echoes of failure still sounding from the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December are spurring efforts to reform the international legal framework. Civil society groups are demanding a new, more agile system that is both influential and effective.
INDIA: Latest Riots Show Simmering Communal Tensions
- Inter Press Service
This week’s riots in two southern Indian towns highlight how communal tensions in this country of nearly 1.2 billion people simmer just under the surface, exploding at the slightest provocation.
PHILIPPINES: Children’s Charities Feel Economic Crunch
- Inter Press Service
Children's charities and non-government organisations (NGOs) in the Philippines face tough times ahead as major overseas funders cut back on financial support due to the global financial crisis, against a backdrop of donor fatigue.
ZIMBABWE: Constitution in the Limelight
- Inter Press Service
A new play, Waiting for Constitution has generated great interest among politicians and civil society groups anxious to get consultations over drafting a new constitution under way.
PERU: Relocating Entire Villages for Mines, Dams
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Peruvian communities were displaced as they fled the 1980-2000 civil war. Today the government is pushing for urgent passage of a law that would facilitate the relocation of entire villages or neighbourhoods in mineral or energy-rich areas.
HEALTH: Neoliberalism not Liberal Enough for AIDS Investments
- Inter Press Service
Neoliberal economic ideas have grown increasingly dominant over the last 30 years. During that same time, the spread of HIV/AIDS has reached an epidemic crescendo.
CHILE: First Woman President Scores Points on Gender Front
- Inter Press Service
When Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as its first woman president in 2005, thousands of women celebrated the historic victory as their own personal triumph, proudly marching in the streets wearing mock presidential sashes. Today, men and women both recognise the concrete and symbolic progress achieved in gender issues under her administration.
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