News headlines for “Third World Debt Undermines Development”, page 1402
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.
THAILAND: Rural Protesters Prepare to Paint Bangkok Red
- Inter Press Service
As a former bureaucrat, Sakda Orphong cuts an unlikely figure as someone who is busy fomenting a grassroots protest movement to confront Thailand’s current government.
DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: NGOs Brace for Tighter Gov’t Control
- Inter Press Service
Local and foreign non-governmental organisations have had a liberal existence in Sri Lanka, but this may not last for much longer under the government’s plans to amend a 1980 law that would tighten control over them.
PAKISTAN: Emergency Contraception More Popular, But Myths Abound
- Inter Press Service
The first time he and his wife had an ‘accident’, 40-year-old Kamran Rehman worried that they may have inadvertently paved the way for child number three. A chemist he consulted, however, recommended that his wife try the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP).
RIGHTS: Rise and Fall of Gender Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
The 45-member Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), presiding over one of the largest gatherings of women at the United Nations, listened Monday to dozens of speakers spelling out the successes and failures of gender empowerment worldwide.
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