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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.
URUGUAY: New President Aims for Leap in Development
- Inter Press Service
'I've been crying (tears of joy) since yesterday. It's amazing to see how an ordinary person made it so far,' said 44-year-old María del Rosario Corbo, referring to Uruguay's new President José 'Pepe' Mujica, who was sworn in Monday at the head of this South American country's second leftist administration.
HAITI: Earthquake Epicentre Copes with Aftermath
- Inter Press Service
Marie Saintus sat regally on a wicker chair in the narrow alley by her makeshift home at the Anacaona Stadium, in the middle of this once bucolic city, as she teased her neighbours.
ZIMBABWE:: Informal Sector Lures University Graduates
- Inter Press Service
From the rickety old buses that miraculously make long cross-border journeys to the frustrating red tape at the border post, from fending off sexual advances from bus crews and customs officials to losing goods worth thousands of dollars, 28-year-old Irene Moyo has seen it all.
PHILIPPINES: Pro-green Measures Expose Bias Against Urban Poor
- Inter Press Service
Edgar Borras sifts through his remaining possessions in a demolished shanty beside a Manila waterway, preparing to bring them to his wife and 12-year-old son who now live in a remote relocation site in a province outside the Philippine capital.
DEVELOPMENT: Grassroots Groups Taking Root in China
- Inter Press Service
Chinese civil society is coming increasingly to the fore as wealthy tycoons create big charitable foundations and grassroots organisations form networks of their own, observers and activists say.
POLITICS-BURMA: Conflict Pushes Karen Women to be Village Chiefs
- Inter Press Service
In military-ruled Burma’s Karen state, tradition and a male-dominated social order have long guaranteed men the role of village chiefs. But this order is crumbling in the country’s eastern region, giving rise to the new phenomenon of women village chiefs.
Q&A: 'We Can't Continue to Pay Lip Service to Gender Equality'
- Inter Press Service
When the 45-member U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) holds a two-week session beginning Monday, one of the lingering issues that will come up is the success - or failure - in the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on gender empowerment.
MEXICO: Ecological Smoke from Fuel Efficient Stoves
- Inter Press Service
The lives of many rural women and children in Mexico are changing, and the country's high deforestation rate could be reduced, as inexpensive fuel-efficient cook stoves are being distributed by non-governmental organisations with corporate and government support.
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