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Cancelling Fare Hike Fails to Quell Brazil Protests
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (IPS) - Children of a generation that fought for basic rights like having enough to eat, learning to read and being treated in safer hospitals, the over 300,000 students protesting on the streets of Brazil want more from a democratic and economic system that no longer represents them and is beginning to show its limitations.
Dams Threaten Mekong Basin Food Supply
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Jun 20 (IPS) - The future of food security in the Mekong region lies at a crossroads, as several development ventures, including the Xayaburi Hydropower Project, threaten to alter fish migration routes, disrupt the flow of sediments and nutrients downstream, and endanger millions whose livelihoods depend on the Mekong River basin's resources.
Q&A: "The Real Target Is Zero Hunger"
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 20 (IPS) - Under the leadership of Brazilian Director General (DG) Jose Graziano da Silva, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has been engaged in a process of deep reform meant to make the organisation leaner and more effective in the fight against hunger.
U.N. Urges Turkish Police to Exercise “Restraint”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have advised "maximum restraint" following media reports of a violent police crackdown on peaceful protestors in Istanbul's Gezi Park.
Straightening Out Accounts on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (IPS) - The bold strategy implemented by the Brazilian government has achieved an 84 percent reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the last eight years. But when the natural resources and pesticides used in agricultural production are taken into account, the environmental progress made is not so impressive.
Cambodia’s Opposition Fights Back
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Jun 20 (IPS) - The violence that defined Cambodia during the years of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) may have been relegated to the realm of history, but the actions of the ruling party ahead of the Jul. 28 election smack of the dirty politics that once ruled this Southeast Asian country.
Fishing Undercuts Kiribati President's Marine Protection Claims
- Inter Press Service
TARAWA, Kiribati, Jun 19 (IPS) - A growing chorus of politicians, scientists and environmentalists are urging President Anote Tong of Kiribati to actually do what he claims was already done in 2008: create the world's most effective marine protected area in a remote archipelago in the Central Pacific Ocean.
Climate Change to Determine Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jun 19 (IPS) - The Monetary Board of Sri Lanka's Central Bank, tasked with keeping the island's economy on an even keel, does not only keep tabs on exchange rates, gold prices and inflation – it also has an eye on a less obvious indicator of economic stability: water levels in the country's main reservoirs.
FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food and Water
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 19 (IPS) - Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food.
Border Weakens Between Bombs and Cherries
- Inter Press Service
KIBBUTZ EIN ZIVAN, Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, Jun 19 (IPS) - It all happened within ten days – Syria's civil war fought metres away from Israeli orchards abutting the ceasefire line; Austrian peacekeepers hastily evacuating the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separates Israel from Syria; fears of a total collapse of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). All while the cherry-picking season is at its peak.
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