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Equal Chances for Women Critical in 'Healthy, Productive Society'
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 17 (IPS) - In an effort to promote gender equality in workplaces and communities, business leaders, politicians and supporters came together during last week's fifth annual Women's Empowerment Principles Event to explore ways to ensure women are supported in their careers and life choices.
Dairy Farming Needs a Shot of Modernity
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Mar 16 (IPS) - Mohammad Ali's routine has not changed in over three decades. A small dairy farmer in the village of Aliabad, in the Narowal district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, he wakes at sunrise and walks to the barn to milk his three cows manually, stopping only for a breakfast of unleavened bread and tea heavily laced with milk before getting back to work.
Officials Turn Blind Eye to Abuse of Asylum Seekers
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Faraj Alhamauun, a Syrian national now residing in Istanbul, was detained while crossing Greece, in the hopes of heading north, last September.
Food Policies Failing the World's Hungry
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) - The world's food security remains "vulnerable", new data suggests, with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies.
OP-ED: Stability Will Mark Post-Chávez Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Mar 15 (IPS) - Although there is plenty of speculation about what will happen now President Hugo Chávez is gone, the likelihood of change in Venezuelan politics and society is low.
Obama Proposes Major New Renewables Research
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) - President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a broad new proposal to step up U.S. research into renewable energy technologies, particularly in transportation, which is responsible for around 70 percent of the United States' oil use.
Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice
- Inter Press Service
KAMPOT, Cambodia, Mar 15 (IPS) - Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia's southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque.
But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region's natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, as the neighbouring beachside Kampot province did just three years ago.
Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 15 (IPS) - Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies at the national level, they say.
Peace Laureate Obama Urged to Back Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (IPS) - Eighteen Nobel Peace Prize recipients called Thursday for President Barack Obama to take a leadership role in supporting a "historic" internationally binding agreement that would regulate the global arms trade, including instituting a strict ban on arms sales to states involved in egregious human rights abuses.
Q&A: Rise of South "Unprecedented in Speed and Scale"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (IPS) - The world's 132 developing nations, largely part of the global South, are ascending at a pace "unprecedented in its speed and scale", according to the latest Human Development Report (HDR) released Thursday by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP).
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