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RIGHTS-CHINA: Doubts Simmer Around New Labour Rules
- Inter Press Service
Faced with strikes in recent months, China’s southern Guangdong province is crafting revisions to labour regulations that would allow workers to negotiate pay increases and elect representatives to bargain on their behalf.
INDIA: Cotton Farmers Reap Hope from New Techniques
- Inter Press Service
Meruga Padma, 33, and her husband Veeramallu, 40, can still remember when cotton farmers here in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were in such dire straits that many were soon thrown into depression. Some of the farmers, in fact, were eventually driven to taking their own lives.
Civil Society Watchdogs Crucial in New Global Order
- Inter Press Service
Six hundred delegates from more than 80 countries flocked to Montreal Aug. 20-23 for the CIVICUS World Assembly in search of innovative ways to approach global challenges like poverty and climate change.
CUBA: Expansion of Self-Employment Poses Challenges for Socialism
- Inter Press Service
The announcement of a plan to expand the practice of self-employment in Cuba as an alternative for the 'excess' workers who are to be slashed from the public workforce presents several challenges to the socialist model that the government is seeking to modernise.
Q&A: 'Democracy Deficit Is the Biggest Obstacle to Development'
- Inter Press Service
Three scenarios were laid before the delegates here attending the CIVICUS World Assembly, a venue that attracts civil society, donors, government and business leaders from every region of the world.
Caribbean Civil Society Unites to Tap EU Development Funds
- Inter Press Service
Roosevelt King, the secretary general of the Barbados Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (BANCO), believes that Caribbean governments have dropped the ball when it comes to their commitment to support the initiatives of civil society.
Brazil Aims for World's 'Most Perfect' Population Census
- Inter Press Service
Come Dec. 31, about 68 countries are expected to complete the arduous task of taking an accurate head count of the number of people living within their geographical borders.
HEALTH: S. Africa Becomes a Victim of its ARV Treatment Success
- Inter Press Service
Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if the South African government keeps to its implementation plan.
ZAMBIA: Water Committee Prospers in Lusaka
- Inter Press Service
Residents of Lusaka's George Compound remember the bad old days in the early 1990s, when the area suffered ugly outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Poor management and maintenance caused the water infrastructure in the dense low-income settlement to collapse. People resorted to using water from shallow, easily-contaminated wells.
ENERGY: Brazilian Biofuels Run into EU Obstacles
- Inter Press Service
Brazil has begun a counterattack on the European Union's measures for certifying crop-based fuels, which could lead to import barriers for this energy source coming from the South American giant.
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