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ZIMBABWE: 'We Too Want to be Wealthy'
- Inter Press Service
Saddled with debts of more than $7 billion, Zimbabwe is anxious to resume diamond exports, suspended in May amidst international condemnation of alleged human rights violations in the Marange diamond fields. But the treatment of people living in the fields themselves suggests the country's record on rights bears further examination.
HEALTH: 'I Have Never Opposed Generics' - British Ex-Politician
- Inter Press Service
Baroness Lynda Chalker, a former British government minister, has been at the forefront of the intellectual property rights crusade to pass laws against counterfeits in east Africa. These laws threaten the use of life-saving generics in countries that depend on such medicines for some 90 percent of their healthcare needs.
'Excluded Workers' Move from Shadows to Negotiating Table
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. labour movement needs to be reorganised from the bottom up to include domestic workers, day labourers, restaurant workers, taxi drivers, farm workers, incarcerated workers, guest workers and those in the 'right to work' states.
Shift in Illicit Drug Use Bodes Ill for Developing World
- Inter Press Service
While drug use has largely stabilised in industrial countries, there are signs that it may be on the rise in developing countries, says a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the impact of a rise in drug abuse could cause a lot more damage in developing countries than it has for their richer counterparts.
BRAZIL: Murky Finances Haunt 2014 Football World Cup
- Inter Press Service
Delays in construction to prepare for the 2014 football World Cup, to be hosted by Brazil, bring to mind the budget overruns and the secretive bidding process ahead of the Pan-American Games held in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
U.N. Report Optimistic on Anti-Poverty Strides
- Inter Press Service
Despite the ongoing financial crisis, global poverty rates are expected to fall by half in the next five years compared to 1990, according to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report 2010 launched on Wednesday by Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon.
WORLD: Inviting Africans to G8 Meeting Is Just 'Window-Dressing'
- Inter Press Service
Questions are being asked about whether the Group of Eight invitation to seven African states to attend its summit in Ontario, Canada, reflects its concern about the litany of unmet promises dating from its 2005 Gleneagles meeting -- or whether it merely amounts to another bout of window-dressing.
INDIA: Animals Nearing Extinction Need Urgent Attention — Experts
- Inter Press Service
With threats looming large on the survival of several wildlife species in the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, experts warn that these species could go extinct in the coming years unless immediate steps are taken to prevent their extinction.
ECUADOR: Chinese Mega Loan for Dam Draws Fire
- Inter Press Service
The opposition and experts in Ecuador are questioning a 1.68 billion dollar loan from China to finance 85 percent of the construction and equipment of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam.
AFRICA: Cautionary Notes Sounded as South-South Trade Booms
- Inter Press Service
An Indian textile engineer and entrepreneur called Raj Rajendran visited Rwanda in 1999. He was tasked to close down an unviable textile factory following the civil war. But he discovered propitious agro-climatic conditions, particularly volcanic soil -- ideal for the rearing of silk worms to produce raw silk.
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