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News headlines for “WTO Doha “Development” Trade Round Collapse, 2006”, page 9
Least Developed Countries Stagnate Under Ailing Strategies
- Inter Press Service
A report released Tuesday by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the Fourth Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) slated to take place in Istanbul, Turkey in early May expressed a strong critique of the snail's pace of development, but stopped just short of calling for radical new policies to be implemented.
Q&A: 'Women Must Be Part of the Peace Equation'
- Inter Press Service
Eleven years ago, 192 countries — all the United Nations member states — agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, a promise that has remained largely unmet.
Agricultural Policy Is Gender Policy
- Inter Press Service
Eva, a Ghanian woman, was given five pigs and some training on how best to care for them. Eventually, her farm grew to 400 pigs and she was able to buy more land and a motorbike which she not only used for transporting her goods to market but for helping neighbours get to town and to hospital quicker.
Bill Would Aid Afghan Women Caught in U.S.-led War
- Inter Press Service
As conflict continues to rage in Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress is gearing up to debate a bill that could support the country's long-oppressed women in their struggle to achieve gender equality, even in the years after the U.S. military occupation ends.
U.S. House Pushes Through Deep Aid Cuts
- Inter Press Service
With a 2015 deadline fast approaching to meet a collective global promise to tackle poverty and improve education, health and environmental sustainability around the world, development and humanitarian advocates are up in arms over conservative lawmakers' proposals to slash and burn entire chunks of the United States' foreign aid budget.
AFRICA: Billions Lost to State Coffers Due to Tax Leniency
- Inter Press Service
Bad governance and the persistence of the tax avoidance industry allow billions of dollars of profit to be siphoned out of Africa, untaxed, every year.
Axe Descends on U.S. Overseas Aid
- Inter Press Service
With U.S. President Barack Obama's release of his Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 foreign affairs budget Monday and a proposal currently in the U.S. House of Representatives for massive cuts in FY 2011 international spending, the fight to sustain U.S. aid abroad is intensifying.
U.S.: Military Intervention Trumping Humanitarian Aid
- Inter Press Service
In the midst of a belt-tightening political climate in which pledges by prominent lawmakers to slash the United States' foreign affairs budget will likely soon be realised, some rights groups and experts are concerned about the increasingly blurry distinction between security and development in the face of shrinking resources.
Q&A: Looking to a World Without LDCs
- Inter Press Service
Maximising time, energy and resources toward improving living conditions for millions of people in the poorest countries of the world - the so-called Least Developed Countries (LDCs) - means that the 'business-as-usual' approach must yield to a holistic strategy, says Arjun Karki, a longtime expert on grassroots, democratic peace-building and development.
UN Women Head Unveils Empowerment Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Despite birthing 100 percent of the world's children, growing 70 percent of the world's food and performing 60 percent of the world's labour, women only receive a fraction - a mere 10 percent - of the world's income.
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