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Activists Say Fracking Fails to 'Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful'
- Inter Press Service
MONTROSE, Pennsylvania, USA, Sep 17 (IPS) - U.S. activist Vera Scroggins has been sued five times by the oil industry, and since October 2013 she has faced a restraining order banning her from any properties owned or leased by one of the biggest players in Pennsylvania's natural gas rush, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation.
OPINION: UN Committee adopts principles for sovereign debt restructuring
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 17 (IPS) - As a growing number of countries face the possibility of debt crises, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a set of nine basic principles for sovereign debt restructuring processes in an effort to provide for debt restructuring that is fair and economically sustainable.
Cuban Agroecological Project Aims to Foment Local Innovation
- Inter Press Service
LA PALMA, Cuba, Sep 16 (IPS) - Armando Marcelino Pi divides his day between the university, where he teaches philosophy, work on his family farm, and coordinating a group of 33 agroecological farmers, in this mountainous rural municipality in western Cuba.
Opinion: Another U.N. General Assembly Talk Fest Begins
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, Sep 15 (IPS) - UNGA 70 formally commenced on Sep. 15. In accordance with custom, it elected a new President, Denmark's Mogens Lykketoft, who has picked as the theme for his tenure as the President, "The UN at 70 - A New Commitment to Action".
Countries Using Child Soldiers Join UK Arms Fair
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 15 (IPS) - Human rights and citizen activist groups are criticizing one of the world's largest arms bazaars, which opened at London's Docklands Tuesday.
Is Modi Making in India?
- Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IPS) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' programme is inspired by the East Asian manufacturing export success story of development. Earlier, when he was chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he expressed an ambition of modeling the state on South Korea.
Antofagasta Mining Region Reflects Chile’s Inequality
- Inter Press Service
CALAMA, Chile, Sep 11 (IPS) - In the city of Calama, the so-called mining capital of Chile in the northern region of Antofagasta, the marked social contrasts are reflected by the proximity of affluent neighbourhoods of modern homes next to shantytowns of tumbledown wooden huts. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS The inhabitants of the northern Chilean mining region of Antofagasta have the highest per capita income in the country. But some 4,000 local families continue to live in slums - a reflection of one of the most marked situations of inequality in this country.
Africa Sees U.N. Climate Conference as “Court Case” for the Continent
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Sep 10 (IPS) - As the clock ticks towards the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris in December, African experts, policy-makers and civil society groups plan to come to the negotiation table prepared for a legal approach to avoid mistakes made during formulation of the Kyoto Protocol.
G20 Finance Ministers Committed to Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Sep 09 (IPS) - Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's 20 major economies, accounting for 66 percent of world population, have pledged to "promote an enabling global economic environment for developing countries as they pursue their sustainable development agendas".
Young Cubans Look Forward to Greater Openness to Technology
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 09 (IPS) - Young people in Cuba are anxiously awaiting an acceleration of the informatisation of society, which is apparently moving ahead at the same pace as the current reform process, "without haste, but without pause," according to the authorities.
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