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Gaza Reconstruction, Hampered by Israeli Blockade, May Take 100 Years, Say Aid Agencies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - Despite all the political hoopla surrounding an international pledging conference in Cairo last October to help rebuild Gaza, the reconstruction of the Israeli-devastated territory is apparently moving at the pace of paralytic snail.
For Women in Asia, ‘Home’ Is a Battleground
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - Nearly half of the four billion people who reside in the Asia-Pacific region are women. They comprise two-thirds of the region's poor, with millions either confined to their homes or pushed into the informal labour market where they work without any safeguards for paltry daily wages. Millions more become victims of trafficking and are forced into prostitution or sexual slavery.
Syrian Conflict Has Underlying Links to Climate Change, Says Study
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (IPS) - Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered at least in part by climate change?
Farm Projects Boost Bangladeshi Women, Children
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 01 (IPS) - Women in Bangladesh are carving healthier, wealthier futures for themselves and their children – and they have chicken eggs and pineapples to thank.
Opinion: War on Wildlife Crime – Time to Enlist the Ordinary Citizen
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 01 (IPS) - It is no exaggeration to say that we are facing a "wildlife crisis", and it is a crisis exacerbated by human activities, not least criminal ones.
Opinion: Manipulate and Mislead – How GMOs are Infiltrating Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 01 (IPS) - The most persistent myth about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is that they are necessary to feed a growing global population.
Bamboo – An Answer to Deforestation or Not in Africa?
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Feb 28 (IPS) - Deforestation is haunting the African continent as industrial growth paves over public commons and puts more hectares into private hands.
Tobacco Workers in Cuba Dubious About Opening of U.S. Market
- Inter Press Service
SAN JUAN Y MARTÃNEZ, Cuba, Feb 28 (IPS) - "We have to wait and see," "There isn't a lot of talk about it," are the responses from tobacco workers in this rural area in western Cuba when asked about the prospect of an opening of the U.S. market to Cuban cigars.
Opinion: Goals for Gender Equality Are Not a ‘Wish List’ – They Are a ‘To Do List’
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 (IPS) - This weekend, at the invitation of President Michelle Bachelet and myself, women leaders from across the world are meeting in Santiago de Chile. We will applaud their achievements. We will remind ourselves of their contributions. And we will chart a way forward to correct the historical record. History has not been fair to women – but then, women usually didn't write it.
Rousseff’s Brazil - No Country for the Landless
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 27 (IPS) - In Brazil, one of the countries with the highest concentration of land ownership in the world, some 200,000 peasant farmers still have no plot of their own to farm – a problem that the first administration of President Dilma Rousseff did little to resolve.
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