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IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 21, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 21 (IPS) - Cultural activities in Brazilian jails these days include film screenings, live bands and libraries with shelves packed with books -- part of an attempt to combat the consequences of the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 21, 2007
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 21 (IPS) - Identified with a generation hit hard by Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship, former president Néstor Kirchner won the respect of human rights organisations through his support of …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 21, 2007
NAIROBI, Dec 21 (IPS) - Last Friday, Margaret Wanjiru -- a parliamentary candidate in Kenya's Dec. 27 general elections -- was reportedly attacked while campaigning in her Starehe constituency in the capital, Nairobi …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Dec 21, 2007
SANTIAGO, Dec 20 (IPS) - Environmental groups in Chile are pleased by the approval of the Native Forest Recovery and Forestry Development Act, which took 15 years to make its way through Congress. But they have not …
IPS Inter Press Service - Europe - Dec 21, 2007
BRUSSELS, Dec 21 (IPS) - African governments have signed economic partnership agreements with the European Union ‘‘under duress’’, according to Dr Rob Davies, South Africa’s deputy trade and industry minister.
IPS Inter Press Service - Europe - Dec 21, 2007
BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - For the European Union, 2007 was a year rich in events, but poor on results. Next year promises to be as turbulent as this one, and probably as unremarkable in its outcome.
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Dec 21, 2007
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (IPS) - Twelve-year-old Lama Al-Arian looked up into a camera with a broad smile two years ago and called her father a "political prisoner". But her eyes betray her playfully shy exuberance -- they …
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 21, 2007
NEW DELHI, Dec 21 (IPS) - As the window of opportunity to complete the United States-India nuclear cooperation deal narrows, the agreement seems to be running into problems with the International Atomic Energy Agency …
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 21, 2007
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (IPS) - Columbian Senator Piedad Córdoba charged at a press conference here Wednesday that the government of Colombian President Álvarao Uribe has little interest in negotiating a settlement with the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs - Dec 21, 2007
BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - Social movements are responsible for some of the most important transformations taking place lately in our societies and minds, says Prof. Dieter Rucht from the Berlin Centre for Social Sciences …