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IPS Inter Press Service - Latin America - Jul 30, 2008
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 30 (IPS) - Central America is backsliding badly on human rights issues, and social unrest could flare up into civil wars like those experienced in the last decades of the 20th century, according to a …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Jul 30, 2008
YOLA, Jul 30 (IPS) - Over half a million women die in childbirth annually around the world, according to the World Health Organisation. Nigeria alone accounts for 10 percent of these deaths.
IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - Jul 30, 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 30 (IPS) - "Protectionism has triumphed," said the vice president of Brazil’s Foreign Trade Association, José Augusto de Castro, referring to Tuesday’s collapse of the Doha Round of multilateral …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Jul 30, 2008
TORONTO, Jul 30 (IPS) - A rollercoaster ride of spurned treaties, efforts to fund new weapons and the expansion of potential targets for nuclear strikes under the George W. Bush administration to include Iran and North …
IPS Inter Press Service - Jul 30, 2008
VANCOUVER, Canada, Jul 30 (IPS) - For women's rights and women's empowerment groups, the 3rd High Level Conference on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, in September, and the U.N. Conference on Financing for Development in …
IPS Inter Press Service - Jul 30, 2008
HAVANA, Jul 30 (IPS) - Urban farming has taken off in Cuba over the last two decades, based on low-cost agro-ecological practices and a stable labour force, and could serve as a model for the rest of the agriculture …
IPS Inter Press Service - Jul 30, 2008
BOSTON, Jul 30 (IPS) - A high-level California commission has sounded the death knell for the state's "dysfunctional" death penalty system, calling for an infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars or the closing down …
IPS Inter Press Service - Asia Pacific - Jul 30, 2008
BANGKOK, Jul 30 (IPS) - They may be known in South-east Asia for their poverty, but that has not stopped Cambodia and Laos from caring for people living with HIV/AIDS. Both countries have increased the supply of the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Economy, Finance, Trade - Jul 30, 2008
PEREIRA, Colombia, Jul 30 (IPS) - The so-called Coffee Belt region accounts for 60 percent of Colombians who leave the country, and the majority of those leaving are female. Once they are abroad, these women become the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Jul 30, 2008
KATHMANDU, Jul 30 (IPS) - Suman Tamang, 26, remembers feeling guilty for wishing he were a man. Tamang, born a woman, wanted to do the heavy work only men do, was friends with more men than women and was attracted to …