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IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Aug 22, 2008
PRETORIA, Aug 23 (IPS) - When beekeepers in central and eastern Uganda got vouchers to go online at internet cafés, their most popular query was how to treat bee stings. A local agricultural information provider …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Aug 22, 2008
HARARE, Aug 23 (IPS) - In a highly contested election marred by violence and held under very difficult economic conditions, Zimbabwean women politicians defied the odds to participate as candidates in the March 29th …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Aug 22, 2008
LIMA, Aug 22 (IPS) - The Peruvian Congress voted Friday to repeal two decrees that opened up communally owned native lands to private investment and that triggered a wave of protests this month by indigenous people in …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Aug 22, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Aug 22 (IPS) - In response to the growing public outcry over Mexico’s soaring crime rates, the president, state governors, lawmakers and judges agreed to a broad new anti-crime plan, characterised by a …
IPS Inter Press Service - Troubled Waters - Aug 22, 2008
STOCKHOLM, Aug 22 (IPS) - A spectre is haunting the cities and villages of most developing nations, warns a senior official of a World Bank-affiliated organisation.
IPS Inter Press Service - Aug 22, 2008
LA PAZ, Aug 22 (IPS) - A beef producers’ boycott declared by agribusiness interests in eastern Bolivia is the latest attempt by the pro-autonomy opposition movement to undermine the government of Bolivian President Evo …
IPS Inter Press Service - North America - Aug 22, 2008
VANCOUVER, Aug 22 (IPS) - The 29th summer Olympics cast renewed light on China's treatment of ethnic minorities in Tibet, and as the games wind down, a similar, if less pronounced set of controversies will follow the …
IPS Inter Press Service - Aug 22, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (IPS) - When Pakistani president and former military dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf stepped down on Monday, it marked the official end of the flawed Pakistan policy of the administration of U.S …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Aug 22, 2008
BANGKOK, Aug 22 (IPS) - Hopes for peace in southern Philippines have grown slim as fighting escalates between government troops and Muslim separatist rebels. When August began, a different mood prevailed as negotiators …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Aug 22, 2008
PERMATANG PAUH, Penang, Aug 22 (IPS) - Sleaze and race are dominating the by-election for this constituency where opposition leader and self-proclaimed prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim is fighting to return to …