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Q&A: "The Elites Are Like a Huge Elephant Sitting on Haiti"
Michael Deibert interviews Haitian Prime Minister MICHÈLE PIERRE-LOUIS
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis assumed office in September 2008. Born in the southern city of Jérémie in 1947, she left Haiti with her family in 1964 following a pogrom by dictator François Duvalier against his perceived enemies in her town.
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AFRICA: Civil Society to AU: Investment Must Address Marginalisation
By Diletta Varlese, Terna Gyuse and Joyce Mulama
Sirte, LIBYA, CAPE TOWN and NAIROBI - No gathering hosted by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is ever dull, and the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the African Union, concluding in Sirte, Libya today has not disappointed.
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ENVIRONMENT-URUGUAY: Invasion of the Sand Dunes
By Inés Acosta
CIUDAD DE LA COSTA, Uruguay - "A road used to run through here, the sidewalk was over there, and this was the neighbour’s yard. That was an esplanade where people parked their cars, and that area over there was a plaza," says Jackeline, pointing to enormous sand dunes that have swallowed up everything, even entire trees.
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HEALTH-LAOS: Inadequate Sanitation Denting GDP
By Nergui Manalsuren
UNITED NATIONS - Poor sanitation and hygiene costs the Lao People’s Democratic Republic 193 million dollars per year, an estimated 5.6 percent of gross domestic product, according to figures from the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) of the World Bank.
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POLITICS: U.N. Decries Aid Shortfall in Afghanistan
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which has expressed disappointment over the slow disbursement of development aid to crisis-stricken Afghanistan, has hurled one of its biggest political insults at Western donors: threatening to turn to a U.S. philanthropist for financial assistance.
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AFRICA: Maternal Mortality, A Human Rights Catastrophe
Analysis by Rosemary Okello and Terna Gyuse
BRUSSELS and CAPE TOWN - The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people's enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform.
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HEALTH-SENEGAL: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
By Koffigan E. Adigbli 
DAKAR - In Senegal’s southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula.
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RIGHTS: Queer Parade Defies Anachronistic Indian Law
By Sujata B. Shakeel
NEW DELHI - "Not all females are women," reads a poster emblazoned in red. "I am the pink sheep of my family!" is the message on another, while a third, very cheekily proclaims, "I don’t give a f***, I am a greedy bisexual"!
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INDONESIA: Presidential Poll Race Disappoints Women’s Activists
By Fabio Scarpello
DENPASAR, Indonesia - As the country prepares to elect its new president next week, Indonesian activists are trying to push gender issues onto the political agenda.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Remittance Crunch, But Women Migrants Keep Sending
By Elizabeth Eames Roebling and Tove Silveira
SANTO DOMINGO - Among the colourful houses in the neighbourhood called Vietnam in East Santo Domingo, many families have at least one family member among the 1.5 million Dominicans living abroad.
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RIGHTS: Arab TV Soaps Reinforce Gender Bias
By Suad Hamada
MANAMA - Arabic TV channels wait for Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, to launch new soaps that generally portray women negatively. Ramadan starts this year at the end of August.
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AUSTRALIA: Policy May Force Indigenous Communities From Traditional Lands
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - A government plan purporting to improve the lives of people living in isolated areas of Australia’s Northern Territory will be implemented at the expense of surrounding homeland communities and ignores the cultural and health benefits for people living on those traditional lands, warn critics.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: 2020 Deadline Is the Crucial "Litmus Test"
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - "So who here thinks there will be a meaningful deal in Copenhagen?" Few of the more than 600 energy ministers, officials and experts from 80 countries attending the Vienna Energy Conference raised their hands in response to the conference moderator's question about the final round of climate negotiations this December in Copenhagen.
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POLITICS: U.N. Plan for Financial Crisis Derided as Weak
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When the General Assembly adopted a proposed plan of action aimed at overcoming the global financial crisis, one of the political surprises was that all 192 member states gave their blessings to the wide range of proposals spelled out in an "outcome document".
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NEPAL: Third Gender Assert Rights
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.
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CHILE: When Being a Woman is a "Health Risk"
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - As a woman of childbearing age, "I pay more than double what a man my age pays for the same health plan," 27-year-old Carolina Leyton told IPS.
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WOMEN: Dubai, New Destination on Trafficking Map
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - On May 26, the U.S.-based Center for Investigative Reporting published ‘The Price of Sex’, a vast multi-media project by photojournalist Mimi Chakarova who spent nearly seven years doggedly unraveling the web of sex trafficking.
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RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: Justice System Tackles Gender Violence
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCION - Paraguay’s justice system is seeking to address a major pending issue: eliminating the hurdles and inequalities in cases of violence against women. When victims turn to the police and the courts, instead of finding a solution, they are often only revictimised.
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DEVELOPMENT: Not Another Missed Opportunity, Civil Society Urges
By Ayesha Gooneratne
UNITED NATIONS - A coalition of civil society organisations called the Global Social Economy Group (GSEG) is pressing for the immediate and long-term financing needs of developing countries to take centre-stage at the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis.
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DEVELOPMENT: Green Energy for All by 2030?
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - While industrialised countries struggle to switch from climate-damaging, carbon-based energy to greener energy sources, much of the world is desperately energy poor, with 1.6 billion people having no access to electricity and 2.4 billion relying on wood and dung for heat and cooking.
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ECONOMY: "Patching Up Bretton Woods Makes No Sense"
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - The world community must take immediate action to overhaul the current global financial system – that's what a vast majority of political leaders and policymakers from the developing world who are attending a three-day U.N. conference on the global economic crisis are saying.
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In 2000, 189 countries adopted the Millennium Declaration. Last year, world leaders convened in New York to access progress toward their commitments to reach the Millennium Development Goals on aid, trade and debt, governance, education, health and democracy by 2015. Much has been done. It is estimated, for example, that the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - set up at the 2001 Genoa Summit - has saved more than 2 million lives. However, there is still a long way to go to meeting the goals. IPS is covering the issues at stake and more.

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