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RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Rape Survivor Families Struggle Against Odds
Rape and sexual violence are endemic in Pakistan, but cases are rarely registered. Few survivors and their families can withstand the pressure to compromise with the assailants over the years the cases drag on.LABOUR-ASIA: Migrant Women’s Success Adds To Brain Drain
Liana Garcellano was teaching in a private school here in the Philippines when she got an offer to teach English in Singapore. Though quite happy with her job in her home country, the promise of higher pay and career advancement spurred Garcellano to try her luck overseas.MIDEAST: Final Hours Find Newly Conciliatory Olmert
In an interview with a newspaper on the eve of the Jewish holidays, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave a frank assessment of the concessions that Israel would have to give to achieve a lasting peace with its neighbours.ECUADOR: Correa May Cancel Payment of Some “Illegitimate” Debt
The day after the new constitution promoted by his government won 63 percent support in a referendum, according to the preliminary returns, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Monday that he may cancel payment of some loans, but that the country would not default on its foreign debt.
POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Now To Share Power With Women
The ink was barely dry on the power-sharing agreement signed by Zimbabwe’s main political parties on Sep. 15 when women activists demanded a fair share of power.
NIGERIA: Ramadan Marred By High Food Prices
As the holy month of Ramadan draws to a close, residents of the northern Nigerian city of Kano have endured double pain: already high food prices have been driven through the roof.
SPAIN: Some Retailers Have Still Not Caught Up With Fair Trade Boom
Fair trade has grown in leaps and bounds since the mid-1990s but retailers such as El Corte Ingles, the department store chain with the most sales in Europe, are still not giving consumers the choice to buy these products.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: GPS to Monitor Harpy Eagle
Dozens of harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) are being tracked by GPS, the satellite location system, after being captured and released for research in the Imataca mountains, in southeastern Venezuela.Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras and El Salvador Agree on Water Management
The governments of Honduras and El Salvador will launch a binational project in 2009 to manage the water resources they share in the Lempa River zone, Karen Zelaya, the Honduran minister of cooperation, told Tierramérica.Ecobreves – CHILE: Promoting Inclusive Recycling
Very few municipalities in Chile apply “clear policies for waste management, with environmental, economic and social components, where all benefit,” Exequiel Estay, secretary-general of the National Movement of Recyclers, told Tierramérica.Ecobreves – CUBA: Eco-Materials for Areas Hit by Hurricanes
A construction method with alternative materials resistant to extreme climate will help alleviate the housing deficits in two Cuban provinces hard hit by hurricanes Ike and Gustav.
Ecobreves – LATIN AMERICA: Official Inauguration of Tierramérica Center
The Tierramérica International Center for Sustainable Development and Environmental Defense was inaugurated at the United Nations headquarters in New York, with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in attendance.VIETNAM: Heeding Climate Change Warnings
With a predicted sea level rise of one metre by 2100, Vietnam may end up being one of the nations worst hit by climate change. Such a rise would affect five percent of the land area, 11 percent of the population and seven percent of the agriculture.
SRI LANKA: UN Supplies to Rebel-Held Areas Will Resume
Tens of thousands of civilians, trapped by fighting between Tamil rebels and the Sri Lankan armed forces in the Vanni, may soon receive their first supplies of essentials since Sep. 16 when United Nations and other humanitarian agencies quit the embattled area.ECUADOR: Exit Polls Show Strong Support for New Constitution
The new constitution promoted by the government of Rafael Correa, indigenous groups and social movements in Ecuador was approved by a broad majority of voters in Sunday’s referendum, according to exit polls.POLITICS: U.S. War on al Qaeda Widely Viewed as a Bust
The U.S. is failing to rein in its primary target in the "global war on terror" - al Qaeda - according to a new poll of 23 countries across the globe.
GUATEMALA: Lachua, a Corner of the Jungle Resists
Guatemala’s Laguna Lachuá National Park is a small corner of the Central American jungle that has withstood the encroachment of oil exploration, monoculture crops and road building, and serves as the area for sustainable development projects run by the indigenous people who live there.
Q&A: Brother, Can You Spare 700 Billion Dollars?
As the U.S. Congress debates the George W. Bush administration's proposed massive bailout of the nation's precarious financial system, the astringent analysis of economist Dean Baker has enjoyed a high profile in the news, the opinion pages and the blogosphere.
THEATRE: The Singer Who Defied Nigeria’s Generals
The scene is 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria. Film projections show people racing frantically to escape the thousand troops who have surrounded and invaded Kalakuta, the communal living space and recording studio of musician-songwriter, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
MALAYSIA: Murum Dam – Public Funds for Corporate Profit?
Who will foot the bill for the Murum resettlement? ''Is it Sarawak Energy or will it be passed on directly to the state government and hence the tax payer,'' asked one Sarawak-based activist, who declined to be identified.DEVELOPMENT: Social Cost of Migration Hits Women, Families
Carla Danao is hit by guilt and pain every time she comes home to the Philippines for a visit. This was especially true in August, when she returned to realise that she had been far away and unavailable for her 12-year-old daughter when she had her first menstrual period.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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