/CORRECTION*/HAITI: Donors Pledge 10 Billion Dollars in Aid

Eleven weeks after an earthquake killed over two percent of its population and flattened its capital city, Haiti is looking towards a long and complex rebuilding process.

KENYA: Primary Education Under the Gun

The children are afraid. There are armed bandits hiding with stolen animals in the thickets behind Nawoyaregae Primary School in Kaputir Location.

Women’s organisations in Argentina

In Argentina today, there are many and very diverse movements and organisations with a gender perspective. Mujeres Públicas is not looking to construct rigid messages. Its aim is to raise questions, using messages that have diverse, ambiguous and open meanings. Sonia Sánchez is a woman characterised by her constant search, her rebelliousness and her non-stop movement. These two groups represent two ways of organising, of daring to create new spaces without closing any doors.

Food Security in Argentina

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) defines food security as the right of all people to be free from hunger and to have access to safe and nutritious food. Poverty is a major cause of food insecurity, and achieving sustained progress towards eradicating poverty is key to improving access to food.

U.S.: Immigration Detention Abuses Continue

More abuses in the U.S. immigration detention system came to light last week when it was revealed that two mentally disabled men continue to be held in detention while facing possible deportation for criminal assault convictions, despite having already served their time.

DEVELOPMENT: Recovery Could Leave Behind World’s Poorest

The world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs), described as the poorest of the poor, could feel the effects of the global economic crisis for decades, a senior U.N. official warned this week.

DEVELOPMENT: More Food, Except For That Billion Or So

While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed.

CHINA: Public Space Shrinks for Discussing Fate of Heritage Area

The emails started arriving two weeks ago, first in a trickle but slowly in increasing numbers. They talked about a public forum to discuss plans for the controversial redevelopment of a historical area of the Chinese capital Beijing.

MIDEAST: Israel Recognising Obama Means Business

Against all expectations, it's becoming the forerunner of a peace plan. Indeed, it might in the end even surprise the world as Israelis and Palestinians are forced into a peace. Even if, for now, it's shaping up as anything but peaceful.

U.S.: Restrictions Undercut Legal Aid Fund for the Poor

For the past 14 years, the non-profit company set up by the U.S. Congress to provide legal services for the poor has been forced to short-change the needy because of severe government restrictions on how it can use its funding, critics charge.

PAKISTAN: Militancy, Security Fears Defeat National Games

By now, Pakistan’s National Games should have been underway, with spectators cheering on the men and women competing in them. Instead, athletes and officials are ruing how militancy and violence have caused the games’ postponement.

ZIMBABWE: Women Survive Political Violence Alone

Mary Pamire will never forget the day a group of men took turns to rape her.

IRAQ: Uphill Coalition-Building Battle for Winners Unfolds

Iraq's major political forces are beginning what is likely to be a lengthy and uncertain process of talks to form a government. A key question is whether Iraq's politically diverse groups will join forces together based on ideological, ethnic, sectarian or merely pragmatist considerations.

HAITI: U.N. Gears Up for Major Aid Meet

Although the humanitarian crisis in Haiti remains dire, with over a million still homeless and hundreds of thousands in need of adequate shelter for the upcoming rainy season, the international community has started looking towards the country's long-term reconstruction.

RIGHTS-VIETNAM: Law Leads Two Women Leaders to Different Worlds

Both chose the legal profession for their career path, and both are bent on fighting for more rights for the people. But the fortunes of Vietnamese women lawyers Tran Thi Quoc Khan and Le Thi Cong Nhan cannot be more different: One enjoys prominence in the National Assembly, while the other was just recently released from jail.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Eastern Region under Seismic Alert

A quake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook up residents in Cuba's southeastern provinces, prompting concern about increasing seismic activity in the Caribbean, most notably the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Quake Shifted the Environmental Calendar

The government's environmental agency CONAMA on Mar. 19 suspended for 15 workdays the deadlines for proceedings before the Environmental Impact Evaluation System in the regions of El Maule, Bío-Bío and La Araucanía, the hardest hit by the Feb. 27 earthquake.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Fires Cover Caracas in Smog

A hot, dense haze covered the Venezuelan capital in late March, when the ash from a series of fires across some 140 hectares on Mount Ávila, which looms over the capital, mixed with the city's usual air pollution

URUGUAY: Improving Conditions for Waste Pickers

"The time will come when 80 percent of the raw material used by industry in Uruguay will be recycled waste products," Marcelo Conde, a 40-year-old garbage sorter who has been digging through trash for recyclables "for as long as I can remember," says with some pride.

MIDEAST: Religion Sways Policy, Now in Israel

There was a time when Israel was held in contempt by its neighbours for its over-liberal ways. They felt it did not "belong" in the Middle East.

CHINA: Despite U.S. Pressure, Beijing Stands Firm in Currency Spat

China may be under international pressure, especially from the United States, over the valuation of its currency, but is unlikely to back down in the short term given its worries about its export sector and the jobs that depend on it.