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Thursday, October 8, 2026
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RIGHTS: Women Review Progress in Gender Equality
Women's groups around the world are taking stock of their progress in securing gender equality - agreed on at the 1995 World Conference on Women held in Beijing.RIGHTS: Women Review Progress in Gender Equality
Women's groups around the world are taking stock of their progress in securing gender equality - agreed on at the 1995 World Conference on Women held in Beijing.ECONOMY-HEALTH: World Bank’s Prescription for a Better World
Like a good doctor, the World Bank has diagnosed the problems that inflict its most helpless patients - the sick and the poor of the developing world.DEVELOPMENT: Gender Perspective Missing
Women leafing through the World Bank's World Development Report for 1999/2000, released worldwide two weeks ago, soon raised queries - such as "Where are the women in the picture? How many of them work in agriculture? How many of them are urban dwellers?"/REPEAT/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-MEDIA: Radio, the Voice of the Indigenous
"Finally it has arrived, the voice of the valley, located in my beautiful San Quentin," sings a man in the tone of a balladeer.ENVIRONMENT: City Children Face Grave Dangers From Air Pollution
A leading Mexican environmentalist is urging authorities in the world's largest cities to take urgent action to protect millions of children ôexposed to life- threatening air pollution.DEVELOPMENT: Cities to lead March To Global Growth
The World Bank is putting its faith in "dynamic cities" - like this capital - to lead the march forward to global economic growth in the new millennium.RIGHTS: UN Pushes Ahead to Protect Children from Conflict
Olara Otunni, the United Nations' point man to protect children from armed conflict, faces an uphill battle to get rebel groups around the world to abide by UN resolutions on the issue of child soldiers.ENVIRONMENT: Top Writer Does His Bit to Save the Trees
Homero Aridjis, one of Mexico's top literary figures, is a regular visitor to Zitacuaroi, a hilly area covered with forest which lies about a two-hour drive from here.RIGHTS-SOUTH ASIA: Time To Challenge Gov’t ‘Hold’ on Information
Fifty years or more of freedom have not made South Asia's governments more transparent or accountable. Instead they cling to a policy of confidentiality on official information inherited from British colonialists, rights activists said at a meeting hereRIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Exhumation May End Painful Hunt For Missing Tamils
Paramanathan Selvarajah still remembers what his son wore the last time he saw him in July 1996 -- a light blue shirt over ash-coloured trousers, a gold chain round his neck, two rings and a watch.HEALTH-SRI LANKA: In Forgotten Isle, Lepers Live with Stigma
Herath Punchi Banda's eyes turn watery when he talks about his family. It has been 39 years since he last saw them -- his mother, his wife, his son.« Previous Page
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