Inter Press Service English News Wire back issues from May 2009:
ECONOMY-US: WORKERS WIN AND LOSE IN CHRYSLER RETOOLING
May 01, 2009; ... Adrianne Appel Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 BOSTON, May 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The U.S. government will invest billions in Chrysler and the United Auto Workers (UAW) trade union will become majority owners of the company, in a financial rescue deal announced ...
U.S.: MAJOR FOREIGN TESTS LIKELY OVER NEXT 100 DAYS
May 01, 2009; ... Analysis by Jim Lobe* Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - While Barack Obama has clearly improved Washington's image abroad during his first 100 days in office, the next 100 will almost certainly prove much more challenging ...
POPULATION: ASIA FACES LOWER BIRTH AND DEATH RATES
May 01, 2009; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 UNITED NATIONS, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Asia has long been touted as the world's largest and most populous continent with over 4.1 billion people, accounting for more than 60 percent of the global population. ...
LABOR: WORLD BANK IN ABOUT-FACE ON WORKER RIGHTS
May 01, 2009; ... Abid Aslam Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The World Bank is dropping an index scored for undermining worker rights from its flagship effort to promote business-led economic growth in emerging, developing, and former ...
MEXICO: SWINE FLU FEARS TAKE TOLL ON PORK INDUSTRY
May 01, 2009; ... Emilio Godoy Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 MEXICO CITY, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Esther de Anda has stopped eating pork since the appearance of swine flu in Mexico. "They say there's no problem in eating it, but for now I prefer fish or chicken," the ...
HEALTH-NAMIBIA: SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES FIGHT MALARIA
May 01, 2009; ... Servaas van den Bosch Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 WINDHOEK, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Within the next twelve months, eight Southern African countries will synchronise their battles against malaria through cross-border collaboration. They hope to ...
MEXICO: INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN RUN FOR FIRST CONGRESSIONAL SEATS
May 01, 2009; ... Diego Cevallos Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 MEXICO CITY, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - No indigenous woman has ever held a seat in the Mexican Congress. But two of them, one belonging to the conservative ruling party and the other representing the leftwing ...
LEBANON: GENERALS' RELEASE MAY INFLUENCE JUNE ELECTION
May 01, 2009; ... Analysis by Helena Cobban* Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - On Wednesday, a judge at the Hague-based "Special Tribunal for Lebanon" (STL) ordered Lebanon to release four senior Lebanese generals imprisoned since 2005 on ...
AUSTRALIA: ASYLUM SEEKERS AT CENTRE OF POLITICAL SQUABBLE
May 01, 2009; ... Stephen de Tarczynski Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 MELBOURNE, May 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Australia's opposition and governing parties have been admonished for attempting to make 'political capital' out of the recent spike in asylum seekers trying to reach ...
MAY DAY-COSTA RICA: DOMESTICS FIGHT FOR EIGHT-HOUR DAY
May 01, 2009; ... Daniel Zueras Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 SAN JOS, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Domestic employees in Costa Rica have run out of patience. After 17 years of fighting, they are threatening to report the state to international bodies if their slave-like ...
CAMBODIA: CORRUPTION UNDERMINES KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL
May 01, 2009; ... Robert Carmichael Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 PHNOM PENH, May 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The voice of Comrade Duch reverberates daily through the speakers at the 500-seat courtroom in Phnom Penh as he gives testimony in his trial for crimes ...
MAY DAY-ARGENTINA: 'MY MOM IS A TAXI DRIVER'
May 01, 2009; ... Marcela Valente Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 BUENOS AIRES, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - A new collection of children's books in Argentina shows women in jobs and professions that are traditionally held by men, challenging sexist preconceptions.The six ...
ENVIRONMENT: ISRAEL STRIPPING WEST BANK QUARRIES
May 01, 2009; ... Mel Frykberg Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 RAMALLAH, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din is taking the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the Israeli civil administration and a number of Israeli mining companies to court....
MIDEAST: A FORMER 'TERRORIST' SPEAKS OUT
May 01, 2009; ... Mel Frykberg Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 JENIN, Northern West Bank, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - A former high-level Palestinian resistance fighter, who spent years on the run from Israel's security forces, has just been appointed to the Palestinian ...
RIGHTS: ROMA SEEK TO FLEE CZECH REPUBLIC
May 01, 2009; ... Zoltn Dujisin Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-01-2009 BUDAPEST, Apr. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The situation of Roma in the Czech Republic has always been bad, but growing right-wing extremism has taken tensions to new levels, driving many to seek asylum in Canada....
RIGHTS-IRAQ: ABUSES PLACE SECURITY IN JEOPARDY, U.N. REPORT SAYS
May 04, 2009; ... William Fisher Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 NEW YORK, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Unpunished crimes against women, detainees in Iraqi prisons, and others, have the future of Iraq in peril, according to a new United Nations report.According to ...
Q&A-DEVELOPMENT: 'JUST GIVE MONEY TO THE POOR,' PROFESSOR SAYS
May 04, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 Mercedes Sayagues interviews Joseph HanlonMAPUTO, Mozambique, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - A new anti-poverty program would put money right in the hands of the needy without preconditions or other requirements."Just ...
LESOTHO: PROGRAM STEPS UP HELP TO ORPHANS OF AIDS PANDEMIC
May 04, 2009; ... Lloyd Mutungamiri Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 MASERU, Lesotho, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The Lesotho government has embarked on an ambitious program aimed at supporting vulnerable children whose parents have died in the AIDS pandemic.In partnership ...
MIDEAST: ENVIRONMENT EMERGES AS MAJOR CASUALTY IN GAZA WAR
May 04, 2009; ... Erin Cunningham/ IFEJ * Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war there.Countless fruit groves across ...
ICELAND: FAILED BUILDING BOOM LEAVES EMPTY, COSTLY LAND
May 04, 2009; ... Lowana Veal Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 REYKJAVIK, Iceland, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Icelandic municipalities are being forced to repay individuals who had been allocated building land in new residential areas but can no longer afford to build....
ANALYSIS-MIDEAST: POPE TO BE 'PILGRIM OF PEACE' IN LAND OF STRIFE
May 04, 2009; ... Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 JERUSALEM, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Pope Benedict XVI said his visit to the Holy Land will be as a "pilgrim of peace."The pontiff's pilgrimage starts in Jordan on Friday ...
EUROPE: RUSSIA CASTS SHADOW OVER FALTERING EX-SOVIET NATIONS
May 04, 2009; ... Kester Kenn Klomegah Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 MOSCOW, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Eighteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of the newly created republics are still struggling to construct a working democracy amid failing economies. ...
POLITICS-U.S.: TURMOIL ABOUNDS AS ISRAELI LOBBY GROUP MEETS
May 04, 2009; ... Daniel Luban and Ali Gharib Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 WASHINGTON, May 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The American Israel Public Affairs Committee kicked off its annual policy conference this weekend during a period of unusual turbulence both for the organization ...
SRI LANKA: JOURNALISTS KEEP WRITING DESPITE MURDER OF EDITOR
May 04, 2009; ... IPS Correspondents Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 3, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Lasantha Wickrematunge is gone but far from forgotten at The Sunday Leader, the newspaper where he was editor until his assassination on Jan. 7.At the end ...
RIGHTS: AFRICAN WOMEN SEEK SOLIDARITY AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE
May 04, 2009; ... Wambi Michael Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 KAMPALA, Uganda, May 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Gender activists met here to discuss ways of strengthening the women's movement against gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict Africa.Increased cases of ...
AFRICA: 'WOMEN'S BODIES HAVE BECOME BATTLEFIELDS,' ACTIVIST SAYS
May 04, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 Wambi Michael interviews Christine ButegwaKAMPALA, Uganda, May 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Akina Mama wa Afrika's Christine Butegwa doesn't hesitate when asked what explains the horrific levels of sexual violence against women ...
Q&A: EDITOR GIVES EAST AFRICAN PRESS FREEDOM AVERAGE MARKS
May 04, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 Joyce Mulama interviews David MakaliNAIROBI, Kenya, May 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Hopes for a free press have been deflated with the continued existence of repressive media laws and heightened attacks on media outlets in East ...
Q&A: EXPERT TALKS OF NEED FOR TRULY CLEAN DEVELOPMENT METHOD
May 04, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 Julio Godoy interviews Lambert Schneider/Tierramrica *BERLIN, May 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The Clean Development Mechanism established under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change "should go beyond pure compensation" and ...
U.S.-SUDAN: DARFUR ACTIVISTS DEPLORE CLOSER TIES WITH KHARTOUM
May 04, 2009; ... Marina Litvinsky Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 WASHINGTON, May 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Critics are calling Washington's recent move to "normalize" relations with Sudan a "capitulation."The Sudan Times reported, "The United States of America ...
MIDEAST: U.N. SAYS 60,000 PALESTINIANS' HOMES AT RISK IN JERUSALEM
May 04, 2009; ... David Cronin Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 JERUSALEM, May 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- A report published Friday by a United Nations agency has warned that the problems facing the people of Silwan, who are facing eviction from their homes, are replicated ...
POLITICS: CHINA PULLING SOUTHEAST ASIA BACK INTO ITS ORBIT
May 04, 2009; ... Antoaneta Bezlova -- Newsmekong* Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-04-2009 BEIJING, May 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The global financial crisis is proving a boon for a resurgent China, which is poised to exert ever greater influence in Southeast Asia.While drawing ...
EGYPT: HEPATITIS C LIKE TICKING TIME BOMB FOR HEALTH AUTHORITIES
May 05, 2009; ... Cam McGrath Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 CAIRO, Egypt, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- A misguided health campaign in the 1960s has created an explosive health crisis that could cause the death of thousands of Egyptians from liver failure.Up to 9 million ...
ANALYSIS-EUROPE: ECONOMY SPURS RISE IN RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM
May 05, 2009; ... Analysis by Pavol Stracansky Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 BRATISLAVA, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Human rights activists are warning about a "proliferation" of far-right groups in central and eastern Europe amid an economic crisis fueling support ...
HAITI: BATTERED ISLAND ILL-PREPARED FOR NEW ROUND OF STORMS
May 05, 2009; ... Marina Litvinsky Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 WASHINGTON, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Haiti's environmental degradation is a time bomb that needs urgent attention if the country is to preserve its already strained social and economic stability, a new ...
DEVELOPMENT: MAKING USE OF AFRICAN SKILLS TO IMPROVE LIVES
May 05, 2009; ... IPS Correspondents Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The aim of the third biennial Knowledge Management Africa conference is to find ways to apply vital information to the basic question of ...
LATIN AMERICA: WORLD PEACE MARCH TO REACH 300 CITIES, 90 COUNTRIES
May 05, 2009; ... Daniela Estrada Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 SANTIAGO, Chile, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Over the last few days, the Chilean capital has hosted two very different activities that had a common objective: promoting global nuclear non-proliferation and ...
RIGHTS-U.S.: OBAMA CONSIDERS REVAMPING MILITARY TRIALS
May 05, 2009; ... William Fisher Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 NEW YORK, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Reports circulating in Washington suggest that President Barack Obama may try to revive the military commission system for prosecuting Guantnamo detainees. Obama himself ...
RIGHTS: BRITAIN TRIES TO BLOCK RELEASE OF CIA RENDITION PAPER
May 05, 2009; ... William Fisher Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 NEW YORK, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Britain is trying to keep secret a document that could show the nation had a role in the rendition of a British resident by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.British ...
POLITICS-U.S.: CHINESE UIGHURS' FATE PRESENTS OBAMA WITH PROBLEM
May 05, 2009; ... William Fisher Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 NEW YORK, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- The probability that some Guantanamo detainees will soon be released into the United States will place the administration of President Barack Obama in the eye of a major ...
Q&A: EXPERT SEES 'SPRINGTIME OF HOPE' FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
May 05, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 Thalif Deen interviews Jayantha DhanapalaUNITED NATIONS, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- When he addressed a massive gathering in the Czech capital of Prague last month, President Barack Obama made a historic statement pledging ...
Q&A: PARAGUAYAN ACTIVIST SEES 'BRUTAL' MACHISMO GIVING GROUND
May 05, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 Natalia Ruiz Daz interviews Line BareiroASUNCION, Paraguay, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Women in Paraguay have learned to voice their demands and to fight for them, said activist Line Bareiro, whose track record in defense ...
RIGHTS-IRAN: EXPATRIATES DISCUSS DAMAGE OF FORCED CONFESSIONS
May 05, 2009; ... Ranjit Devraj Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-05-2009 NEW DELHI, India, May 4, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Iranian political refugees living in India say there is an all too familiar ring about the supposed confessions of arrested journalist Roxana Saberi, which they expect ...
U.S.: AUSTRALIA REVERSES COURSE ON NATIVE RIGHTS DECLARATION
May 06, 2009; ... Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 UNITED NATIONS, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The United States is considering whether to endorse a major U.N. General Assembly resolution calling for the recognition of the rights of the world's 370 million indigenous ...
PAKISTAN: ANALYST WARNS OF "BLOODY PHASE" IN COMING MONTHS
May 06, 2009; ... Zofeen Ebrahim Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 KARACHI, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The U.S. is fretting over what could happen if the "worst, the unthinkable" were to happen and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), toppled the country's year-old democratic ...
ENVIRONMENT: CORAL REEFS ESCAPE LARGE-SCALE BLEACHING
May 06, 2009; ... Stephen de Tarczynski Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 MELBOURNE, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Scientists have been surprised by the rapid recovery of coral reefs from mass bleaching on Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, but they warn that reefs remain ...
MIDEAST: ISRAEL WORRIES GROW OVER TOUGHER U.S. APPROACH
May 06, 2009; ... Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 JERUSALEM, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Almost a full fortnight before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is received at the White House, U.S. officials have been calming fears ...
GREECE: MASSIVE JOB LOSS MULTIPLIES MISERY FOR MIGRANTS
May 06, 2009; ... Apostolis Fotiadis Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 ATHENS, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The economic crisis is hitting migrants harder than most other people, and it looks set to get worse for them.With close to zero growth rate and a constant upward ...
Q&A: PLURALIST RABBI PURSUES PEACE OVER HATRED
May 06, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 Daan Bauwens interviews RABBI MEIR AZARITEL AVIV, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Beit Daniel is an Israeli pluralist religious organisation promoting coexistence between Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land. Executive director ...
PAKISTAN: MILITARY CRACKDOWN ON TALIBAN UPROOTS CIVILIANS
May 06, 2009; ... Ashfaq Yusufzai Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 PESHAWAR, May 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Thousands of civilians are continuing to migrate to safer places from Upper Dir and Buner districts - the new theatres of an internal war between Pakistan's Taliban and the ...
HEALTH: WORLD BODY SENDS FLU MEDS TO POOR COUNTRIES
May 06, 2009; ... Gustavo Capdevila Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 GENEVA, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Poor countries facing the greatest threat from the spread of the H1N1 flu virus - popularly known as "swine flu" - will begin to receive shipments of Tamiflu, the World Health ...
U.S.: OBAMA'S GLOBAL HEALTH PLAN DISAPPOINTS ACTIVISTS
May 06, 2009; ... Ali Gharib and Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 WASHINGTON, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Global health activists expressed disappointment Tuesday over U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to spend 63 billion dollars over the next six years to ...
POLITICS: U.N. INQUIRY CRITICAL OF ISRAELI ATTACKS IN GAZA
May 06, 2009; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 UNITED NATIONS, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - A detailed 184-page report critical of Israeli attacks on U.N. personnel and buildings during the Gaza conflict last December-January has been meticulously stripped down to a ...
ARGENTINA: FEW LIFE PROSPECTS FOR TEENAGE GIRL DROPOUTS
May 06, 2009; ... Marcela Valente Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 BUENOS AIRES, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Cintia, 17, already has three children and is trying to go back to school, which she dropped out of several times because of the births and when her kids were sick. But the ...
POLITICS-US: AIPAC CONFERENCE PUSHES HARD LINE ON IRAN
May 06, 2009; ... Daniel Luban Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 WASHINGTON, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful and hawkish pro-Israel lobby, wrapped up after three days primarily devoted to the ...
PAKISTAN: MEDIA BEAR THE BRUNT OF TALIBAN VIOLENCE
May 06, 2009; ... Zofeen Ebrahim /Asia Media Forum* Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 KARACHI, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Till two months back, Shireen Zada of the private television channel Express News would carry a pistol whenever he covered the news in the restive Swat Valley ...
Q&A: "BOOSTING AGRICULTURE NOT AN OPTION BUT AN IMPERATIVE"
May 06, 2009 ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 Ernest Corea interviews KANAYO F. NWANZE, IFAD PresidentUNITED NATIONS, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - New support from donors will enable the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to help about 70 million poor ...
BRAZIL: NEW HOMES TO BE ECO-FRIENDLY (AND BULLET-PROOF)
May 06, 2009; ... Fabiana Frayssinet Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 RIO DE JANEIRO, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Plans for the construction of low-cost housing using thermally and acoustically-insulating material offer a special amenity: the houses are all bullet-proof.The ...
CHINA: MEASURES TO CURB SWINE FLU CALLED TOO EXTREME
May 06, 2009; ... Antoaneta Bezlova Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 BEIJING, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Rebuked in the past for its sluggish response and attempts to cover up the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), China's measures to curb the spread of ...
RIGHTS-US: WOMEN MIGRANTS DESCRIBE ABUSE IN COUNTY JAILS
May 06, 2009; ... Valeria Fernndez Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 PHOENIX, Arizona, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Broken arms, dislocated jaws, intimidation and vulgarities are part of the daily routine immigrant woman experience in Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office ...
BURMA: OPPOSITION BALKS AT GIVING LEGITIMACY TO 2010 POLLS
May 06, 2009; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 BANGKOK, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - With the hint of a general election in the air, the largest opposition party in military-ruled Burma is facing a dilemma about its future. Should it or should it not ...
AGRICULTURE: FOREIGN BUYERS LEAD GLOBAL LAND RUSH
May 06, 2009; ... Stephen Leahy/ Tierramrica * Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-06-2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - More than 20 million hectares of farmland in Africa and Latin America are now in the hands of foreign governments and companies, a sign of a global "land ...
POLITICS-INDIA: SELF-MADE BENGALI LEADER A TENACIOUS FIGHTER
May 07, 2009; ... Monobina Gupta Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-07-2009 KOLKATA, May 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Mamata Bannerjee, six-time member of Parliament from West Bengal, bucks the stereotype of women political leaders in India.Neither heir to a political dynasty nor blessed ...
POLITICS-US: SUPPORT WANES FOR AFGHAN AND PAK LEADER
May 07, 2009; ... Ali Gharib Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-07-2009 WASHINGTON, May 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Despite an overhaul of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, it appears that the U.S. strategy in that region is running into obstacles as varied as the U.S. Congress and the ...
MIDEAST: PALESTINIANS REBUILD WITH MUD
May 07, 2009; ... Eva Bartlett Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-07-2009 RAFAH, May 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Jihad el-Shaar is pleased with his mud-brick house in the Moraj district of Gaza. The 80-square metre home is a basic one-storey, two-bedroom design, with a small kitchen, bathroom ...
POLITICS-INDIA: CRIME, CORRUPTION DETER WOMEN CANDIDATES
May 07, 2009; ... Ranjit Devraj Inter Press Service English News Wire 05-07-2009 NEW DELHI, May 7, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - While India's major political parties are pledged to increase the space for women in the electoral process, a major deterrent to female participation is the steady ...