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The corona virus pandemic is impacting Africa’s population in quite differentiated ways and is significantly entrenching inequality. At the greatest risk are lives and livelihoods of the poor.
Central Asia Has Always Been Important for Europe
BRUSSELS, Sep 3 2019 (IPS) - The EU has presented a new strategy for Central Asia. The first one has been adopted in 2007 and revised in 2015. Where do you see improvements? Our new Strategy will aim to focus future EU action in the region on two key priorities.
Huge moment for Ethiopia as Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace prize
Oct 12, 2019 · Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (centre wearing sunglasses) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. He is pictured here in Addis Ababa with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (red tie), behind Kenyatta is Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni (beige hat).
Population and security - Inter Press Service
Oct 24, 2018 · Population and security. Oct 24 2018 - Population explosion, though missing from the country’s policy discourse, presents one of the most serious threats to our national security. There may not be a simple causal relationship between demography and security, but evidence shows that high population growth is a major destabilising factor in the ...
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SPAIN: Nowhere to Turn - Inter Press Service
Nov 25, 2005 · Alicia Fraerman. MADRID, Nov 25 2005 (IPS) - Immigrant women are the least protected against domestic violence in Spain, since they often have nowhere to turn for help, civil society groups underscored Friday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Nevertheless, activists say the situation has begun to improve. The estimated 700,000 undocumented women immigrants ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Trujillo's Victims Seek Justice, Nearly Five ...
May 31, 2007 · Diógenes Pina. SANTO DOMINGO, May 31 2007 (IPS) - Forty-six years after the death of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, human rights groups and victims’ families are seeking justice for the murders, torture, kidnappings and illegal arrests committed against thousands of people during his 1930-1961 regime. A lawsuit was filed Wednesday against a group of former agents of the ...
ETHIOPIA: Children Delight in Tales on Wheels - Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 20 2010 (IPS) - The middle of September marked the beginning of Meskerem, the first month, the beginning of a new year, just after the girls dance in Tigray to mark the end of the rains and the coming of the summer in a ceremony called Ashenda. Children in Mekelle and other parts of this region in northern Ethiopia had added reason to rejoice.
CHILE: Historic Reforms Complete Transition to Democracy
Jul 14, 2005 · Gustavo González. SANTIAGO, Jul 14 2005 (IPS) - Chilean President Ricardo Lagos described constitutional reforms approved by Congress as the final step in the country’s lengthy transition to democracy. The amendments, passed by the Senate late Wednesday, will eliminate the last vestiges of authoritarian rule left behind by the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
ARGENTINA: Survivors, Activists Disappointed Over Human Rights …
Oct 18, 2007 · Marcela Valente. BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 2007 (IPS) - The first trial for the crimes against humanity committed in Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA) opened Thursday in the Argentine capital. But survivors of the notorious torture centre, where at least 5,000 political prisoners were held at some point during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, are not celebrating.