Publication: Inter Press Service

First reported 57 mins ago - Updated 57 mins ago - 1 reports

OP-ED: The Nexus Between Women and Development

Aid, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Education, Featured, Gender, Global Governance, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Population, Poverty & MDGs, United Nations, Women & Economy, Women's Health, WorldUNITED NATIONS, May 23 2013 (IPS) - Every three years ... [Published Inter Press Service - 57 mins ago]

Entities: United Nations Population Fund, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Kuala Lumpur, Babatunde Osotimehin, Multilateral

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Oxfam

Gazans Dying to Enter Israel

Israeli's blockade of Gaza is crippling the territory. Above, selling yoghurt in Gaza in an attempt to make some sort of living. Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPSIsrael’s crippling blockade of the coastal territory of Gaza is pushing desperate young Palestinians ... [Published Inter Press Service - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Israel, Buffer Zone, Oxfam, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pale..., United Nations Office for the Coordination of H...

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Pakistan Muslim League (N)

Groaning Under Power Cuts, Scorching Temps in Pakistan

Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Energy, Headlines, Labour, Regional Categories, Trade & InvestmentKARACHI, Pakistan , May 23 2013 (IPS) - Raheel Tauseef is feeling quite powerless this summer. Frequent power outages in the industrial ... [Published Inter Press Service - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League (N), Faisalabad

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Iraq: Maliki & Co.’s Path of Folly

via Lobe Logby Wayne WhiteThe Biblical quotation, “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” could not be more relevant to what Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s near unremitting hostility toward Iraq’s powerful Sunni Arab minority has generated: ... [Published Inter Press Service - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Iraq, Sunni Islam, Pro-Iranian, US Forces

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Water Debt and Leaks Plague City Residents

Africa, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Poverty & MDGs, Projects, Regional Categories, The Southern Africa Water Wire, Water & SanitationCAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 23 2013 (IPS) - Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water ... [Published Inter Press Service - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Cape Town, Water Management, South Africa, Water debt, Environmental Monitoring

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Hungary Losing Its Best and Brightest

As the European Union accuses Hungary of shifting towards authoritarianism, a spike in emigration from the country has led many to speak of a politically motivated exodus. Others suggest that economic conditions play a role in the westward flow of brainpower ... [Published Inter Press Service - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Hungary, Budapest, Emigration

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh

Advancing Deserts, Asia-Pacific, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Food & Agriculture, Headlines, Poverty & MDGs, Regional Categories, Water & SanitationCHAPAINAWABGANJ, Bangladesh, May 22 2013 (IPS) - Fahima ... [Published Inter Press Service - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Fresh Water, Bangladesh, Biodiversity, Sardar Mohammad

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Remittances Buoy Up Myanmar’s Economy

Asia-Pacific, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Global Governance, Globalisation, Headlines, Human Rights, Labour, Migration & Refugees, Population, Poverty & MDGs, Regional Categories, South-SouthBANGKOK, May 23 2013 (IPS) - Nangnyi ... [Published Inter Press Service - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Myanmar/Burma, Thailand, Mae Sot (Thailand), International Fund for Agricultural Development, Workers

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children

Africa, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Headlines, Health, Population, Poverty & MDGs, Water & Sanitation, WorldUNITED NATIONS, May 22 2013 (IPS) - PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million ... [Published Inter Press Service - 20 hours ago]

Entities: diarrhea, Steve Davis, Pneumonia, Melinda Gates, Vaccine

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Insects, from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger

Toasted grasshoppers on sale in the Benito Juárez market in the capital of Oaxaca state, Mexico. Credit: Nsaum75 CC BY-SA 3.0The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may ... [Published Inter Press Service - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Insect, Species, Larva

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Neighbours View Sharif as Yoked to Personal, National History

(IPS) - Following on Nawaz Sharif’s victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country’s neighbours, particularly ... [Published Inter Press Service - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Iran, India

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People

Cooperatives, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Education, Farming Crisis: Filling An Empty Plate, Food & Agriculture, Headlines, Labour, Latin America & the Caribbean, Poverty & MDGs, Projects, Regional CategoriesHAVANA, May 22 2013 (IPS) - When Gabriela ... [Published Inter Press Service - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Agriculture, Havana, Education, Vegetables

Quotes

...London may be home to up to 200,000 Hungarians, so many that it is popularly referred to as the second largest Hungarian city. "My partner, my fourteen-month-old child and I are no longer considered a family under the new constitution."

Hungary Losing Its Best and Brightest [Published Inter Press Service - 4 hours ago]

“More than 85 percent of Gazans are dependent on aid to survive, while youth unemployment stands at over 55 percent,” Suliman said. "Wouldn't it be better for Israel to lift its blockade and allow Gazans to be self-sufficient?"

Gazans Dying to Enter Israel [Published Inter Press Service - 6 hours ago]

"We have accelerated major processes like erosion, applied massive quantities of nitrogen that leaks from soil to ground and surface waters and, sometimes, literally siphoned all water from rivers." -- GWSP's Anik Bhaduri

Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry [Published Inter Press Service - May 21 2013]

"The U S government has a narrow definition of a hunger strike, just like it has a narrow definition of torture."

Q&A: Guantanamo ‘Has No Right to Exist’ [Published Inter Press Service - May 21 2013]

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