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, UNICEF USA
UNICEF today highlighted the crisis situation developing across South Asia as monsoonal rains continue to pound north India, Nepal and Bangladesh creating havoc and chaos with more and heavier rains forecast in the next few days. An estimated 20 million people are believed to be affected in all three countries in...
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Aug 06, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
FREETOWN, Aug 6 (IPS) - Having the right to vote is one thing; using it properly, or indeed at all, is quite another, as Sierra Leone has shown ahead of general elections this Saturday....
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Aug 06, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Health
GENEVA, Aug 6 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations that advocate poor countries’ access to affordable medicines applauded an Indian court’s dismissal of a challenge brought by Swiss-based drug-maker Novartis....
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Aug 06, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - HIV/AIDS
GENEVA, Aug 6 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations that advocate poor countries’ access to affordable medicines applauded an Indian court’s dismissal of a challenge brought by Swiss-based drug-maker Novartis....
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Aug 06, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
BROOKLIN, Canada, Aug 6 (IPS) - Fishing wiped out Atlantic Bluefin tuna stocks in Northern Europe 50 years ago, according to a new study, while ongoing pressure on the remaining stocks is pushing the entire species to the edge of extinction....
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Aug 06, 2007
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, UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
United Nations agencies are helping Afghanistan's Health Ministry carry out a new nationwide polio vaccination this week, which aims eventually to protect over 7 million children under the age of five from the highly infectious, often paralyzing and sometimes fatal disease....
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Aug 06, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
LA PAZ, Aug 6 (IPS) - The role of self-sacrificing wife and mother who stays at home is no longer the main goal of many Bolivian women....
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Aug 06, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
IMPERATRIZ, Brazil, Aug 4 (Tierramérica) - The babaçú, an abundant native palm tree in the eastern Amazon and in the north and northeast of Brazil, has great potential for the production of "biodiesel" and biomass fuel, but the women who make their living from gathering its fruit fear the loss of...
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Aug 04, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 2 (IPS) - Kompienga, in eastern Burkina Faso, is the country's most verdant province -- but for how long?...
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Aug 03, 2007
