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- INDONESIA: Women Still Pay Decade After Asian Meltdown
BANGKOK, Mar 8 (IPS) - Over a decade after the Asian financial crisis, Indonesian women are still feeling the pinch of losing their jobs, says a leading trade unionist from the archipelago. - DEVELOPMENT: Taking the Rural Tour
BERLIN, Mar 7 (IPS) - With talk of rocketing growth in the worldwide travel industry, the mood at the 42nd International Travel Fair (ITB) has been bullishly upbeat this year, with 186 countries and regions represented in Berlin, and a record number of 11,147 exhibitors crowding the city's trade pavilions. - ENVIRONMENT: Action Will Prove Much Cheaper
OSLO, Mar 7 (IPS) - Government inaction will lead to increased climate change, species loss, increased water shortages and health problems by 2030, according to a new OECD report. But key challenges can be addressed at a fraction of the cost of inaction. - EUROPE: Water Aid To Go Public, A Little
BRUSSELS, Mar 7 (IPS) - The European Commission has indicated that it will take steps to address claims that private firms have been given preferential treatment in a flagship aid programme for improving water services in Africa. - RIGHTS: U.N. Confident of New Agency for Women
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 (IPS) - As the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded its two-week session in New York Friday, United Nations officials remain hopeful that the proposal for a new U.N. agency for women would become a reality. - ECONOMY-INDIA: Neoliberal Gov't Tries Budget Populism
NEW DELHI, Mar 7 (IPS) - When Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram presented his fifth and last full budget last week, it was widely expected that he would attempt to correct policy course and seriously address issues of equity --specifically, growing income inequalities, sectoral imbalances and regional disparities. - TRADE-AFRICA: Agriculture Talks Stuck on Import Surge Safeguard
GENEVA, Mar 7 (IPS) - The Group of 33 developing countries has denounced the draft text on the special safeguard mechanism in the current Doha Development Round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks as ‘‘extremely inadequate… stringent, restrictive, burdensome (and) ineffective’’. - TRADE-AFRICA: Why Food Import Surges Are an Issue at The WTO
GENEVA, Mar 7 (IPS) - Food import surges have had devastating consequences for the rural poor and local economies in Africa. Such surges have taken place with alarming frequency in the past decade or two. - KOSOVO: So Much Depends on a Split City
MITROVICA, Kosovo, Mar 7 (IPS) - The divided city of Mitrovica in Kosovo has become a litmus test for those who believe in a multi-ethnic state. It is the only urban centre in Kosovo still inhabited by Serbs. - RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Women Push For Political Space In Patriarchy
PESHAWAR, Mar 7 (IPS) - Saeeda Anwar is a 38-year-old Pakistani schoolteacher. She works in a school here in the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), but she is not allowed to exercise her franchise. - RIGHTS: Fund to Fight Gender Violence Puts Donors to the Test
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 6 (IPS) - The U.N. "Trust Fund to End Violence against Women" has risen significantly over the last year: from 3.5 million dollars in 2006 to over 15 million dollars in 2007. - RIGHTS: Global Poll Shows Strong Support for Gender Equality
WASHINGTON, Mar 6 (IPS) - Large majorities of people around the world agree that women should enjoy full equality of rights compared to men, according to a survey of nearly 15,000 respondents in 16 developed and developing countries released here Thursday by WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO). - BRAZIL: Small Fishermen Trade in Nets for Oyster Farms
FLORIANÓPOLIS, Brazil, Mar 6 (IPS) - In a modest restaurant on a beach at the southern tip of the Brazilian island of Florianópolis, a couple celebrates, with champagne and oysters, "one more year of vacations and love." - INDIA/US: Now or Never For Nuclear Deal
NEW DELHI, Mar 6 (IPS) - Is the Indian government heading for a showdown with the domestic opposition on the controversial issue of the nuclear cooperation deal with the United States before the presidential election timetable closes that opportunity? - POLITICS-CHINA: Won't Allow Taiwan To Do A Kosovo
BEIJING, Mar 6 (IPS) - China is working against a possible "Kosovo precedent" on its own borders by aligning international support to oppose any move towards a declaration of independence by Taiwan and beefing up an already huge military presence opposite the self-ruled island.
