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- HEALTH-AFRICA: Training Anaesthesiologists to Do, And To Train
CAPE TOWN, Mar 8 (IPS) - The need for a global effort to address the shortage of anaesthesiologists in Africa was highlighted over the past week during the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists -- which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. - ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Record Reforestation, But Some Still Sceptical
MEXICO CITY, Mar 8 (Tierramérica) - A year ago, environmental activists criticised Mexico's national forest policy, saying it was deceptive and insufficient. Now voices are being heard that extol the government's effort and its goal to plant 280 million trees in 2008 -- 30 million more than in 2007. - 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. - 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. - HEALTH-AFRICA: Anaesthesiology on Life Support
CAPE TOWN, Mar 7 (IPS) - A discussion about anaesthesiology and anaesthesiologists is something that could bring on drowsiness, even sleep…Until, that is, the talk turns to shortages of anaesthesiologists in Africa and how this can increase surgical mortality. Statistics on this matter are frightening enough to keep anyone awake. - 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. - WOMEN'S DAY-KENYA: Equal Pay in Theory, Not Always in Fact
NAIROBI, Mar 7 (IPS) - On Mar. 8, a century ago, thousands took to the streets of New York in demonstrations aimed at improving life for women. Burning issues of the day included the need for better working conditions -- higher pay, a shorter work day -- and winning the right to vote. - 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). - BURKINA FASO: Rights Abuses Perhaps the Cost of Rising Prices
OUAGADOUGOU, Mar 5 (IPS) - Fears have been expressed this week that rights abuses are being committed against people detained in connection with protests against the rising cost of living in Burkina Faso. - Q&A: Strategic Plan Emphasises South-South Cooperation
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 5 (IPS) - "UNDP’s South-South work is focused on marshalling the expertise and resources at our disposal to support developing countries pursue their development goals," says Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). - POPULATION-US: More People Call the Streets Home
TAMPA, Florida, Mar 5 (IPS) - At last November's Republican presidential debate in St. Petersburg, Florida, activists trying to draw attention to the city's homeless problem were discreetly corralled away from the candidates by a perimetre fence. - RIGHTS: U.N.'s Main Women's Body Remains Leaderless
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 4 (IPS) - When women activists lash out against gender discrimination, one of their longstanding complaints is also directed at the U.N. Secretariat, where senior level posts are still largely a virtual monopoly of men.
