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IPS Inter Press Service - Africa in the Spotlight - Africa
Website: www.ipsnews.net
Over the last few years Latin America has seen a slow but sure political turn towards the left, while the United States, the dominant power in the Americas and the world, has its most conservative administration in nearly a century. Presidential election results in 2006 seem to confirm the direction that Latin America is heading, which includes the search for alliances with other countries of the developing South and with Europe. Will Latin America move beyond its status as the United States` "backyard" and become a power in its own right? The ballot boxes may just answer that question. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Asia Pacific
Website: www.ipsnews.net
For IPS, Arts and Entertainment isn`t just about rock stars or opera divas. The women and men celebrated on these pages are not only singers, performers, record makers, actors and authors, but also pioneers, teachers and role models. They are able to touch our souls and pull us to our feet with their power to inspire and transform. The focus on Arts and Entertainment is about the celebration of innovations and the legacies of ordinary human beings that will live on through their music, art and words. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Caribbean
Website: www.ipsnews.net
As time passes since Asia`s killer tsunami wiped out close to 290,000 people from Sumatra to Somalia, communities continue their efforts to rebuild their lives. The tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, the day after Christmas. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, said it was an ``unprecedented global catastrophe`` that required an ``unprecedented global response``. And the world responded.
Some aspects of the relief effort have gone well, some have not. IPS stands committed to our journalistic duty to provide our readers with insight into how communities are piecing themselves back together after the horror. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Civil Society - The New Superpower
Website: www.ipsnews.net
A jolt from earth just 15 kilometres from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince has left a "minimum" of 100,000 dead. IPS analyses the consequences of the devastation, and the struggle to pick up the pieces and rebuild shattered lives in this impoverished country.
IPS reports bring home the dimensions of the tragedy from the historical and the wider regional perspective, and strengthen local input in partnership with The Haitian Times. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Culture
Website: www.ipsnews.net
Corruption depletes national wealth and undercuts legitimacy. Transparency International says corruption is often to blame for already limited public resources being diverted to uneconomic high-profile projects, at the expense of less spectacular but more necessary development initiatives. Civil society is finding its voice to demand that those behind corrupt acts are held accountable. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - East Africa
Website: www.ipsnews.net
Large parts of the world`s population suffer from poverty; inequality remains high. Current development orthodoxy is focused on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), committing the international community to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat diseases such as HIV/Aids, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development.
IPS brings you exciting stories of communities and peoples dealing with development challenges around the world. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
Website: www.ipsnews.net
IPS is intensifying its coverage of both global and local environmental challenges. We look at them from the perspective of the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, always the most vulnerable in harsh times. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Europe
Website: www.ipsnews.net
IPS is intensifying its coverage of both global and local environmental challenges. We look at them from the perspective of the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, always the most vulnerable in harsh times. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Free Trade Area of the Americas
Website: www.ipsnews.net
Fifty years after the Rome Treaty that initiated an era of cooperation amongst warring states, 27 countries have joined the European Union and more are waiting in the wings. The EU is not intended to replace member states. But they have set up common institutions to which they delegate some of their sovereignty so that Europe-wide decisions on specific matters of joint interest can be made. Since 1993, under the Maastricht Treaty, the EU has been developing a common foreign and security policy to enable joint action when the bloc`s interests are at stake. As it deals with terror, international crime, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, global issues like the environment -- and now challenges such as Kosovo`s declaration of independence -- diversity remains the hallmark of the Union of half a billion people. |
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IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs
Website: www.ipsnews.net
The expansion in the cultivation of GM (genetically modified) crops has been very rapid. In 1994, there were no GM crops grown commercially anywhere; by 1998, some 29 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated in the USA, Australia, Argentina, Canada and Mexico. There are some 1,500 to 2,000 biotechnology companies in the USA, and a further 700 in Europe. They are said to have already invested $8 billion in technology development. Learn about how GMOs influence your life. |
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