News headlines in June 2013, page 6

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 24 (IPS) - A group of young people touched a nerve in Brazil's large cities, triggering an outpouring of urban outrage at the deterioration of transportation conditions and of the quality of life.

WASHINGTON, Jun 24 (IPS) - An external review panel is calling on the World Bank to institute sweeping reforms to its widely cited annual "Doing Business" report, including doing away with a controversial ranking of countries on a variety of business-friendliness metrics.

SUBANG, Indonesia, Jun 24 (IPS) - When 45-year-old Kaswati joined an income-generating project in her village in Indonesia's West Java province in 1999, all she hoped to do was supplement her family's income at a time of erratic harvests.

TEL AVIV, Jun 24 (IPS) - Tesfahiwet Medin holds a university degree and experience as a nurse. But six years after escaping the violent dictatorship in his native Eritrea, the 39-year-old says he feels like a part of him is missing, as he's been prevented from continuing in his profession in Israel.

CEBALLOS, Cuba, Jun 24 (IPS) - Homemade machines for pulverising fruit and sealing cans of preserves, created by inventive entrepreneurs, are one of the pillars of a slight rise in mini-industries in different parts of Cuba, where food production is picking up.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 24 (IPS) - Advocates of the concept of "energy equity" have begun employing it in the southern United States to create a diverse coalition of citizens who might otherwise approach energy policy issues differently.

REYKJAVIK, Jun 24 (IPS) - After a two-year break, Iceland has resumed its hunting of fin whales. But environmental campaigners outside of Iceland are doing their best to stop it.

HARARE, Jun 24 (IPS) - When Maude Taruvinga* votes in Zimbabwe's elections later this year, she will be voting for her local female politician as she has placed her hopes for a better future on the presence of more women in this southern African nation's legislature.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 24 (IPS) - Sexual violence against women is alarmingly under-reported and invisible in Brazil where, for example, there are no accurate, comparable data on rape in the country's 27 states.