News headlines in March 2016, page 9

ARTVIN, Turkey, Mar 04 (IPS) - Over the past weeks, thousands of people across Turkey have protested against the planned construction of a gold mine in Cerattepe, close to the town of Artvin in the northeast of the country. Protesters fear that the mine will cause irreparable damage to the unique natural environment of the region.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - "Time is running out to end the poaching crisis that threatens some of the world's most iconic species," said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a statement marking World Wildlife Day.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorated "Zero Discrimination Day" on March 1, there was an implicit commitment by the 193 member states to abhor all forms of discrimination – including against women, minorities, indigenous people, gays and lesbians and those suffering from AIDS.

PAWAGA, Tanzania, Mar 03 (IPS) - At a remote village of Itunundu in Iringa, farmers and pastoralists recently met to discuss the best way to share land resources while charting out a strategy to prevent unnecessary fights among themselves. No one in the village ever imagined that this meeting would ever take place as the two groups had for long considered themselves enemies: they often clashed for water and pastures to feed their animals thus causing deaths and loss of property.

LUND, Sweden, Mar 02 (IPS) - The British have a problem. A referendum con continuing membership of the European Union scheduled for June may lead to Brexit- Britain heading for the exit. Anybody with any knowledge of Europe's war-like history knows this would be totally self-defeating.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Mar 02 (IPS) - "We are extremely jubilant over the rebuilding of our school that the Taliban destroyed it in 2013, due to which we used to sit without a roof," Mujahida Bibi, a student of 8th grade in Government Girls Middle School North Waziristan Agency, told IPS.

SAN JOSE, Mar 01 (IPS) - Over the last decade, Central America has managed to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels for the production of electric power, while expanding coverage. But the progress made by each country varies widely.

Mar 01 (IPS) - Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy`s record second win at the Oscars for her short document ary A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is proof that lightning can actually strike twice. Hardly four years ago, Chinoy was standing at the same stage in Los Angeles, accepting an Oscar for her documentary Saving Face, about Pakistani victims of acid attacks. Chinoy`s current Oscar winner examines a no less painful subject, honour killings in Pakistan.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 01 (IPS) - Pollinators, whose role is essential in a third of what the world eats, are at center stage after a landmark new United Nations report warned that many of the 20,000 species are threatened by human behaviour.