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DEVELOPMENT: ‘Vulnerable’ Asia Seeks To Reduce Disaster Risks
- Inter Press Service
Even as Asian ministers discussed ways to reduce disaster risks here, news broke of a twin tragedy in Indonesia — a tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, and the eruption of the country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, whose name means 'mountain of fire'.
Brazilian Communities Find Ways to Live in Semiarid Environment
- Inter Press Service
No longer is the image of women trudging through fields carrying heavy water vessels on their heads just a 'quaint' scene of Brazil's semiarid northeast, for outsiders.
Cuba, Brazil Unite for Africa's Health
- Inter Press Service
The risk of meningitis outbreaks rises during the dry season -- December to June -- in some 20 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Meningitis in the region is too often deadly, though the disease can be prevented with vaccination.
Organic Gardens Feeding People from Argentina to Haiti
- Inter Press Service
Neither hurricanes nor floods, nor the devastating January earthquake or Haiti's chronic political instability managed to wipe out the organic gardening initiative underway in that country since 2005. The seed was planted in Argentina twenty years ago.
HEALTH: Thai Touch in HIV Care Attracts Doctors from Asia, Africa
- Inter Press Service
Northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai province has many charms to draw foreign visitors, from hilltribe communities dressed in colourful ethnic clothes, trips to gentle hills close to the Burmese and Lao borders, excursions to once infamous opium trails and a journey along the Mekong River.
GUATEMALA: Spreading Expertise on Integrated Waste Management
- Inter Press Service
Guatemala has more than 700,000 clandestine garbage dumps. But a growing network of public and private sector employees are receiving training in integrated waste management that they in turn pass on to others, as part of a unique cooperation initiative with Mexico and Germany.
LABOUR: Garment Workers of the South Unite
- Inter Press Service
They left behind months or years of slaving away -- in some cases, literally -- in garment sweatshops, working long hours for little to no pay. But breaking free from modern-day slavery or forced labour wasn't enough for a group of textile workers from Argentina and Thailand, who have gone on to forge a new kind of cooperation reaching halfway across the globe.
LATIN AMERICA: Radioactive Attack on Flesh-Eating Screw-Worm
- Inter Press Service
A biological control method used to eradicate screw-worm, a livestock parasite, in the United States, Mexico and Central America, has just been tested successfully in South America, where its adoption is being considered in the countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
SOUTH AMERICA: Student Exchanges to Foster Mercosur Identity
- Inter Press Service
An exchange programme was launched this week for university students in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, to foster a broader sense of belonging to South America's Mercosur bloc.
Scrambling for a Solution on IMF Governance Reform
- Inter Press Service
Among the topics expected to be discussed at the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that started this week and will continue through the weekend is the reform of the IMF’s governance.
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