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Mentally Ill Suffer Medieval Treatment Across the Globe
- Inter Press Service
A young girl in Somalia sits chained to a tree. Women in the Ukraine wander aimlessly in the halls of a decrepit psychiatric hospital. Those are the startling images in a recent article by a global panel calling the world's attention to the extent and tragedy of hundreds of millions suffering from mental illnesses and who go untreated in the global south.
U.S.: Republican Lawmakers Tell the World Where to Go
- Inter Press Service
On Wednesday, they voted to cut all U.S. contributions to the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS), a symbol of U.S. hemispheric dominance for more than 60 years.
Sanitation Moves Up Global Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
With nearly 40 percent of the world's population lacking adequate sanitation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced an initiative Tuesday to invest 42 million dollars in new grants to help 'reinvent the toilet'.
Research Grant Aims to Meet Critical Maize Shortfalls
- Inter Press Service
As the world's largest international agricultural research coalition celebrated its 40th anniversary here this week, it also announced the launch of a programme to help provide enough maize to meet the annual food demands of over 600 million consumers by 2030.
Civil Society Unifies Position Ahead of Aid Summit
- Inter Press Service
Civil society groups say they want to have a stronger voice in setting the development agenda ahead of a key global summit on aid effectiveness later this year.
U.N. Women's Agency Being 'Strangled at Birth'
- Inter Press Service
When the United Nations inaugurated a landmark special agency for women last January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set an initial target of 500 million dollars as the proposed annual budget for the new gender-empowered body.
DEVELOPMENT: Partners, Not Donors Needed For Africa
- Inter Press Service
On an unusually hot Belgian afternoon, Thoko Kaime, leans back in his chair and explains how ‘township’ actually means ‘slum’ in his home country of Malawi.
AFRICA: South-South Cooperation Should Focus on Development
- Inter Press Service
African states should be careful not to lose track of their own development plans when they enter into agreements with states outside the continent, despite apparent positive spin-offs.
AFRICA: South-South Cooperation Should Focus on Development
- Inter Press Service
African states should be careful not to lose track of their own development plans when they enter into agreements with states outside the continent, despite apparent positive spin-offs.
Women’s Groups Unite Ahead of Busan Aid Forum
- Inter Press Service
Twenty women from four continents consider the words discussion leader Anne Schoenstein, of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), has written on a flip chart. She strikes out in blue ink a previous sentence. She begins writing a new one - a demand aimed at aid donors - dictated by Nurgul Djanaeva.
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