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Family Planning Essential for Development
Julio Godoy PARIS, Jul 18 (IPS) – Improving family planning to avoid unwanted pregnancies in developing countries, as well as…
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Negotiators Lack Focus at Arms Treaty Talks, Observers Warn
Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) – More than halfway through four-week negotiations for a binding treaty to regulate…
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Investigation Exposes Arms Trafficking Network in Mauritius
Carlota Cortes UNITED NATIONS, Jul 18 (IPS) – An investigation by the Conflict Awareness Project has exposed an active arms…
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Will Austerity Prompt Nuclear Disarmament?
Julio Godoy PARIS, Jul 18 (IPS) – The changing international political order and a dramatic budgetary situation at home are…
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A Grim Search for the Missing
Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Jul 17 (IPS) – A bloody civil war was reaching its climax but this Tamil family, who…
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Global Commission on Law urges countries to make the law work for HIV, not against it
D.LowthianThe Global Commission on HIV and the Law launched its landmark report on 9 July 2012 at UN Headquarters in…
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Russia Says West Using “Blackmail” over Syria
AJ Correspondents DOHA, Qatar, Jul 16 (IPS) – Russia has said it would block moves at the U.N. Security Council…
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Rights Groups, U.S. Denounce Sentences of Ethiopian Journalists
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) – Human rights groups, press watchdogs, and even the U.S. government have strongly denounced…
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Stuck in the 20th Century?
South Korea is at the cutting edge of global technology. It is one of the most wired countries, and its…
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Women’s Inequality Linked to Soaring Population
Zoha Arshad WASHINGTON (IPS) – The world’s population now stands at about seven billion, and by 2050, this figure will…
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