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South Africa: New ideas at 4th national AIDS conference
April 3, 2009DURBAN, (PlusNews) - South Africa's fourth national AIDS conference opened in the east-coast city of Durban this week with calls to scale up AIDS programming in a country that still has a long way to go...
Read moreEngaging men in gender equality efforts
April 3, 2009RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 2 (IPS) - How many men work in day care centres, looking after children? How much paternity leave are men entitled to? How many government programmes to combat domestic violence include violent...
Read moreGreek workers strike in their millions
April 3, 2009Original source: Millions of Greek workers kicked off a national strike on Thursday against government attempts to force employees to bear the brunt of the slump. Greek Communist Party and trade union activists led over 10,000...
Read moreWORLDNOTES Spain, Madagascar, South Korea, Iraq, Argentina, Cuba
April 3, 2009Spain: Students rebel Student demonstrations and occupations resumed nationwide last month against the 10-year-old Bologna process aimed at creating uniformity among European universities. Months of protests culminated March 18 when tens of thousands demonstrated, calling for...
Read moreThe Group of 20 Summit: Climate change solutions may be answer to economic woes
April 3, 2009All eyes are on London this week for the G20 summit. Will it come up with a plan to save the world economy? It won’t, say UN climate negotiators in Germany — where this week’s real...
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