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Los hombres sufren más las consecuencias del tabaco que las mujeresLos hombres sufren más las consecuencias del tabaco que las mujeres
Yahoo: Ciencia - 18 enero 2038 - 11:14pm
Un estudio de la UE revela que la absorción de monóxido de carbono es superior en los varonesUn estudio de la UE revela que la absorción de monóxido de carbono es superior en los varones
Categories: Ciencia
Building back better
UNICEF Photo Essays - 22 diciembre 2010 - 1:00am
26 December 2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
THAILAND: In Convoys of Red, Rural Masses Stage Historic Protest
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
BANGKOK, Mar 14 (IPS) - An unprecedented show of force by men and women from Thailand’s rural hinterland was on display over the weekend as they poured into Bangkok in the tens of thousands to stake a claim on having a voice in shaping this South-east Asian kingdom’s national agenda.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
RIGHTS-MALAWI: Country Not Safe for Homosexuals
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
LILONGWE, Mar. 13 (IPS) - Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country’s police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of being gay.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Law on Forest Rights Fails to Deliver
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
BHUBANESWAR, India, Mar 13 (IPS) - A four-year-old landmark law that was supposed to bring profound changes in the lives of India’s tribal and forest-dwelling peoples has failed to deliver on that promise.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
MEXICO CITY, Mar 13 (IPS) - Mexican consumers are currently facing a combination of price rises, economic recession and lack of legal protection in the face of abuses committed by providers of goods and services.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
RIGHTS: Gender Confab Marked by Political Uncertainties
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS/TerraViva) - When a two-week meeting on gender empowerment concluded at U.N. headquarters Friday, there were several lingering questions crying out for answers.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
POLITICS-NIGERIA : In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
KANO, Mar 12 (IPS) - Ten years after Nigeria returned to civil rule women still play second fiddle in the male-dominated politics of Africa’s most populous nation, women politicians and activists say.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
HAITI: Caribbean Unites Behind Recovery Plans
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
ROSEAU, Dominica , Mar 12 (IPS) - As he travels back to his headquarters in Washington, World Bank president Robert Zoellick must be painfully aware that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have very strong feelings on the redevelopment of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet for "Electoral Apathy"?
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
YAOUNDE, Mar. 12 (IPS) - A support network for women's political participation, is challenging head-on what it calls "electoral apathy", after noting a growing trend in electoral abstention.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
PHILIPPINES: Reproductive Health Tests Candidates’ Political Guts
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
MANILA, Mar 12 (IPS) - Filipino voters who have yet to make up their minds about their choice for their next president are being advised: look at each aspirant’s stance on reproductive health to help them gauge the candidate’s leadership mettle and political guts.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
CHINA: Binge-drinking Culture Turning from Fun to Lethal
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
BEIJING, Mar 12 (IPS) - After Chen Lusheng, a police sergeant from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, died in December after an off-duty night of heavy drinking with local officials, his superiors tried to have him designated a "martyr" who "died in the line of duty," so that his family would receive greater compensation.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
CHILE: Aftershocks Rock Inaugural Ceremony
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
SANTIAGO, Mar 11 (IPS) - While Chile's new rightwing President Sebastián Piñera, who announced that he would lead "a government of reconstruction," was being sworn in Thursday, the earthquake-ravaged country was shaken by major aftershocks.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
NAIROBI, Mar 11 (IPS) - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
SOUTH AFRICA: Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
CAPE TOWN, Mar 11 (IPS) - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African teachers and education experts say they fear that a special focus on the advancement of girls is getting lost amidst the growing levels of poverty in the country.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
BURMA: Despite Loss at Oscars, Film A Testament to Courage
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
BANGKOK, Mar 11 (IPS) - It may have not won an Oscar, but its having been a final contender for the prestigious statue at the U.S. Academy Awards on Mar. 7 has taken ‘Burma VJ’ to heights never achieved by previous films depicting the oppression and courage in military-ruled Burma.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
THAILAND: Media Caught in Red-or-Yellow Divide Too
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 51 min 25 sec ago
BANGKOK, Mar 11 (IPS) - Anyone who is still trying to look for neutrality or balance in the Thai media in these days of political ferment, ahead of large anti-government protests expected in the capital, has a pretty tough job.
Categories: Sustainable Human Development
ZAMBIA: Bringing Phones to the Countryside
Inter Press Services ICT News - 51 min 25 sec ago
LUSAKA, Jan 5 (IPS) - Cellular phones have quickly become a popular and effective means of communication in Zambia, but their use has been concentrated in urban areas. Government and NGOs are now trying to extend these services to rural people.
Categories: Information Society
SPAIN: A Princely Prize for Creators of Email, Cell-Phones
Inter Press Services ICT News - 51 min 25 sec ago
OVIEDO, Spain, Oct 23 (IPS) - U.S. engineers Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson, considered the fathers of the mobile phone and email, respectively, received Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research from Crown Prince Felipe on Friday.
Categories: Information Society
DEVELOPMENT: Rural India Set to Ring in 3G Mobile Technology
Inter Press Services ICT News - 51 min 25 sec ago
NEW DELHI, Oct 8 (IPS) - As India prepares to roll out third-generation (3G) mobile services in the world's fastest growing telecom market, there are high expectations that it will benefit people in the vast, impoverished rural hinterland most.
Categories: Information Society
