CAPE TOWN and KAMPALA, Jan 18 (IPS) – Kenya and Tanzania have recently passed
anti-counterfeit laws and regulations that risk blocking
legitimate generic medicines instead of fake products, which is
the purported purpose of these laws. Uganda is now considering a
similar bill.
RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (IPS) – Israel has long argued that Palestinians should
pursue their political objectives in a non-violent way. However,
several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been
arrested and jailed for doing just that.
BERLIN, Jan 17 (Tierramérica) – At first glance, the Riswick farm is just another
modern agricultural facility: in the middle of broad cultivated
fields stand recently built barns, similar to so many other farms
across Europe.
PARIS, Jan 16 (IPS) – The International Year for the Rapprochement of
Cultures (2010) has not had an auspicious start.
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, Jan 18 (IPS) – Recent inter-factional clashes in Lebanon’s
Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp once
more illustrated the fragile
security situation in some of its Palestinian camps.
Lebanese
plans to take over security within the camps are rejected by the
Palestinians.
CAIRO, Jan 18 (IPS) – Egypt embarked on “neo-liberal” economics
more than three decades ago reorienting its socialist-oriented
policies towards those of the “free market.” Now,
however, many critics call the strategy a failure and blame it
for the country’s rampant poverty and unemployment.
RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (IPS) – Israel has long argued that Palestinians should
pursue their political objectives in a non-violent way. However,
several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been
arrested and jailed for doing just that.
SRINAGAR, Jan 18 (IPS) – The declining snow cover and receding glaciers in
the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir could trigger renewed
hostilities between India and Pakistan, neighbouring states in
the South Asian region that are at odds on a host of issues,
experts warn.
UTTARKASHI, India, Jan 18 (IPS) – Women in Uttarkashi district of the hill state of
Uttarakhand in India,
traditionally sidelined from the
developmental processes, are forming their own
cooperative and
producing processed food items, giving big multinational
brands
a run for their money in local markets.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 (IPS) – “I don’t know what’s going to happen to
our people … what our future will be?”