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LABOUR-BOLIVIA: Infusing Business with Youth, Innovation - (Found June 19, 2008 )

LA PAZ, Jun 19 (IPS) - Cotillones El Sol organises parties in Tarija, in southern Bolivia. Nancy Martnez, the 23-year-old manager and owner of the six-month-old company, already employs several other young women.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42882

RIGHTS-EUROPE: Parliament Votes Jail for Asylum-Seekers - (Found June 19, 2008 )

BRUSSELS, Jun 18 (IPS) - In what has been described as one of the European Union's "darkest days", the European parliament has voted to allow rejected asylum-seekers be detained for up to 18 months before being deported.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42869

PERU: Something Fishy About Imported Military Rations - (Found June 19, 2008 )

LIMA, Jun 18 (IPS) - Army troops from Peru and the United States are fighting very different enemies in extremely different geographical areas. But now they are eating the same rations, purchased from the U.S.-based International Meal Supply company.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42870

RIGHTS-IRAN: List Sheds Light on Death Row Children - (Found June 19, 2008 )

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 18 (IPS) - A human rights group has published the first detailed list of juvenile offenders on Iran's death row, finding that at least 114 children under the age of 18 are awaiting the ultimate penalty.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42871

DEVELOPMENT: African Agriculture Uprooted by Economic Policies - (Found June 19, 2008 )

CAPE TOWN, Jun 18 (IPS) - People across Africa have taken to the streets in recent months to demand that their most basic need be met: access to food. The various states in which these protests have taken place, however, have reacted swiftly and brutally.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42872

HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Free To Go Where I Like - Life Outside a Psychiatric Hospital - (Found June 19, 2008 )

JOHANNESBURG, Jun 18 (IPS) - The wind has picked up and blows the sand, swirling in patterns, across the dirt roads and barren yards of Madadeni township. It batters relentlessly against the walls of Joseph Gumedes iron shack, rattling the windows, and he has to raise his voice to be heard above the din. But sheltered from the dust storm. Joseph feels that he has at last found his way home.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42873

HEALTH: AIDS Activists Urge Major Funding Push for G-8 - (Found June 19, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 18 (IPS) - AIDS and global health activists are calling on the U.S. Senate leadership to urgently approve a record five-year, 50-billion-dollar bill to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis primarily in Africa so that President George W. Bush can take it with him when he meets with other western leaders at next month's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Japan.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42874

RIGHTS: Poll Finds Scant Support for Criminalising Abortion - (Found June 19, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 18 (IPS) - A new poll reveals that three-quarters of respondents in 18 geographically and culturally diverse countries reject the use of criminal penalties to discourage abortions.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42875

BRAZIL-JAPAN: One Hundred Years of Migration - (Found June 19, 2008 )

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 18 (IPS) - One hundred years ago, 781 Japanese immigrants arrived at the Brazilian port of Santos on the steamship Kasato Maru, marking the start of a labour flow that gave rise to the ethnic group with the highest levels of education and per capita income in Brazil -- a migration that reversed direction in the 1980s.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42876

DEVELOPMENT: Gulf Eyes Oil-For-Food Deal With Neighbours - (Found June 19, 2008 )

DUBAI, Jun 19 (IPS) - Recent attempts by Gulf countries to invest in farmlands abroad to counter soaring inflation and guarantee long-term food security could prove to be a win-win situation in the short-term for both the oil-rich region and its investment-hungry neighbours, but continued high oil prices may neutralise the gains in the long-run, feel experts.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42877