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Pavol Stracansky BUCHAREST, Oct 28 2010 (IPS) – Central and Eastern Europe is facing significant challenges in combating a multi-billion euro, and often lethal, trade in fake medicines, security and pharmaceutical groups have warned. The region has been identified as a key smuggling route in an illicit trade which is growing every year. Millions of … Read more

just little bits of history repeating.  Propeller Heads: History repeating STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jul 9 2019 (IPS) – The Libyan catastrophe and the suffering of ”illegal” migrants are generally depicted as fairly recent events, though they are actually the results of a long history of greed, contempt for others and fatal shortsightedness. Like former Yugoslavia, … Read more

Cameron Diver is the Deputy Director-General of the . School children in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS NEW CALEDONIA, Dec 9 2020 (IPS) – Climate change and human rights are two key issues in international development and their interaction is increasingly in need of focus at national, regional and … Read more

H.E. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera is President of Malawi Vainesi, a former trachoma trichiasis patient, cheers in celebration knowing that trachoma has been eliminated in Malawi. Vainesi had suffered with the pain caused by trachoma for 10 years before a local disability mobiliser encouraged her to go to the hospital for treatment. LILONGWE, Jan 30 2023 … Read more