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ITALY
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Features
06/27/2008
ASUNCION, Jun 26 (IPS) - Paraguay's public hospitals are on the verge of collapse, due to a lack of resources for responding to the wave of southern hemisphere winter illnesses. The first measure to be adopted by the new government that will take over in August will be to declare a "social emergency" in healthcare, the future health minister told IPS.
Read moreRelated: [Paraguay] [Health] [Disease/treatment] [Governance]
06/24/2008
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 (IPS) - Two years after the African Union mandated Senegal to conduct the trial of Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, who is accused of thousands of political murders during his eight-year reign, the prosecution remains in limbo, six human rights groups complained in a joint statement Monday.
Read moreRelated: [Senegal] [Chad] [Human Rights] [Civil Rights] [Codes of Conduct] [Ethics & Value Systems] [Geopolitics] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Law]
06/17/2008
BANGKOK, Jun 16 (IPS) - Cambodian lawmakers are still to offer unanimous support for a petition aimed at combating corruption that was presented to the National Assembly in mid-May. The call was a cry from ordinary people -- over a million of them.
Read moreRelated: [Indonesia] [Cambodia] [MDGs] [Activism] [Civil Society] [Corruption & Transparency] [Governance]



