ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed and Informal Workers By Marcela ValenteBUENOS AIRES - A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward in terms of social policy. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE-SENEGAL: Groundnut Production in Freefall By Koffigan E. AdigbliKAOLACK, Senegal - Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar. MORE >>
CHILE: Teen Pregnancy, a Problem That Won’t Go Away By Daniela EstradaSANTIAGO - Chile currently stands out for its spectacular progress in a number of health indicators, including maternal and child mortality and chronic malnutrition. But these successes obscure an acute social problem that refuses to yield: the steady rise in the number of teenage mothers. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre KlochendlerTEL AVIV - "Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat." MORE >>
PHILIPPINES: Children Worst Hit by Economic Crisis By Stella A. Estremera*DAVAO CITY, Philippines - "I get an allowance of 50 pesos (about one U.S. dollar) a day, of which 20 pesos (40 U.S. cents) is for fare," says 17-year-old Dana Jane Estrada. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees Analysis by Lester R. Brown*WASHINGTON - Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. MORE >>
MIGRATION-BRAZIL: Gov't Engages Three Million Far-Flung Citizens By Mario OsavaRIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil, a major source of migrants since the 1980s, is now working at recognising and supporting the rights of the three million Brazilians who are scattered among over 100 countries. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Is It Time to Plan Another U.N. Population Meet? By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS - When the United Nations commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 1994 landmark conference on population and development (ICPD) last week, one of the questions lingering in the minds of many seemed obvious: is it time to plan another major conference on population? MORE >>
NICARAGUA: Young People Exiled by Poverty By José Adán SilvaMANAGUA - If they could, about 60 percent of Nicaraguans under 30 would go to live abroad, according to studies on migration, which find that the country's chronic poverty is the main reason for wanting to migrate. MORE >>
BULGARIA: Migrants Denied Even Medicine By Claudia CiobanuBUCHAREST - Hasun Albaadzh, an asylum-seeker from Syria, died Oct. 6 at the Busmantsi detention centre on the outskirts of Bulgarian capital Sofia. He had been held at Busmantsi for 34 months - considerably more than the maximum legal period of detention - and had been denied proper medical care. MORE >>
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