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Article Source: InterPress Service
NEW YORK, Mar 31, 2010 (IPS) - For the nearly 50 million people of South Africa, the 2010 World Cup represents an opportunity to show the world its progress through sports. But for a new nonprofit organisation, soccer's biggest stage also offers an opportunity to publicise young women who tend to go unheard.
Global Girl Media, an educational nonprofit founded in January 2009, aims to use the games to empower young women by teaching them about digital media.
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Article Source: MSNBC.com
It's everyone's favorite excuse for a party. Here are the most over-the-top celebrations, each with its own traditions for music, costumes, and cutting loose.
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Article Source: CS Monitor
In a counterintuitive approach to reducing car accidents and making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, a German town has nixed all traffic signs and traffic lights in the town center.
This unpretentious villagelike neighborhood in Frankfurt’s far-northern tip is known for the idyllic character of its old half-timber homes and its views of rolling hills. Now it is a symbol of Germany’s effort to rescue its streets from the hegemony of cars and give more space to pedestrians and cyclists.
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Article Source: International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON — President Obama and his Russian counterpart, President Dmitri A. Medvedev, have broken through a logjam in their arms control negotiations and expect to sign a new treaty in Prague next month that would slash American and Russian nuclear arsenals, officials from both nations said Wednesday.
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Article Source: InterPress Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Mar 23 , 2010 (IPS) - Earnestness is still on her sunburnt face as she faces throngs of people just days after her defeat. Indeed, even as threats continue to come her way, Mai Jori has not given up on her dreams to help empower the women from her region and vows to contest the forthcoming local bodies’ elections.
"There is no better way to fight injustice," she told IPS from Hyderabad, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province, where she was leading a rally recently.
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