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MIDEAST: U.S. Non-Profit Targeted Rights Group over Goldstone
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (IPS) - A campaign of attacks against the New Israel Fund (NIF), a U.S.-based progressive organisation that supports human rights groups in Israel, has gained attention in both the Israeli and U.S. media, raising questions about the role played by foreign non-profits and non-governmental organisations in influencing Israeli government policy.
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PERU: CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary Plane Shootdown
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Feb 9 (IPS) - Nine years after the 2001 shootdown of a small airplane carrying U.S. missionaries over the Peruvian jungle, the CIA and the armed forces of this South American country are pointing fingers at each other over who was responsible for the fatal mistake, which cost the lives of two people.
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ZIMBABWE: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Arrears?
By Zenzele Ndebele
BULAWAYO, Feb 9 (IPS) - Faced with nearly six billion dollars of external debt, Zimbabwe's national unity government is considering applying for Highly Indebted Poor Country status.
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Q&A: Creating Momentum for Women's Participation
Paula Fray interviews ANNE-MARIE GOETZ, UNIFEM chief advisor for Governance, Peace and Security
NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (IPS) - Women's movements have played a critical role in creating political space for female participation in politics around the world. In fact, there are more women in government today than ever before.
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ENERGY-MEXICO: Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's Rays
By Emilio Godoy
CHAPANTONGO, Mexico, Feb 9 (IPS) - It was Isabel Cortés, the family matriarch, who started the project. In 1990, she started looking for a way to market xoconostle, the sour variety of the nopal cactus fruit that is abundant in this arid part of central Mexico, in the Mezquital valley.
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FINANCE: Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins
Analysis by Peter Costantini
SEATTLE, Feb 9 (IPS) - Reckless greed on Wall Street is a dog-bites-man story. Still, the renewed feeding frenzy of the alpha dogs of finance in the embers of the bonfire of their own vanities has inspired amazement and disgust across the political spectrum.
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BIODIVERSITY: India Bans Farming of GM Aubergine
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (IPS) - After India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced Tuesday a ban on the cultivation of Bt brinjal, the country’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop, food security experts and activists said this major farming country has been saved from a biodiversity disaster.
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CANADA: Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Combatants
By Paul Weinberg
TORONTO, Feb 9 (IPS) - Ottawa's refusal to repatriate a former child soldier, 23-year-old Omar Khadr, back to Canada to face justice in the country of his birth opens to the door to a trial before a controversial U.S. military commission process that has been challenged for its use of evidence gleaned from interrogation after torture.
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CHILE: Stop Treating Community Broadcasters as Criminals, Say Activists
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO, Feb 9 (IPS) - Criminal law should not be used against freedom of expression, nor to silence community radio stations in Chile, say activists and journalists in response to closures of community radio outlets in this South American country.
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CANADA: Foundation for "Political Warfare" Takes Cue from U.S. Strategy
By Anthony Fenton
VANCOUVER, Feb 9 (IPS) - Indicating further integration with its closest neighbour and ally's foreign policy priorities, the Canadian government is in the advanced stages of establishing a foundation to promote liberal democracy, akin to the controversial U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.
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