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Milagros Salazar

PAUCARÁ, Peru - As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.

CHILE-PERU: Preserving Potatoes More Important than Age-Old Dispute

PERU: Women - The Guardians of Potato Biodiversity

PERU: Highlands Families Work to Save Their Birthright - the Potato

US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations
Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The close of U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Asia this week brought rampant speculation about what a new U.S.-China relationship will look like, but next week's state visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will broaden the focus on the rising powers which Obama must balance during his administration.

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'
Nasseem Ackbarally
PORT-LOUIS - "We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator."

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
	A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 2015.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'
	LOUIS, Nov 21 (IPS) - "We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator."

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

POLITICS-BOTSWANA: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner

Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
	His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.

INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers

US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations

CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
	Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing

SLOVAKIA: Velvet Touch Brings Communists Back

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
	As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.

RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings

CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
	October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.

U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess

MIDEAST: U.S. Credibility as Peace Broker Eroding by the Day

US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations
	The close of U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Asia this week brought rampant speculation about what a new U.S.-China relationship will look like, but next week's state visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will broaden the focus on the rising powers which Obama must balance during his administration.

Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"

U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess

Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
	His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.

INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
	His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges
	The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
	As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.

CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed

CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence