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Fighting Dirty Water Is World's New Ecological Battle

Thalif Deen

STOCKHOLM - A primary topic of discussion at a weeklong international water conference here can best be summed up in two words: "dirty water".

Time Running Out Faster Than Water, Experts Warn

Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry

U.N. Lagging on Water and Sanitation Development Goals

AGRICULTURE-AFRICA
Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase
Hilaire Avril
PARIS - After weeks of rumours sparked by the leaking of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has officially released its report on the surge in farmland purchases and leasing which have elicited controversy for over two years.

LATIN AMERICA
Border Mining Projects Before Ethics Tribunal
Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - Latin American activists who want to call attention to mining developments located in border areas will gather in Chile to "pass judgement" on projects they regard as detrimental to local communities, the environment and national security.

U.N. Climate Body Urged to Take Lead in Gender Focus
	Two weeks before the 2010 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) review summit at the United Nations, concerns are being raised that gender equality is still largely divorced from efforts to address climate change, even though women have a critical role to play in solving - and are often most affected by – the problem.

Fighting Dirty Water Is World's New Ecological Battle

AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase

AFRICA: Stronger Will Needed from Governments to Save Poorest Children
	"Herding goats is tough with the thirst, sun, loneliness and hunger each day. And it can last forever. You herd as a girl, then as a wife, as a pregnant woman, as a mother and even as a grandmother," says Rukia Ibrahim whose 13-year-old younger sister was married off to a herdsman.

AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase

U.N. Weighs Sanctions Against Perpetrators of DRC Mass Rapes

INDIA: Gov't Hems and Haws Over ‘Honour Killings'
	Instances of ‘honour killings' in Indian communities still steeped in traditional beliefs continue unabated. Yet the government has not enacted tougher laws that will deal a decisive blow against this societal scourge.

INDIA: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic

US-AFGHANISTAN: Calls for Change of Strategy Grow Louder

ROMANIA: Austerity Deals Mortal Blow to Health System
	Five newborns died last week in a fire caused by an airconditioning fault at a Bucharest maternity. Insufficient, overworked staff and deficient maintenance -- results of inadequate funding of the health system - -were listed among the causes.

BALKANS: Serbia Prepares a New Case Over Kosovo

BALKANS: The Turks Return

RIGHTS-CHILE: No Dialogue in Mapuche Conflict
	The Chilean government is pushing through legal reforms in an attempt to bring to an end a nearly two month hunger strike by 34 Mapuche indigenous prisoners. But it is failing to address two critical aspects of the conflict: the lack of effective dialogue and a failure to recognise it as a political problem.

Biking Across the Americas, Spotlight on Children

LATIN AMERICA: Border Mining Projects Before Ethics Tribunal

US: Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia
	Leaders of some three dozen mainstream U.S. religious denominations Tuesday condemned what many commentators have called a rising tide of Islamophobia touched off by the recent controversy over the construction of a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the twin World Trade Centre towers destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

BAHRAIN: No Change Seen in Ban on Entry of People with HIV

Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry

US-AFGHANISTAN: Calls for Change of Strategy Grow Louder
	Amid continued high levels of violence and a steady stream of reports of high-level government corruption in Kabul, a growing number of foreign policy specialists are urging President Barack Obama to reconsider his counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Afghanistan.

US: Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia

RUSSIA: New START May End With a Whimper

INDIA: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
	He had decided to grow watermelons this summer on his one-acre (.405 hectare) plot, and so Veera Narayana went about preparing the arid red earth by first ploughing it and then lighting fires in the furrows.

U.N. Climate Body Urged to Take Lead in Gender Focus

Fighting Dirty Water Is World's New Ecological Battle

INDIA: Gov't Hems and Haws Over ‘Honour Killings'
	Instances of ‘honour killings' in Indian communities still steeped in traditional beliefs continue unabated. Yet the government has not enacted tougher laws that will deal a decisive blow against this societal scourge.

RIGHTS-CHILE: No Dialogue in Mapuche Conflict

U.N. Climate Body Urged to Take Lead in Gender Focus

INDIA: Buoyed by Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic
	He had decided to grow watermelons this summer on his one-acre (.405 hectare) plot, and so Veera Narayana went about preparing the arid red earth by first ploughing it and then lighting fires in the furrows.

AFRICA: Stronger Will Needed from Governments to Save Poorest Children

Fighting Dirty Water Is World's New Ecological Battle

RIGHTS-CHILE: No Dialogue in Mapuche Conflict
	The Chilean government is pushing through legal reforms in an attempt to bring to an end a nearly two month hunger strike by 34 Mapuche indigenous prisoners. But it is failing to address two critical aspects of the conflict: the lack of effective dialogue and a failure to recognise it as a political problem.

LATIN AMERICA: Border Mining Projects Before Ethics Tribunal

MIGRATION-MEXICO: A Cemetery without Tombstones or Epitaphs