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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 - 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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Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, Swedish fisheries policy activist
BRUSSELS - The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
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Q&A: ''You Could Use a Stronger European Voice on Human Rights''
David Cronin interviews KENNETH ROTH, director of Human Rights Watch
BRUSSELS - Major changes are underway in the European Union (EU). For the first time in its history, the 27-country bloc will have a foreign minister once Catherine Ashton, a British Labour politician, receives parliamentary approval for her appointment later this month. She has already taken the first steps towards assembling a diplomatic service as foreseen by the EU’s Lisbon treaty.
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Q&A: "Being Poor and White Is Not the Same as Being Poor and Black" in Cuba
Patricia Grogg interviews University of Havana researcher ESTEBAN MORALES
HAVANA - The elimination of racism remains unfinished business in Cuba today. "We have to admit that the problem exists, determine its impact on the social model that we defend, and tackle it in depth," says Esteban Morales, an Afro-Cuban economist, political scientist and author of numerous articles and essays on the subject.
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Q&A: ''Hamas Accepts Existence of Israel Within 1967 Borders''
Mel Frykberg interviews MAHMOUDI RAMAHI, secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council
RAMALLAH - Palestinian politics are at an impasse. The four-year term of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) ended on Jan. 25 with no new elections planned. Presidential elections, meant to be held last year, were also postponed indefinitely.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Africa Continues to Draw Inspiration
Stanley Kwenda interviews DAKARAYI MATANGA, Southern Africa Social Forum
HARARE - The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination.
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Q&A: Rage and the Economics of the Environment
Stephen Leahy interviews British economist TIM JACKSON*
TORONTO, Canada - "Rage is sometimes the appropriate response" to the failure of the world's leaders to craft a new climate treaty at the Copenhagen summit, says British economist Tim Jackson.
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Q&A: "U.S. Should Invest in New U.N. Women's Agency"
Christine Ahn interviews CHARLOTTE BUNCH, Founder of the Center for Global Women's Leadership
SAN FRANCISCO - One year after U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration, how has his administration fared in terms of advancing an agenda for women's rights around the world?
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Q&A: ‘With More Political Space, Women Can Do More as Peacemakers’
Ashfaq Yusufzai interviews ZAHIRA KHATTAK, a women’s rights advocate
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - As a political activist and president of the women’s wing of the Awami National Party (ANP), Zahira Khattak has been working relentlessly for the empowerment of women in the war-torn North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan. She believes that by empowering them, they can contribute more to the peace efforts in the region.
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Q&A: ‘Commissions for Human Rights Violations Have Failed’
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews KISHALI PINTO-JAYAWARDENA, Sri Lankan human rights advocate
BANGKOK - Sri Lanka’s nearly three decades of civil war may be over, but questions about war crimes and gross human rights violations committed during the final stages of that battle in 2009 continue to haunt the South Asian nation.
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