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Q&A: "Literally, This Is Energy From Dirt"
Interview with Lebônê founder Hugo Van Vuuren
ACCRA - You've heard of solar power, and also wind power. Now, you might start hearing about soil power as well.
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Q&A: "We Mustn't Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day"
Interview with Paul Verryn
JOHANNESBURG - Bishop Paul Verryn, who directs the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, has long been on the frontlines of the country's political struggles.
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Q&A: Labour "Has to Weigh Up the Trade-offs" in Acting to Protect Workers
Interview with Steven Friedman
CAPE TOWN - Co-operation between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and forerunners of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) goes back several decades to the early days of efforts to end racial discrimination in South Africa.
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Q&A: Circumcision an "Opportunity To Take Great Strides Forward" Against HIV
Interview with Mark Heywood
JOHANNESBURG - Results from trials in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda in 2006 showed that male circumcision reduced the transmission of HIV from women to men by up to 60 percent. On the basis of these results, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organisation have recommended that countries encourage men to be circumcised.
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Q&A: How Faith Communities Can Help Fight Violence Against Children
Interview with UNICEF expert Eduardo Gallardo
BOGOTÁ - "It’s important to know how families view the power relations that make them protective or destructive of rights," in a world where every year 275 million children witness scenes of domestic violence, said United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) expert Eduardo Gallardo.
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Q&A: Singing to a Political Beat
Interview with Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour
BRUSSELS - If a European rock music fan has just one album by an African artist in his or her collection, there is a higher than average chance it was recorded by Youssou N'Dour. The Senegalese man's status as his continent's most lucrative cultural export was underscored in 2005, when he was the only African to appear at the main Live8 concert in London's Hyde Park, an event that attracted several billion TV viewers, according to its organisers.
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Q&A: Russia Vacillating over Abolition
Interview with Victoria Sergeyeva from Penal Reform International
MOSCOW - How close is Russia to abolishing the death penalty? Possibly just two or three years away, suggests Penal Reform International's director for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Victoria Sergeyeva. In an interview with IPS correspondent Kester Kenn Klomegah, she explains that leading Russian politicians have already made up their minds on the issue, though their follow MPs still need prodding out of their indecision. Across the country, young, educated city dwellers would welcome the move.
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Q&A: "Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe"
Interview with Jesús León Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize*
MEXICO CITY - Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns "plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life," says Jesús León Santos, an indigenous man who is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Q&A: Is a Global News Agency of the South Viable?
Interview with Ernest Corea, expert on communications and development
UNITED NATIONS - When the tart-tongued prime minister of a Southeast Asian nation was once asked what the leading newspapers were in his country, he remarked rather cynically: "We don't have any leading newspapers because all our newspapers are misleading."
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Q&A: Ukraine Divided Over Russia
Interview with Russian Historian and Professor Alexei Miller
BUDAPEST - Key pro-Western politicians in Ukraine are promoting the revival of an ethno-cultural nationalism which is built on opposition to Russia and has driven a wedge between Ukrainians -- western Ukrainians tend to see the eastern neighbour as the eternal enemy, while many in the east see Russia as a part of themselves.
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IPS correspondents sit down with officials, activists and people like you to discuss the issues important to them -- and to the rest of the global community.

THE DEMOCRATIC ILLUSION
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EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK - RECLAIMING SCHOOLS AS ZONES OF PEACE
By Helene-Marie Gosselin

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By Hazel Henderson

WHAT'S BEHIND SOARING COMMODITY PRICES
By Jose Graziano da Silva

BHUTANESE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR NEW PARLIAMENT
By Francoise Pommaret

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ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Mekong Commission Fends Off Credibility Charges

Q&A: "Literally, This Is Energy From Dirt"

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LEBANON: Hezbollah, In Opposition, Takes Charge

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BURMA: Junta Does U-Turn on Relief Aid

EUROPE: Stealth Lobbyists Creep In

PERU: All-Out War on Remnant of ‘Shining Path’ Guerrillas

BRAZIL: Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize Ethanol

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