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PERU: Summit Discusses Climate Change as Glaciers Melt
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Peru is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, which is already having perceptible effects in this country. According to a report by the National Environment Council (CONAM), the area of glaciers in the Andes has shrunk from 2,042 to 1,596 square kilometres in just 25 years.
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PORTUGAL: Cuban Cataract Ops Prick Medical Conscience
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - Cuba’s offer to provide cataract operations for people who have been on waiting lists for years at Portugal’s public hospitals triggered a reaction by the government and doctors, who may finally begin to provide a solution to this problem that affects thousands of elderly people.
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PHILIPPINES: Deforestation - MNCs, Militants, Soldiers, Farmers Blamed
By Brad Miller
NABUNTURAN, Mindanao - Outside the office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Compostela Valley province sits a pile of confiscated, milled hardwood -- a monument to the deforestation caused mainly by parties to a festering armed conflict.
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LATIN AMERICA: European Corporations on Trial
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Twenty European corporations are being tried for human rights violations before an ethical tribunal at the Peoples’ Summit, organised for the third time by the Bi-Regional Network "Enlazando Alternativas" (Linking Alternatives) in Lima. The organisers announced that they hope to take some of these cases to ordinary courts of justice in Peru.
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SOUTH ASIA: Differing on Right to Information
By Kalinga Seneviratne
DHAKA - The right to information (RTI), as espoused by the United Nations and international human rights organisations, does not have full endorsement from South Asian media practitioners and scholars.
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COLOMBIA: Extradition of Paramilitary Chiefs - a Blow to Truth
By Constanza Vieira*
BOGOTÁ - Fourteen former paramilitary chiefs were quietly extradited from Colombia to the United States before dawn on Tuesday on drug trafficking charges, in a move that drew criticism from human rights experts.
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POLITICS: 1968 and the Birth of Diversity
Analysis by Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - The year 1968 has become a symbol, but not necessarily one that is easy to sum up. High-profile violent events involving multitudes of people marked it as revolutionary, but it is hard to define the nature of that revolution. Endless enigmas and controversies still surround it.
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BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit Areas
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.
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RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Exhuming Memory
By Eric Lemus
CIUDAD BARRIOS, El Salvador - One of the men comes across a plastic thread and stops digging. He starts to carefully remove the dirt until unearthing a piece of material that he hands to an elderly woman, who is silently observing the exhumation of the remains of victims of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
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RIGHTS-JAPAN: Broadcasters Break Hanging Secrecy Taboos
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - The final seconds in the life of a Japanese death row inmate -- the rasping muffled last words, the trapdoor springing open, the whip of a noose and a Buddhist gong signalling the end -- has made radio history here, waking listeners up to what goes on in one of the most secretive execution systems in the world.
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BURMA: 'Junta Aid Blocks Could Multiply Cyclone Toll'
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Burma’s military regime may soon face charges of allowing tens of thousands of its own people to die through incompetence and bureaucratic red-tape placed in the way of international relief efforts for over one million cyclone victims in the country.
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ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Mekong Commission Fends Off Credibility Charges
By Andrew Nette
PHNOM PENH - The head of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) has defended the regional body against charges that it faces a crisis of credibility arising from inability to guide hydropower development on the Mekong mainstream.
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BURMA: Junta Holds Referendum in Cyclone Aftermath
By Moe Yu May
PATHEIN - Shortly after sunrise on Saturday, a few men and women in this town on the banks of a river broke their morning routines to cast ballots -- an act unusual in the military-ruled country.
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CHINA: Quake Helps Mend Image After Tibet Crackdown

POLITICS-US: An Ocean Apart, Bush, McCain Play to Neo-Con Dreams

COLOMBIA: Interpol Notes Improper Initial Handling of FARC Laptops

POLITICS: Human Rights Council Back in the Spotlight

PERU: Summit Discusses Climate Change as Glaciers Melt

CULTURE-CHILE: Free Book Selections for 400,000 Families

PORTUGAL: Cuban Cataract Ops Prick Medical Conscience

HEALTH: World Bank Shifting Gears on AIDS in Africa

LABOUR-SRI LANKA: Domestic Workers Promised New Deal in Kuwait

TRADE: Zimbabwe Is the Fly in the New FTA Broth

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CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER THREAT IN RUSSIA
By Kumi Naidoo and Tanzilya Salimdjanova
With Russia's presidential elections -- notoriously a time of clampdown on dissent -- looming, it is important to ask whether non-governmental organisations there will be able to freely go about their legitimate activities, whether providing services, election monitoring, or holding the government to account, ask Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen participation, and Tanzilya Salimdjanova, associate at CIVICUS - Civil Society Watch programme.

"THE WORLD COULD BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM HOW IT IS TODAY"
By Candido Grzybowski
"The World Social Forum didn’t produce the progressive wave in Latin America by itself; nevertheless, it would be difficult to imagine it without the presence of the WSF", says Cândido Grzybowski, director of Ibase (Brazil) and member of the WSF International Committee, in this interview with IPS's Alejandro Kirk.

CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER ATTACK
By Kumi Naidoo
In the last 12 months we have seen civil society organisations challenged by political threats to civil society's right to exist, by the need to improve its internal governance, and by the threats that face humankind, from climate change crisis to poverty and inequality, writes Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of CIVICUS: A World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

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Choike.org - Portal on Southern Civil Societies

CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation

CONGO - Conf. of NGOs at UN

Ubuntu - World Forum of Civil Society Networks

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