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POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (IPS) - 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.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Nov 20 (IPS) - The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
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RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS) - The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.
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BOTSWANA-POLITICS: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
By Vusumuzi Sifile
GABORONE, Nov 21 (IPS) - When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN, Nov 20 (IPS/IFEJ) - 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.
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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
By Daniela Estrada
TEMUCO, Chile, Nov 20 (IPS) - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS) - Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
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Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
By Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian
VANCOUVER, Canada, Nov 20 (IPS) - In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
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HAITI: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops
By Ansel Herz
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 20 (IPS) - Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok" sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.
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U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (IPS) - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror".
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Global Affairs
POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - 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.
MORE >>
 		 
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
MORE >>
 		 
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - 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.
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BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
By Stephen Leahy*
MÉRIDA, Mexico - Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Analysis by Janet Larsen*
WASHINGTON - Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history.
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MDGs
POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - 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.
MORE >>
 		 
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - 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.
MORE >>
 		 
RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
By Melody Kemp
VIENTIANE - Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
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Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
By Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews NOELEEN HEYZER, U.N. under-secretary general and head of UNESCAP
BANGKOK - Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
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AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
By Susan Anyangu
KAMPALA - The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
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Environment
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
MORE >>
 		 
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - 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.
MORE >>
 		 
CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
MORE >>
 		 
BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
By Stephen Leahy*
MÉRIDA, Mexico - Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
MORE >>
 		 
CAMBODIA: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
By Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH - Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.
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Human Rights
RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.
MORE >>
 		 
BOTSWANA-POLITICS: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
By Vusumuzi Sifile
GABORONE - When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
MORE >>
 		 
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - 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.
MORE >>
 		 
CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
By Daniela Estrada
TEMUCO, Chile - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
MORE >>
 		 
Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
By Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian
VANCOUVER, Canada - In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
MORE >>
 		 
Health
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
MORE >>
 		 
RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
By Melody Kemp
VIENTIANE - Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
MORE >>
 		 
AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
By Susan Anyangu
KAMPALA - The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
MORE >>
 		 
Q&A: Recognise the Benefits of Slowing Population Growth
By Susan Anyangu interviews STAN BERNSTEIN, senior policy advisor UNFPA
KAMPALA - Family planning: key to reducing child mortality and improving maternal health; a way to put less strain on the environment; and a smaller population makes the challenge of providing adequate education and health services that little bit easier.
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DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still Suffering
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The international community, which has been hit by a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children worldwide.
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