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/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE: Maori ‘Marae’ Integral to New Zealand Tourism
Atop the Te Mata peak, in freezing 6C weather, visitors to New Zealand are treated to a traditional 'Powhiri' or Maori welcome ceremony.RIGHTS: Six Australians Among 1,000 "Nobel Peace Women"
Stella Cornelius is proud not only to be one among 1,000 women from 150 countries collectively nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in pursuit of peace but also to be part of a ''sisterhood'' of women who have worked for peace through the ages.HEALTH-AUSTRALIA: The Phases of Polio – Past, Present and Future
As developing countries move closer to polio eradication, the developed world is battling with ageing polio survivors experiencing post polio syndrome (PPS).ENVIRONMENT: Australia’s Fresh Water Supply Under Threat
Vast numbers of Australians live around the coastline because that is where most of the fresh water is in an otherwise very arid country. But now, according to a recent report, Australia's fresh water supply could be threatened if the country fails to cut down on its greenhouse gas emissions./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-AUSTRALIA: Relationships Star in Sydney Fest
A full fortnight's worth of films screened during the 50th Sydney Film Festival would be impossible to categorise thematically, but explorations of human relationships and women stood out among this year's 210 entries.HEALTH: Vaccine Trial Offers Hope in Fight against HIV/AIDS
A new HIV vaccine developed in Australia, if successful after its first-ever clinical trial on humans here and in Thailand, will offer hope to the world's poor in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, say researchers.ENVIRONMENT: The Tasmanian Tiger’s Controversial Comeback
Scientists at the Australian Museum here were visibly jubilant when they announced recently that they are closer to resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger from extinction through cloning, but other scientists and environmentalists have greeted the news with more sobriety.HEALTH-AUSTRALIA: Many Maternal Deaths Preventable, Say Experts
Australia is a First World nation in more ways than one, but women giving birth here may well be justified if they feel they are getting less than the treatment they deserve.ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Global Warming to Hurt Agriculture
The heavy floods and bushfires that Australia has experienced this summer are only a preview of what climate change has in store for the country.ENVIRONMENT-SPORTS: Green Games on Show at Sydney Olympics, Too
Environment has become the third pillar of the Olympic movement, alongside sports and culture, in the new millennium./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS-AUSTRALIA: Sydney Set for World’s Biggest Games
Grey skies dimmed the sunshine and the seizure of human growth hormone in the luggage of the Uzbekistan team coach, blurred the euphoria gripping this city as it waited for the opening of the world's greatest sports carnival.FINANCE: Poor Countries ‘Still Waiting’ For Promised Debt Relief
The promised Third World debt relief has still not been delivered even as the Group of Eight (G8) leaders prepare to meet for yet another summit in Okinawa (Japan) later this week.RIGHTS: Activists Outline Benefits of Rights-based Development
Human rights and human development are the two sides of the same coin, but neither can be realised without empowering the poo r, a seminar here on the just released United Nations Development Programm e (UNDP) report on human development said.HEALTH: World Disasters Report Gives Cause For Concern
This year 13 million people will die of preventable diseases in the world, according to the World Disasters Report 2000 released Wednesday in London by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/Nature Gets The Spotlight At Wildlife Film Festival
About 10,000 film-makers, broadcasters and conservationists from across different continents are here to participate in the world's oldest festival of wildlife and natural history films.BRITAIN: Wide Education Gap In Multi-Cultural Britain
Underfunding of schools, overcrowded classrooms, and the wide gap between the state and private-run schools are major challenges for multi-cultural Britain.BRITAIN: Wide Education Gap In Multi-Cultural Britain
Underfunding of schools, overcrowded classrooms, and the wide gap between the state and private-run schools are major challenges for multi-cultural Britain.RIGHTS: Understanding and Reducing Gender-based Violence.
Amidst growing global concern about violence by men against women an international group of researchers and social activists gathered here over the weekend to understand the problem better and do something about it.DISARMAMENT: Britain To Tighten Arms Sales Regulations
Close on the heels of Britain's pre- Christmas pledge to write off all debts owed by the world's most impoverished countries, London is to ban the use of export credits for arms sales to 63 nations.RIGHTS-CONFLICT: War Victims Increase Despite Geneva Conventions
Amidst the celebration of the 50th year of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions 1949, there is mounting evidence of increased violations of the respect and dignity for human life, soldiers and civilians, enshrined in the Conventions.RIGHTS-GLOBALISATION: South Asian Farmers Take Protest to London
About 500 farmers from south Asia are currently on a one-month tour of Europe as part of the Inter- Continental Caravan'99 , organised by grassroots activists from northern and southern countries against globalisation, free trade and corporate rule.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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