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7/29/2010
U.N. Declares Water and Sanitation a Basic Human Right
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 28 (IPS) - When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) back in December 1948, 58 member states voted for a historic document covering political, economic, social and cultural rights. On Wednesday, nearly 62 years later, a widely-expanded 192- member General Assembly adopted another memorable resolution: this time recognising water and sanitation as a basic human right.
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7/28/2010
Life At A Time Of Suicide Bombings
Zofeen Ebrahim
LAHORE, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) - Like any other Friday morning, hordes of people flocked at the shrine of 11th-century Sufi saint, Hazrat Ali Hajveri, that is near Bhaati Gate inside Lahore's walled city on Jul. 2. By that afternoon, a much larger crowd had gathered at the site, this time for the usual Friday prayers.
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7/29/2010
Let Information Flow, State Tells Malaysia's Federal Government
Baradan Kuppusamy - Asia Media Forum
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 (IPS) - The freedom of information bill pending in opposition-ruled Selangor state may be just at the state level, but it throws a direct challenge to the federal government of Malaysia and its strict controls on the media. The bill's tabling by the state government led by the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance) coalition, done on Jul. 15, is unprecedented in this South-east Asian country, where much of mainstream media are under government control and where independent media are often suppressed or harassed.
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Poll Finds Dwindling Support for Iranian Government
Omid Memarian
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jul 28 (IPS) - A recent poll conducted by a credible Iranian university centre concerning the post-election events of 2009 has found that 56 percent of participants believe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's popularity has declined over the past year, while just 22 percent believe it has increased. Opinions of Ahmadinejad in the capital Tehran declined, despite the fact that the president's cabinet enjoys a monopoly over state television and radio stations.
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Adios, Doe Run
Milagros Salazar
LIMA, Jul 28 (IPS) - Peruvian President Alan GarcÃa confirmed Wednesday that the permit of the U.S. mining and metallurgical company Doe Run to operate a major smelter complex was being cancelled because the firm missed the deadline for proving that it had the necessary financing to restart operations and complete an environmental cleanup.
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Global Governance and Sciences: Providing the UN-General Assembly with a Sciences Adviser
By Walther Lichem
Over the past four decades international decision-making processes have been marked by an increasing broadening of structures and processes related to the ever more complex Global Agenda of the international community with broader systems of interrelatedness and longer term implications of its multiple dimension.
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Newsbriefs
US Court Blocks Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law
Familiar Pledges on Child and Maternal Health in Africa
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7/28/2010
Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jul 27 (IPS) - For a country plagued by a weak judiciary and where government officials have profited from a culture of impunity, Monday's verdict in the first case to try a surviving commandant of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime broke new legal ground in Cambodia.
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Dutch Christian Group Backs Settlements
David Cronin
NIJKERK, The Netherlands, Jul 27 (IPS) - Sandwiched between giant car and furniture stores on a motorway stop-off, a blue-and-white Star of David flag droops nonchalantly on a stifling summer's day. The factory-like building beside it could easily be missed by a traveller who blinks too soon, yet the work undertaken here in the Israel Centre is far from commonplace.
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Egypt Punishes Gaza More
Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jul 27 (IPS) - Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited. "Rafah has only been opened to passengers and some medical supplies," Hatem el-Buluk, journalist and resident of Al-Arish, located some 40 kilometres west of Rafah, told IPS. "Everything else, including food and construction materials, must enter the strip via Israeli-controlled border crossings."
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