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3/10/2010
Middle East Women Ahead But Not Home
Sanjay Suri- IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS) - Male leaders fail to break the Mideast impasse. Enter women from Israel and the Palestinian territories working together. And… it would have been nice to say they succeeded where the men failed. They didn't. The women have been ahead of the times, in speaking of solutions others thought unmentionable once, but now increasingly accept. And yet, peace seems more difficult than ever.
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"Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change
Thalif Deen - IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS) - The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. In the 1991 cyclone disasters that killed 140,000 in Bangladesh, 90 percent of victims were reportedly women; in the 2004 Asian Tsunami, an estimated 70 to 80 percent of overall deaths were women.
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Fewer Jobs, Less Money, Same Old Story
Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS) - "What do I get from them? Nothing but bullsh*t," says Nupur Acharya, reflecting about how she is treated by her husband and two grown sons on daily basis. The 50-year-old Indian national who is currently settled in New York says she not only cleans the entire house every day, but also works in the kitchen from morning to evening, which makes her feel more like an unpaid maid than a respected wife and mother.
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Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists
Stephen Leahy - Tierramerica
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9 (IPS) - Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the U.S. government against global warming, experts warn. U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change denier, in late February released a list of leading climate scientists he wants prosecuted as criminals for misleading the government. Those scientists are receiving hate mail and death threats.
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Israeli Left Emerges From Coma Amid Atrocities
Mel Frykberg
SHEIKH JARRAH, Occupied East Jerusalem, Mar 9 (IPS) - Amid the wave of violence that swept through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over the last few days, there are signs that the Israeli left may be emerging from its collective coma. On Saturday night over 3,000 Palestinian, Israeli and foreign peace activists, waving Palestinian flags and shouting "Free Sheikh Jarrah", gathered in the East Jerusalem suburb in support of Palestinians threatened with home demolitions and evictions.
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Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities
Gonzalo Ortiz
QUITO, Mar 9 (IPS) - Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution.
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Newsbriefs
Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentary Group, Win UN Population Award
U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Web Services
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3/9/2010
Burmese Rape Survivors Speak Out
Sabina Zaccaro - IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (IPS) - "Seven Burmese military soldiers attacked me and three of my friends," said Chang Chang, from the northern Kachin State of Burma. That was when her life going to school and working on the family farm was shattered.
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Q&A: Qualified Women Have Better Chance in Top Jobs
Thalif Deen interviews UNESCO Director-General IRINA BOKOVA* - IPS/Terraviva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (IPS) - Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time when the world body has placed a high priority on gender empowerment.
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This Eerie Economic Calm
Sanjay Suri and Marguerite A. Suozzi
NEW YORK, Mar 8 (IPS) - The problem now, almost, is to find a way to relive the peak of that economic crisis of September 2008. The current move back to business of old - on the face of it anyhow - could well turn out to be a longer-running difficulty than the crisis it supposedly left behind. A difficulty far greater for women than for men.
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MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
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SINGAPORE: As Casino Opens, Watch for Its Social Impact Begins
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POLITICS: U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Web Services
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FINANCE: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a "Dismal" Failure
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RIGHTS: "Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change
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ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
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NAMIBIA: Female Hip-Hop Artists Challenge Stereotypes
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ECUADOR: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities
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PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
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ENVIRONMENT: Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists
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HAITI: The Camp That Vanished
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RIGHTS: Middle East Women Ahead But Not Home
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MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land
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RIGHTS: Fewer Jobs, Less Money, Same Old Story
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CAMBODIA: Rape Victims Need Better Protection from New Penal Code
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