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8/9/2010
Bring Water Into Climate Change Negotiations
IPS Correspondents
BONN, Aug 8 (IPS) - Longer periods of drought, decreased river flow, higher rainfall variability and lower soil moisture content: water is at the heart of the impacts of climate change. Yet the precious commodity scarcely features in climate negotiations. Three hundred million Africans lack access to clean water; 500 million lack access to proper sanitation, according to Bai-Mass Taal, Executive Secretary from the African Ministers' Council on Water.
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In Lebanon, Racism Legitimised by Law
Mona Alami
BEIRUT, Aug 8 (IPS) - Lebanon has a reputation for openness because of the relative freedom enjoyed by women in comparison to other Middle Eastern countries. But many women face rampant discrimination. Women driving luxury vehicles with an Asian or African woman relegated to the back seat is a common sight around Beirut. Most domestic workers come from places like the Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia.
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Walking in the Shoes of a Muslim in New York
Hannah Rubenstein
NEW YORK, Aug 8 (IPS) - A woman waits on a subway platform, head bowed, pretending to ignore the insults. Perched on bar stools, a group of friends listen to racist jokes, suppressing giggles. Kneeling, a young war veteran tells his fiancée of his decision to return to combat. Two men wait expectantly at a job interview. An old man and a young graffiti artist sit together on a bench, discussing the power of language.
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Dismal Human Rights Record Has Not Dented Uribe's Popularity
Constanza Vieira and Helda Martinez
BOGOTA, Aug 8 (IPS) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ends his second consecutive term Saturday with 75 percent approval ratings and strong international support reflected by his designation this week as vice chair of a United Nations-appointed international panel to investigate Israel's attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza in May. "Firm hand, big heart" was his campaign slogan when he was first swept to power in 2002 on a pledge to step up the war against the FARC guerrillas.
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UNFPA-IIED Study Warns of Failure to Plan for Rapid Urbanization in Developing Nations
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8/6/2010
Iran Benefits from Arab Disillusion with Obama
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama has suffered a sharp drop in popularity in the Arab world over the past year, and Iran may be reaping the benefits, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries released here Thursday.
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Few Governments Answer U.N. Queries on Peacekeeper Scandals
Genevieve Marie Ilg
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 5 (IPS) - As the U.N. investigates new allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, most troop contributing countries continue to evade accounting for how they handle disciplinary actions. A senior U.N. official who asked for anonymity told IPS, "Although there have been statistical reductions in the number of allegations, sexual abuse involving peacekeepers is still rampant, despite pronouncements that they have been curbed."
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Laos Takes Centre Stage in Cluster Bombs Treaty
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Aug 5 (IPS) - After being relegated to the shadows for decades by its more powerful neighbours, Laos is finally taking the lead role in a global campaign to ban the use of cluster bombs. It is a role that the poverty-stricken South-east Asian nation of 6.3 million people easily qualifies for. After all, it is the country most affected by the deadly payload it has borne since the U.S. military intervention in the region nearly four decades ago.
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Resounding Yes to Kenya's New Constitution
Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI, Aug 5 (IPS) - Jubilant supporters say it is a new dawn for Kenya. Sixty-seven percent of votes cast endorsed a new constitution more than two decades after reform was first raised. Speaking to IPS soon after the results were announced, Senior Counsel Paul Muite, a former member of parliament, expressed joy at the victory, equating it to the jubilation experienced when Kenya attained independence in 1963.
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Q&A: "Incomprehensible" Absence of Women in Global Environment Policy
Julio Godoy interviews WEDO activist SANDRA AKPENE FREITAS
BONN, Aug 5 (IPS) - There is a vacuum in the various texts that currently regulate global policy against climate change: specific mention of the effects of global warming on women and of the role women can play in protecting the environment. That glaring gap, as well as the failure to refer to the impact on human health, was highlighted by activists during the third round of United Nations climate change negotiations in Bonn this week, designed to prepare for the Nov. 29-Dec. 10 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
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