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8/6/2010
In Colombia, a Cemetery Full of Questions
Constanza Vieira
LA MACARENA, Colombia, Aug 6 (IPS) - The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure. They showed up in 2003, protected by the police. But local residents armed with sticks and shotguns caught them and turned them over to the prosecutor general's office, which threw them in jail.
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Job Losses from Climate Change Action
In Argentina, the Gender Roots of Labour Inequality
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8/5/2010
IRAQ: 'We're Not Living, Just Not Dying.'
Jake Hess
SULEYMANIYA, Iraq, Aug 4 (IPS) - Compared to most internally displaced Kurds in northern Iraq, Shamal Qadir is almost lucky. Since the Turkish army devastated his village, Kuzine, in a bombing raid Jul. 1, he's been living in a schoolhouse, where room temperatures are comfortable and basic amenities are accessible.
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Ecuador Signs Deal Not to Drill in Amazon Nature Reserve
Gonzalo Ortiz
QUITO, Aug 4 (IPS) - "The trust fund that we have just established is historic, not only for Ecuador but for the entire world," said Rebeca Grynspan, associate administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), after signing an agreement with the government of Rafael Correa to leave 846 million barrels of oil under the ground in a pristine Amazon jungle wildlife reserve.
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Pakistan's Flood Disaster Means Starting from Zero
Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Aug 4 (IPS) - "We swam the whole day to get hold of the elderly and women swept away by floodwaters," recalled 27-year-old Shahid Ali of Charsadda district, one of the areas in north-western Pakistan badly hit by devastating monsoon rains. "We - five local swimmers - saved eighteen persons, including eight women and six children," he said, relating just one of many stories of how communities are desperately trying to cope with one of Pakistan's worst natural disasters in recent memory.
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Social Fallout of Atomic Bombings Hounds Survivors
Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO, Aug 4 (IPS) - With her knees shaking and her heart thudding, Toshiko Hamamako rose to address the audience. But it was more than stage fright. Hamamako was just an infant when the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, some 700 kilometres west of Tokyo on Aug. 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later, in order to end the Japanese aggression and the Pacific War. Today, more than 60 years later, she is finally speaking out in public about her life of suffering.
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QA: "The World Needs a New Social Contract"
Clarinha Glock interviews Argentine Nobel Peace Prize-winner ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL
BARCELONA, Spain, Aug 4 (IPS) - "We have to start thinking about a new social contract on a planetary scale, but also within each country," says Argentine activist and scholar Adolfo Perez Esquivel. At the age of 78, Perez Esquivel, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980, continues to work actively for peace and in the defence of human rights. He is one of the driving forces behind the movement to create an International Court of the Environment, based on the principle that ecological disasters are a crime against humanity.
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Poisonous Pesticides on the Doorstep
Emilio Godoy
IZUCAR DE MATAMOROS, Mexico, Aug 4 (IPS) - "People want to get rid of the factory. It has to go. There's already been an accident," a taxi driver said on the drive to the pesticide plant belonging to the Agricultura Nacional company in this southern Mexican city. On the night of Mar. 24, life changed for the 70,000 people of this municipality in Puebla state, about 200 kilometres south of the Mexican capital.
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Newsbriefs
Zambia's Election Violence Could Mean Fewer Women Participants
Ukraine Punished for Fighting AIDS
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8/4/2010
Trade Talks with EU Put Drug Manufacturers on Edge
Keya Acharya
NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (IPS) - Their ongoing negotiations remain shrouded in secrecy, but there are already reports that India and the European Union (EU) will have a free-trade agreement ready by the end of August, and that they will be putting signatures to it before the end of 2010.
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