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8/3/2010
Women's Votes in Brazil Hard to Pin Down but Crucial
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 2 (IPS) - Female voters in Brazil could ensure an easy victory this October for the ruling Workers Party candidate, Dilma Rousseff. But recent polls seem to indicate that it is women themselves who are most reluctant to elect the country's first female president. Jacira Melo, executive director of the Patricia Galvão Institute, a Brazilian women's rights organisation, told IPS that women voters "are waiting until they have more information" about the candidate and the policies she plans to pursue before they decide who to vote for.
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Developing More Top African Women Research Scientists
Isaiah Esipisu
NAIROBI, Aug 2 (IPS) - In a tiny village near Kisumu city in Kenya, scientific researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga spends most of her time educating women about something they have always done - grow sweet potatoes.
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Austerity Fatigue sends IMF Home
Cuban Government Set to Cut Inflated Payrolls
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8/2/2010
As Sanctions Rise, China Steps Deeper Into Iran
Analysis by Antoaneta Becker
LONDON, Aug 1 (IPS) - The European Union's new sanctions against Iran appear to open a new space for eager Chinese companies to expand their investments in a country viewed as a rogue player by much of the western world. With China recently coming to light as Iran's largest trade partner, some Chinese analysts predict a wealth of new geopolitical and business opportunities with Iran. But officialdom may still waver at the idea of Beijing seen as a "free-rider".
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JAPAN-SOUTH KOREA: 100 Years Later, Mistrust far From Gone
Analysis by Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO, Aug 1 (IPS) - Economies ties between Japan and South Korea are becoming stronger by the day, and the neighbouring countries have also been collaborating more frequently on the cultural front. But as the 100th anniversary of Japan's Aug. 29, 1910 formal annexation of the Korean peninsula nears, it has become clear that mistrust remains deep between the two nations that share a bitter history.
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Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Into Force
Esther Banales
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 1 (IPS) - Thirty-eight countries will start observing the Convention on Cluster Munitions this Sunday, Aug. 1, after a rapid entry into force since the treaty was announced two years ago in Oslo. "This new instrument is a major advance for the global disarmament and humanitarian agendas, and will help us to counter the widespread insecurity and suffering caused by these terrible weapons, particularly among civilians and children," noted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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Temple Row Sours Thai-Cambodian Ties - Again
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Aug 1 (IPS) - Thailand's tempestuous relationship with its eastern neighbour Cambodia looks set to worsen, fuelled by the latest round of anger over the future of a 10th- century Hindu temple perched atop a steep cliff along the two countries' border. By Friday, Bangkok and Phnom Penh were both claiming victory following a decision by the U.N.-backed World Heritage Committee (WHC) to postpone till next year a decision about a management plan for the temple, a world heritage site listed by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
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COLOMBIA: Report Suggests "Correlation" between U.S. Aid and Army Killings
Helda Martinez
BOGOTA, Aug 1 (IPS) - "There are alarming links between increased reports of extrajudicial executions of civilians by the Colombian army and units that receive U.S. military financing," John Lindsay-Poland, lead author of a two-year study on the question, told IPS. Lindsay-Poland is Research and Advocacy Director for the U.S.-based Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), which presented a new report, "Military Assistance and Human Rights: Colombia, U.S. Accountability, and Global Implications", in Bogota Thursday.
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Doable Fast-Track Indicators For Turning the 1325 Promise into Reality
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury*
[Launched at the working meeting on 1325 on 27 July 2010 at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC]
WASHINGTON DC-- The credibility of the United Nations rests in a major way on its ability and capacity to get the decisions of the Security Council implemented in letter and spirit. When in March 2000, the Security Council expressed for the first time in its history of 55 years its conceptual acceptance that peace is inextricably linked with equality between women and men and affirmed that the equal access and full participation of women in power structures and their full involvement in all efforts for peace and security, the international community was charged with expectation.
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Newsbriefs
Ocean Losing Its Green
Race to Achieve Sanitation Goals
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