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7/21/2010
Canada Slowing Biodiversity Protocol's Progress
Beatrice Paez
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 20 (IPS) - The spirit of international negotiations in Montreal on a draft protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) of natural resources were marred by Canada's insistence on a decentralised approach to ABS, Peigi Wilson, a Métis lawyer present at the meeting in support of the Quebec Native Women, told IPS. "I got the distinct sense that Canada was throwing objections to slow the negotiations," Wilson, a former U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) official, added.
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Fear Campaign Reported Ahead of Referendum
Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - With less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Sudan's security services in "carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture, and mental and physical intimidation" against opponents of the government.
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Women Vital in Global Fight Against AIDS
Mehru Jaffer
VIENNA, Jul 20 (IPS) - Empowering women could more effectively help in curbing the spread of HIV, Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and philanthropist said at the AIDS conference here. Speaking to reporters at the 18th International AIDS conference, he cited the example of Avahan, a national HIV prevention programme in India supported by the Gates Foundation co-founded by him. The active participation of women, he said, has worked successfully in slowing the spread of the virus among India's high risk population.
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BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico's Food Chain
Dahr Jamail* - IPS/IFEJ
NEW ORLEANS, United States, Jul 20 (IPS) - Shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico grow with drops of petroleum inside them, coyotes eat oil-soaked birds, and sharks suffocate when the oil coats their gills. Oil droplets have been found beneath the shells of tiny post-larval blue crabs drifting into Mississippi coastal marshes from offshore waters, says Harriet Perry, director of the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
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HIV Strain Among Gays Same as Strain in Heterosexuals
Isaiah Esipisu
NAIROBI, Jul 20 (IPS) - Because of societal pressure and the criminality associated with men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kenya, Omondi Maina* married a woman. This is despite being involved in a homosexual relationship for the last 10 years. And Maina is not the only gay man in Kenya having sexual intercourse with both a homosexual man and heterosexual woman.
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Sustainable Aquaculture Picks Up Steam
Risk of Exotic Pets Morphing into Invasive Pests
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7/20/2010
Israel's Next War Could Be Lebanon
Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - While speculation over a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities intensifies, at least one influential analyst here is calling on Washington to focus more on the likelihood of a new war breaking out between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and how to prevent or contain it.
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U.N.'s Big Five Facilitate Arms Transfers to Rights Violators
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - The five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - are accused of facilitating the transport of conventional weapons and cluster munitions to countries where they could be used to commit human rights violations and war crimes. The pointed accusations come from the London-based Amnesty International (AI) which singles out recent arms shipments by transport companies and airlines registered in the five nations.
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Burma's Nuke Ambitions to Come under Scrutiny
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jul 19 (IPS) - When South-east Asian foreign ministers gather in Hanoi this week for a series of annual security meetings, the region's most troublesome member, military- ruled Burma, is due to come under scrutiny over reports of its nuclear ambitions. Alarm bells have been going off in South-east Asian capitals since the early June expose by the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), an Oslo-based broadcasting station run by Burmese journalists in exile that reported that the Burmese junta intends to build nuclear weapons facilities.
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Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme
Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons programme, according to a former CIA officer. Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism official, told IPS that his sources are CIA officials with direct knowledge of the entire Amiri operation.
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