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8/18/2010
Niger Facing Growing Food Crisis
By Ousseini Issa
NIAMEY, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) - In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has been forced to scale back aid for lack of funds.
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Towards 'Deja vu All Over Again'
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) - "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Sometimes, the nonsensical quote of the legendary New York Yankees baseball catcher Yogi Berra has a real message. It can pointedly be applied to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on peace with the Palestinians.
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MEXICO: Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays
By Daniela Pastrana
MEXICO CITY, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) - In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex couples to adopt.
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INDIA: Despite Laws and Campaigns, Child Marriages Persist
By K S Harikrishnan
TAMIL NADU, India, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) - Soon after she had her second child, Rathna fell into a frenzied state and had to be brought to a hospital here in the southern Indian village of Dharmapuri. After a month-long series of tests, doctors issued their diagnosis: Rathna, they said, was suffering from a psychiatric aberration that seems to occur often among adolescent mothers.
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Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
By Silvana Silveira*
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramerica) - "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist MarÃa Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the Earth Uruguay.
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U.S. Journalist To Be Deported From Turkey
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8/17/2010
Funding Lags to Aid Pakistan's Millions of Displaced
By Megan Iacobini de Fazio
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon returned from Pakistan Monday calling the floods there the worst disaster he has ever witnessed and urging the world community to speed up assistance to the Pakistani people.
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Climate Change Debate Rises with Pakistan Floods
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) - "If this is not God's wrath, what is?" 40-year-old taxi driver Bakht Zada said of the massive floods in Pakistan that have swept away his life earnings.
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U.N. Targets "Lost Generation"
By Jennifer Leong
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) - Even as the U.N. launched the International Year of Youth last week, one of its agencies was warning of a "lost generation" of disillusioned young workers who are unable to find decent jobs.
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U.N. Decade Hopes to Push Back Encroaching Deserts
By Megan Iacobini de Fazio
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16, 2010 (IPS) - Desertification has long been recognised as a major environmental, economic and social problem for countries the world over. But despite major efforts, which started with the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNOCD) in 1977, the process of land degradation is intensifying.
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