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Building back better
UNICEF Photo Essays - 22 Diciembre 2010 - 1:00am
26 December 2009 marks the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people.
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MALAWI: Innovative Campaigning by Women Candidates
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 2 Agosto 2010 - 9:16am
You will find Beauty Kasonda on her campaign trail at funerals, weddings, church functions or just about any local gathering in her community. Kasonda does not have the sort of funding her male counterparts have for campaigning in the country's November 2010 elections but she is not letting that stop her.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Realising Trade in Virtual Water
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 2 Agosto 2010 - 5:00am
The vegetables Omphemetse Monyi sells at the Francistown bus rank come from 400 kilometres away in South Africa. One approach to development might seek to replace her suppliers with local farmers, but Southern Africa's water managers are considering the merits of reinforcing a regional trade in "virtual water".
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JAPAN-SOUTH KOREA: 100 Years Later, Mistrust far From Gone
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 2 Agosto 2010 - 3:40am
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.
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ZIMBABWE: Badly Needed Work Begins on Bulawayo Water System
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 1 Agosto 2010 - 7:39pm
Dispersing feasting flies and angry residents from a manhole cover spewing sewage from people's homes and into the road: another day in the working life of Njabulo Siziba. It's a dirty, frustrating, thankless job as a civil engineer for Bulawayo city council, but help is at hand for Siziba and the city he serves.
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AUSTRALIA: Marine Biodiversity Threatened by Oil, Gas Exploration
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 1 Agosto 2010 - 5:55pm
In early July, whales from the world's largest population of humpbacks began arriving in the warm, subtropical waters off Australia's north-west coast to breed and nurse their young.
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MADAGASCAR: Women Form Own Political Parties for Fair Representation
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 1 Agosto 2010 - 9:26am
Brigitte Rasamoelina and Yvette Sylla are women with two different approaches to politics in Madagascar. One formed a political party, while the other decided to legalise her organisation as an association. But both women are considering running in Madagascar's November elections.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Thailand Faces Flak for Backing Mekong Dams
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 1 Agosto 2010 - 12:01am
Northern Thai villagers living on Mekong River's banks are poised to join a growing tide of opposition against a planned cascade of 11 dams to be built on the mainstream of South-east Asia's largest body of water.
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TRADE-NAMIBIA: EU Backs Off on EPA
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 31 Julio 2010 - 9:18pm
European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European civil society organisations about the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA), promising "not to put undue pressure" on countries.
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JAPAN: Rising Wages Won't Scare Investors Away from China
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 31 Julio 2010 - 4:29pm
Common business wisdom would have it that rising wages are bad news for foreign investors, but analysts here say that workers' clamour for higher pay in Japanese factories in China will not send them packing from that country anytime soon.
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U.N. Declares Water and Sanitation a Basic Human Right
Inter Press Sustainable Development - 31 Julio 2010 - 11:27am
When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) back in December 1948, 58 member states voted for a historic document covering political, economic, social and cultural rights.
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SIERRA LEONE: Defining New Role for Traditional Birth Attendants
Inter Press Sustainable Development - Hace 0 seg
Posseh Sesay will never be able to bear children again following a tragic birthing experience at the hands of her village traditional birth attendant (TBA).
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MALAYSIA: Let Information Flow, State Tells Federal Gov't
Inter Press Sustainable Development - Hace 0 seg
The freedom of information bill pending in opposition-ruled Selangor state may be just at the state level, but it throws a direct challenge to the federal government of Malaysia and its strict controls on the media.
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PAKISTAN: Life At A Time Of Suicide Bombings
Inter Press Sustainable Development - Hace 0 seg
Like any other Friday morning, hordes of people flocked at the shrine of 11th-century Sufi saint, Hazrat Ali Hajveri, that is near Bhaati Gate inside Lahore's walled city on Jul. 2. By that afternoon, a much larger crowd had gathered at the site, this time for the usual Friday prayers.
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Child's View – Education is freedom
UNICEF Photo Essays - Hace 17 min 30 sec
UNICEF held a photography workshop with 20 students in South Africa's poorest province.
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Child's View - Culture and conflict in Gaza, OPT
UNICEF Photo Essays - Hace 17 min 30 sec
Part II of II: UNICEF held a photography workshop for 16 young people in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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Child's View - Childhood in the West Bank, OPT
UNICEF Photo Essays - Hace 17 min 30 sec
Part I of II: UNICEF held a photography workshop for 16 young people in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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Mongolia: Children and the 'dzud'
UNICEF Photo Essays - Hace 17 min 30 sec
Nineteen of Mongolia's 21 provinces continue to face emergency conditions caused by heavy snow and extreme cold.
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Slack Oversight of Peru's Amazon Rainforest
Inter Press Sustainable Development - Hace 7 horas 14 min
Fifty-three percent of Peru is covered with native rainforest, but the agencies in charge of protecting and monitoring this vast area are toothless and have neither the staff nor the resources to cope with the job, according to a report from the Defensoría del Pueblo (Ombudsperson's Office).
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CAMBODIA: Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer
Inter Press Sustainable Development - Hace 12 horas 54 min
For a country plagued by a weak judiciary and where government officials have profited from a culture of impunity, Monday's verdict in the first case to try a surviving commandant of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime broke new legal ground in Cambodia.
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