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2/9/2010
Climate Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 8 (IPS) - As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) subscribes to the Emanuel philosophy that crises always "offer a window of opportunity to embark on a path of more resilient and sustainable economic growth."
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Sanctions Are the Talk of the Day
Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (IPS) - If there were any doubts about what exactly U.S. President Barack Obama meant when he warned Iran of "growing consequences" during his State of the Union address last month, they seem to be dispelled by recent statements from top administration officials, who are beating the sanctions drum loud and clear.
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Rural Thailand Simmers with Anti-Government Rage
Marwaan Macan-Markar
SRANG KHOM, Thailand, Feb 8 (IPS) - Meal by meal, a political feast is being laid out under the night sky to nourish a wave of anti-government protests rapidly spreading across this rural heartland. The diners come dressed in their signature red shirts. This rice-growing town was the latest to join the bandwagon of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), a protest movement with strong links to the ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LOVIN, Swedish fisheries policy activist
BRUSSELS, Feb 8 (IPS) - The perilous state of the world's fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lovin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book 'Tyst hav' (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
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Ukraine Back Full Circle
Analysis by Zoltan Dujisin
BUDAPEST, Feb 8 (IPS) - The 2004 'Orange revolution' saw a pro-Western leadership emerge victorious in a Presidential vote that opposed them to a pro-Russian candidate accused of vote rigging. After six years of political and economic chaos, the once villain Viktor Yanukovich has reclaimed the President's post.
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Costa Rica's Chinchilla to Join Club of Women Presidents
Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSE, Feb 8 (IPS) - Laura Chinchilla of the governing National Liberation Party (PLN) will be the first female president of Costa Rica and the ninth in the history of Latin America. Chinchilla, who won a landslide victory in Sunday's elections in this Central American country, thus follows in the footsteps of former President Isabel Peron (1974-1976) and current President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro (1990-1997) in Nicaragua, Mireya Moscoso (1999-2004) in Panama and President Michelle Bachelet of Chile, whose term began in 2006 and ends Mar. 11.
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Newsbriefs
Bahrain Urged to Stop Torture of Detainees
Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
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2/8/2010
Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Mediators' Plan
Gareth Porter
KABUL, Feb 7 (IPS) - If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a "road map" to a political settlement drawn up by a group of ex-Taliban officials who have been serving as intermediaries between the two sides.
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South-South Cooperation Key to MDGs
IPS Correspondents
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7 (IPS) - Member states meeting here Thursday called for the immediate implementation of development commitments made during the Nairobi high-level U.N. conference on cooperation between developing countries.
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Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Feb 7 (IPS) - If medals are being given out for backbreaking labour on miserable wages and impossible working conditions, thousands of migrant workers, slaving to complete stadia and other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, will be the champions. "This is another example of a large and invisible workforce, drawn from the rural hinterland being exploited to show progress and ramp up the claimed eight percent growth rate,'' said Dunu Roy, a well-know urban planner and activist.
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INDIA: Lay-offs from Recession-hit Gulf Lead to New Lives at Home
GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
US-IRAN: Sanctions Are the Talk of the Day
RIGHTS: Group Urges Bahrain to Stop Torture of Detainees
DEVELOPMENT: Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD
COSTA RICA: Chinchilla to Join Club of Women Presidents
UKRAINE: Back Full Circle
BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
MUSIC-BRAZIL: 'Enchanted' Guitars for Social Change
Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
POLITICS: Rural Thailand Simmers with Anti-gov’t Rage
SRI LANKA: The Post-Election Road Ahead for President Rajapaksa
EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
PAKISTAN: Community Midwives Gain Recognition But Concerns Remain
PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets
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