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RIGHTS: Women's Groups Push for Gender-Sensitive Budgets
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As women's groups and political activists intensify their global campaign for gender empowerment, there is a growing trend towards "gender budgeting" both among developed and developing nations.
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Q&A: Can Save the MDGs Yet
Interview with Glenys Kinnock, Member of the European Parliament
BRUSSELS - White banners were draped across public buildings in much of Europe during 2005 as an unlikely coalition of celebrities, church groups and trade unionists took part in the Make Poverty History campaign. The Group of Eight (G8) top industrialised countries and the European Union responded by promising to double their aid to Africa by 2010 at a summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.
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TRANSPORT: Major Hurdle for IBSA Initiative
By Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
NEW DELHI - As the foreign ministers of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) met in Cape Town on Monday, to take forward a unique initiative in South-South economic cooperation, a gathering of hard-nosed corporate captains from the three countries discussed the absence of adequate transportation facilities among the ‘IBSA’ members.
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ENVIRONMENT: Only the Cover Is Green
By Julio Godoy
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AUSTRALIA: Diffident on UN Grant of Larger Continental Shelf
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - While last month’s landmark ruling by a United Nations body granting Australia jurisdiction over an additional 2.5 million square kilometres of seabed has been hailed as a "potential bonanza", a leading expert on international law expects the government to proceed with caution.
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DEVELOPMENT: Sweden, Ireland, Britain Lead in Aiding Africa
By Emad Mekay
WASHINGTON - Sweden, Ireland and Britain top an index of 21 rich countries that ranks their commitment to help develop African nations. The United States, the world's largest economy, was a distant thirteenth, while Japan remains the least committed to the continent among rich nations.
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RIGHTS-US: School Recruiting Could Violate Int'l Protocol
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Pressed by the demands of the "global war on terrorism", the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practices target children as young as 11 years old.
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POLITICS: 1968 and the Birth of Diversity
Analysis by Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - The year 1968 has become a symbol, but not necessarily one that is easy to sum up. High-profile violent events involving multitudes of people marked it as revolutionary, but it is hard to define the nature of that revolution. Endless enigmas and controversies still surround it.
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Q&A: Child Soldiering Driven by "Unequal Power Equation"
Interview with Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne, head of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
UNITED NATIONS - The growing phenomenon of child soldiers -- long prevalent in African countries such as Uganda, Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo -- is also taking root in Asia, specifically in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma (Myanmar) and the Philippines.
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BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit Areas
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.
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DEVELOPMENT: Can Sorghum Solve the Biofuels Dilemma?
By Stephen Leahy
KORCULA, Croatia - A new crop that provides food, animal feed and fuel at the same time promises to help developing countries redirect money spent on oil imports to benefit their own farmers. Is sweet sorghum biofuel's "holy grail"?
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CHINA: Temblor - Test of Openness
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in south-western China continues to climb, the disaster is proving a credibility test for the government, whose mandate is derived from maintaining stability and social order and providing for the welfare of people.
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TRADE: Doha Talks Sweating Over Tropical Products
By Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA - The hot potato these days in the Doha Round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations is tropical products, a burning issue for the world’s poorest countries.
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