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PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City
By Milagros Salazar
CERRO DE PASCO, Peru - An immense open-pit mine located 4380 metres above sea level is swallowing up the centre of the city of Cerro de Pasco in Peru’s central highlands, while the damages, in the form of toxic waste, spread to nearby villages.
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HEALTH-MALAYSIA: Divided Over HIV Testing
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - A raging debate over mandatory HIV screening has exposed fear and ignorance within government, despite years of awareness campaigns to eradicate prejudice against people living with the virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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ARGENTINA: Ecoclubs Draw Youngsters into Environmental Leadership
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Ecoclubs, an international social movement of teenagers and young people who work with their communities to enhance quality of life through environmentally-related initiatives, while developing their own potential for leadership and action, were born in Argentina 16 years ago and have since expanded to 30 countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Maximising the Benefits of AIDS Funding
By Rosemary Okello*
NAIROBI - Significant new investments in the fight against the AIDS pandemic could have positive impacts on broader health systems in Africa if governments handle them right.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Community Gardens Contribute to Food Security
By Stephanie Nieuwoudt
CAPE TOWN - A few years ago 66-year-old grandmother Regina Fhiceka and her family of five ate vegetables only once a week. They would survive on maize and bread the rest of the time -- the cheapest food available in the poor township of Philippi, just 15 minutes from the affluent business district of Cape Town.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate Change Threatens Livelihoods
By Pilirani Semu-Banda
LILONGWE - Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin more severely than any other river system in the world, according to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Increased floods, drought and increased levels of disease threaten lives and livelihoods all along the river’s length.
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GENDER-SOUTH AFRICA: 'A Real Man Does Provide Care'
By Kristin Palitza
MTHATHA, South Africa - Sonwabo Qathula puts on his apron and starts peeling a pile of butternuts, while a pot of rice boils on the stove next to him. The 50-year-old is preparing lunch for poor and orphaned children who attend a rural school in the Eastern Cape.
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CHILE: Best Christmas Gift - a New House, Built by New Friends
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Before the volunteers showed up at her house, Pamela Peña was nervous. She was embarrassed for others to see the poverty that her family lived in. But once the work started, she relaxed and enjoyed the unexpected Christmas present.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Peoples Claim Their Right to Cold Temperatures
Stephen Leahy interviews MARY SIMON*
QUEBEC CITY - "Terrifying" is the word that best describes the situation of a hunter who is lost on shifting ice, or of the homeowner whose house splits in two when its foundation sinks, says Canadian indigenous leader Mary Simon when asked about the effects of global warming on the Inuit people.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: African Proposal Yet to Gain Foothold
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - Africa's bid to expand carbon-trading mechanisms and create rewards for sustainable farming practices on the continent made little headway at the recently concluded climate change conference in Poznań, Poland.
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AIDS-SOUTH AFRICA: Balancing Individual Rights Against Public Health
By Mercedes Sayagues
PRETORIA - Public health and individual human rights are poor friends. What may be good for society may be bad for the individual, or the other way round. And nothing sharpens this tension as starkly as AIDS.
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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Sanitation: 'This Is the Way We Live'
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - In 1925, Mahatma Gandhi remarked that "Sanitation is more important than political independence." More than 80 years later, access to basic sanitation remains out of reach for 546 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
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COLOMBIA: New Meaning in Life for Young Shantytown Dwellers
By Mario Osava
SOACHA, Colombia - After three of Viviana’s friends were killed, and one of them dismembered, she began to think things over, and decided to join the Legión del Afecto project in Colombia, leaving six years of gang life behind her.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Building Regional Water Management
Moses Magadza interviews PHERA RAMOELI, head of the SADC water division
WINDHOEK - As southern Africa braces for the negative effects of climate change, calls for integrated water resources management become more strident.
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AGRICULTURE-SUDAN: Can Local Investors Beat Foreign Investment?
By Blake Evans-Pritchard
KHARTOUM - Sudan is hoping to use foreign cash to reinvigorate its under-performing agricultural sector, but there is growing disagreement over the extent to which outsiders, rather than local farmers, should be taking control of the industry.
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DEVELOPMENT: Investing in a Better World
By Wolfgang Kerler
UNITED NATIONS - Developing countries will be able to share best practices for development more efficiently via the newly created South-South Human Development Stock Exchange (SS-HDSX), as social entrepreneurs meet up with potential social investors on this online platform.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Indian Scientists Competent But Still at Sea
By Keya Acharya
BANGALORE - The prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc), set up here in May 1909, is celebrating its centenary with year-long lectures and seminars, some of which have revealed Indian science’s lack of coherence in dealing with climate change in India.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Another Record Year for Heat, Storms
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - A new U.N. study on climate change reveals that 2008 was one of the warmest years since 1850 when scientists started to keep weather records.
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Q&A: Failure to Translate Women’s Legal Rights into Action
Kristin Palitza interviews NOKUTHULA MAGUDULELA, executive director, Agenda Feminist Media
DURBAN - Each year, for 16 days in December, the world’s focus shifts towards taking action against gender-based violence. Governments and civil society organisations raise awareness around women’s rights and lobby for gender equality. But activists lament that little action is taken throughout the rest of the year and women’s legal rights often fail to be implemented and put to action.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Mercosur Shares Social Concerns, Diverges on Economy
By Mario Osava
COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil - Concern over the social impact of the global economic crisis dominated the discussions at the Mercosur Summit on Tuesday, but economic proposals by some presidents underscored their ideological differences.
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VENEZUELA: "Children Can’t Even Play on Their Front Stoops"
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Johana Bracamonte never had a chance to learn to read. She was just five years old the morning her uncle took her to kindergarten and they were both shot by thieves who stole his motorbike, in 23 de Enero, a shantytown on the west side of the Venezuelan capital.
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World leaders convene in New York on September 25 for a high-level event set up by U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to renovate commitments to reaching the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The meeting will also focus on concrete plans for action. Read IPS stories about the issues at stake, the coverage from the event, and more.

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	EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE RISKS OF INACTION by Yash Tandon

	CURRENT PACE TOO SLOW ON UN MILLENNIUM POVERTY GOALS by Thabo Mbeki

	UNQUENCHABLE THIRST: THE WORLD WATER BUSINESS by Riccardo Petrella

	TAILOR THE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO LOCAL CONDITIONS by Benjamin Mkapa

	MDGS AT MIDPOINT : THE MONEY IS THERE, THE POLITICAL WILL ISN'T by Kumi Naidoo

	MILLENNIUM GOALS NOT ON COURSE : TIME FOR URGENT ACTION by Mary Robinson

	GLOBALISATION: NOT A ZERO SUM GAME BUT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL by Emma Bonino

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