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PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
By Milagros Salazar
PAUCARÁ, Peru - As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.
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POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make "a final push" to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 2015.
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HAITI: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops
By Ansel Herz
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok" sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.
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DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still Suffering
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The international community, which has been hit by a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children worldwide.
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DEVELOPMENT: UNFPA Puts Human Face on Climate Blowback
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A new U.N. report on the hazards of climate change brings a fresh human perspective to an ongoing wide-ranging debate that has focused primarily on energy efficiency and industrial carbon emissions.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Fear Going the Way of Atlantis
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The world's small island states, most of which are painfully vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, have put the United Nations on notice.
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MIDEAST: Gazans Brace for Cold, Bleak and Miserable Winter
By Mel Frykberg
EZBT ABBED RABBO - Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.
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RIGHTS-TURKEY: Transforming Men from Culprits to Allies
By Hilmi Toros
ISTANBUL - Success in fighting violence against women may well hinge on partnership with an often overlooked but still a critically vital party - men themselves.
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GENDER: "Truly Exciting If the U.S. Could Ratify CEDAW" - Part 2
Miren Gutierrez* interviews INÉS ALBERDI, executive director of UNIFEM
ROME - CEDAW or the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979.
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GENDER: Laws, Budgets and Pigeonholes - Part 1
Miren Gutierrez* interviews INÉS ALBERDI, executive director of UNIFEM
ROME - The fight for women's rights came about hand in hand with the struggle for democracy, civil rights and national liberation in different countries and periods, says Inés Alberdi, executive director of UNIFEM.
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RIGHTS: U.S., Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - When the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) commemorates the 20th anniversary of its landmark international treaty protecting the rights of children next week, there will be two countries skipping the celebrations: the United States and Somalia.
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Q&A: Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools
Suzanne Hoeksema interviews AKINYI M. OCHOLLA, Chair of Minority Women in Action
UNITED NATIONS - With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
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Q&A: No 'One-Size-Fits-All' for Surging South-South Cooperation
Thalif Deen interviews SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, Secretary-General of UNCTAD
UNITED NATIONS - A major international conference on South-South cooperation is scheduled to take place early December in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi against the backdrop of a rising trend in regional economic integration in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
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