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DEVELOPMENT: UNESCAP Steps in to Help Burma’s Debt-ridden Farmers
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A regional United Nations body dubbed by its critics as a "talk shop" and with limited concrete achievements to its name appears set to change that image by striking a deal with one of Asia’s recalcitrant regimes – the Burmese military government.
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MEXICO: Human Rights Defenders Under Attack, UN Warns
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Gustavo de la Rosa, head of the Ciudad Juárez office of the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission in northern Mexico, was forced to flee to El Paso, across the border in the United States, and take refuge there for nearly a month, because of death threats related to his work.
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POLITICS: U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A U.S. decision to stall Security Council action against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for war crimes during the 22-day conflict in Gaza last December has come under heavy fire both from inside and outside the United Nations.
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DR-CONGO: Rights Groups Urge U.N. to Rein in Army
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - U.N.-supported military operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have had an "unacceptable" cost for the civilian population, said a coalition of rights groups Tuesday.
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MIDEAST: Security Council Urged to Take Up Gaza War
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Pressure has been building on the U.N. Security Council to address the impact of the Gaza war on civilians in advance of its meeting Wednesday to discuss the Middle East.
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DEVELOPMENT: Meeting MDGs "Not Rocket Science"
By Andrea Bordé
UNITED NATIONS - Achieving an ambitious set of anti-poverty benchmarks will take much more financing from rich countries, Jeffrey Sachs, the special advisor to the U.N. secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), warned Monday.
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HEALTH: Study Faults Unregulated Trade in Human Organs
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A growing new market for human organs has prompted the United Nations and the Council of Europe to call for an international convention to regulate the sale of body parts, mostly kidneys and livers, in transplant surgery worldwide.
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Q&A: Invest in Young People in Latin America
Daniela Estrada interviews MARCELA SUAZO, regional director of UNFPA
SANTIAGO - To fight inequality, Latin American countries must double the financial commitment they made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Marcela Suazo, the regional director for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), told IPS.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Kyoto Protocol Is a Lifeline for Island Nations
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - "It was a little bit scary," says Dessima Williams, describing how the two weeks of United Nations climate change negotiations ended here on Oct. 9. "Our concerns need to be heard more."
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CLIMATE CHANGE: New Financial Scheme Turns Heat on Rich Nations
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A new financial mechanism to help the developing world deal with the challenges posed by climate change looms as a major hurdle on the road leading up to a United Nations summit in Copenhagen in mid-December.
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ENERGY: Crisis Has Hurt Investment in Renewables
By Emilio Godoy
LEÓN, Mexico - In Latin America, Brazil is the leader in the development of renewable energies, while nations like Mexico, Peru, Chile and Argentina are taking slow steps to change their energy mix.
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MIDEAST: U.S. Strategy in Doubt as Abbas Loses Popular Support
Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON - Just two months ago, many western commentators were jubilant that Mahmoud Abbas, the U.S.-supported head of both the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the interim Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA), was making a comeback and reducing the influence in Palestinian society of the Islamist movement Hamas.
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POLITICS: U.N. Infighting Threatens to Upstage Afghan War
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The increasingly deadly battle between Western military forces and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan is on the verge of being upstaged by a growing political brawl between two senior U.N. officials overseeing the battle-ravaged South Asian nation.
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