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INDIA: Delivers Diplomatic Ultimatum to Pakistan
By Indranil Banerjie
NEW DELHI - India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Monday that his government has delivered a dossier to Pakistan containing evidence of the involvement of Pakistanis in the Mumbai massacre -- an act that strategic experts say amounts to an ultimatum to bring the perpetrators to Indian justice.
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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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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Prisoner Repatriations Bring Hope
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - As the New Year dawns, the repatriation by India of 66 Pakistan nationals brings hope for hundreds of Pakistanis and Indians incarcerated in prisons across each other’s countries -- and for peace between the South Asian neighbours.
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RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: 'Prison-like' Immigration Facility Open
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - Refugee rights organisations have criticised the Rudd government’s decision to hold suspected asylum seekers in a controversial detention centre on an isolated Australian island in the Indian Ocean.
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AIDS-LATIN AMERICA: Neglect, Ageism Put Older People at Risk
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - AIDS prevention campaigns tend to target the young, who make up a large percentage of those infected with the disease. But experts in Latin America say that people in older age ranges with an increasingly active sex life are being neglected, and are at risk because of lack of information.
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LABOUR-PHILIPPINES: Bleak New Year For Migrant Workers
By Prime Sarmiento
MANILA - Diovie Arcilla is happy to be home for Christmas. This Singapore-based computer programmer values being with her family and friends in the holiday season. But news that some of her colleagues have been retrenched is making Arcilla anxious.
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RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'
By IPS Correspondents
COLOMBO - The eight rows of pews at St. Fatima’s church in Colombo were mostly empty despite the festive look from Christmas decorations.
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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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CUBA: Close Encounter with a Hurricane
By Dalia Acosta
BANES, Cuba - Coffee was ready, documents and files had been removed to a safe place, communications equipment was switched off and the optical system was secured. With nothing left to do but wait, Cuban lighthouse keeper Miguel Chacón climbed the 218 stairs to the tower of the Cape Lucrecia lighthouse and looked out to sea.
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EUROPE: Swap Aid for Fewer Migrants, the French Way
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Should the amount of aid that African countries receive from Europe be linked to their efforts to prevent their nationals moving to this continent?
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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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Q&A: ''The One Goal is to End Homelessness''
Stephen de Tarczynski interviews Mel Young, president of the Homeless World Cup
MELBOURNE - The week-long Homeless World Cup football competition came to a dramatic climax here on Dec.7, with Afghanistan and Zambia, respectively, winning the men’s and women’s competitions in what was the sixth edition of the annual tournament. But while the competition provides players with the opportunity to represent their country and gives spectators a chance to appreciate some exhilarating street soccer, the Homeless World Cup’s president and co-founder, Mel Young, told IPS that ending homelessness is the real goal.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: 'Maoists Slow to Return Seized Property'
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Tej Bahadur Roila, a member of the Nepal army, is unable to return to his home in the Khotang district of Eastern Nepal because his property, seized by Maoist rebels in the middle of the decade-long civil war they waged against the monarchy, has not been returned.
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EUROPE-RIGHTS: Starving Because They Cannot Settle
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - Fifteen migrants woke up Friday to the 25th day of their hunger strike in Crete's second largest municipality Hania. They all have been living and working in Hania for a long time.
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SRI LANKA: No Calm After the Storm
By IPS Correspondents
COLOMBO - The only good thing about tropical storm ‘Nisha’, that lashed northern Sri Lanka in the last week of November, was that it brought a lull to the fierce fighting between Tamil separatist rebels and the Sri Lankan army.
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The world's population is growing at a pace of some 76 million people per year (UNFPA), and problems are growing with it. The ever-increasing demand on the earth's finite natural resources makes it difficult for many to live even at subsistence levels. In the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) the population is expected to triple by 2050. The world's population is also changing as a result of ageing, high mortality rates from HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases, refugee movements and migration. According to UN-Habitat, the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements, one-third of the globe's urban dwellers live in slums or are homeless. Women and minority groups such as indigenous peoples, among others, face marginalisation and discrimination. Family planning and the promotion of sexual and reproductive health have never been more important in rendering local, regional and national population strategies effective.

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