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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BOTSWANA-POLITICS: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
By Vusumuzi Sifile
GABORONE - When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
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Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
By Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews NOELEEN HEYZER, U.N. under-secretary general and head of UNESCAP
BANGKOK - Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
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CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
By Raúl Pierri
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.
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ENERGY-TANZANIA: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
By Jessie Boylan
DAR ES SALAAM - The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.
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AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
By Susan Anyangu
KAMPALA - The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
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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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ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
By Valentina Martínez Valdés*
MÉRIDA, Mexico - The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska.
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Q&A: Impact of Crisis in Latin America Less Severe than in the Past
By Darío Montero interviews MARTÍN HOPENHAYN, ECLAC's social development director
GUATEMALA CITY - Thanks to effective social policies and measures that have strengthened the economy, most of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have managed to weather the impact of the global recession, although poverty has risen slightly for the first time since 2002.
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