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Climate and Post-2015 Development Agenda Talks Share the Same Path
Diego Arguedas Ortiz
The international community’s post-2015 development agenda will depend,
in key aspects, on whether the delegates of 195 countries meeting now at
the climate summit in the Peruvian capital reach an agreement to reduce
global warming, since climate change affects all human activity.
Climate ...
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Climate Finance Flowing, But for Many, the Well Remains Dry
Desmond Brown
For more than 10 years, Mildred Crawford has been “a voice in the
wilderness” crying out on behalf of rural women in agriculture.
Crawford, 50, who grew up in the small Jamaican community of Brown’s
Hall in St. Catherine parish, was “filled with enthusiasm” when she
received an invitation from ...
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Football Stars Join ‘Africa United’ Campaign to Stop Spread of Ebola
Kwame Buist
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has joined a number of
football stars, celebrities, international health organisations and
corporations in the ‘Africa United’ global health communications
campaign aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
The campaign, which was ...
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Native Villagers in Honduras Bet on Food Security – and Win
Thelma Mejía
The town’s dynamic mayor, Sandro Martínez, assumed the commitment of
turning the Honduran municipality of Victoria into a model of food and
nutritional security and environmental protection by means of municipal
public policies based on broad social and community participation and
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U.N. Chief, Under Fire, Moves Closer to Gender Parity
Thalif Deen
When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named an international panel to
review peacekeeping operations last October, the announcement was
greeted with bitter criticism because it lacked even a semblance of
gender balance: only three out of 14 members were women.
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Ebola Overshadows Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone
Lansana Fofana
The outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone has dwarfed
the campaign against HIV/AIDS, to the extent that patients no longer go
to hospitals and treatment centres out of fear of contracting the Ebola
virus.
“It is a big challenge for us. HIV/AIDS patients now fear going to ...
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HIV Prevention is Failing Young South African Women
Nqabomzi Bikitsha
When she found out that she had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),
Thabisile Mkhize (not her real name) was scared.
She knew little about the virus that had been living in her body since
birth and did not know whom to ask. Her mother had just died and she
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Illegal Logging Wreaking Havoc on Impoverished Rural Communities
Catherine Wilson
Rampant unsustainable logging in the southwest Pacific Island states of
Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, where the majority of land is
covered in tropical rainforest, is worsening hardship, human insecurity
and conflict in rural communities.
Paul Pavol, a customary landowner in Pomio ...
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Athens Sit-in Highlights Catch-22 for Refugees
Apostolis Fotiadis
A sit-in protest by Syrian refugees on Syntagma Square opposite the
Greek parliament in the heart of Athens has turned into a demonstration
of the stalemate faced by both Greek as well as European immigration
policy.
About three hundred men, women and children have been on the same spot
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Friday, December 5, 2014
The Week with IPS 12/5
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