News headlines in December 2010, page 5

  1. INDIA: Life Term for Activist a Setback for Human Rights

    - Inter Press Service

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    The life sentence served on Dr Binayak Sen on charges of helping Maoist rebels in eastern India has rattled people and organisations fighting to strengthen human rights in a country that prides itself on being the world’s biggest democracy.

  2. PERU: Decades On, Women Remain Last in Line for Justice

    - Inter Press Service

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    Investigations of the raping of women in the 1980s during Peru's counterinsurgency war have ground to a halt, even though the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission filed the respective complaints in 2004. Not one sentence has been handed down for the soldiers alleged to have committed the rapes, while more victims come forward.

  3. BALKANS: Political Pieces Assemble a Teenager

    - Inter Press Service

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    Mila looks like the thousands of teenage girls who visit the newly-opened, glamorous shopping mall in downtown Sarajevo. She’s discreetly dressed in black trousers and jacket, with carefully manicured fingernails. The 19-year- old’s name means 'sweet' or 'kind'. The name is in harmony with her enchanting smile.

  4. BIODIVERSITY: Sealed With a Comeback

    - Inter Press Service

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    After 50 years of near absence, grey seals are coming back to Polish coast of Baltic Sea. Not everyone is happy about it.

  5. PAKISTAN: Scientists Turn Sights on Childhood Meningitis

    - Inter Press Service

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    She is already eight months old, but Aiman Azam can neither sit up nor clutch anything with her tiny hands. She cannot even hold her neck up or roll on her back. All she does is moan.

  6. AGRICULTURE: Desperation Over Subsidies

    - Inter Press Service

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    As the rains start to fall in Malawi, marking the beginning of the growing season, government is continuing to implement the fertiliser and seed subsidy programme which has since made the country a bread basket in the Southern African Development Community, SADC.

  7. BANGLADESH: Solar Advocates See A Sunshine Nation

    - Inter Press Service

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    Good news may sometimes be hard to come by in this South Asian country, but for solar power advocates here, Bangladesh has been a sunshine nation for the last few years.

  8. SOUTH AMERICA: Rain May Disappear from the World's Breadbasket

    - Inter Press Service

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    South America still has vast extensions of land available for growing crops to help meet the global demand for food and biofuels. But the areas of greatest potential agricultural production -- central-southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Paraguay -- could be left without the necessary rains.

  9. WIKILEAKS: Africa Offers Easy Uranium

    - Inter Press Service

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    Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents.

  10. MIDEAST: Nazi-Like Jews to the Fore

    - Inter Press Service

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    Emotions are running high in this working class town on the Mediterranean adjacent to Tel Aviv, the Israeli metropolis that has long been the symbol of liberal laissez-faire Israel. Principally, anti-Arab emotions: Racism is on the march.

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