Global IssuesClimate Change: Health at Risk
Friday, November 20, 2009
The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
Botswana-Politics: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
Friday, November 20, 2009
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.
Climate Change: The Danish Example
Friday, November 20, 2009
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.
Climate Change-Mexico: A Policy of Pretence
Friday, November 20, 2009
Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
Biodiversity: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
Friday, November 20, 2009
Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Rights-Laos: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
Friday, November 20, 2009
Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
Cambodia: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
Friday, November 20, 2009
Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.
Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
Friday, November 20, 2009
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.
Climate Change-Thailand: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
Energy-Tanzania: Charcoal A Dirty Trade-Off
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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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