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POLITICS: U.N. Body Backs War Crimes Charges on Israel, Hamas
- Inter Press Service
The 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) approved a resolution Friday endorsing war crimes charges against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as spelled out in a report by a four-member international fact-finding mission headed by Justice Richard Goldstone.
AFRICA: Deal with Guinea Raises Questions About Chinese Role
- Inter Press Service
Reports of a large infrastructure and minerals agreement between Guinea and Chinese investors this week have turned a harsh spotlight on the human rights and geopolitical stakes of the scramble for Africa's natural wealth.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Tech Sector Urged to Lead Green Economy
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the information and communications technology (ICT) community to help seal the deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Unity Govt In Chaos
- Inter Press Service
Zimbabwe's eight-month-old inclusive government suffered its biggest setback to date, when Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced that his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) was partly disengaging from the government.
ECONOMY-CUBA: Cutting Subsidies to Balance the Budget
- Inter Press Service
Cuban President Raúl Castro is willing to risk unpopular measures to free the state from its excessive burden of subsidies and for-free services, as part of a programme to adjust public expenditure to shrunken government revenues and balance the budget.
Q&A: Climate Change Just One Factor in Coastal Erosion
- Inter Press Service
The Paraná River delta in eastern Argentina is the only one in the world that is not disappearing, and that is due to deforestation for cultivating soybeans, explains geologist Jorge Codignotto, a former member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in this interview.
AFRICA: 'Grasp the Benefits of Trade with BRIC Emerging Markets'
- Inter Press Service
While economists at a prominent South African bank are excited about burgeoning investment by Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) in Africa, they are vague on the question of the extent to which it will benefit the majority of Africans. Ensuring this, they believe, is the responsibility of African states themselves.
ENVIRONMENT: India’s Floods in Retrospect
- Inter Press Service
'For almost one full day, we were desperate, wet and hungry,' said Raja Angamutthu. 'Our house, farmland, utensils, everything was floating in a watery grave while we looked on helplessly!'
DEVELOPMENT: UNESCAP Steps in to Help Burma’s Debt-ridden Farmers
- Inter Press Service
A regional United Nations body dubbed by its critics as a 'talk shop' and with limited concrete achievements to its name appears set to change that image by striking a deal with one of Asia’s recalcitrant regimes — the Burmese military government.
MEXICO: Human Rights Defenders Under Attack, UN Warns
- Inter Press Service
Gustavo de la Rosa, head of the Ciudad Juárez office of the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission in northern Mexico, was forced to flee to El Paso, across the border in the United States, and take refuge there for nearly a month, because of death threats related to his work.
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