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ENVIRONMENT: Pacific Islands Get Climate Change to Water Summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2007 at 01:00:48
| BEPPU, Japan, Dec 5 (IPS) - It could have been a Pacific Islands summit on
climate change. Of the nine heads of state attending the first
Asia Pacific Water Summit (APWS), underway in this Japanese town,
seven are from the islands and more concerned with global warming
than anything else. |
CANADA: Gov't Urged to Rein in Mining Sector (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2007 at 03:00:46
| VANCOUVER, Dec 5 (IPS) - Canadian mining companies continue to come under
scrutiny from civil society organisations for international human
rights violations and environmental damage that critics say the
Canadian government has done little to check. |
RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: More Than a Rap on the Knuckles (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2007 at 05:00:46
| ASUNCIÓN, Dec 5 (IPS) - The Paraguayan government was reprimanded by a
United Nations expert committee for the extent and degree of
poverty in the country, the denial of land to campesinos and
indigenous people, the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals and
the persistence of discrimination against women. |
SOUTHERN AFRICA: The Indispensable Role of Mud Flats, Marshes and Swamps (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2007 at 05:00:46
| CAPE TOWN, Dec 5 (IPS) - The need for greater urgency in addressing loss of
wetlands in the Zambezi River Basin has been highlighted at a
recent meeting in northern Zimbabwe. |
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