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HEALTH: Bird Flu - Vietnam Reports Headway in Human Vaccine (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 04:00:41
| HO CHI MINH CITY, Jun 3 (IPS) - Vietnamese researchers have announced significant
progress in their effort to develop a prototype vaccine for the
H5N1 avian influenza, despite criticism from some scientists that
their methods are "unorthodox". |
DEVELOPMENT: Blessed and Cursed by Water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 07:00:42
| OSLO, Jun 3 (IPS) - Millions of people are threatened by poor,
unreliable, or non-existent water resources, and climate change
could make things worse. IPS looked at some of the issues before
participants at a World Bank conference on water and sanitation
issues held in Oslo last week. |
Q&A: 'Need For a New Social Alliance' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 07:00:42
| FLORENCE, Jun 3 (IPS) - A global alliance of human rights activists,
environmentalists and ethically run small enterprises is needed
to save the planet from self-destruction, says Susan George,
chair of the Planning Board of the Transnational Institute in
Amsterdam. The institute works "to contribute to social
justice." |
RIGHTS-INDIA: State-Sponsored Repression, Say Human Rights Activists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 04:00:54
| BANGALORE, Jun 3 (IPS) - The People?s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a
32-year-old Indian human-
rights group, has decried India?s
judiciary for refusing bail to ?jungle doctor? and
human rights
activist Binayak Sen. Sen is widely-respected for his 30 years of
healthcare work among tribals in the central Indian State of
Chhattisgarh, and
has criticised the State for the mass-eviction
of thousands of tribal villagers. |
BRAZIL: Climate Change Will Weaken Renewable Energy Sources (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 04:00:54
| RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 3 (IPS) - To Brazil's credit, 45 percent of its energy
comes from renewable sources, three times as much as in
industrialised countries, but for that very reason it will be
more vulnerable to climate change, according to a new study.
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BIODIVERSITY: How a Golden Opportunity Became a Zero-Sum Game (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-03-2008 at 08:00:40
| BONN, Jun 3 (IPS) - Self-interest and petty politicking largely
paralysed efforts to solve the urgent problem of the widespread
extinction of species, with few concrete achievements after
nearly two weeks of 14-hour meetings at the Convention on
Biodiversity (CBD) in Bonn that concluded last Friday. |
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