PERU: Free Trade Opens Environmental Window
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica
LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to enter [...]
POLITICS-US: Two, Three, Many Grand Bargains?
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (IPS) – As the United States waded ever deeper into the Indochinese quagmire in the early 1960s, the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara called for ”two, three, many Vietnams” to bog down [...]
SOMALIA: Women ‘Keep Life Going’ in Violent Streets of Mogadishu
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI, Nov 1 (IPS) – On the fifth day of every month a group of women entrepreneurs gather to share their experiences and discuss matters of trade. What makes this exceptional is [...]
DRC: Insecurity Prevails Despite Ceasefire
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Stephanie Kale
GOMA, DRC, Nov 1 (IPS) – The dirt road leading to Kibumba refugee camp is thronged with people trying to return to their homes as diplomatic efforts continue to strengthen a tenuous [...]
ECONOMY-MAURITIUS: Textile Manufacturing Goes Green and Clean
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Nasseem Ackbarally
PORT LOUIS, Nov 1 (IPS) – ‘‘The cost of production is high in Mauritius as we are far away from our main markets. Our island is so small that at times our clients do forget us. [...]
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Police Spying ‘Infringing on Civil Liberties’
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
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Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE, Oct 31 (IPS) – The revelation that police in the state of Victoria have infiltrated a number of community and protest groups has been met with indignation by the targeted organisations.
”It’s absolutely over the [...]
