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April 2008
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04/30/2008
Millions of volunteers will visit every household in the country in the coming years to gather information on changing demographics, in a census that will reveal how economic growth has affected its people. India’s population is expected to climb to 1.19 billion in 2011 from 1.13 billion in 2008, say officials.
Read moreRelated: [India] [South Asia] [Governance] [Poverty] [Population] [Development] Image: Commuters at a railway station, 2006 / Photo credit: Amit Dave/Files/Reuters
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04/30/2008
Brasilian viranomaiset ovat päättäneet kunnostaa Amazonin sademetsän sydämessä kulkevan valtatie BR-319:n. Ympäristöjärjestöt vastustavat hanketta, koska pelkäävät sen kiihdyttävän sademetsän hakkuita.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Brazil] [Forests] [Transport] |
04/28/2008
Helena Norberg Hodge first visited Ladakh in northern India in 1973 to study its culture and language. Fascinated by its gentle people and their earth-based way of life, she kept returning every year since then. In a freewheeling interview, she discusses how annihilation of the local culture can be stopped.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Environmental Activism] [Conservation] [Climate Change] [Environment] Image: Helena Norberg Hodge / Photo credit: Infochange
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04/28/2008
YK-järjestöjen tuoreen selvityksen mukaan luovien alojen merkitys maailmantaloudessa on lisääntynyt. Luovan talouden hyödyt jakautuvat kehitysmaillekin.
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04/28/2008
WASHINGTON, Apr 27 (OneWorld) - Occasionally, OneWorld.net will put out an alert when many of the NGOs we work with are taking on a breaking issue. Over the past year, we've done this for the crisis in Kenya, Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, and the earthquake that struck Peru in August. But this week's alert on the growing global food crisis is perhaps the most worrying one we've ever sent.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Globalization] [Food] [Aid] |
04/25/2008
This week's alert on the growing global food crisis is perhaps the most worrying one we've ever sent, says OneWorld's managing editor in the United States.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Globalization] [Geopolitics] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Poverty] [Food] [Emergency Relief] [Aid] [Agriculture] Image: Children at a rural Nepal school enjoy a meal as part of the World Food Programme's feeding program. © Naresh Newar / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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04/24/2008
WTO-johtaja Pascal Lamyn mukaan kauppajärjestön jäsenet voitaisiin kutsua koolle "miniministerikokoukseen" toukokuun jälkipuolella, jotta paikoillaan junnanneet vapaakauppaneuvottelut saataisiin lopuilleen. Kiirehtiminen huolestuttaa kansalaisjärjestöjä ja kehitysmaita.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Politics] |
04/22/2008
WASHINGTON, Apr 22 (OneWorld) - Pennies a day. That's all it would cost the United States to significantly reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming. What's more, the cost to businesses, families, and overall economic growth would be minimal, according to a new study released this week.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Governance] [Climate Change] [Business] Image: Carbon pollution from a factory. © Geographical
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04/22/2008
Centre for Science and Environment releases a two year study on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as it becomes pan-Indian from April 1. NREGA can regenerate the village economy through productive assets on water conservation and afforestation and just wages for the people, says CSE.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [India] [Conservation] [Poverty] [Labor] [Development] Image: Wages under NREGA need to be standardised © CARE India
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04/22/2008
Öljyn korkea maailmanmarkkinahinta ei näy nigerialaisten arkitodellisuudessa. Maan tuotanto- ja valtiorakenne estää hyötyjen tasaisemman jakautumisen.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Nigeria] [Poverty] Image: -
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04/18/2008
Would you care more about climate change if you lived in a mud hut? This is what Archbishop Desmond Tutu is asking the leaders of the most polluting economies.
Read moreFrom: Greenpeace UK Related: [Climate Change] [Poverty] Image: Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza in 2002
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04/18/2008
Maailmanpankin mukaan maailmanlaajuinen ruoan hintojen nousu voi syöstä jopa sata miljoonaa ihmistä yhä syvemmälle köyhyyteen. Nälänhätä uhkaa satoja tuhansia.
Read moreFrom: Plan Suomi Säätiö Related: [Poverty] [Food] Image: - © Greenpeace UK
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04/18/2008
George Bush has finally woken up to the reality of climate change, writes Tony Juniper. But is his modest target now too little, too late?
Read moreFrom: The Guardian Related: [United States] [Politics] [Climate Change] [Energy] Image: 'Bush has moved forward but has not moved far enough' © White House
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04/17/2008
Bulgaria has received a grant of 300 million euros from the European Union for the development of its information and communication technologies. Although the country has a very high number of mobile and Internet users, there is still a scope for more ICT penetration in small towns and rural areas.
Read moreRelated: [ICT] [Communication] [Capacity Building] Image: Krassimir Simonsky, Deputy Chairperson of the State Agency of Information Technologies and Systems / Photo credit: Tsvetelina Nikolaeva
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04/16/2008
YK:n kauppa- ja kehitysjärjestö UNCTAD kokoontuu Ghanassa tämän kuun lopulla. Kokoukselta odotetaan uusia avauksia perushyödykekaupan ongelmista käytävään keskusteluun. Parhaassa tapauksessa kokous laatii kansainvälisen suunnitelman muun muassa ruoan ja metallien kaupan rauhoittamiseksi.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Trade] |
04/16/2008
Verohallituksen mukaan suomalaiset ovat sijoittaneet 450 miljoonaa euroa Euroopan veroparatiiseihin. Luku kuitenkin kattanee vain murto-osan suomalaisten sijoituksista, ja siksi asia pitää selvittää vielä tarkemmin, Suomen Attac vaati.
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04/14/2008
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Colombia] [United States] [Geopolitics] [Trade] [Labor] Image: Colombian farmers stood to lose a lot from the trade deal, said anti-poverty groups. Image © Lutheran World Relief
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04/14/2008
Kiinan vastaus maailmaa koettelevaan ruokakriisiin on paluu omavaraiseen maataloustuotantoon. Nopea kaupungistuminen kuitenkin kutistaa peltopinta-alaa ja imee työvoimaa pois maataloudesta.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [China] [Food] Image: © kevsunblush (flickr)
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04/14/2008
The rise in food prices, the [Indian] government says, is an international phenomenon. But this argument is unlikely to cut much ice with the people. At the crux of the crisis is the tardy pace at which farm output has been growing in recent years, says senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Poverty] [Food] [Agriculture] Image: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta / Photo credit: BBC
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04/14/2008
Heikkenevä talous ja kohoavat kuluttajahinnat Yhdysvalloissa vaikuttavat dramaattisesti siirtolaisten lähtömaihin suuntautuviin rahalähetyksiin. Monet siirtolaiset eivät pysty lähettämään yhtä paljon kuin ennen, ja dollarin heikkeneminen vähentää lähetysten ostovoimaa.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Migration] Image: © American Friends Service Committee
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