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08/29/2006 Until last week, the road going south from the Kanthale junction was mostly deserted. Most vehicles whizzed past the junction towards Trincomalee, some 50 kilometres East of Kanthale town. But now numerous vehicles are making their way on the otherwise desolate road that links Kanthale to Muthur.
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Related: [Sri Lanka] [Water/Sanitation] [Civil Society] [Conflict]
Minke whale
06/17/2006 Pro-whaling nations led by Japan failed to gain a majority at the International Whaling Commission in St Kitts and Nevis, but environmental group Greenpeace said it would return to the Southern Ocean this year to oppose the continued ‘"scientific hunt".
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From: Greenpeace International
Image: Minke whale © Greenpeace International
Whales at sunset
06/16/2006 On the eve of today's controversial International Whaling Commission meeting, a poll shows that citizens from 10 countries in the Pacific and Caribbean, whose governments repeatedly vote to resume commercial whaling, do not support the hunt.
* Whales' fate hanging in the balance
* Campaigners demand governments unite against Japan's massive porpoise hunt
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From: WWF International
Related: [Asia and the Pacific] [Caribbean]
Image: Whales at sunset © WWF International
Greenpeace: 'The international body charged by the UN with protecting the whales is about to be taken over by the world's most consistently and aggressively pro-whaling government'
06/15/2006 A Greenpeace ship has been refused entry to St Kitts, where a controversial International Whaling Commission begins on Friday - a meeting the environmental lobby group says will be a disaster for whales.
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From: Environment News Service (ENS), Greenpeace International
Image: Greenpeace: 'The international body charged by the UN with protecting the whales is about to be taken over by the world's most consistently and aggressively pro-whaling government' © Greenpeace International
06/13/2006 The battle over a resumption of commercial whaling will reach crisis point at the meeting of the expanded International Whaling Commission that opens in St Kitts on Friday.
* Undercover footage proves there is no humane way to kill a whale at sea
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From: Environment News Service (ENS), Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
06/12/2006 The proliferation and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) present opportunities and challenges to us all; not just to large countries and developed countries but also to developing islands and small states.
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Related: [ICT] [Governance]
Siberian forest
02/21/2006 The Lena River, ninth-longest river in the world, flows through one of the world’s iciest lands, where the sun is seldom seen during winter. Nearly 80% of the watershed is continuous permafrost – earth that never thaws fully, even in summer. However, climate change is reaching this remote outpost; with consequences not just locally but, probably, for the rest of the world as well.
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From: People & the Planet
Related: [Climate Change]
Image: Siberian forest © Adrian Arbib
APC
12/05/2005 Osnovni cilj upitnika je da se definišu prioritetna pitanja IKT politike i potrebe civilnog društva u kontekstu centralne i istočne Evrope (CIE).
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Related: [Eastern Europe] [South East Europe]
Image: APC
05/20/2005 The MDG 2005 Report for Sri Lanka was released at Kandy on 16-17 May during a meeting of the Development Forum. The issues discussed at the meeting were lack of progress in the peace process and the transition from relief to recovery as well as the importance of coordination in tsunami relief.
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Related: [Sri Lanka]
03/29/2001 The number of countries classed as "least developed" - giving them the status of poorest in the world - is set to increase by one at an upcoming United Nations conference on development.
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From: Inter Press Service
Related: [Senegal] [Development] [Economy]
03/13/2001 Hundreds of demonstrators yesterday targetted the offices of a major US drugs manufacturer with a colourful protest calling for drugs firms to drop a high-profile lawsuit which seeks to block a South African law on the import or production of cheaper AIDS drugs.
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From: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
Related: [South Africa] [United States] [Health] [HIV/AIDS] [Civil Rights] [Law]
04/16/2000 Fears grow in Serbia over possible health hazards following confirmation from NATO that it used depleted uranium in its air attacks.
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From: Inter Press Service
Related: [Serbia and Montenegro] [Pollution] [Health] [Conflict]
04/07/2000 Fears are growing in Serbia population over possible health hazards following confirmation from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, that it used depleted uranium in its air campaign against the country last year.
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From: Inter Press Service
Related: [Serbia and Montenegro] [Pollution] [Health] [Conflict]
04/22/1999 A leading human rights watchdog has launched an attack on Sudan's leaders and rebels over the deaths of prisoners.
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From: Human Rights Watch
Related: [Sudan] [Human Rights] [Conflict]
01/07/1999 Outlines existing commitments to gender equity and the advancement of women that have been made by Pacific Island Countries (South Pacific Forum Secretariat)
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From: South Pacific Forum Secretariat
Related: [Gender]



 
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