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2/8/2010
Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Mediators' Plan
Gareth Porter
KABUL, Feb 7 (IPS) - If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a "road map" to a political settlement drawn up by a group of ex-Taliban officials who have been serving as intermediaries between the two sides.
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South-South Cooperation Key to MDGs
IPS Correspondents
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7 (IPS) - Member states meeting here Thursday called for the immediate implementation of development commitments made during the Nairobi high-level U.N. conference on cooperation between developing countries.
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Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Feb 7 (IPS) - If medals are being given out for backbreaking labour on miserable wages and impossible working conditions, thousands of migrant workers, slaving to complete stadia and other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, will be the champions. "This is another example of a large and invisible workforce, drawn from the rural hinterland being exploited to show progress and ramp up the claimed eight percent growth rate,'' said Dunu Roy, a well-know urban planner and activist.
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This Time Around, Thailand Targets Karen Refugees
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Feb 7 (IPS) - Thailand's attempt to repatriate over 3,000 ethnic Karens who fled the conflict in military-ruled Burma last year has triggered strong local and international objections, including from 27 members of the United States Congress. "We urgently request that you halt the repatriation of refugees back to Burma's conflict zone and continue to offer them protection in Thailand," stated the Feb. 4 letter by the bi-partisan group of U.S. legislators to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
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Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens
William Fisher
NEW YORK, Feb 7 (IPS) - Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the "deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any active hostilities, as long as the executive branch determines unilaterally that they meet a secret definition of who the enemy is."
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Development Recognised as Crucial for Yemen's Stability
Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (IPS) - Amid growing concerns here over the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a consensus is emerging among U.S. experts that Washington and other donors to Yemen must place at least as much or greater emphasis on promoting sustainable development in the Arab world's poorest country as on counterterrorism.
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U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Haiti's Debt Cancellation
Same Paramilitary Abuses in Colombia; New Faces, New Names
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2/5/2010
EU Faults U.N. for Slowdown in Gender Empowerment
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 4 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of continued widespread gender discrimination worldwide, the European Union (EU) has urged Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to "urgently" speed up the creation of the proposed new U.N. agency for women. The proposal for a "gender entity" was recommended by a high-level panel back in 2006 and approved by the 192-member General Assembly last year.
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Bill Pledges a Billion Dollars to Fight Gender Violence
Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (IPS) - The U.S. House and Senate introduced new legislation Thursday that addresses the plight of women around the world who are victims of violence. The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) would make violence against women worldwide a priority of the United States government and an enhanced component of its foreign policy and foreign assistance programmes.
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Gazans Denied Justice as Rights Take a Beating
Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Feb 5 (IPS) - Gazans hoping for a modicum of justice following Israel's indiscriminate military assault on the coastal territory during December 2008 and January 2009 - which left 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, dead - could be waiting in vain.
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