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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
> Crisis in Chad
> Human Tide: The Real Migration Crisis
> Baby Milk Companies Accused Amidst 1.4m Deaths
> Global Girls' Campaign Launched
> Former Leaders Call For Aung San Suu Kyi's Release
> U.S. Urged to Take Responsibility on Energy, Climate Change
> U.S. Pressed To Back Down on World Bank
> Brazilian Indian Anger At Pope’s Comments
> DPA Should Appologize for Its Racist Outbursts
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CRISIS IN CHAD
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(16 may 2007) Kerry Smith is in eastern Chad assessing the human
rights situation and reflecting on what needs to be done to ensure
the crisis ends.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149257/7263/160840
From: Amnesty International UK
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/
HUMAN TIDE: THE REAL MIGRATION CRISIS
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(16 may 2007) At least one billion people will be forced from their
homes between now and 2050 as the effects of climate change deepen an
already burgeoning global migration crisis, predicts a new Christian
Aid report.
From: Christian Aid
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149242/7263/160840
BABY MILK COMPANIES ACCUSED AMIDST 1.4M DEATHS
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(16 may 2007) A generation on from the start of one of the biggest
public boycotts in corporate history, almost 1.4 million children are
still dying every year, a children's charity charges as it accuses
manufacturers of "making a mockery" of the rules of a UN-backed code
and promoting their products unethically.
* Milking It
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149260/7263/160840
From: Save the Children UK
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk
GLOBAL GIRLS' CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
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(16 may 2007) Continuing gender discrimination is "intolerable,
morally indefensible and economically, politically and socially
unsupportable," children's champion Graça Machel said as Plan UK
launched its "Because I am a Girl" campaign and a State of the
World's Girls report.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149259/7263/160840
From: Plan UK
http://www.plan-uk.org
FORMER LEADERS CALL FOR AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASE
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(16 may 2007) Fifty-nine former heads of state have called for
Myanmar's military rulers to release the world's only imprisoned
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and prisoner of conscience, Aung San Suu
Kyi.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149258/7263/160840
From: Burma Campaign UK
www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php
U.S. URGED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY ON ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE
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(15 may 2007) As the UN wraps up a two-year discussion on climate
change and energy, which many NGOs and government delegates described
as "weak," citizen groups from around the United States have called
on their government to "acknowledge its responsibility to take
immediate and comprehensive action."
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149262/7263/160840
From: Integrative Strategies Forum
http://www.isforum.org/
U.S. PRESSED TO BACK DOWN ON WORLD BANK
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(15 may 2007) As the World Bank board meets to discuss what is likely
to be a negotiated departure for Paul Wolfowitz, ActionAid said that
the organisation's president must go now, and that the US should no
longer have the power to
appoint his successor.
+ World Bank
President?
+ Comment on Wolfowitz report
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149255/7263/160840
From: World Development Movement
http://www.wdm.org.uk
ActionAid UK
http://www.actionaid.org.uk
BRAZILIAN INDIAN ANGER AT POPE’S COMMENTS
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(15 may 2007) Brazilian Indians have reacted with anger to Pope
Benedict's reported claim during his recent trip to Brazil that their
ancestors had been "silently longing" to become Christians when
Brazil was colonised 500 years ago.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149252/7263/160840
From: Survival International Italia
http://survival-international.org/it/
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DPA SHOULD APPOLOGIZE FOR ITS RACIST OUTBURSTS
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(16 may 2007) A group of Macedonian non-governmental organizations
give their full support and solidarity to Iso Rusi, journalist and
president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Macedonia,
related to the attacks and threats that the Democratic Party of
Albanians (DPA) sent to his address provoked by his recent op-ed,
titled “Gospodin Gospodin Thaqi” (Gospodin Gospodin is the official
title of the archbishop of the Macedonian Orthodox Church), published
in “Koha” daily newspaper.
http://see.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/149289/3260/160840
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