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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
> Wal-Mart Giveth, But Wal-Mart Mostly Taketh Away - Report
> African Solar Lighting Project Welcomed
> Peace in Darfur Requires Justice
> Indian Child Labour Scheme Fails
> Organised Crime On The Rise - But So Is Peace
> East Timor Successfully Inaugurates New Government
> Brazilians Torn over Report on Dictatorship's Brutality
> Stop Harassing Drug Reporting, Guinea-Bissau Told
> Invest in Women - It Pays!
> Don't Drive It Too Far
> No Girls Please, We're Indian
> Tsunami risk for Bay of Bengal
> Remember 9/11, Build Your World
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WAL-MART GIVETH, BUT WAL-MART MOSTLY TAKETH AWAY - REPORT
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(12 sep 2007) A group of environmental, farm, labor, and human rights
organizations have slammed Wal-Mart's efforts to green itself as
insignificant in light of the massive negative consequences of the
mega-corporation's business practices worldwide.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153077/7263/193109
From: Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org
AFRICAN SOLAR LIGHTING PROJECT WELCOMED
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(12 sep 2007) A new World Bank initiative, which will provide clean
and reliable solar lighting to half of the 500 million Africans
living without an effective source of power, is getting high marks
from an independent think tank.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153081/7263/193109
From: Center for Global Development
http://www.cgdev.org
PEACE IN DARFUR REQUIRES JUSTICE
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(12 sep 2007) Rich Stazinski argues that, in endemic and high
conflict regions like Darfur, “lasting peace demands [justice], and
victims deserve nothing less.”
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153078/7263/193109
From: Citizens for Global Solutions
http://www.globalsolutions.org
INDIAN CHILD LABOUR SCHEME FAILS
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(12 sep 2007) Only three out of every 100 child labourers in India
has made it to school, new government data has revealed, 19 years
after the country launched an ambitious programme to put every child
worker into a classroom.
from The Telegraph
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153105/7263/193109
ORGANISED CRIME ON THE RISE - BUT SO IS PEACE
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(12 sep 2007) International organised crime has become a $2 trillion
behemoth that threatens to pervert democracy around the world and
fuel already dangerous levels of global inequality, warns a new study
- which also says the world is overall becoming a more peaceful
place.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153102/7263/193109
EAST TIMOR SUCCESSFULLY INAUGURATES NEW GOVERNMENT
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(12 sep 2007) The UN has saluted the peaceful elections held recently
in the fragile Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, but urged the
country’s citizens and political parties to engage in political
dialogue to consolidate the democracy and peace.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153080/7263/193109
From: United Nations
http://www.un.org/
BRAZILIANS TORN OVER REPORT ON DICTATORSHIP'S BRUTALITY
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(12 sep 2007) A long-awaited report may bring answers and closure to
Brazilians who suffered through the brutal dictatorship years, though
it may also open wounds long closed and provoke the country's
military.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153075/7263/193109
From: Global Voices Online
http://www.Globalvoicesonline.org
STOP HARASSING DRUG REPORTING, GUINEA-BISSAU TOLD
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(12 sep 2007) Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira has been
urged to stop official harassment of journalists reporting on drug
trafficking.
From IFEX
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153096/7263/193109
INVEST IN WOMEN - IT PAYS!
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(12 sep 2007) Infant and maternal mortality rates needlessly remain
high in developing countries, say women's health advocates organizing
a conference to build political will to end the problem.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153082/7263/193109
From: Global Health Council
http://www.globalhealth.org
DON'T DRIVE IT TOO FAR
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(12 sep 2007) Carmakers in Europe are missing their targets for
reducing the amount of greenhouse gases their vehicles release, new
data indicates.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153018/7263/193109
From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
http://www.ipsnews.net
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OneWorld South Asia
NO GIRLS PLEASE, WE'RE INDIAN
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(12 sep 2007) “Have a Boy, Have a Girl Guaranteed!” Five happy
diapered babies, each of a different ethnicity, reach out to
expectant parents of all races in an ad for a fertility clinic. But
that ad for The Fertility Institutes of Los Angeles has
Indian-American media caught in the throes of a dilemma.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153101/1893/193109
TSUNAMI RISK FOR BAY OF BENGAL
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(12 sep 2007) Millions of people living on the northern coast of the
Bay of Bengal face the risk of giant, tsunami-triggering earthquakes,
warns a report, published in Nature.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153100/1893/193109
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ONEWORLD U.S. ACTION ALERT
REMEMBER 9/11, BUILD YOUR WORLD
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(11 sep 2007) "Addressing the existing disparity in living standards
worldwide is central to reducing terrorism...because poverty creates
fragile conditions and resentment which extremists exploit." A 9/11
families group wants you to help build a safer, more just, and
compassionate world.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/153074/2332/193109
From: Our Voices Together
http://www.ourvoicestogether.org
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