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31.12.2006 Over 100 million girls and women have undergone genital cutting, a practice increasingly viewed as a serious health and human rights issue. The Development Gateway presents a collection of resources on the issue to increase awareness about the phenomenon.
From: Development Gateway

30.12.2006 The resources and partnerships needed to combat malaria are coming into place, say two organizations working to end the threat.
From: Global Health Council, Institute for OneWorld Health

28.12.2006 More than 100,000 young people from 37 African countries have taken part in a series of contests to come up with ideas for short films on HIV and AIDS. Some of the resulting 28 films are touching, some are funny. See them on OneWorld TV.

28.12.2006 Conflict has forced the World Food Programme to suspend a helicopter operation delivering humanitarian aid following the country's worst flooding in nearly a decade.
From: World Food Programme

28.12.2006 The current wave of Latin American governments referred to as "leftist" are significantly different than those associated with Che Guevara and others over the past 40 years, reports Mario Osava.

28.12.2006 If the world directed its attention to Sri Lanka today as it did after the 2004 tsunami, a great many lives could be saved, argues James Ross.

22.12.2006 "My Grand Total is about a sixth of the UK average of approximately 9400kg. But before I get too smug, there are a couple of major catches..."
From: MarkLynas.org

22.12.2006 Serious human rights violations, impunity, and the failure to protect individual rights--notably those of the poor and marginalized--are highlighted in the Asian Human Rights Commission's annual report.

22.12.2006 The Spanish government has made the largest contribution by any country to the UN to help meet the Millennium Development goals by 2015.

22.12.2006 Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections shows that the self-styled socialist has won over Venezuela's poor majority. But has he put the country on the slow road to autocracy? A pair of Latin America-based journalists get beyond the rhetoric to really examine Venezuela's politics and policies.

22.12.2006 Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk in Somalia's flooded crisis areas because of severe water shortages, internal displacement, food insecurity, and the threat of escalating violence, according to Oxfam.

22.12.2006 The European Union took historic action last week to strengthen its laws on chemicals; health advocates hope the precedent will be followed in the United States.

22.12.2006 A UK government decision to allow its departments to purchase wood products certified by schemes that allow destructive logging practices has come under fire from major environmental groups.

22.12.2006 U.S. foreign policy makers can do better in the Middle East, but they must start by looking at a bigger map, says a Washington, DC-based citizens group.

21.12.2006 For generations, children have been threatened with coal in their stocking as punishment for being naughty--but giving kids, and all of us, coal-fired power plants is a punishment that can last 40 years or more. The Union of Concerned Scientists is asking supporters for help.
From: Union of Concerned Scientists

21.12.2006 He dubbed himself "The Great Head of the Turkmen People," required all students read his spiritual tome, and held total control of all state institutions. Following Saparmurat Niyazov's death Thursday, the future is uncertain for the former Soviet republic that holds vast gas and oil reserves and is considered a strategic regional country bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

21.12.2006 Six aid organizations have warned that an upsurge in violence since December 1 has forced them to temporarily evacuate staff supporting nearly 500,000 people across Darfur.

21.12.2006 In addition to helping plan and build houses, Lutheran World Relief is providing health services, trauma counseling, women's education, and much more to the tsunami-affected people of India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. The relief effort is expected to last 10 years.

21.12.2006 For the first time, an international treaty requires states to incorporate the crime of enforced disappearance into their domestic legislation and to prosecute and punish the perpetrators.

21.12.2006 Don't drop "smart sanctions" against the Zimbabwe government, two major international trades union groups have urged the European Union.