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30.11.2007 Kent Buse and Fiona Samuels examine how leadership has controlled sexually transmitted infections in the past and ask what new kinds of leadership will be needed to fight HIV and AIDS.

30.11.2007 The business leaders of 150 global companies have today published a communiqué to world leaders calling for a comprehensive, legally binding United Nations framework to tackle climate change.
From: Prince of Wales/University of Cambridge

30.11.2007 Roughly 3,000 Sudanese living in a camp in northwestern Kenya will be able to return to their homes by late December, despite government-rebel tensions over the implementation of a peace agreement signed in 2005.

30.11.2007 Thanks to a program providing financial support to those who treat and prevent fistula in the developing world, more women will have access to treatment for this debilitating condition caused by prolonged and difficult labor.

30.11.2007 The Kenyan government will soon declare tuberculosis a national disaster, as approximately 70 Kenyans die from the disease every day.
From: Daily Nation (Nairobi)

30.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed yet again because one of the three judges has had to be replaced because of illness.

30.11.2007 A group of college students interrupted a CIA recruiting presentation by protesting against rendition and torture programs -- some even got the help of a willing volunteer to give a live example of the brutal waterboarding technique.

30.11.2007 An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe's CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.
From: The Independent

30.11.2007 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission.
From: Dara International

30.11.2007 UK household expenditure on ethical goods and services has almost doubled in the past five years - but is still a small proportion of the total annual consumer spend, according to the Co-operative Bank's Ethical Consumerism Report.
From: The Co-operative Bank

30.11.2007 As China develops into an economic powerhouse, it is becoming increasingly environmentally conscious and advancing greatly in the fields of renewable energy and resource conservation, writes Yingling Liu.

29.11.2007 Australia's newly elected prime minister concentrated on policy rather than vision while campaigning. But in office he may yet usher in a new Australia, says Tim Soutphommasane.
From: Prospect

29.11.2007 OneWorld's own social networking space, OneClimate.net, is opening a virtual window on the UN's forthcoming climate conference in Bali, allowing people around the world to participate in the event without emitting carbon through flying to Indonesia.

29.11.2007 European Union countries will require an old ally - Mother Nature and her forests - to meet an ambitious post-Kyoto goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020, according to new research.
From: University of Helsinki

29.11.2007 Poverty, a young Sudanese man born during this country's civil war, rose far beyond his name by studying hard, developing marketable skills as a carpenter, and inspiring community youth through sports and HIV/AIDS awareness programs.

29.11.2007 With tensions running high between Israel and Syria, a peace park agreement in the Golan Heights area could be essential to regional stability and should be put on the table at the current Middle East peace talks, write Saleem Ali and Michael Cohen.

29.11.2007 Nearly $1 billion is being injected into vaccines and health services in developing countries as a result of the first bond to be issued with proceeds provided to countries as grants for a specific development purpose.
From: International Finance Facility for Immunisation

29.11.2007 Hundreds of millions of people around the world have rolled up their sleeves and gotten their hands dirty to promote a greener earth and to show their support for next month's international climate change conference in Bali.

29.11.2007 Although aid workers say his fate is "vital to the ongoing [peace] process," a top player in Uganda's main rebel movement has not been heard from for several weeks.

29.11.2007 The pharmaceutical industry is denying medicines to millions of poor people and undermining its own future because companies are refusing to change the way they do business in developing country markets, according to a new report.