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10.11.2009 The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world.
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Related topics/regions: [Peru] [Indigenous rights]
09.11.2009 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.
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Related topics/regions: [Paraguay] [Brazil] [Indigenous rights] [Forests] [Corporations]
09.11.2009 Excessive City pay culture is seeping into the remuneration packages of charity bosses and should be curbed, according to the country's largest union.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Civil society]
World AIDS Day
07.11.2009 A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organisations and individuals says in a new report.
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Related topics/regions: [Uganda] [AIDS]
Image: World AIDS Day
06.11.2009 Ways of using DNA barcoding on issues ranging from protecting health to prosecuting smugglers of bushmeat, endangered birds and plants are to be discussed at an international meeting in Mexico.
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Related topics/regions: [Mexico] [Science] [Biodiversity]
06.11.2009 Campaigners have appealed to the UN to intervene to halt the evictions of thousands of families from their ancestral home in a Kenyan forest.
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Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [United Nations] [Indigenous rights] [Forests]
05.10.2009 The International Monetary Fund should withdraw its plan for a multi-million-dollar loan to Angola unless there are "stringent conditions" that require the opening up of the country's oil industry to public scrutiny, an anti-corruption watchdog said ahead of the IMF's annual meeting in Turkey.
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Related topics/regions: [Angola] [Corruption & transparency] [Finance] [Energy]
02.09.2009 The UN has told Peru’s government it should not allow oil and gas drilling on indigenous peoples’ land without their "informed consent".
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Related topics/regions: [Peru] [United Nations] [Indigenous rights] [Energy]
Dr Jacques Diouf, Director-General Food and Agriculture
19.06.2009 New world hunger figures out today are a "shameful blot" on G8 countries, whose inaction is causing hunger to spiral out of control, says a development group.
+ World hunger hits historic high, says UN
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From: ActionAid UK
Related topics/regions: [United Nations] [Food] [Aid]
Image: Dr Jacques Diouf, Director-General Food and Agriculture
26.05.2009 A new report, Still in the Fields, exposes the continued use of state-sponsored forced child labour in cotton production in Uzbekistan and highlights major role played by leading brands in ending the abuse.
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Related topics/regions: [Uzbekistan] [Labour] [Agriculture] [Children]
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