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February 2007

05.02.2007 Ten years after international guidelines were established to stamp out the recruitment and use of child soldiers, under-age fighters are still actively being recruited in at least 13 countries, says a children's charity.
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From: Save the Children UK
Logo della campagna - da Stop FGM
05.02.2007 The UN Population Fund renewed its call today for intensified global efforts to save the 3 million girls who still face the risk of female genital mutilation or cutting every year.
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Image: Logo della campagna - da Stop FGM
Trade Justice campaigner
02.02.2007 It is not clear that the Bush Administration's proposed reform of the 2002 Farm Bill as a first step toward unlocking the paralysis in multilateral trade negotiations will significantly reduce export dumping or signify a meaningful shift in the US position at the WTO, a leading development group warned.
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From: Oxfam International
Related topics/regions: [United States]
Image: Trade Justice campaigner
02.02.2007 The Thai government must lift the Emergency Decree which is in force over the southern provinces and which effectively legalises torture, according to an Asian rights group.
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From: Asian Human Rights Commission
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Reporters Without Borders
01.02.2007 An increasing number of bloggers and cyber-dissidents are in jail, with China, Vietnam, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Iran the worst offenders for imprisoning online government critics, according to an annual press freedom survey.
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Image: Reporters Without Borders

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The aviation industry is exempt from the Kyoto protocol
A study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest.
From: The Independent
Image: The aviation industry is exempt from the Kyoto protocol
President Bush asked last week that the United States give $770 million in emergency food aid to afflicted regions, but this only amounts to an imperfect first step to confront the global food crisis, says economist Arvind Subramanian.
From: Center for Global Development
Related topics/regions: [Japan] [United States] [Aid] [Emergency relief] [Food] [Governance]
Chinese flag in front of Tibet's Potala Palace
The West is projecting not only its own spiritual fantasies on Tibet, but its own economic fears on China, imagining a power struggle quite different from that which has actually happened in Tibet. We have to learn to look at Tibet as it is – and China too, says Slavoj Zizek.
From: Le Monde Diplomatique/ Il Manifesto
Related topics/regions: [Tibet] [China] [Geopolitics]
Image: Chinese flag in front of Tibet's Potala Palace © Tibet Information Network
Banner in Sydney, Australia.
Coca-Cola is looking to make huge profits as one of the three primary sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay despite flagrant human rights abuses perpetrated by China, writes grassroots activist Amit Srivastava.
From: India Resource Center
Related topics/regions: [China] [Germany] [Tibet] [Business] [Corporations] [Human rights]
Image: Banner in Sydney, Australia. © India Resource Center
A pro-immigration demonstration; May 2006.
Over 30,000 passionate protesters took to the streets last week to oppose immigration raids and deportations, reflecting a revitalized unity and fervor in the immigrants' rights community, writes Roberto Lovato.
From: New America Media
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Migration] [Civil rights] [Activism] [Governance]
Image: A pro-immigration demonstration; May 2006. © Independent Media Center
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