http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/6295 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85999 World leaders and negotiators will meet in Copenhagen in December to discuss the future of our planet. As the debate intensifies, the New Statesman’s panel of environmental experts have chosen their heroes and villains – politicians, activists, companies and institutions. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85989 Is brutality in the name of patriotism more justified than violence in the name of parallel ideologies, be it Maoism, communalism, or Hindu nationalism, asks Dilip Simeon. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85976 A season of fear has returned to Zimbabwe, following Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to 'disengage' from the country's dysfunctional Government of National Unity, writes Mary Ndlovu. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85967 While Ethiopia endures a devastating famine, Meles Zenawi's regime has been downplaying and double-talking around the crisis, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85954 The fervour with which foreign commercial interests are forcing their agricultural 'solutions' on the African continent represents nothing more than an established endeavour to protect profits and access to resources, writes Joan Baxter. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85866 Withdrawal of Bangladesh army troops has begun in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. There is tension as the hill people also demand the removal of Bengalis from the region. Retired Brigadier General Hannan Shah discusses the situation. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85652 An international water conference this week wants to ensure that rural and poor people have access to clean water even as climate and population pressures drive the number of those in need beyond 1 billion. + Progressio takes “Just Add Water” message to Stockholm’s World Water Week http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163149/1/6295 While the world watches the stand-off between the Iranian government and protesters, the end-game begins in Nigeria between its own angry mob of citizens railing against the establishment. Nicholas Benequista reports. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162977/1/6295 Economic troubles have dominated 2009. The Trento Festival of Economics therefore enjoys pole position in the European festival season. Its imaginative programme Identity and Global Crisis addresses questions affecting us all. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85034 Disabled women are becoming more visible in Southeast Asia's disability movement and getting their voices heard. Kuhu Das, a disabled woman activist and director of the Association of Women with Disabilities in India, tells of her struggle and how a unique project is training disabled women to be new leaders. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85031 Large majorities in most countries say they would like their government and the UN to take an active role in preventing discrimination against women, according to an international poll. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85025 Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85003 A film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth had remarkable effects: the government doubled the number of midwives trained each year and placed more midwives in rural areas. Brigid McConville tells the story. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85000 As the Sri Lankan government steps up its war with the Tamil Tigers, assaults on journalists are on the rise. So are suspicions that the government is complicit in these attacks, says Bob Dietz. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161664/1/6295 For the first time in recent memory, activists are marking World AIDS Day not by risking arrest in protests at the White House, but by lauding the next president for the hope he brings to those affected by the AIDS crisis.