http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/6295 en_GB_uk OneWorld UK - UK/English/OneWorld UK/News/Features Arms sales rob cash for fighting poverty http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/60331 Irresponsible arms trading by some of the world’s biggest exporters is diverting money that should be used to combat poverty, Oxfam reports. Angola: killing for peace comes at a price http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/60189 Securing peace through bullets has stunted Angola’s ability to rebuild and develop a democracy. Conciliation Resources’s report reveals important lessons for resolving other armed conflict. Slumdwellers of the world unite http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/59888 A third of the world’s population lives in slums. The Federation of Slum and Shackdwellers – a new international movement – is challenging governments and aid agencies to deal with the problem. Argentineans set up co-ops to save their jobs http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/59712 Economic collapse in Argentina has forced thousands of workers to occupy their own places of work. Joseph Huff-Hannon reports for the New Internationalist. North Korea could swap arms for windmills http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/59220 North Korea has reportedly said it would give up its weapons programme in exchange for help developing renewable technologies. Making the most of forest products http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/58939 Id21 shows how people can earn their livelihood from timber, plants and fungi - without killing the forests that provide them. Serb and Croat kids overcome war hatred http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/58712 Serbian and Croatian 10 to 14 year-olds break down the barriers built up by conflict in the region through anti-racism games, plays, history lessons and parties at a CAFOD-funded reconciliation workshop. Refrigeration, the Sudanese way http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/58420 A locally designed pot that keeps food fresher for longer is helping Sudanese farmers sell more fruit and vegetables and make bigger profits. Labour rights suffer in South Africa’s fruit export industry http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/58213 South Africa’s export fruit sector is buoyant, but the industry is offering less permanent employment and using more temporary contract labour. While some workers have relatively regular employment at reasonable pay, many others – particularly women – are poorly paid and have no job security. Population: a forgotten concern http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/58003 With worries over declining fertility in some parts of the world, and growing anxiety over the spread of HIV/AIDS cutting life expectancy in parts of Africa, little attention is being paid to pressures of population growth in many countries. These include massive consumers of energy and materials such as the US, and developing countries such as India, whose population is set to overtake that of China. Ethiopia: twenty years on from Band Aid http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/57806 It is now 20 years since the 1984 Ethiopia famine and Live Aid. Yet Ethiopia remains steeped in poverty. Save the Children - the largest active NGO in Ethiopia - believes it is crucial to ask why so little has changed and to point to possible long-term solutions. Education offers hope to Guatemala's child workers http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/57522 Poverty forces more than two million Guatemalan children into work, many from as young as seven years old. Mayra Kelita is one of them. She spoke to War on Want's John Coventry about an innovative new project, which, with the support of War on Want, is giving children like her the education they need. The ecovillage movement: sustainable living http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/56978 The ecovillage movement explores the connections between North and South, environment and development, education and activism, spirit, culture and natural ecology. It is a large and growing international movement with active networks on every continent. And GEN (the Global Ecovillage Network) carries the ecovillage message into all the world’s main governmental and civil society forums. Rice wars http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/56733 Rice, the staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, among them the poorest, is the current target of genetic modification. A war is building up between the corporate establishment and the peoples of the world for the possession of rice. The food security of billions is at stake, as is their right to grow the rice they have created in the manner they choose. The workers’ co-op that pioneered clean energy http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/56480 In 1973 a group of young idealists, motivated by concerns over the impact of "progress’" moved into a disused slate quarry in the centre of Wales. They set out to escape the consumerist outside world and to experiment with self-sufficient living. CAT was born. Amanda Roll-Pickering charts the evolution of a bright idea.