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Q&A: 'If You Feed the Land, It Will Feed You Back'
Interview with UNCCD Executive Secretary Luc Gnacadja
BONN - Luc Gnacadja, who took over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) last October, is a man with a mission -- a mission that goes beyond explaining that his job is not to battle deserts.
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Q&A: Hezbollah's Triumph Is Blowback for Israeli Policy
Interview with journalist and author Deborah Campbell
NEW YORK - Since the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese government and essentially gave it the veto power it demanded, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been the most popular figure anywhere in the Arab world.
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Q&A: 'Innocent Persons Are Sentenced to Death'
Interview with Bikram Jeet Batra, Indian rights lawyer
NEW DELHI - There are only estimates of the number of people facing the death sentence in India. The latest official figure is for Dec. 31, 2004 -- 563 people.
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Q&A: Women Do Most, With Least Assistance
Interview with Lennart Båge, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
ROME - The international debate on effective aid that is shaped by developing countries' needs rather than donors' priorities will be resumed when ministers from over 100 countries, and members of development agencies, donor organisations and civil society gather for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra Sep. 2-4.
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Q&A: 'China Is Capitalist, Not Communist'
Interview with Joan Hinton, physicist and Maoist
TOKYO - As one of the nuclear physicists behind the Manhattan Project, Joan Hinton commands awe. But she chucked it all to go to China in 1948 and take part in the Communist Revolution. Now 86, she works on a dairy farm near Beijing, her sense of humour unaffected by a stroke suffered 10 years ago.
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Q&A: Bashir Pushed, But Not Yet Into a Corner
Interview with Aymen Abdelaziz Salaama, expert on international criminal law
CAIRO - Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo requested last month that the court's preliminary panel issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for crimes allegedly committed in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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Q&A: "Latin America Needs a Regional Agenda" on AIDS Funding
Interview with Lelio Mármora of the Global AIDS Fund
MEXICO CITY - If the economic status of Latin America and the Caribbean continues to improve, the region’s share of assistance from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is likely to drop to half the present level, under the current eligibility requirements, says Lelio Mármora, the Fund’s portfolio manager for this region.
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Q&A: "Seven Million People Still Lack AIDS Treatment"
Interview with Pedro Cahn, outgoing president of Int’l AIDS Society*
BUENOS AIRES - A greater commitment to universal access to anti-HIV therapies and to the defence of health workers in impoverished countries are two achievements noted by Argentine physician Pedro Cahn as president of the scientific society that organised the XVII International AIDS Conference.
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Q&A: 'Many Would Prefer To Die Than Endure This'
Interview with T. Akun, Kyrgyzstan's Ombudsman
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - In the dungeons of Bishkek the summer temperatures are soaring. The air is thick and stagnant. Since the abolition of the death penalty, the threat of execution has been removed but inmates are living on the borderline of existence.
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Q&A: "Condoms Have To Be Used To Be Useful"
Interview with Nazneen Damji of UNIFEM
MEXICO CITY - Of the over 30 million people living with HIV, half are women and the rate of infections in women is rising, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. What’s more, women’s rights groups say gender inequalities are fuelling the epidemic -- there is an irrefutable feminisation of HIV.
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