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MIDEAST: Gaza Energy Crisis Averted - For Now
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Pressure exerted on the Palestinian Authority (PA) by international and regional officials has given Gazans a last minute reprieve, albeit temporary, from plunging into darkness and plummeting temperatures.
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MUSIC-BRAZIL: 'Enchanted' Guitars for Social Change
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - Perfectly in tune, in spite of the off-key world of Terra Encantada ("Enchanted Land"), a shanty town in this Brazilian city, the guitars of Daniel Sant'Anna's orchestra strike up the "Ode to Joy", played by children and teenagers who are looking for a way forward in their lives.
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EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
By Pavol Stracancsky
WARSAW - Poland’s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.
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PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets
By Milagros Salazar
PAUCARÁ, Peru - Although Huancavelica is the poorest region of Peru, it has more than just poverty, malnutrition and unmet needs. There are also women using their creativity, efforts and traditional indigenous knowledge to improve the diets of their families and communities.
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ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - A textbook on human rights activism, being introduced in Romanian schools this year, steers away from preaching and uses interviews with global and local rights activists to suggest how young people may get involved.
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RIGHTS-INDIA: Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - If medals are being given out for backbreaking labour on miserable wages and impossible working conditions, thousands of migrant workers, slaving to complete stadia and other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, will be the champions.
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RIGHTS: This Time Around, Thailand Targets Karen Refugees
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Thailand’s attempt to repatriate over 3,000 ethnic Karens who fled the conflict in military-ruled Burma last year has triggered strong local and international objections, including from 27 members of the United States Congress.
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COLOMBIA: Same Paramilitary Abuses; New Faces, New Names
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTÁ - A leading international rights group urged the Colombian government to take action against what it called the "successors" to the far-right paramilitary militias, which continue attacking civilians and human rights defenders.
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MIDEAST: Gazans Denied Justice as Rights Take a Beating
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Gazans hoping for a modicum of justice following Israel’s indiscriminate military assault on the coastal territory during December 2008 and January 2009 - which left 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, dead - could be waiting in vain.
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Q&A: ''You Could Use a Stronger European Voice on Human Rights''
David Cronin interviews KENNETH ROTH, director of Human Rights Watch
BRUSSELS - Major changes are underway in the European Union (EU). For the first time in its history, the 27-country bloc will have a foreign minister once Catherine Ashton, a British Labour politician, receives parliamentary approval for her appointment later this month. She has already taken the first steps towards assembling a diplomatic service as foreseen by the EU’s Lisbon treaty.
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PHILIPPINES: Economic Recovery Unfelt by Urban Poor – NGOs
By Kara Santos
MANILA - Every day, 60-year old Felisa scavenges for garbage around the bustling streets of Manila, the urban capital of the Philippines.
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MEXICO: Women - Casualties in Army's Counternarcotics War
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Human rights organisations in Mexico and the United States sounded the alarm about abuses against women by the Mexican armed forces in the context of the government's all-out offensive against drug trafficking in the border state of Chihuahua.
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CHILE: Activists Fear Setbacks Under Rightwing Government
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO - Trade unions and non-governmental organisations in Chile are worried that rightwing billionaire Sebastián Piñera's election as president will mean setbacks in terms of social policy and respect for labour and social rights.
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MIDEAST: Raze Illegal Buildings - Unless They Are Jewish
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
SILWAN, Occupied East Jerusalem - Backed by armed security men, the municipal inspectors race their jeeps through the narrow alleyways and up a hillside crowded with buildings.
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NEPAL: Communities Take Up Cudgels for Forest Conservation
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking stick aside and takes rest on a vast expanse of lush green land.
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MIDEAST: Helpless in Gaza
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERSUALEM - Scores of Palestinian women and their children carefully sift through the desert sands. They are looking for hard nuggets.
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