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Myanmar: Still locking up political prisoners

Myanmar: Still locking up political prisoners

Al Jazeera — Following a student demonstration in 1998, Khin Cho Myint was arrested after being given up by one of her colleagues. She was interrogated, sitting on a stool, in Insein prison for 48 hours before being sent to solitary confinement for one week. Four months later she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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Mongolia's Poorest Turn Garbage into Gold

Mongolia's Poorest Turn Garbage into Gold

Inter Press Service — Ulziikhutag Jigjid, 49, is a member of a 10-person group in the Khan-Uul district on the outskirts of Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar, which is producing brooms, chairs, containers, and other handmade products from discarded soda and juice containers.
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Far-right gains alarm French left

Far-right gains alarm French left

Al Jazeera — The National Front (FN) political party in France may be celebrating its most recent success in the European parliamentary elections, but many in Paris and across France want to make it known that the party's far-right policies are not for them.
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What We Can Learn from Child Soldiers

What We Can Learn from Child Soldiers

Inter Press Service — Africa, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Peace, TerraViva Europe, TerraViva United Nations, United Nations, World - In 2003, Moses Otiti, a 15-year-old from Uganda, was walking in a group with his father when members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed them. Because he was a child, Moses was the only one to survive. For the next 12 months, he was forced to serve the LRA as a soldier in the rebel group's war against the Ugandan government. "In the first month when I joined [the LRA], I was not comfortable with the things that were going on, but then I reached a situation where everything became almost normal."
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Divisions over Gender Complicate Development Agenda

Divisions over Gender Complicate Development Agenda

Inter Press Service — As the U.N. focuses on refining its Post-2015 Development Agenda, divisions surrounding issues of population and development continue to plague consensus on a universal way forward.
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Finding the Needle in the Post-2015 Haystack

Finding the Needle in the Post-2015 Haystack

Inter Press Service — How will the U.N. prioritise the goals of its Post-2015 Development Agenda? Which goals deserve more funding? And which goals will help the most people? These are the questions that the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC) seeks to answer.
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Getting into CAR, When so Many Want to Get Out

Getting into CAR, When so Many Want to Get Out

Inter Press Service — In a country suffering from what the U.N. has called "ethno-religious cleansing", a "disappeared" state structure and "unacceptable sectarian brutality," gaining access to the population of the Central African Republic has proven a difficult and sometimes deadly task for humanitarian workers.
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Growing Inequality Mars 20 Years of Women's Progress

Growing Inequality Mars 20 Years of Women's Progress

Inter Press Service — As the world moves closer to the 2015 end mark of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a new U.N. report illuminates how far global society has come, but also how far it still must travel to achieve its objectives. The report tracks the last two decades of progress on issues such as universal access to family planning, sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights, and equal access to education for girls.
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Torture, Starvation & Deaths Captured Digitally Inside Syria

Torture, Starvation & Deaths Captured Digitally Inside Syria

Inter Press Service — It plays like a Hollywood movie. A former member of the Syrian military police, later codenamed "Caesar", smuggles digital memory sticks containing photographs of corpses displaying signs of severe torture and starvation - in his shoe. That was between September 2011 and August 2013. But now comes the question of accountability.
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Japanese Global Health Fund Targets Diseases of Developing World

Japanese Global Health Fund Targets Diseases of Developing World

Inter Press Service — The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) has allocated 12 million dollars to three recent projects targeting tuberculosis and some of the developing world's most neglected diseases, which affect over one billion people.
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Press Freedom Goes on Trial in Egypt

Press Freedom Goes on Trial in Egypt

Inter Press Service — On Dec. 29, 2013, just over a month before the third anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution that ended the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak, three high-profile journalists for Al Jazeera English were arrested in their hotel suite in Cairo. Despite international condemnation, the Egyptian government has moved ahead with a trial, now set to resume Mar. 5.
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As Crimea Referendum Nears, Tensions Rise

As Crimea Referendum Nears, Tensions Rise

Inter Press Service — With the referendum on Crimea only days away, the sense of emergency at the United Nations, over the impact a vote could have on the already volatile crisis in Ukraine, has continued to rise. "I am increasingly alarmed by the developments in Ukraine. Since the beginning of this crisis, I have appealed to all parties to de-escalate tensions and to engage in direct and constructive dialogue in order to forge a peaceful way forward," U.N. Secretary General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon said in a statement released Monday. "Recent events in Crimea in particular have only served to deepen the crisis.
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As Tensions Flare, OPCW Indicates Positive Developments

As Tensions Flare, OPCW Indicates Positive Developments

Inter Press Service — Tensions over the Ukraine crisis dampened the positive brief on the removal of Syria's chemical weapons, made to the UN Security Council by Sigrid Kaag, the Special Coordinator of the Joint Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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Starving for Access in Syria's Yarmouk Camp

Starving for Access in Syria's Yarmouk Camp

Inter Press Service — The refugee camp of Yarmouk represents one of the most severe examples of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, with foreign aid agencies unable to enter the opposition-controlled area that been effectively besieged since December 2012.
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UNRWA Aid to Yarmouk Repeatedly Thwarted

UNRWA Aid to Yarmouk Repeatedly Thwarted

Inter Press Service — Despite the absence of access in recent days, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) continues to press for a security agreement in Yarmouk, which would support more comprehensive aid distribution to the starving population.
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Security Council Holds Second Emergency Meeting on Ukraine

Security Council Holds Second Emergency Meeting on Ukraine

Inter Press Service — The United States and Russia openly clashed at a Security Council meeting Monday focusing on the ongoing crisis in politically-troubled Ukraine. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, sought to "explain, as fully as possible, [the Russian] position on the current situation in Ukraine."
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UN Chief Appeals for Dialogue in Thailand

UN Chief Appeals for Dialogue in Thailand

Inter Press Service — "The Secretary General believes strongly that there should be no place for violence by any side in resolving political differences and disputes," UN Spokesperson Martin Nesirky told reporters Wednesday, referring to the escalating political crisis in Thailand. Ban Ki-moon also expressed his "readiness to assist the parties and the Thai people in any way possible," following a telephone conversation with the Thai foreign minister, Surapong Tovichakchaikul.
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Committee to Protect Journalists Releases 2014 Report

Committee to Protect Journalists Releases 2014 Report

Inter Press Service — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday released its 2014 report titled, "Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines", an annual survey of the conditions of global press freedom. At the U.N. headquarters in New York, Joel Simon, Executive Director of CPJ, explained the thematic ideas of the report, the status of global journalistic freedom and the importance of the U.N. in achieving greater global media freedom.
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Violence Continues to Escalate in the Central African Republic

Violence Continues to Escalate in the Central African Republic

Inter Press Service — As violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) continues to escalate, U.N. Secretary -General Ban Ki-moon, following consultations with the U.N Security Council (UNSC), has proposed a six-point initiative to address the dominant issues facing the country.
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Homs Deal Marred by Continued Hostilities and Sieges in Syria

Homs Deal Marred by Continued Hostilities and Sieges in Syria

Inter Press Service — On Feb 6, 2014, an agreement was reached between the two sides to the Syrian conflict to allow humanitarian supplies to enter the Old City of Homs and permit approximately 2,500 besieged civilians to leave. While the deal has successfully permitted a reported 600 civilians to exit the besieged area, aid operations have also been complicated by direct attacks from hostile combatants.
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UN Outraged by Looting of Humanitarian Supplies in South Sudan

UN Outraged by Looting of Humanitarian Supplies in South Sudan

Inter Press Service — The United Nations has responded with outrage and disappointment at the recent looting of humanitarian supplies in South Sudan. The issue has drawn serious attention after South Sudanese SPLA government forces were photographed wearing UNICEF backpacks slung over the same shoulders as their firearms, and U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) warehouses, along with many other humanitarian locations, have been raided.
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UN Launches Appeal for Sahel Region Aid Plan Funds

UN Launches Appeal for Sahel Region Aid Plan Funds

Inter Press Service — The United Nations Monday appealed to the international community for two billion dollars as part of a three year Regional Strategic Response Plan to provide aid and support to the African Sahel region. While providing immediate assistance to the urgent humanitarian needs of the region, the programme will also focus on supporting the root causes of the crises by engaging issues of governance, security and development.
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UNSC Warns Sanctions to Support Yemen's Political Transition

UNSC Warns Sanctions to Support Yemen's Political Transition

Inter Press Service — The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) Wednesday adopted a resolution that expresses its support for Yemen's movement toward a political transition and threatens sanctions against any actor which seeks to obstruct or undermine the process. "With this resolution, the Council is supporting the legitimate aspirations of the Yemenis, including the youth, who fought and continue to fight for deep and meaningful change."
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The U.N. Closes January 2014 With Ambitions on Climate Change

The U.N. Closes January 2014 With Ambitions on Climate Change

Inter Press Service — On January 30, 2014 the United Nations backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its complete Working Group 1 fifth assessment report, and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon both invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the September Climate Summit in New York, and opened the inaugural meeting of the high level U.N. Scientific Advisory Board for sustainable development. The complete IPCC report, which followed a summary report for policy makers released in September 2013, reaffirms the connection between human activity and climate change.
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