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		<title>Political and Economic Turmoil Threaten Women&#8217;s Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mathilde Bagneres UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; As UN Women celebrated its first birthday, its executive director Michelle Bachelet stressed that political upheveal and shrinking budgets are no excuse to push back the hard-won gains made by the women&#8217;s movement globally. &#8220;My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade: From bicycle to snowball approach to policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chakravarthi Raghavan* This year &#8220;Davos doesn&#8217;t deliver&#8221;, declared a headline over an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal Monday authored by the Journal&#8217;s money and investment editor. &#8220;One of the meeting&#8217;s attractions to its participants,&#8221; the article said, &#8220;has been imbuing the self-styled ‘global elite&#8217; with the sense that they were helping to tackle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 &#8211; A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Analysis by Janet Larsen and Sara Rasmussen* WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN shenanigans on Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Aisling Byrne* &#8211; Asia Times &#8220;Viscous nasty business&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;aggressive pressure &#8230; by US diplomats&#8221;, &#8220;ferocious pressure on weaker non-permanent members&#8221;, the &#8220;type of pressure [that] is very, very difficult for weaker countries &#8230; to resist.&#8221; That&#8217;s how a former British diplomat at the United Nations, Carne Ross, described last September&#8217;s UN showdown over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Durban: All Talked Out?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Oscar Reyes* &#8211; ZSpace Page If a lexicon of international climate conferences is ever written, Durban will be listed right after the words debacle, delusion, disaster and disillusionment. Even the disappointments were not surprising at the 17th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which took place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling, U.S. Urges Appeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jan 31, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude &#8220;Baby Doc&#8221; Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses committed during his 15-year reign, from 1971 to 1986. The Office of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS CHINA STILL A DEVELOPING COUNTRY?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Martin Khor (*) GENEVA, Jan (IPS/South Centre) Is China still a developing country or has it joined the ranks of the advanced developed countries? This has become a pressing question, especially after the US President Barack Obama reportedly told President Hu Jintao that China had to act more responsibly now that it has grown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke Free Middle East Meet &#8216;A Priority Issue&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ramesh Jaura Interview with UN General Assembly President Al-Nasser BERLIN &#124; NEW YORK (IDN) &#8211; UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser is committed to convening a conference directed at establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East. &#8220;I continue both personally and through my office to lend all possible support to formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anschluss Economics – The Germans Launch a Blitzkrieg on the Greek Debt Negotiations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marshall Auerback &#8211; Naked capitalism News stories continue to suggest that Greece once again appears on the verge of reaching a deal with its private sector creditors on how much of a loss they would be willing to accept on their bond holdings. The latest numbers suggest a 70% write-down. A pretty striking comedown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.other-news.info/2012/01/anschluss-economics-%e2%80%93-the-germans-launch-a-blitzkrieg-on-the-greek-debt-negotiations/</link>
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		<title>WSF: Working Towards a Never-Ending Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Antonio Martins PORTO ALEGRE, Jan 27, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; For five centuries, Europe has taken it upon itself to enlighten the world, teaching it ways to address and overcome crises, from ideas and wars to missionary work and genocides. But it forgot it only held a part of the world&#8217;s knowledge and now it [...]]]></description>
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