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Indigenous people take on the climate crisis in Cochabamba
Four months after world leaders who gathered in frigid Copenhagen failed to agree on a binding climate treaty, a peoples' summit on climate change and the rights of Mother Earth is underway in the sun-dappled hills of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Convened by Boliv
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Beyond Bonn: The Road to Cochabamba
The close of the recent climate negotiations in Bonn did not catalyze governments to urgently retake the climate negotiations after their dismal collapse at December's Copenhagen Summit. As each day passes there are many signals that nothing is going to ha
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Indigenous people lack voice in REDD forest talks, NGOs say
Indigenous peoples and other NGOs are being excluded from key international climate meetings taking place this week that could determine the future of the world's rainforests, say a network of 40 environmental and human rights organisations denouncing the
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Is climate finance little more than aid business as usual?
An argument you hear over and over about the money rich countries have promised poor countries to help them deal with the impacts of climate change is that it should be different from aid. The reasoning goes like this: the world's wealthy, industrialised n
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I have lost my friends and cant go to school
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Saturday, April 10, 2010 On our trip to Mvolo, we heard that families that have fled recent tribal fighting are camped in the forest about
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A mattress on the floor: health care in south Sudan
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Friday, April 9, 2010 In the town of Mvolo, Sapana Abuyi, who runs a local NGO, shows us to the only local health facility: a one-storey tw
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Haiti relocations: From dusty plot to home in under a week
This post is written by Katie Chalk, Communications Specialist for World Vision in Haiti. 11th April 2010. Today, as curtains rose on the first large scale relocation of displaced communities in Port-au-Prince, I was in the audience - along with two ragged
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Learning closer to home improves kids education in rural Ethiopia
Getinet Leweyehu has been working for Concern since 2007 and has managed the education program for Concern Ethiopia. Now, in his role as Education Advisor, Getinet is driven by the commitment to help enable rural children to acquire basic education skills
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Dwindling Easter Candles for Christians in the Holy Land
The candles clutched in the hands of Palestinian Christian families, that used to flicker by the thousands during the Easter Festival of Lights, have now dwindled down to a few hundred. The number of candles, along with the local Ch
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South Sudanese get ready to vote
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Juba election fever? Tuesday April 6, 2010 We are flying above a scrubby desert, then suddenly close to a large rocky outcrop. There's the
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