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COPENHAGEN, Dec 9 (OneClimate.net) - I walked into the vast, crowded plenary hall at the UN's Copenhagen Climate Conference this morning at half-past eleven, hoping something more interesting would happen than a slow slog through sections and sub-sections. But I wasn't really expecting anything -- certainly not something that would make the audience gasp audibly. Full Story »

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 8 (IPS) - Vested interests in fossil fuels have blocked major steps against global warming so far, according to José Goldemberg, who has played a leading role at key times in the climate crisis facing humanity. Full Story »

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (OneWorld.net) - Twenty years ago Sunday, an angry gunman killed 14 female university students in Montreal, Canada. As advocacy groups remember the 1989 Montreal Massacre, activists are working to end violence against women worldwide. Full Story »

MAGUINDANAO, Philippines, Dec 3 (IPS) - In an instant the Philippines emerged as the world's most dangerous place for journalists, effectively displacing Iraq, which, until the massacre in an impoverished town in southern Philippines, held that dubious distinction. Full Story »

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LUSAKA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine without having to hide, to discuss the recurring herpes with someone who understands. Full Story »

BUGESERA DISTRICT, Rwanda, Nov 30 (IPS) - Traffic flowing in and out of her office, each interruption addressed with effortless calm, the nurse in charge of Hospitalisation and Immunisation at Nyamata Health Center in Bugesera District, is a confident woman in her element. Full Story »

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 26 (IPS) - Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage "imperialist" expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting in this southeastern city. Full Story »

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (OneWorld.net) - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would not be joining a treaty signed by 158 other countries to ban landmines. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the decision "lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense." Full Story »

FLORENCE, Nov 24 (New America Media) - It sounds fairly benign in English, but in Italian clandestino has become a term of hot debate. Clandestinos are the "illegals" in Italy's immigration debate. It's the word for the country's million-plus immigrants without papers. The word comes loaded with negative connotations. Now, Italian media observers are asking if the word itself is not fanning flames of xenophobia. Full Story »