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03/31/2007 NEW YORK, Mar 30 (OneWorld) - For those in the United States and Canada who stand for sustainable modes of production and consumption of natural resources, including seafood, there is good news from the oceans this week.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Canada] [Food] [Consumption] [Oceans]
03/30/2007 An appeals court has rejected a plan to use treated waste water to make artificial snow for a ski resort in the San Francisco Peaks, which are sacred to 13 indigenous nations in the southwestern United States.
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From: Cultural Survival, Inc.
Brian Grzelkowski remarks on what he saw in Colombia.
03/30/2007 Despite billions of dollars of U.S. assistance, large swaths of Colombia face violence, drug trafficking, poverty, and human suffering on a massive scale. Only Sudan has more displaced people. It's time for a new plan for Colombia -- one that focuses on human, rather than military, needs.
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From: Mercy Corps
Related: [Colombia]
Image: Brian Grzelkowski remarks on what he saw in Colombia. © Thatcher Cook / Mercy Corps
03/29/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 29 (OneWorld) - Immigrant rights activists in Colorado have launched a week-long economic boycott, saying they want to show how big an impact immigrants have on the economy.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Labor] [Migration] [Politics] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Law]
San Francisco; May 2006.
03/29/2007 The STRIVE Act, recently introduced in the U.S. Congress, fails to protect the fundamental human rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning group warned recently.
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From: American Friends Service Committee
Image: San Francisco; May 2006. © Liz Highleyman / Independent Media Center
Darfuri women displaced by violence.
03/29/2007 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (OneWorld) - There can be no durable peace in the Sudanese region of Darfur unless major world powers take swift and effective measures to protect civilians and punish those responsible for committing crimes against humanity, say foreign policy experts in a new study released Tuesday.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [China] [Russian Federation] [Sudan] [Geopolitics] [Conflict] [Conflict Resolution]
Image: Darfuri women displaced by violence. © Refugees International
03/28/2007 Australian David Hicks has been the first Guantanamo detainee to face trial, some five years after his capture. A report released just before Hicks' trial reiterates concerns that the U.S. government-sponsored "military commissions" will not meet international standards of justice.
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From: Amnesty International USA
03/27/2007 A recent study contends that African Americans will be the leading beneficiaries of the new U.S. minimum wage increase, with 1.4 million African American workers potentially seeing their incomes rise.
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From: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund
03/27/2007 The U.S. Congress has moved forward a bill that would prohibit the collection of genetic information to use for insurance underwriting, and bar employers from using the tests for hiring and firing decisions.
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From: kaisernetwork.org (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Coal Power Plant
03/24/2007 More than any other countries on Earth, the United States and China hold the key to whether humanity can put the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the dire consequences of global warming.
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From: Policy Innovations
Related: [China]
Image: Coal Power Plant © Policy Innovations
03/23/2007 The Employee Free Choice Act, a bill heralded by some as the most important U.S. labor law in 50 years, is one step closer to law.
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From: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund
03/19/2007 As many as 50,000 turned out for an anti-war march on the Pentagon Saturday, overcoming dangerous weather and police in riot gear, who they say blocked access to the Pentagon in contravention of prior agreements.
From: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
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Related: [Iraq]
Immigrants rights protestor, San Francisco; May 1, 2006.
03/17/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 17 (OneWorld) - Politicians in Washington are debating the issue of immigration this week. Many Democrats want to create a guest worker program through which undocumented immigrants would be able to earn legalization over time. Conservative Republicans have their own ideas--from stepping up deportations, to building a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, to punishing employers who hire undocumented workers.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Labor] [Migration] [Politics] [Law]
Image: Immigrants rights protestor, San Francisco; May 1, 2006. © Liz Highleyman / Independent Media Center
03/17/2007 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (OneWorld) - Canada, like the United States, is facing international scrutiny for its treatment of indigenous people.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Canada] [Land] [Corporations] [Indigenous Rights] [Governance]
03/14/2007 Women's bodies become battlegrounds in conflicts around the world. A new campaign is rallying Americans to demand their tax dollars be used to prevent sexual violence and help survivors.
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From: International Rescue Committee
Iraqi women.
03/11/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 10 (OneWorld) - The United States' four-year-old occupation of Iraq has considerably worsened the lives of the country's women, charges a new report from an international human rights group.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Iraq] [Gender] [Conflict] [Peace] [Security]
03/10/2007 The Pentagon is trying to silence economists who predict that several decades of care for the wounded will amount to an unbelievable $2.5 trillion, says Andrew Stephen.
From The New Statesman

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03/08/2007 Increasing the production of bio-fuels would have a disastrous impact on poor communities in Latin America, an international anti-poverty agency said as US President George Bush started a visit to Latin America.
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From: ActionAid UK
Related: [Brazil]
03/07/2007 Girls Scouts of the USA and Americans for Informed Democracy teamed up recently for a video conference for girls on "Women and Global Leadership." Girls in five cities heard presentations from and posed questions to five high profile women leaders.
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From: Americans for Informed Democracy
03/07/2007 Global health advocates are dismayed over a Court of Appeals ruling that the U.S. government can require U.S. organizations receiving HIV/AIDS grants to have a policy condemning prostitution.
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From: Global Health Council
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