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04/28/2008 Few people are aware that Louisiana is home to the United Houma Nation, nearly half of whose members were displaced when Hurricane Katrina struck. They are still struggling to get their lives back.
From: Reznet
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Related: [United States] [Refugees] [Indigenous Rights] [Social Exclusion]
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act will amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
04/28/2008 A bill to amend laws allowing workers to sue for pay discrimination on the basis of gender, race, or age was blocked Friday from debate in the U.S. Senate.
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From: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund
Related: [United States] [Civil Rights] [Gender] [Race Politics] [Social Exclusion] [Governance] [Law]
Image: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act will amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. © Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund
The shipments include equipment and medicines like needles and vaccines.
04/28/2008 For people living in underprivileged areas of Latin America and the Caribbean, surplus medical supplies from the United States, including vaccines and hospital beds, are saving lives -- and reducing the waste in North American landfills.
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Related: [Latin America and the Caribbean] [United States] [Aid] [Poverty] [Pollution] [Disease/treatment]
Image: The shipments include equipment and medicines like needles and vaccines. © Pan American Health Organization
Offshore oil and gas exploration are likely to increase
04/28/2008 The significant shifts driven by climate change in the polar regions present new opportunities and pressures for development. These are challenges which demand holistic, integrated responses (PDF briefing).
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From: International Institute for Environment and Development
Related: [Antarctica] [Canada] [Greenland] [Norway] [Russian Federation] [Energy] [Fisheries] [Climate Change]
Image: Offshore oil and gas exploration are likely to increase © Global Witness
04/28/2008 An unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor, argues John Pilger.
From New Statesman
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Related: [Latin America and the Caribbean] [United States] [Democracy] [Geopolitics]
04/27/2008 Garbage Warrior is a genuinely inspiring documentary about a maverick US architect with an experimental approach to building.
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From: OneWorld UK
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04/25/2008 On World Malaria Day a group of organizations combating the disease applaud the progress made and lay out the road ahead on malaria prevention and treatment.
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From: Global Health Council, CORE Group
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04/24/2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 24 (OneWorld) - Recording artist Shakira and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined forces this week with millions of students and teachers around the globe calling for redoubled efforts to allow children to attend school.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [United States] [Education] [MDGs] [Geopolitics]
04/24/2008 This week's closed-door meeting of leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the United States is likely to produce changes that "will favor narrow corporate interests over the public good," write trade analysts Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha.
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From: Institute of Policy Studies
Related: [Canada] [Mexico] [United States] [International Cooperation] [Labor] [Corporations] [Trade] [Democracy] [Geopolitics] [Governance]
Africans will be disproportionately impacted by climate change, argues the report.
04/23/2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.
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From: Africa Action
Related: [United States] [Niger] [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Africa] [Energy] [International Cooperation] [Climate Change] [Renewable Energy] [Human Rights] [Geopolitics]
Image: Africans will be disproportionately impacted by climate change, argues the report. © Refugees International
04/23/2008 Innovative Medicaid family planning expansions designed by state officials have hugely benefited the provision and accessibility of health care coverage for low-income people across the United States, says a new report from a reproductive health institute.
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From: Guttmacher Institute
Related: [United States] [Poverty] [Disease/treatment] [Governance]
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04/23/2008 Joukko tunnettuja Yhdysvaltain juutalaisia on perustanut järjestön rahoittamaan ja auttamaan poliitikkoja, jotka kannattavat Israelin ja Palestiinan välisen konfliktin ratkaisuksi kahta erillistä valtiota ja vaativat Yhdysvaltoja toimimaan voimakkaasti tämän puolesta.
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From: Suomen IPS
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Carbon pollution from a factory.
04/22/2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 22 (OneWorld) - Pennies a day. That's all it would cost the United States to significantly reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming. What's more, the cost to businesses, families, and overall economic growth would be minimal, according to a new study released this week.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [United States] [Economy] [Business] [Climate Change] [Governance]
Image: Carbon pollution from a factory. © Geographical
04/22/2008 Through the stories of the Rabban and Karana families, Adam Doster relates the immense difficulties facing Iraqi refugees -- including the few who manage to receive asylum in the United States.
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From: In These Times
Related: [Iraq] [Jordan] [Syria ] [United States] [Education] [Migration] [Refugees] [Social Exclusion] [Disease/treatment] [Governance] [Conflict]
04/22/2008 Amid growing concern over global food insecurity, Kimberly Ann Elliott urges the U.S. government to cut subsidies for biofuel production, "one of the few policy levers available in the short run to relieve demand pressures."
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From: Center for Global Development
Related: [United States] [Agriculture] [Energy] [Food] [Finance] [Climate Change] [Pollution] [Renewable Energy]
George W. Bush: by-passed by 18 U.S. states
04/22/2008 U.S. state governors say they are fed up with the Bush administration's foot-dragging on climate change and will go ahead -- and around -- the White House to reduce greenhouse gases.
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From: Inter Press Service
Related: [United States] [Climate Change] [Pollution] [Politics]
Image: George W. Bush: by-passed by 18 U.S. states © Earth Action / EarthAction
Soldiers Speak Out video.
04/21/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Afghanistan] [Iraq] [United States] [Health] [Governance] [Conflict] [Arms & Military]
Image: Soldiers Speak Out video.
04/19/2008 NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man."
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [United States] [Education] [Climate Change] [Environmental Activism] [Communication] [Knowledge] [Science]
04/18/2008 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that lethal injection as practiced by the state of Kentucky does not violate the Constitution.
From: Human Rights Watch
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