24/05/2012
By Ernest Corea* (IDN-InDepthNews) – Support for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation suffered a set-back when Republican Senator Richard Lugar was defeated at a pre-election primary (May 8) in the state of Indiana. He was eliminated by a tea party supported contender, and will not be the Republican Party candidate for the Senate in November. Lugar has announced, as well, that he will not run as an Independent.
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This removes from the federal legislature a widely recognized and respected legislative activist on nuclear disarmament related issues that most of his colleagues would prefer to tuck under their mattresses and forget. Among them: a timely caution on the serious risk of nuclear famine.
Lesser beings are now left to focus on and bring good sense into decisions that impinge on security, stability, and survival.
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24/05/2012
In Burkina Faso, “The drought and rising food prices have taken their toll. Many families have had to sell their livestock to cover their household food needs or they are eating the seeds that they should plant for the next season,” the United Nations humanitarian chief alerted.
Armed conflict in Mali forced thousands to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. Photo: OCHA/Nicole Lawrence
There is a need “to respond rapidly to the food and nutrition crisis in Burkina Faso, which is affecting some 2.8 million people,” the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, said on 23 May at the end of a two-day visit to the country.
Burkina Faso is part of the Sahel region, in which there are currently 15 million people facing food insecurity. The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and includes Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and the northern regions of Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal.
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24/05/2012
By Ian Duff (Greenpeace)* May 23 — No matter what you think about fast food, you’ll no doubt agree that rainforests shouldn’t be trashed to make packaging destined for the trash. But that’s exactly what’s happening. Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is supplying KFC with packaging products that are made from Indonesia’s rainforests.
Source: Greenpeace
The original Colonel Sanders couldn’t have imagined the company he founded in 1930 would be driving rainforest destruction half a world away from where he started it in Kentucky, USA.
But a new Greenpeace International report, ‘How KFC is Junking the Jungle’ shows just that. Thorough supply chain research and forensic testing has revealed how KFC is buying paper products made from rainforest fibre, supplied by APP.
APP sources rainforest logs from the habitat of the endangered Sumatran tiger. Last week the company made what it claimed were ‘new commitments’ to protect forests. In reality it will still continue to rely on rainforest clearance.
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24/05/2012
Vice President of the Cocamu Coffee Cooperative leads a meeting about gender awareness in the agriculture sector. Photograph by UN Women.
Sitting under the shade of a mango tree, Agnes Uyisabye is reviewing a list of local beneficiaries of the country’s health insurance scheme.
Uyisabye, 35, is a grassroots leader in the Kansi sector of southern Rwanda. For the last nine years, she has been in charge of social affairs in the local umudugudu (Rwanda’s smallest administrative unit) overseeing its 896 residents spread across 204 households. It is an unpaid role, but Uyisabye does not mind.
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24/05/2012
Geneva – There is a “growing disconnect between people and policy, people and government… Many people are saying ‘you are not taking my situation into account’ – this is particularly true in the case of youth and young people, whose feeling is often: ‘OK, you talk about our issues but we’re not there, we’re not there in the process.’
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This is what the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Juan Somavia, said in an address to young men and women attending the opening of an ILO Youth Employment Forum in Geneva on 23 May. Somavia also warned of growing discontent “over the way the global economic crisis has been handled in Europe,” while hailing developing countries that followed a different track and increased social protection.
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