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 What
Future For The United Nations?
The un
has been the victim of an
assassination attempt
Samir AMIN
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Education:
For All, For The Future
Education
is a basic human right and fundamental
to the fight for human dignity
and freedom. But for 125 million
children and 880 million adults,
that right is violated every
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 FROM
POLICY MIRAGE TO POLICY REALITY
Education
for All: The Ghanaian Experience
Juliana Gyanwa ADU-GYAMFI,
Sharif Yunus ABU-BAKR
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 Environmental
Education For Sustainable Development:
Jamaica Forging Ahead
As the
world prepares to launch the
United Nations Decade on Education
for Sustainable Development
(2005–2014), one small
island is already making big
steps towards the goal of
educating its people about
the environment.
Gina SANGUINETTI
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 Countering
River Abuse In Sri Lanka: Mobilizing
Communities Through Youth and
Water Programs in Pinga Oya
Pinga Oya
is a small but critically
placed tributary to the Mahaweli
River, the largest of Sri
Lanka’ s 103 river basins.
Kusum ATHUKORALA
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 Toward
Sustainable Water Resources
Exploitation At The Catchment
Scale
Planning
sustainable resources exploitation
at the catchment scale requires
not only analysis of the present
situation, the socio-economic
context, the availability
of resources and the environmental
carrying capacity, but also,
in order to reach equity and
to raise acceptance, paying
special attention to public
needs.
Ezio TODINI
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Meeting
Staffing Needs In A Knowledge-Based
Economy
In 2003,
Belarus was for the first
time grouped with highly developed
countries in the calculation
of the human development index.
Today it ranks 53rd in the
world, leaving Russia, Ukraine,
Bulgaria, Turkey and Macedonia
well behind.
Mikhail BATURA
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PUBLIC
AWARENESS FOR A SUSTAINABLE
CHINA
Public
Hearings for Environmental
Protection in China
Interview with Yang Chaofei
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 The
Media And Civil Society: Building
A Green China Together
A strong
civil society requires the
respect and guarantee of individual
rights
Hu KANPING
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Promoting
Green Energy Through Information,
Competition And Choice
China’s
renewable energy policy uses
tax revenues, price subsidies
and low interest rates in
order to reduce costs and
provide market-driven incentives
for embracing green power.
The Green Energy Corps, China
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 Little
Journalists, Big Mayors
In
July 2004, 25 little journalists
aged nine to fifteen started
their five days training in
Beijing in order to become
“qualified journalists”,
which included interviewing
mayors of Beijing, Shanghai,
Chongqing, Shenzhen and
Haerbin.
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 Another
World Is Possible
A new movement
of people and organizations
opposed to the negative forces
of globalization is growing,
gathering pace and momentum.
Ken LIVINGSTONE
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 Living
in slums: what does it take
and what needs to be done?
Just think
of it, a poor person who lives
in a village needs lots of
guts to come to the city to
improve their life.
Jockin ARPUTHAM
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A
Voice From The Silota Slums,
Kenya
“We
need to walk as far as 20
kilometers to get water”
Silota slums, 30 kilometers
from Nairobi.
Agnes NGINA KIILU
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Debt
Cancellation Is Not Just Idealistic
– It’s Practical
In many
cases, countries fully deliver
on their promises in return
for debt cancellation.
Jeffrey SACHS
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 Reform
Of The United Nations And International
Financial Institutions: Perspectives
From the South
The South
must formulate and present
a united policy front in WTO
negotiations
Jakaya M. KIKWETE
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 THE
DIE IS NOT CAST: A Letter to
Future Generations
In my message
to future generations, I would
like to propose arguments
designed to fight against
feelings of resignation or
powerlessness.
Ilya PRIGOGINE
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 A
Realistic Approach To Renewable
Energy In The Russian Federation
Now that
the Russian Federation has
committed to the Kyoto Protocol,
they must also develop realistic
plans to increase their use
of renewable energy.
Alexander N. KOSARIKOV, Alexey
O. KOKORIN, Natalia G. DAVYDOVA
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OF
ANTS AND MEN: What Future for
Farming?
Facing
the growth to twelve billion
stomachs in less than 50 years,
the question of how to ensure
food for the global population
should be on the minds and
mouths of everyone.
David PIMENTEL, Jennifer JACQUET
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 TRANSGENIC
PRODUCTS: Are They Harmful Or
Useful?
Skepticism
is still high around the world
with respect to the safety
of genetically modified (GM)
foods.
Ian F. PRYME
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 ABOLISHING
CHEMICAL WEAPONS: Green Cross
Completes Two-Year Chemical
Weapons Campaign
In order
to help raise public awareness
to these global security needs,
and to promote nonproliferation
and cooperative threat reduction,
Green Cross, with the support
of the Swiss Government, launched
a CWC Campaign over two years
ago.
Paul WALKER, Roland WIEDERKEHR
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 News:
Come Clean! Gorbachev Launches
Global Campaign against Weapons
of Mass Destruction
“The
threat of terrorism should
be countered by uniting the
efforts of the world’s
nations..."
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 News:
Nobel Peace Prize Goes Green
By
honoring the extraordinary
personal achievements of Wangari
Maathai, the Nobel Committee
has sent a strong message
of recognition both of the
close links between conflict
and the natural environment,
and the critical role which
local grassroots initiatives
must play in building a safer
world for the future.
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 News:
Russia Ratifies the Kyoto Protocol,
amid Fresh Climate Change Warnings
Whatever
the motives behind Russia’s
ratification, the entering
into force of the Kyoto Protocol
is arguably the biggest step
forward in international environmental
politics and law to date.
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