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		<title>2010: Year of the Nini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kent Paterson. Source: Americas Program

If Time magazine had any inkling of sense, it would name the Nini the person of the year for 2010. Just what, you might ask, is a Nini? Adopted in Mexico during the crisis, the slang word means a young person who does not work or study.

In Mexico, the Nini has been front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/anlysis/1023</link>
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		<title>Mexico massacre galvanises migrant rights activists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Emilio Godoy - Source IPS


The difficulties faced by migrants trying to cross from Mexico into the United States have grown &#8220;exponentially&#8221; since 2002. After the appalling Aug. 23 murders of 72 migrants from different countries on a ranch in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, activists have been discussing how to improve the assistance they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/1018</link>
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		<title>Contradictions in the Latin American Left</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Immanuel Wallerstein - Source: Agence Globale

Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of elections during the decade. And collectively, Latin American governments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/anlysis/1003</link>
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		<title>International study documents pesticide health harms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: PAN 
A new study by Pesticide Action Network International (PAN) documents that hazardous pesticides are commonly used in unsafe situations around the world, and calls for assertive action by corporations, governments and international bodies to address pesticide hazards. The report release coincided with the Brussels meeting of CropLife, the global trade association for multinational [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/991</link>
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		<title>Henning Mankell&#8217;s diary on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Daily Beast
Bestselling author Henning Mankell, who sailed on the ships trying to break Israel’s Gaza blockade, shares his diary of the journey: being attacked by Israeli commandos, robbed of his possessions, and finally deported back to Sweden.

May 25. Nice, France
It is 5 o’clock in the morning and I’m standing in the street waiting for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/988</link>
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		<title>Call for Support:  International Civil Society Declaration on the Public Interest Aspects of the Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Robin Gross, IP justice
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a dangerous proposal to radically expand intellectual property rights at the global level.  The draft agreement has been negotiated in secret, without inclusion of developing nation perspectives, and without any participation from civil society or regard for the global public interest.  ACTA specifically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/981</link>
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		<title>Sex workers in India demand rights and health care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Media Global
 By Allyn Gaestel
Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM) is an HIV/AIDS organization that works primarily with sex workers. SANGRAM is based in the Sangli district in Maharashtra state. Maharashtra has HIV rates four to five times the Indian national average, and Sangli has the highest infection rate in the state. The HIV rate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/958</link>
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		<title>The story of bottled water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of stuff project presents this new video together with organizations such as Corporate Accountability International, Polaris Institute, Environmental working group, Food and Water Watc- Pacific Institute.

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		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/945</link>
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		<title>South Africa: racial tensions unveil polarized nature of society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the murder of white supremacist leader Eugène Terre’Blanche, a longtime supporter of the apartheid government and an advocate for the creation of an all-white republic within South Africa, racial tensions in South have reached a new high.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now speaks with Adam Habib. Habib, visiting the United States of America, is professor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/932</link>
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		<title>Rivers of gold: an examination of the water crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Victoria Cho
Originally published on TakePart.com
With nearly 80% of the world covered in water, why do so many people lack it?
Facts:
- Nearly 1 billion people lack reliable access to clean water
- Almost half of the people living in developing nations suffer at any time from health problems related to unclean water, such as cholera, hepatitis, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/923</link>
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		<title>Five, Six, Many New Internationalisms!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Waterman - It is less with an authoritarian or even authoritative international structure and leadership that the road to global social emancipation starts, it is in virtuous spirals of dialogue, coordination, reflection, proposition, action and evaluation – as well as forms of cultural expression and exchange reaching parts of the human psyche that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/peter-waterman/919</link>
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		<title>Closed Zone: a short film on the Gaza Strip</title>
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One of the creators of Oscar-nominated animation Waltz With Bashir has made a short film to alter Israeli perceptions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A 90-second film Closed Zone has been launched online in support of the human rights group Gisha, which advocates freedom of movement for Palestinians. It shows a Palestinian boy chasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/906</link>
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		<title>People left without water around Coca-Cola Plant in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: India Resource Center

Kala Dera, India:  The Coca-Cola company has continued to operate its bottling plant in Kala Dera in Jaipur, India even as the area has been declared a drought area last summer and the groundwater levels are falling sharply – leaving the largely agrarian community with severely restricted access to water.
Data obtained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/894</link>
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		<title>Beijing +15: Join Karama at the United Nations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karama’s delegation of 32 women from around the Arab world is headed to the UN in New York to participate in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.   During the session, Karama’s team will join women’s activists from around the world to present a detailed review of progress towards fulfilling the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/889</link>
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		<title>Sex, culture and human rights: an African leader breaks the silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is drawn from a speech given by Josina Machel at the 4th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights earlier this month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Machel is a gender activist and a social entrepreneur and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Women&#8217;s Health Coalition.

I was flabbergasted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/882</link>
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