http://www.unimondo.org/article/country/969/ it_IT Asia Sudoccidentale http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/151645/1/ KARACHI, Jul 25 (IPS) - As Superintendent Nusrat Hussain Mangan of Central Prison in the southern port city of Karachi spends sleepless nights trying to figure out how to raise money to save the life of one inmate, just one of 107 on his death row, there are moments of near despair. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/142505/1/ DUSHANBE, Nov 15 (IPS) - Women have played important roles in rebuilding Tajikistan after the country's civil war of the 1990s. But women in this central Asian country still have many obstacles to overcome to reach equality with men, according to some local activists and international observers. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/140435/1/ KARACHI, Oct 5 (IPS) - She is in the news again. This time appearing in a documentary film ‘Shame', that tells her tale of being ordered gang-raped as retributive punishment by a village council. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74407 Five years after U.S. President George W. Bush launched his "global war on terrorism," the world has become more unsafe, more divided, more strife-prone, more paranoid, and ironically, more vulnerable to terrorism, says New Delhi-based journalist Praful Bidwai. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/117458/1/ PLACHIMADA, India, Aug 21 (IPS) - In the end it was the ''generosity'' of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ''free fertilizer'' to the tribal aborigines who live near the beverage giant's bottling plant in this remote Kerala village that proved to be its undoing. http://www.oneworld.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/64564 Imagine there was no running water in your home. Imagine having to walk several kilometres to a tap, well or river to collect water, and then carry it home. This is what millions of women and children do every day in developing countries — sometimes more than once a day. They carry every drop of water they use for drinking, cooking, cleaning and bathing. http://www.oneworld.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/64045 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent medical support and materials to the populations worst hit by the earthquake that affected more than 30,000 people in the mountainous region of Zarand, Iran, in late February. http://www.oneworld.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/63621 More than one month after the tsunamis hit Southeast Asia, a businessman in Wolfville, N.S. is anxiously waiting for more news from the people who helped him build his company. Jeff Moore, one of the founders of the Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, says 90 per cent of the tea they carry is grown and packaged near the disaster region in Sri Lanka. They also purchase 10 per cent of their coffee beans from Indonesia's Aceh province. Economies must be re-built in Asia but this time ethics should be http://www.oneworld.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/62506 The Canadian Auto Workers union is donating $150,000 to the Canadian Red Cross for relief efforts in southern Asia after many thousands were killed and many, many more left homeless when the massive tsunami slammed into coastlines around the Indian Ocean. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/61962 The Bush Administration's force-based strategy for containing Islamic radicalism and its tolerance of authoritarian regimes in Southwest and Central Asia has convinced many Muslims across the region that U.S.-style democracy is wrong for their societies. If the White House doesn't change course over the next four years, it can expect little progress towards increasing the security situation and democratic prospects in the region, says Pakistan-based journalist Ahmed Rashid. http://www.unimondo.org/article/view/89966/1/ Da giorni violente piogge monsoniche colpiscono India, Bangladesh e Nepal causando lo straripamento di fiumi, centinaia di morti, la distruzione di case e raccolti. In India sono oltre due milioni di persone che hanno lasciato le loro case, mentre nel Bihar sono 1250 i villaggi colpiti. Caritas Italiana, in collegamento con le Caritas locali e con la rete internazionale, segue costantemente l’evolversi dell’emergenza ed è pronta ad intervenire a sostegno delle iniziative in atto e di quelle in http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/55867 The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held a meeting of decision makers, business executives and experts to create a framework for deploying ICTs for development in the region. The outcome of this dialogue will be put for the upcoming WSIS meetings. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/53797 Shareholders from Azerbaijan and Georgia expressed outrage yesterday as oil giant BP refused them access to its AGM in London. They had come to raise concerns about the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The Baku-Ceyhan coalition includes PLATFORM, Corner House and Friends of the Earth. http://www.unimondo.org/article/view/83642/1/ Le speranze di pacificazione restano minime in Cercenia: i separatisti proseguono le azioni di guerriglia contro le truppe russe e parallelamente riprendono le stragi di civili. Altre 18 persone hanno perso la vita negli ultimi due giorni e Human Right Watch denuncia uccisioni extra giudiziali. Una notizia positiva dal Caucaso: dopo ben 20 mesi nelle mani di presunti ribelli, Arjan Erkel (il capomissione di Medici Senza Frontiere per il Daghestan) è stato finalmente rilasciato. http://fi.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/53207 Tällä viikolla julkistettu, kuivuuteen ja sen torjuntaa keskittyvä verkkosivusto vastaa tarpeeseen saada ongelmasta luotettavaa tietoa sekä foorumi kokemusten vaihtoon. Asialla on Sri Lankassa päämajaansa pitävä, kansainvälinen Water Management Institute. Sivusto pyrkii yhdistämään Lounais-Aasian maiden voimavarat kuivuuden voittamiseksi.