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• Letters: Cap and trade will reduce emissions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Your article ( Fear that $3tn market of future benefits few , 30 November) raises many of the issues examined in my recent report to the prime minister on global carbon trading. Cap and trade provides a guaranteed limit on emissions, while reducing the cost of compliance, and is a proven system for delivering real ...
  15 hours ago

• How development policy was made in Uganda

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Uganda has had more influence on current development thinking than any other country, argues Alan Whitworth Alignment; poverty reduction strategies; heavily-indebted poor countries (HIPC) debt relief; virtual poverty funds; budget support; public expenditure tracking surveys. These are all familiar terms to people ...
  4 days ago

• Spanish aid workers kidnapped

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Al-Qaida group suspected of kidnapping two men and a woman from Spanish NGO travelling in convoy Spains foreign ministry today confirmed that three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania, probably by a group affiliated to al-Qaida that has been targeting westerners in recent years. The two men and a ...
  1 week ago

• Amorikot school still waiting for government support

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The government has failed to keep its promise to take over Amorikot school, in Katine, from the community and pay teachers wages What a difference a road makes , at least for a small minority of Ugandans with a car or motorbike to drive along it. Last July, when I came to Soroti to see the first big achievement of ...
  1 week ago

• Letters: Anti-gay laws and charity in Uganda

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Given the proposed penalty of hanging for "aggravated homosexuality" if one of the same sex partners is HIV positive ( Fury at Uganda proposal for gay executions , 28 November) I hope that the Mvule Trust will have weeded out any lesbians, particularly lesbians with HIV, before any money from the new Guardian appeal ...
  1 week ago

• Climate change: Looking south

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The impact of climate change on the developing world is already so far advanced it can no longer be prevented, only mitigated. It can be seen in the increased frequency of flooding in Bangladesh, or the desertification of sub-Saharan Africa. But it is also being experienced by millions of families and individuals, the ...
  1 week ago

• Climate change will hit Africa hardest | Meles Zenawi

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Having bailed out bankers, can developed counties really oppose funds to help developing nations fight global warming? Climate change will hit Africa – a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about – first and hardest. Aside from Antarctica, Africa is the only continent that has not ...
  1 week ago

• Success weighs heavy on Namibia | Rose Orlik

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The young African nation has lost more than it has gained by its misleading classification as an upper middle income country Much significance is attached to the regional and parliamentary elections taking place in Namibia. It is the first time that so-called "free borns" – children born after Namibia gained ...
  1 week ago

• Dragons and goddesses donate mugs for auction for Mary’s Meals

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Sounds like a fairy tale and maybe it is. A dragon, a domestic goddess, a money tree, a fantastical nanny and a storyteller - among others - have raided their kitchen cupboards to support the Dalmally charity Mary’s Meals this Christmas.Duncan Bannatyne, Nigella Lawson, Chris Tarrant, Emma Thompson and Alan ...
  1 week ago

• The cost of adapting to climate change

  
  Katine: Katine Chronicles blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 100
  Farmers in developing countries are already feeling the effects of climate change. What is needed to help them cope is an almost unprecedented shift of resources from north to south, says Anne Perkins The gap between rhetoric and reality, the developed and developing worlds, is cruelly illustrated by the huge ...
  1 week ago

• Time to kill off Doha | John Hilary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Pascal Lamy is wrong: the Doha round of talks offers nothing to the worlds poorest countries. The WTO has failed to deliver Monday 30 November marks the 10th anniversary of the Battle in Seattle , the day in 1999 when 100,000 protesters took to the streets and prevented the World Trade Organisation from launching ...
  1 week ago

• Our Naiman: Our corrupt occupation of Afghanistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By Robert Naiman, ZNet , Nov 25, 2009 Source: t r u t h o u t Robert Naiman’s ZSpace Page Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain Renault about it. We’re shocked, shocked that ...
  1 week ago

• Our Naiman: Our corrupt occupation of Afghanistan

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  By Robert Naiman, ZNet , Nov 25, 2009 Source: t r u t h o u t Robert Naiman’s ZSpace Page Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain Renault about it. We’re shocked, shocked that the ...
  1 week ago

• “Kabul24″ documentary produced by Michael W. Smith airs on TBN Tuesday (11/24) at 11:00pm PT.

  
  Pisgah View — Authority: 129
  Kabul 24 – In August 2001, twenty-four anonymous people were suddenly thrust upon the world’s stage under blindfolds and the threat of sudden death.  Based on the true story as told by the captives, Kabul 24 captures the gantlet of their 105 days in captivity and the cruel treatment ...
  1 week ago

• Africas not-so-magic roundabout | Andrew Chambers

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Millions of charity dollars are flowing into water pumps driven by childrens roundabouts, but is it money down the drain? Playpumps International , which provides water pumps for African villages, sounds like a marketing dream. Children play on a merry-go-round, and as they do so water is pumped from the ground for ...
  1 week ago

• Liberian orphanages

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, according to research by Save the Children . Photographer Rachel Palmer took these images during a visit to ophanages in Liberia, where the charity estimates 80% of the children are not truly orphans.
  1 week ago

• Do NGOs provide relief or development?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Development agencies cannot hope to bring about lasting change in the communities in which they work. They can only provide short-term relief, argues Karen Treasure Boreholes and basic health or education services do not and cannot represent "development" even in the most expanded interpretation of what development ...
  1 week ago

• Save the Children claims most orphans have living parent

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, a charity claims today. According to research by Save the Children, 98% of children in residential care in central and eastern Europe, 94% of those in Indonesia and 90% of children in Ghana are not actually orphans but ...
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• We must seal the deal on world trade | Pascal Lamy

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The worlds poor will pay the price for WTO failure if negotiators do not seize the day and settle the Doha round Global trade contracted in 2009 at a rate not seen since the Depression in the 30s, and those paying the heaviest price are those who can least afford it. So, when trade ministers from the World Trade ...
  2 weeks ago

• Water supply at Katine health centre turned off

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Supply line disconnected at Tiriri health centre because authorities are unable to pay the bill Less than a year after clean water started flowing into Tiriri health centre in Katine, north-east Uganda, the taps have been turned off because there is no money to pay the bill. The National Water and Sewerage ...
  2 weeks ago

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