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Saturday, July 31, 2010   9:40 GMT


HONDURAS
Rights Situation Deteriorates
Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, 29 Jul (IPS) - Six months after the inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo, the human rights situation in Honduras continues to deteriorate, according to two major New York-based groups.
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Canada Slowing Biodiversity Protocol's Progress
Beatrice Paez
UNITED NATIONS, 19 Jul (IPS) - The spirit of international negotiations in Montreal on a draft protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) of natural resources were marred by Canada's insistence on a decentralised approach to ABS, Peigi Wilson, a Métis lawyer present at the meeting in support of the Quebec Native Women, told IPS.
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Gulf Spill Galvanises Activist Community
Matthew Cardinale
NEW ORLEANS, 30 Jun (IPS) - With the U.S .government and oil giant British Petroleum under fire for their handling of the more than two-month-old Gulf Coast oil spill disaster, environmental and community activists across the country are taking matters into their own hands.
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Iranian Diaspora Struggles to Find Unified Voice
Barbara Slavin
WASHINGTON, 29 Jun (IPS) - Iranians should be forgiven for not coming out en masse to demonstrate on the anniversary of their disputed presidential elections.
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As Canada's Democracy Trembles, a New Global Architecture Emerges
Anthony Fenton
TORONTO, 28 Jun (IPS) - Nearly 600 people were arrested as global leaders and elites met behind a fortified perimetre during the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto this weekend.
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Love, Commitment and Anger in Detroit
Bankole Thompson
DETROIT, 27 Jun (IPS) - The 2010 U.S. Social Forum ended Saturday in Detroit, a city viewed by many as a metaphor for the excesses of U.S. capitalism, with strong parting words from Pablo Solon, Bolivia's permanent representative to the United Nations.
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Connecting the Dots from Detroit to Dakar
Bankole Thompson
DETROIT, 25 Jun (IPS) - Africa's continued struggle for political and economic independence in many ways mirrors the very own struggles of communities in the U.S. that are now being tabled at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.
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A Reform Movement by and for Undocumented People
Valeria Fernández
DETROIT, 25 Jun (IPS) - Hundreds of grassroots organisations came together at the U.S. Social Forum here to discuss strategies in the fight for immigration policy changes that would put an end to criminalisation and the militarisation of the border with Mexico.
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"Excluded Workers" Move from Shadows to Negotiating Table
Bankole Thompson
DETROIT, 24 Jun (IPS) - The U.S. labour movement needs to be reorganised from the bottom up to include domestic workers, day labourers, restaurant workers, taxi drivers, farm workers, incarcerated workers, guest workers and those in the "right to work" states.
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U.S.
Youth on Frontlines of Green Justice Struggles
Bankole Thompson
DETROIT, 24 Jun (IPS) - The committed determination of young people in the environmental justice movement is emerging as a highlight of the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, which opened in Detroit this week with some 20,000 activists meeting in 'Motor City' to network and share their visions for social change.
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