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WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (The Advocacy Project/New America Media) - As governments struggle to develop an international plan for combating climate change, a new report from a leading Indian environmental group has found that informal recycling makes a huge but unappreciated contribution towards the reduction of greenhouse gases.

COPENHAGEN, Dec 13 (OneWorld.net) - Tuvalu's lead negotiator, Ian Fry, made an impassioned plea to the U.S. Senate, U.S. President Barack Obama, and the entire UN climate conference Saturday, telling them that his country's very survival depends on the decisions they make in the next week.

COPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (OneClimate.net) - The UN's Copenhagen climate conference has suddenly become a thrilling place to be. And it's a whole week till President Obama arrives, so the thrill has nothing to do with the power of the US. Quite the reverse. It's the small islands that are making waves here - islands so small and low-lying that they will be drowned if dramatic action is not taken.

COPENHAGEN, Dec 12 (OneWorld.net) - For the sixth time in five days, Canada was singled out by climate activists at the UN conference here for its efforts to slow negotiations toward an ambitious and binding climate treaty.

NEW DELHI, Dec 12 (OneWorld South Asia) - Days before the Copenhagen summit, India announced its intention to cut its carbon emission intensity by 20-25% by 2020. The announcement has evoked furious responses from opposition parties and environmentalists. Rajender Singh Negi of OneWorld South Asia argues that the minister's speech was meant to obfuscate issues.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 9 (New America Media) - Malalai Joya has been called "Afghanistan's bravest woman." When the Taliban ruled her country, she braved death, running an underground girls school. When the U.S. military overthrew the Taliban, she ran for parliament.

COPENHAGEN, Dec 9 (OneClimate.net) - I walked into the vast, crowded plenary hall at the UN's Copenhagen Climate Conference this morning at half-past eleven, hoping something more interesting would happen than a slow slog through sections and sub-sections. But I wasn't really expecting anything -- certainly not something that would make the audience gasp audibly.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 8 (IPS) - Vested interests in fossil fuels have blocked major steps against global warming so far, according to José Goldemberg, who has played a leading role at key times in the climate crisis facing humanity.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (OneWorld.net) - Twenty years ago Sunday, an angry gunman killed 14 female university students in Montreal, Canada. As advocacy groups remember the 1989 Montreal Massacre, activists are working to end violence against women worldwide.

MAGUINDANAO, Philippines, Dec 3 (IPS) - In an instant the Philippines emerged as the world's most dangerous place for journalists, effectively displacing Iraq, which, until the massacre in an impoverished town in southern Philippines, held that dubious distinction.

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LUSAKA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine without having to hide, to discuss the recurring herpes with someone who understands.

BUGESERA DISTRICT, Rwanda, Nov 30 (IPS) - Traffic flowing in and out of her office, each interruption addressed with effortless calm, the nurse in charge of Hospitalisation and Immunisation at Nyamata Health Center in Bugesera District, is a confident woman in her element.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 26 (IPS) - Public money in Brazil is being used by the state development bank to finance deforestation projects and others that trample rights, concentrate wealth, and encourage "imperialist" expansion of large national companies, according to activists at a three-day meeting in this southeastern city.

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (OneWorld.net) - The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would not be joining a treaty signed by 158 other countries to ban landmines. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the decision "lacks vision, compassion, and basic common sense."

FLORENCE, Nov 24 (New America Media) - It sounds fairly benign in English, but in Italian clandestino has become a term of hot debate. Clandestinos are the "illegals" in Italy's immigration debate. It's the word for the country's million-plus immigrants without papers. The word comes loaded with negative connotations. Now, Italian media observers are asking if the word itself is not fanning flames of xenophobia.

COLOMBO, Nov 23 (IRIN) - The release of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Sri Lanka's north is welcome, but the government must now ensure they are properly cared for, the UN and NGOs say.

DEARBORN, Nov 20 (Arab Detroit / New America Media) - In the Facebook world, November 20th is a day of importance. It is the official "Hug an Arab Day," an event that has only been circulating the social website for the past two weeks, but has thus far managed to confirm 13,593 members.

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (New America Media) - Organizers described them as immigration reform "house parties."