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At least 150 000 people die needlessly each year as a direct result of global warming, three major UN organisations warned yesterday. The belief that the effects of climate change would become apparent in 10, 20 or 50 years time was misplaced, they said in a report.
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Three thousand Indonesian children are suffering in ”horrific” conditions in adult jails, a United Nations study revealed on Thursday. Abuse, overcrowding and illness are rife, and education is poor in the facilities where many of Indonesia’s child criminals are imprisoned.
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/ 12 December 2003
Two ideas of Africa and of how to bring about change in the world clashed at the Commonwealth summit in Abuja. One sees Africa as a failed region that will have to be gradually induced to do better. The other sees a continent that will have to join and perhaps lead a radical re-ordering of global economic and political power.
Who do we believe, asks Tony Leon
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/ 12 December 2003
"I think what people are saying is that the way the Internet is governed should not be subject to the law of one state. Because, should there be conflict, a developing country like Bangladesh would have to sue in the courts of the United States. I mean, really! Give us a break." – South Africa Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri tells TerraViva her country will not wait for the global community to take action on ICTs.
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/ 12 December 2003
Share the benefits of information technology with the poorest countries and shape its use to fight illiteracy and poverty: This is the gist of appeals to rich countries and business organisations at the first global summit on information.
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/ 12 December 2003
It is ironic and sad that the modern democratic principles of the Commonwealth are contained in a document called the Harare Declaration — now a city that has come to symbolise the blatant abuse of the very values it helped enshrine and even gave its name to.
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/ 12 December 2003
Civil society organisations (CSOs) that, in a post-apartheid setting, have been at pains to withhold criticism of the government, need to embrace a new brand of social activism informed by a philosophy of "direct" and "active" accountability.
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/ 12 December 2003
Tokyo Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda Holdings stands at the crossroads, facing either the possibility of flourishing as a major pan-African conglomerate or becoming overstretched and crashing, commentators suggested last week.
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/ 12 December 2003
The Presidency has revealed the results of an 18-month long scenario-planning exercise to plot what South Africa will look like in 2014. A review of the African National Congress’s first decade in power revealed that "we’ve done very well in the past 10 years but if we continue doing so well, then it’ll be disaster".
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/ 12 December 2003
"This award is about Hebron, it’s about the North West and it’s about women," said Lillian Mokoena at a ceremony held to honour her for winning the Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mokoena is the first female winner of the award meant to encourage and sustain the development of small, medium and micro-enterprises.