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Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa
Davison Makanga interviews MARI-LISE DU PREEZ, forests, fisheries and governance expert
CAPE TOWN - Fisheries contribute at least $10 billion dollars to African economies every year. In countries such as Angola, Egypt and Namibia, fisheries are vital economic drivers.
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Capital Punishment in Canada, Revisited
By Aprille Muscara
NEW YORK - Thirty-four years ago, Canada was one of the first Western countries to abolish the death penalty. In 1987, the question of capital punishment and whether it should be reinstated resurfaced in the House of Commons.
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Mousavi's Revelations Would Destroy the Govt's Legitimacy
Omid Memarian interviews ABOLHASSAN BANISADR, Iran's first post-Revolution president
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Responding to pro-government critics, Iran's defiant opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said several times in recent months that he would reveal "untold secrets" from his tenure.
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"Democracy Deficit Is the Biggest Obstacle to Development"
Beatrice Paez interviews INGRID SRINATH, Secretary-General of CIVICUS
MONTREAL, Canada - Three scenarios were laid before the delegates here attending the CIVICUS World Assembly, a venue that attracts civil society, donors, government and business leaders from every region of the world.
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Native Women in Bolivia's Lowlands Build Leadership Skills
Franz Chávez interviews ZULEMA LEHM, expert on indigenous issues
TRINIDAD, Bolivia - In the northeastern Bolivian department (province) of Beni, a region of wetlands, savannah and jungle where three-quarters of the population lives in poverty, indigenous women are building a new kind of leadership to help develop their communities.
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"Feminism Doesn't Bite"
Dalia Acosta interviews Mexican anthropologist and feminist MARCELA LAGARDE
HAVANA - After more than a century of existence, feminism is still around in Latin America and the world, but the history of this ideology that seeks equality for women is like a succession of breaking waves, with peaks and troughs.
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"We Must Move from a Masculine to a Feminine Economy"
Mario Osava interviews Brazilian feminist ROSE MARIE MURARO
RIO DE JANEIRO - It is necessary to move from a "masculine" economy based on competition and a win-lose mentality to a "feminine" win-win economy based on the concept of collaboration, says writer Rose Marie Muraro, one of the pioneers of Brazil's feminist movement.
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'Corruption Is an Extraordinary Danger'
Patricia Grogg interviews Cuban political scientist ESTEBAN MORALES
HAVANA - "I still view corruption as an extraordinary danger" to the country, as its "corrosive power" makes it a matter of "national security," said Esteban Morales, who was expelled from the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) after publishing an article warning of its pervasive effects.
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"Incomprehensible" Absence of Women in Global Environment Policy
Julio Godoy interviews WEDO activist SANDRA AKPÉNE FREITAS
BONN - There is a vacuum in the various texts that currently regulate global policy against climate change: specific mention of the effects of global warming on women and of the role women can play in protecting the environment.
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"The World Needs a New Social Contract"
Clarinha Glock interviews Argentine Nobel Peace Prize-winner ADOLFO PÉREZ ESQUIVEL
BARCELONA, Spain - "We have to start thinking about a new social contract on a planetary scale, but also within each country," says Argentine activist and scholar Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
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