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Indonesian villagers allege mining byproduct making them sick. Reported by Washington Post, Oct. 18, 2004.

BUYAT BEACH, Indonesia -- Villagers blame Newmont Mining Corp., the world's largest gold-mining company which is based in Denver, for polluting their waters. Official testing sponsored by the WHO failed to show that the arsenic and mercury levels were not toxic.

 

Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize - Oct. 8, 2004

The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, activist Wangari Maathai, is the leader of the Green Belt Movement.

Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.

In the late 1970s Mrs Maathai led "The Green Belt Movement" to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to prevent deforestation.

Africa's peace laureates: 2004 - Wangari Maathai, Kenya 2001- Kofi Annan, Ghana 1993 - Nelson Mandela, South Africa 1984 - Desmond Tutu, South Africa 1960 - Albert John Lutuli, South Africa.

Country briefing: BRAZIL

Common greetings:

  • Good morning = Bom dia
  • Good afternoon = Boa tarde
  • Thank you = Obrigado/obrigada
  • Goodbye = Tchau

From economist.com: Inequality, rather than identity or independence, is Brazil's central saga.

From Brazzil.com mag:

  • Did you know? 80% of Brazilians live in cities.

 

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MOSCOW BRIEFING October 2004

From economist.com
The Russian government agreed on September 30th to endorse the Kyoto protocol, the international global-warming treaty that seeks to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels.


"The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities."
From Article 3 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

 

European Union Update: Turkey and the EU clash over values

 

From the economist.com, Sept. 27, 2004.
Ten new countries joined the European Union in May 2004:
Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Malta, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Turkey has been a contender for membership in the last 40 years. Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suddenly withdrew a long-planned package of amendments to Turkey's penal code, designed to gather support for Turkey's bid for membership. He even suggested that he wanted to revive the criminal penalties for adultery that his government had earlier seemed prepared to drop.
Erdogan's comments seemed to have upset Berlin and Paris and may cause derailment of Turkey's long awaited status in the EU. One EU leader called plans to recriminalize adultery a "joke". Erdogan responded by saying that membership in the EU is not the be-all, end-all, but Turkey's stock markets did not seem to agree - the main index of the Istanbul stock exchange took a pounding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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