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"Tanzania says
it is committed to ending child labor in small-scale gold mines, following the
revelation of child labor in mines by a Human Rights Watch report." UN Dispatch (8/29)
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Why a moratorium against nuclear testing continues to be
crucial Today is
International Day Against Nuclear Tests, when the United Nations raises
awareness of the impact of nuclear testing and the moratorium against them. The
moratorium has been violated, such as by North Korean missile tests in recent
years. That's why it's important to highlight "the continuing threat they pose
to our health and survival and the imperative that we rid the world of them,"
says John Loretz of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War. Inter Press Service
(8/27)
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Microfinance helps restore dignity to the
impoverished Microfinance
needs to be reconsidered as one of the tools to alleviate poverty, writes
Jean-Marc Debricon, executive director of Green Shoots Foundation. Microfinance
can enable "the impoverished to see themselves as 'worthy,' " and helps "restore
what poverty had snatched away from them, their dignity," he argues. Thomson Reuters Foundation
(8/28)
Southern Africa group struggles to attract funding The Southern
African Development Community has ambitious plans but is having difficulty
getting financing, write John Fraser and Collins Mtika. Development experts say
that the group needs to work on collaboration with other regional projects and
develop private-sector support. Inter Press Service
(8/29)
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Peacekeeping and
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Child recruitment continues in DR Congo Recruitment of
child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo is ongoing, says UNICEF. Many
of the recruits are boys that rejoined military groups after being released from
them. "The economic hardships the first time I was reunited with my family were
so hard that I decided to go back to fighting," one child soldier
says. Inter Press Service
(8/29)
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