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- Global employment to lag through 2015
The global economy would need to generate some 23 million jobs -- most of which, some 14 million, in developed countries -- in order to reach employment levels dating back to 2007, according to a report released Thursday by the UN International Labor Organization. Unless governments address the causes of the recession, a lag in job creation will sow social unrest worldwide, says the report. The New York Times (free registration) (9/30) , The Guardian (London) (10/1)        - Angola's polio woes are an international concern
Angola needs to increase efforts to address a three-year-long polio outbreak that has already crossed the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo and is threatening the country's other neighbors, the World Health Organization says. The WHO has planned two countrywide vaccination campaigns for October and is urging authorities to express their support. AlertNet.org/Reuters (10/1) - Theft, corruption are keeping malaria drugs from Ugandan poor
Anti-malarial drugs are not reaching Ugandans who need them because corrupt government officials are selling the pills on the black market, and organized crime groups are smuggling the pills into Kenya, an investigation shows. In Uganda, some 300 people die daily from malaria, the improved prevention of which is one of the eight key Millennium Development Goals. The Independent (London) (10/1) - Pakistan's poor fear landowner flood response
Flood recovery efforts for Pakistani families are being hampered by the demands of landowners and traditional class divisions. Hundreds of bonded laborers and poor farmers who lost entire crops and livestock fear returning home where they will be asked to pay debts to landowners who have shown little inclination to provide even temporary relief for debts. The Christian Science Monitor (9/29) - European oil companies to stop investing in Iran
Several of the largest oil companies in Europe will cease to do business with Iran in response to U.S. sanctions over the country's alleged nuclear weapons program. The announcement Thursday of the measures taken by Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Eni and Statoil mark the first public moves since the United States tightened the sanctions in July. The Washington Post (10/1) - China launches second moon mission
China has launched a rocket outfitted with a Chang'e-2 probe to travel to the moon and test out new data-collection technology and help pave the way for future missions. Chinese officials hope to send a rover and eventually humans to the moon in the coming decades. BBC (10/1) - Observers are cautious over Suu Kyi release news
Observers are warily greeting word that the ruling junta in Myanmar will release Aung San Suu Kyi, democracy activist and Nobel laureate, after elections scheduled for November. Her current term of house imprisonment is set to expire Nov. 13, several days after the election, which members of her political party are boycotting as neither free, nor fair. The Independent (London) (10/1) - Advocates urge more change as Saudi freedoms increase
Saudi authorities have initiated some reforms in recent years to give the country's citizens more personal freedom, but rights advocates remain concerned most of the changes are merely cosmetic. Progress on freedom of expression, women's rights and reform of the judicial system, rights supporters note, has yet to be truly institutionalized or codified into law. The Economist (9/30) - Dutch leaders to ban Islamic veil
Government leaders in the Netherlands are expected to ban wearing the full Islamic veil and to tighten immigration rules. The moves are seen as concessions to an anti-Islamist politician whose cooperation was required to form a governing coalition. BBC (9/30) - Stuxnet may have unintended consequences
The Stuxnet computer worm, apparently intended to debilitate nuclear power plants and pipelines in Iran, could have consequences that its creators did not foresee -- such as supplying the framework for cyber-warriors who could modify it to serve other purposes. "I've seen every large sort of outbreak, and we've never seen anything like this. It's fundamentally changed our job, to be honest," cybersecurity expert Eric Chien said Thursday at the Virus Bulletin conference in Canada. National Public Radio (10/1)
- What was the best take-away message from last week's UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Review Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative or the UN Week Digital Media Lounge?
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