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- Ban mentions human rights on China trip
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was criticized for sidestepping issues of human rights during a visit to China, on Tuesday told the country's future Communist elite that ensuring such rights is the responsibility of the increasingly powerful nation. "So too is respect for freedom of expression and the protection of its defenders," he said, referring to the country's censorship. Telegraph (London) (11/3)       - Editorial -- Ban missed an opportunity in Hu meeting: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was "shamefully silent" on China's human-rights record in a recent meeting with President Hu Jintao, according to this New York Times editorial. Ban would have been within his duties to bring up the case of imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The New York Times (free registration) (11/2)
 - Newspaper readers review Uganda progress
The Guardian takes a final look at the three-year development project in Katine, Uganda, financed by Guardian readers and Barclays Bank, and implemented by the African Medical and Research Foundation. The project has sought to improve health care, sanitation and education for more than 29,000 residents. The Guardian (London) (11/3) - FAO raises alarm over livestock plague
The Small Ruminants' Plague has a death rate of almost 100% and is threatening 50 million sheep and goats across Africa, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization warns. While the virus does not directly affect humans, the devastation of livestock poses serious social and economic risks for the continent, FAO says. CNN/This Just In blog (11/2) - Can the rhino be saved?
Conservationists, governments and Interpol are working together in an attempt to save the world's rhinoceros from extinction now that poachers have begun targeting one of the species' last refuges, South Africa. Rhino populations have plummeted globally by 90% since 1970, with poachers killing the animals for horns worth as much as $400,000 on Asian markets. The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (11/2) - White-collar Chinese are pushing green living
According to this report, some urban professionals in and around Shanghai are quitting well-paying jobs and cultivating long-dormant farms in hopes of spreading norms of green living across the swiftly industrializing country. So far, the setbacks to their attempts at organic farming are proving substantial, and expensive. The Washington Post (11/1) - Clinton highlights climate change in Pacific
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for meaningful measures to limit greenhouse gases and slow the effects of climate change that are threatening island countries in the Pacific Ocean, such as Papua New Guinea, where she delivered the remarks today. AlertNet.org/Reuters (11/3) - Iran readies execution in high profile case
An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning will now be hanged today instead, the International Committee Against Stoning says. The death sentence given to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani upon conviction of adultery and complicity in the murder of her husband sparked international outcry and condemnations of the Iranian judicial system. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)/Reuters (11/2) - Greece freezes foreign mail shipments
Greece today suspended international mail and parcel shipments for 48 hours in the wake of explosions of small parcel bombs at the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens. At least 10 suspicious packages were sent by left-wing extremists to Greek and other addresses in Europe, according to police, who intercepted some of the parcels, carrying out controlled explosions. BBC (11/3) , The Guardian (London)/Reuters (11/3) - Japan-Russia territorial row escalates
Japan has recalled the country's ambassador to Russia as a diplomatic spat between the two countries over the disputed Kurile Islands chain intensifies. The former Soviet Union seized control of the islands at the end of World War II setting off decades of disagreement that flared when current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paid the first visit by a sitting Russian leader to the area earlier this week. The New York Times (free registration) (11/2) - Firefights are expected after Myanmar poll
Observers say that the election next weekend in Myanmar, intended to unite the country behind the ruling military junta, is increasingly likely to have the opposite effect. The government has signaled to semiautonomous ethnic groups along the Thai and Chinese borders that the time for negotiations has passed, and the groups are arming. AlertNet.org/Reuters (11/3)
- What is mobile technology's most important role in disasters?
 | Help prepare and warn people of an imminent disaster | | Help reconnect dispersed people affected by the disaster | | Allow quick and effective medical and rescue responses | | Allow swift exchange of news and developments | | All of the above |
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