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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:32:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The FAO: in Whose Interest?]]></title>
<link>http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/story/2902</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:32:22 -0400</pubDate>
<dc:creator>janepeterson</dc:creator>
<category>World &amp; Business</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Summit of the Food and Agriculture Organisation held in Rome on June 2 and 3, 2008 began with a downsizing in the menu of the delegates' lunch, but the rest of the summit was characterized by the usual waste: of time. Symbolically, the delegates ate well, then discussed the famine to be suffered - by others. The situation of the world's farmers was practically ignored at the summit - the usual practice, which reflects these organization's tendencies to ignore the total nature of crises to be dealt with, the leader of a global farmers' group stated. &quot;It's a reflection of how disconnected and dis-linked our multilateral agencies are, from the situation on the grounda4 The people who have the ability to actually do something about this crisis were precludeda4 I'm worried about the importance and priority of farmers in this whole equation&quot; Ajay Vashee, head of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP, the world's largest farming organization with 600 million independent family farmers in 115 organizations from 80 countries) told AFP at the close of the 38th World Farmers' Congress in Warsaw, Poland.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Repression in Tibet, Behind Closed Doors]]></title>
<link>http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/story/2852</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:35:41 -0400</pubDate>
<dc:creator>janepeterson</dc:creator>
<category>Media</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Tibet still closed to foreign press despite &quot;unprecedented&quot; post-quake openness in Sichuan Reporters without bordersPress release30 May 2008 Reporters Without Borders welcomes the policy of transparency currently being applied to the foreign press in the areas hit by 12 May's terrible earthquake and calls on the Chinese authorities to apply the same policy to the Tibetan regions, where the security forces continue to prevent travel by foreign journalists. &quot;The government is allowing the foreign media a remarkable and unprecedented level of freedom in Sichuan,&quot; Reporters Without Borders said. &quot;It should be extended to the Tibetan regions which the international press has not been able to visit freely since the Lhasa riots on 14 March. The government is clearly trying to prevent the foreign media from confirming the few reports emerging about arrests of Tibetans and reeducation campaigns being carried out since then.&quot; The press freedom organisation has spoken recently to properly accredited foreign journalists who have been turned back when they tried to enter Tibetan areas. &quot;I took one of the roads that goes from Chengdu towards the Tibetan plateau but police at a checkpoint told me to turn round,&quot; said a European reporter who did not want to be named.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Earthquake Truth Beginning to See the Light]]></title>
<link>http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/story/2829</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:14:04 -0400</pubDate>
<dc:creator>janepeterson</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[As we have already pointed out, isn't it a bit hard to believe that Chinese authorities know nothing about such a devastating earthquake? The only question remaining is this: will the whole truth come to light by accident, or will individuals from the bureaucratic machine risk everything to let the world know this truth - the Chinese dictatorship cares nothing about the vast majority of Chinese people. Unmadeinchina recommends the following articles, surely to be followed by many, many others. CCP Media Apologizes for Publishing 'Earthquake Truth' Gansu Provincial Seismology Bureau reversed report to keep in line with party tune The Epoch Times 2 June 2008 Since the devastating earthquake of May 12, the question of whether the Chinese regime received warning but failed to inform the public has become a haunting shadow. On May 20, the regime's mouth piece, Xinhua News Agency, accidentally published a news report that the Gansu Provincial Party Chief praised the Gansu Seismological Bureau for having &quot;made a prediction and reported its forecast to the Gansu Province Chinese Communist Party Committee and the Gansu government, before the earthquake.&quot;<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Secret of the Chinese Economy]]></title>
<link>http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/story/2815</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:31:32 -0400</pubDate>
<dc:creator>janepeterson</dc:creator>
<category>Financial</category>
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<description><![CDATA[What is the secret of the Chinese economy? Often when we try to understand the reason why Chinese goods (shoes, clothes, toys, gadgetsa4) cost so little, the answers we are given by newspapers and television shows are always the same: incredibly long work hours, child labor, the low salaries paid to the local work force. But what they don't talk about, (if not in a hidden way), are the tortures, the killings, the illegal traffic of organs, the abuse and the horrors that millions of people are subjected to every day. In China the abundant work force often costs nothing: they are prisoners condemned to hard labor. Further, the raw materials are sometimes the prisoners themselves: their dead bodies are used for the cosmetic industry and the illegal traffic of organs. We are referring to are the Laogai, which in Chinese means &quot;reform, reeducation through work.&quot; These are the concentration camps which are the foundation of the Chinese prison system as well as its &quot;economic&quot; system.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Tiananmen Mothers" Website Blocked in China]]></title>
<link>http://www.newdesignworld.com/press/story/2792</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:41:16 -0400</pubDate>
<dc:creator>janepeterson</dc:creator>
<category>Society</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Human Rights in China strongly condemns the Chinese government's block of the Tiananmen Mothers' website (http://www.tiananmenmother.org/) within China just hours after its launch on May 28. &quot;This censorship on the eve of the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, reflects the government's hard-line rejection of the Tiananmen Mothers' reasonable and wholly justified demands for justice, including direct dialogue between the government, victims and their families,&quot; said Human Rights in China Executive Director Sharon Hom. &quot;If the authorities continue to cover up the truth of the events of 19 years ago, how can the international community trust in official reports on the Sichuan earthquake, or the government's human rights and Olympics promises?&quot; The Tiananmen Mothers is an organization of family members of the victims of the violent 1989 crackdown, carried out by the Chinese military on June 3-4 of that year. The Tiananmen Mothers send appeals every year to China's leaders, the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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