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  1. EU missing overseas aid goals as austerity bites

    Eurozone crisis leads 14 countries to cut financial assistance, anti-poverty group ONE says

  2. South Sudan must prosecute Jonglei killers and abductors – UN

    More than 880 people killed between December and February in fighting between the Lou Nuer and Murle groups

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  1. A woman walks past a sticker on the ground with a caricature of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff with a chainsaw during the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development summit in Rio de Janeiro on June 22, 2012. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

    Rio+20 closes with a whimper, not a bang

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    Manish Bapna | Climate Conversations

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  2. The Nakuru region of Kenya's Rift Valley, which was one of the worst-affected areas during the post-election violence of 2007/08. GOAL has built 10,000 houses here for displaced victims.

    Upcoming elections will be a defining moment for Kenya

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    Buck Child, GOAL Kenya | Africa Views

    Kenya has suffered periodic bouts of political conflict since multi-party elections were introduced in 1992. The most recent ...

  3. Rio+20: Don’t worry be happy

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    Helen Hamilton | AlertNet News Blog

    This week at Rio+20 there has been an overwhelming recognition that we need a new paradigm that looks at a wider set of ...

  4. A demonstrator represents the Amazon rainforest on a march at the People's Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice in Rio de Janeiro, June 20, 2012. REUTERS/Ana Carolina Fernandes

    Progress is happening at Rio+20 - just not in the negotiations

    21 June 2012 14:58 BST | Comments ( 0 )

    Laurie Goering | Climate Conversations

    Some of the world's biggest corporations are starting to think beyond short-term profit

  5. Boys suffering from polio in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa in this file picture from November 29, 2011. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

    10 years polio-free in Europe: time to celebrate, redouble efforts

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    Joe Cerrell | Health and Science

    We can’t stop until we eradicate the disease once and for all, writes Joe Cerrell of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  6. A sex shop employee poses with a condom-shaped hat during the Sex and Entertainment 2012 adult exhibition at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City on March 1, 2012. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

    The future of sex and the planet

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    Genevieve Stewart | Climate Conversations

    What has birth control got to do with sustainable development? Everything.

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