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Landless and exposed to the elements
No commentsUganda’s Batwa communities have been marginalised for decades. Now they are struggling to cope with extreme weather conditions, and want better homes to protect them from storms and landslides.
Among the posh office premises of the Red Cross Society and the court of adjudicature on Muchingo hill, in Uganda’s western district of Kisoro, are ramshackle houses in which a community of Batwa people live.
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What Bali means for China
No commentsChina played a critical negotiating role in the fraught UN climate summit in Bali. Its next challenge is to satisfy the demands of the world’s media.
The UN climate summit in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007 will probably be best remembered for the executive secretary, Yvo de Boer, dramatically walking out of the conference hall in tears. In less dramatic but more important ways China significantly advanced the negotiations, with huge implications for global efforts to tackle climate change. And it also learnt an important lesson about itself.
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