[IndyMedia Bombay] openDemocracy: The End of Sustainable Development?

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=46rom: "openDemocracy" <opendemocracy@opendemocracy.net>
Subject: THE END OF 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT'?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:24:44 +0100

SUMMARY

The decisions made at summit conferences impact on people living in 
prison cells, caves and mud houses - and everyone in between. This 
issue of www.openDemocracy.net interviews one of the key participants 
in discussions of world poverty before the World Summit. We highlight 
two of the most intractable features of the global landscape - 
al-Qaida and Kosovo - and illuminate themes of migration, monarchy, 
hunting, and copyright. Plus...an epic soccer match you may have 
missed.

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RIO PLUS 10 - AN END OR A BEGINNING?
The success of next month's Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable 
Development is in the balance. In a revealing interview, FELIX DODDS 
of the Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future is frankly pessimistic 
about its chances of nudging the world towards fairness:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D99&DocID=3D1=
539

=46AR FROM CHINA
In the heart of England, a young Chinese woman awaits deportation 
after being caught stealing bread. Why is she here? She had to flee 
China after protesting at the death of her mother - a Falun Gong 
supporter - in police hands. CAROLINE MOOREHEAD tells the story of 
Q.G:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D120&DocID=3D=
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THE SILENCE OF THE LIONS
PAUL ROGERS continues his enquiry: what has become of al-Qaida? Are 
George Bush's policies and rhetoric playing into their hands?
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D103&DocID=3D=
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SOCCER WARS
Latest: US nil, EU nil...
openDemocracy satirist DOMINIC HILTON offers expert commentary on an 
interminable World Cup clash:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D102&DocID=3D=
1541

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A GLOBAL VILLAGE NEEDS SCIENCE
Copyright benefits publishers and biotech companies, but in the view 
of the scientist ROGER TATOUD, it is a "wicked" obstacle to 
scientific progress.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/debate_home.asp?CatID=3D125&DebateID=3D23=
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THE LAND IS OURS
The passion for hunting among English rural people is a symbolic 
assertion by hunters and farmers alike of the connection between 
making, owning and sharing the landscape, ROGER SCRUTON proposes:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D4&DocID=3D15=
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KOSOVO'S FUTURE - A TIME FOR CLARITY?
Kosovo Liberation Army leader turned politician, HASHIM THACI, sees 
the US's 'war on terror' as vindicating his independence struggle; 
NEBOJSA COVIC, Serbia's deputy prime minister, challenges the view 
that Kosovo's future lies outside Yugoslavia; and SCARLETT MCCGWIRE, 
who has worked closely with Kosovan politicians, adds her judgment.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D6&DocID=3D15=
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D6&DocID=3D15=
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D6&DocID=3D15=
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RULERS MUST BE JUST
=46or SHUSHA GUPPY, Firdowsi's thousand-year old Book of Kings is not 
just a Persian literary masterpiece, but a persuasive case for 
legitimate monarchy bound by enduring values:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=3D18&DocID=3D1=
534

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