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...recently activists have highlighted the exploitation of coltan, a rare mineral used in cell phones. The next targets? Fish and water, says Alex Yearsley, a campaigner with London-based NGO Global Witness. Yearsley, who joined a panel to discuss the role of business in conflict at the World Economic Forum's Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town last week, says that "predatory looting of Africa's ocean assets" could destabilize already fragile societies. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa says there is "a lot of resentment among people who see themselves left with the scales and bones while all the fish flesh...
...brief statement yesterday, Brigham and Women’s said that “the legal process is the appropriate forum to respond to the allegations...
...democratic opposition. And with Burma set to chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year, its neighbors are trying to persuade the country's military dictators to "voluntarily" give up their turn, so as to avoid the embarrassing prospect of the U.S. and E.U. boycotting the forum's meetings. On that, at least, Rangoon appears to be listening: Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Thailand's Foreign Ministry spokesman, told TIME the generals had agreed to "bear in mind the larger interests of ASEAN." But that's unlikely to include the interests of Burma's people...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) voted Monday to withdraw from an Ivy League-wide forum for student governments because members said it is a waste of the UC’s money and members’ time...
...Secretary and Ivy Council Delegate Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 argued vociferously against the UC’s removal from the forum...