Summit hopes for mine-free world
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It is in the nature of international conferences, like the one that has occupied 1300 delegates in Nairobi this week, for a final declaration to have been written long before the conference starts.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday voiced his hope to an international meeting on water,sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face
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By Frank Urquhart  A MAJOR initiative to lessen the impact of the north-east of Scotland's "global footprint" on the world's environment is to be launched.
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Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's biggest gold producer, has been trailed by allegations of pollution on four continents, including Indonesia.
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The UN launches a global initiative to tackle the growing mountain of electrical and electronic waste.
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The world will have to wait until 2010 before the United States of America bans the use of anti-personnel landmines. This is the message the military superpower sent to the delegates attending the first review
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Global mineral conglomerate rides the tide of higher worldwide commodity demand.
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By Mark MacKenzie reports  Later this month, the great and the good from the world of geology will gather in Belfast to discuss the future of what is, essentially, a global network of theme parks.
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NAIROBI  - Some 144 countries party to an international treaty banning landmines appealed to those still outside the pact, which include the United States, China and Russia, to join it and hasten the total eradication of the deadly devices.
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The Bush administration is banning land mines that cannot be located with metal detectors, a move designed to set an example to other nations and to protect mine hunters.
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Few PSAs are as harrowing as the new work by the Brooklyn Brothers for the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the organization devoted to ridding the world of landmines. One new spot, which you can see at www.stoplandmines.org, shows a bucolic afternoon gone haywire as a girl playing soccer steps on a mine, triggering a huge explosion and widespread panic. "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere?" asks onscreen copy.
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Saying the planet is at risk from human  activity, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged  democratic reforms and an end to corporate greed when she  collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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NAIROBI, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - An American NGO that campaigns against landmines said on Tuesday that Washington&#39;s refusal to join the international treaty banning the use of the mines had set a bad example to other countries that have not stopped using the
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Belarus and a number of other countries have suggested drafting a convention to ban anti-vehicle mines.
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By Laura McCandlish, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 4--Summit faces issue of water vs.
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Saying the planet is at risk from human activity, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reforms and an end to corporate greed when she collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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The UN meets to discuss how to tackle the growing problem of dumping of electronic waste in Africa.