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...shape of the rich world's policies for poverty reduction. Next month in Monterrey, Mexico, President Bush and other leaders will gather to hash out the scale and terms of a new and expanded program of financial assistance to the poorest countries. In the fall a conference in Johannesburg will take stock of the progress toward the U.N.'s "millennium goals" to eliminate extreme poverty and increase access to education and health care...
...their bull-dozed homes, IDF soldiers pointing their machine guns at elderly Palestinian men and tanks rolling through Palestinian neighborhoods. Fear tactics and mass punishment—illegal under international law—are no more justifiable in the West Bank than they were in the townships of Johannesburg...
...World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg...
...Like most kids infected with AIDS, Nkosi was born with it. He met his father for the first time at his mother's funeral. Taken in as an infant by Gail Johnson, a middle-class white woman who met him while volunteering at a Johannesburg AIDS care center, Nkosi lived a relatively normal childhood. He loved puzzles and cards. "He cheated like hell," remembers Gail. When the former p.r. executive first enrolled Nkosi in primary school, they met opposition from some parents because of his HIV status. Mother and child went public with a complaint and won. Nkosi dreamed...
...While bin Laden may not have changed the world, he made it clear how much the world had changed with out us knowing it. - Eric Christiansen, Johannesburg...