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		<title>A movement gets momentum on its own, it has a reason!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would love to echo Mario Osava&#8217;s words, &#8220;The environmental movement won the ideological battle with the growth of awareness on climate change. Environmentalists are no longer seen as &#8220;loonies&#8221; or granola-eating hippies: the people seen as on the fringe&#8221;. Erratic weather, flash floods, overflowing rivers, dyke bursts, extreme heat and drought, cold waves, sea level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=444&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feed hungry not car: Biofuel isn&#8217;t really helping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There had been a serious setback in technologies to find alternatives of petrol and diesel to feed hundreds and thousands of vehicles. Failure of technological breakthrough in one hand and filthiness of petroleum on the other hand had led well-off nations to innovate biofuel. It was ironically presumed by the great minds in the world that biofuel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=421&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spending on nukes vs. famine in East Africa</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/spending-on-nukes-vs-famine-in-east-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[World leaders will be spending $1 trillion on nuclear weapons in the next 10 years and money will not just seem out of the blue. They will cut essential services such as education, health care, social services and jobs. Mostly nuclear capable nations will spend more to enrich themselves including India and Pakistan. One may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=393&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t it time to shut down 400 nuclear power plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that there are around 400 nuclear power plants at the moment. Significant percentage of electricity is supplied from these plants. Hydroelectric plants alone are not enough to illuminate 7 billion people. Renewable energy technologies are at its infancy despite having support from emerging green revolution and rigorous research. Half of the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=377&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rights based movement in Egypt signals: its time for civilizer not for ruthless corrupt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights Based Approach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 9.9 magnitude earthquake had hit Tahrir Square in the city of Gods. Epicenter was the heart of thousands of people who were desperately seeking way out of 30 years imprisonment under corrupt government. It is, in fact, people&#8217;s revolution under the guise of democracy movement. Egypt&#8217;s economy is not that bad despite global recession [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=356&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decades of civil wars, who lose: donkeys and average citizens</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/decades-of-civil-wars-who-lose-donkeys-and-average-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sudan, the largest nation-state in Africa had gone through two rounds of terrific civil wars at the cost of 2 million lives and continuous violation of human rights, in fact, extreme violence against humanity. The independence of southern Sudan is confirmed by the recent vote where people in the south happily voted 98.83 percent for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=322&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing from hell to heaven: despair for an ivory tower</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/sailing-from-hell-to-heaven-despair-for-an-ivory-tower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boat smashed into the rock, shattered into pieces, dozens of asylum seekers are dead along with bodies of children and women in the rough sea of Christmas island just two weeks before the Christmas event. Screaming of the rest, who are not dead yet, with pieces of floating debris echoing back and forth between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=286&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Release of Aung San Suu Kyi &#8211; release of conscience from prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suu Kyi﻿&#8217;s release on 13th November has relieved citizens across the world who believe in freedom of speech, freedom of thoughts and democracy. She is the most admired and compassionate leader in the contemporary world who has sacrificed personal comfort for a mission to free Burma. Nelson Mandela had set an example in terms of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=272&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 10 10 drumbeats</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/10-10-10-drumbeats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 10, 2010, which in other way 10 10 10 is an important day in the postmodern history of human race. Thousands of advocacy events are going to take place in 187 countries. Citizens around the world are going to remind world governments (who are presumed to have the memory of Gold fish) that ‘global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=252&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A valuable guide for practitioner and development entities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We live, learn and develop within three kinds of relationships: relationship with self, interpersonal relationships with people around us and external relationships with the rest of the world. Power is held in relationships, whether it is the struggle we have with ourselves to claim our inner power, or the power some have over others or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3197161&amp;post=248&amp;subd=developmenthumanrights&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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