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Pat Mooney was interviewed by Maria Heibel
Pat Mooney has more than four decades experience working in international civil society, first addressing aid and development issues and then focusing on food, agriculture and commodity trade. Mooney’s more recent work has focused on geoengineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology and global governance of these technologies as well as corporate involvement in their development. The author or co-author of several books on the politics of biotechnology and biodiversity, Pat Mooney received The Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative Nobel Prize“) in the Swedish Parliament in 1985. In 1998 Mooney received the Pearson Medal of Peace from Canada’s Governor General. He also received the American “Giraffe Award“ given to people “who stick their necks out“. Pat Mooney has no university training, but is widely regarded as an authority on agricultural biodiversity and new technology issues.
Would-Be Peacemaker Killed in Kenya
Opposition supporters, some armed with machetes, clubs and axes, were scattered by Kenyan paramilitary police in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.
A child’s right not to be exploited online
The rights of children - in particular the right of protection from paedophiles operating on the internet - will be discussed Tuesday afternoon by MEPs. The world-wide-web has created a new area of anonymity for those preying on children, with child pornography being rampant. It is illegal to exploit children via the internet and several cases have shown the police are capable of tracking down offenders. Tuesday's debate centres on a report by Italian MEP Roberta Angelilli (UEN).
Disease fears grip flood-hit Jakarta citizens
JAKARTA: Fears of disease gripped Indonesia’s flood-hit capital yesterday with thousands of people living in cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a week after the city’s worst floods in five years.
Strong quake buries children in East Africa
A powerful earthquake struck the region around Lake Tanganyika in East Africa on Monday, collapsing dozens of homes and burying children in the rubble.
Explosions in Iraqi cities as polls open
Several Iraqi cities have been rocked by mortar and car bomb attacks, as voters began trickling in to polling stations.
Remington's Bridgeport Facility to Be Phased Out Over Next Several Months
MADISON, Wis. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rayovac Corporation (NYSE: ROV) today announced significant operational changes to integrate Remington Products, which it acquired in September 2003