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Analysis by Zoltán Dujisin

BUDAPEST - The 2004 'Orange revolution' saw a pro-Western leadership emerge victorious in a Presidential vote that opposed them to a pro-Russian candidate accused of vote rigging. After six years of political and economic chaos, the once villain Viktor Yanukovich has reclaimed the President's post.

UKRAINE: Facing Hard Choices Again

UKRAINE: Struggling to Find a Saviour

Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, Swedish fisheries policy activist
BRUSSELS - The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.

COSTA RICA: Chinchilla to Join Club of Women Presidents
Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ - Laura Chinchilla of the governing National Liberation Party (PLN) will be the first female president of Costa Rica and the ninth in the history of Latin America.

ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook
	A textbook on human rights activism, being introduced in Romanian schools this year, steers away from preaching and uses interviews with global and local rights activists to suggest how young people may get involved.

DEVELOPMENT: South-South Cooperation Key to MDGs

RIGHTS: Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens

ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
	Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.

ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands

UGANDA: Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive

PAKISTAN: Community Midwives Gain Recognition But Concerns Remain
	As Kanwal Gul, 25, lay on the delivery table a year ago, preparing to give birth to her first child, she made sure the traditional birth attendant (TBA) assisting her knew exactly what to do. Put on the gloves, she instructed her.

RIGHTS-INDIA: Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers

POLITICS: Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Mediators’ Plan

EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
	Poland’s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.

CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future

ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook

PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets
	Although Huancavelica is the poorest region of Peru, it has more than just poverty, malnutrition and unmet needs. There are also women using their creativity, efforts and traditional indigenous knowledge to improve the diets of their families and communities.

MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That

CUBA: Women Knitting for Change

YEMEN: Development Recognised as Crucial for Stability
	Amid growing concerns here over the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a consensus is emerging among U.S. experts that Washington and other donors to Yemen must place at least as much or greater emphasis on promoting sustainable development in the Arab world's poorest country as on counterterrorism.

MIDEAST: Gazans Denied Justice as Rights Take a Beating

EGYPT: Minimum Wage Not Enough

YEMEN: Development Recognised as Crucial for Stability
	Amid growing concerns here over the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a consensus is emerging among U.S. experts that Washington and other donors to Yemen must place at least as much or greater emphasis on promoting sustainable development in the Arab world's poorest country as on counterterrorism.

POLITICS: Peace Talks May Follow Ex-Taliban Mediators’ Plan

RIGHTS: Legal Experts Slam "Targeted Killings" of US Citizens

CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future
	Exotic tree seedlings grow next to native species in the southeastern German village of Laufen, at a site where researchers are experimenting with ways to restore forests lost to the effects of global warming.

ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away

DEVELOPMENT: South-South Cooperation Key to MDGs

EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
	Poland’s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.

PAKISTAN: Community Midwives Gain Recognition But Concerns Remain

ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook

PAKISTAN: Community Midwives Gain Recognition But Concerns Remain
	As Kanwal Gul, 25, lay on the delivery table a year ago, preparing to give birth to her first child, she made sure the traditional birth attendant (TBA) assisting her knew exactly what to do. Put on the gloves, she instructed her.

UGANDA: Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive

HAITI: Displaced Women Face Double Jeopardy

EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
	Poland’s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.

PERU: Women Combine Invention, Tradition to Improve Rural Diets

ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook