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		<title>Changes in the air in DPRK, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2012/01/17/dprk-changes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the present uncertain situation in DPRK after the demise of the “Dear Leader” we do not know who or what group is going to be the strong force in the country. Now there may be a chance to open contacts with young people there and show what the rest of the world is like.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1861&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DPRK revisited: changes in the air?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/12/21/dprk-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gunnar Westberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the inefficiency in and oppression by the political system, the country has three great problems: The military, energy and food. The military system takes reportedly (US Department of State) one quarter of the gross national product. Even if the soldiers do some productive work the military establishment is an enormous burden which slows down development.  There is a chronic deficit of energy. The night in DPRK is still dark, as we could see from the train, and more importantly, the supply of electricity to industries, offices, hospitals and homes is unreliable and insufficient. We saw a large surgical operation performed without any other light than that from the windows. When the elevators do not run in the high buildings with 20 stores or more, the consequences are likely to be frustrating.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1852&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Alert for a Strong Arms Trade Treaty &#8211; Sign the Petition!</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/12/14/medical-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Valenti</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling All Health Professionals to Help Pass a Global Arms Trade Treaty to Save Lives, Protect Health Hundreds of thousands of people are killed each year with firearms, with millions more maimed or traumatized. The cost of treating armed violence is a huge drain on health budgets and diverts monetary and human capital from other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1833&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian doctors consider alternatives to nuclear energy</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/12/12/indian-doctors-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), IPPNW's Indian affiliate, held an interactive session on nuclear energy on October 20 at the India International Centre in New Delhi. IDPD said that the Indian people have to build a strong resistance against the nuclear policy of the government "against all the odds posed by the government and the pro-nuclear lobby in our country."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1826&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ankara conferees: &#8220;Resolve Middle East conflicts without military force&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/12/12/ankara-december-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/12/12/ankara-december-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) representatives from Israel, Iran, Egypt, United States, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Hungary and Turkey met in Ankara, Turkey, on December 8th to 10th 2011 to address the issues of peace, health and weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1824&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aren&#8217;t nuclear weapons harmful, too?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/12/04/arent-nuclear-weapons-harmful-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The global treaty prohibiting cluster munitions, which entered into force last August, was pursued on the basis that such weapons cause “unacceptable harm.” Similarly, the treaty outlawing anti-personnel landmines, negotiated a decade earlier, was borne from widespread public concern for the overwhelmingly civilian victims of those conventional arms. The two treaties were achieved as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1819&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is nuclear war with China possible?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/29/is-nuclear-war-with-china-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/29/is-nuclear-war-with-china-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Wittner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nuclear abolition news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear abolition]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To avert the enormous disaster of a U.S.-China nuclear war, there are two obvious actions that can be taken.  The first is to get rid of nuclear weapons, as the nuclear powers have agreed to do but thus far have resisted doing.  The second, conducted while the nuclear disarmament process is occurring, is to improve U.S.-China relations. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1813&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Cross/Red Crescent movement calls for abolition of nuclear weapons</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/red-cross-nuclear-abolition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an historic decision, the Council of Delegates of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on November 26, adopted by acclamation a resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons and calling on all national societies to conduct educational campaigns about the unique, catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1810&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You choose: $105 billion a year for health care or nuclear weapons?</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/28/health-care-or-nuclear-weapons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peaceandhealthblog.com/?p=1796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 the nine nuclear-armed nations will spend an estimated US$105 billion maintaining and modernizing their nuclear weapons, despite the International Court of Justice having declared it illegal to use and threaten to use such weapons. This expenditure—up from $91 billion in 2010—casts serious doubt on the sincerity of leaders’ pledges to work for a world free from nuclear arms, suggesting instead a commitment to retain such weapons indefinitely. Beyond the pro-disarmament rhetoric of the nuclear-armed states is the disturbing reality of a massive effort to bolster the world’s nuclear forces, the consequences of which are potentially catastrophic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1796&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advocating for transparency in the global arms trade</title>
		<link>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/12/transparency-in-arms-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://peaceandhealthblog.com/2011/11/12/transparency-in-arms-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>IPPNW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increased transparency in transnational arms transfer would improve international peace and security and also help us better understand the dynamics between the pursuit of natural resources and the arms trade.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=peaceandhealthblog.com&amp;blog=2530833&amp;post=1793&amp;subd=ippnweupdate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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