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1. HEALTH: Sharing "open innovation" risks and rewards
2. WATER: Prepare to face shocks
3. SOUTH AFRICA: Marie, "It's been a long journey and a painful one"
4. REFUGEES: Resettlement still a last resort
5. CLIMATE CHANGE: Deciphering a green economy
6. SECURITY: Arms trade treaty failure not all doom and gloom
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HEALTH: Sharing "open innovation" risks and rewards
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LONDON, 30 July 2012 (IRIN) - A growing trend in collaborative health
research is creating potentially life-saving global partnerships
between pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, disease
advocates, and even the general public, who are drawn into the world of
science through "crowd-sourcing".
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WATER: Prepare to face shocks
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LONDON, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - Is the world ready to face water shocks?
For water shocks are certainly coming; water shocks, in fact, are
already here.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Marie, "It's been a long journey and a painful one"
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - Marie*, her husband and their
three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
are about to relocate from South Africa, where they have lived for the
past decade, to Australia where they have been accepted into that
country's refugee resettlement programme.
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REFUGEES: Resettlement still a last resort
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - After five years of hoping and
waiting, Marie*, her husband Simeon* and their three children, refugees
from the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally received a phone call
telling them to pack their bags; they would be leaving South Africa for
Australia at the end of the month.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Deciphering a green economy
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JOHANNESBURG, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - Two consecutive power outages
affecting at least 600 million people spelt out India's energy crisis
as August began. Caused in part by a coal shortage and in part by poor
rains, the lack of power makes a strong case for an urgent global need
to consider alternative sources of electricity.
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SECURITY: Arms trade treaty failure not all doom and gloom
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JOHANNESBURG, 3 August 2012 (IRIN) - The failure of a proposed treaty
to regulate the multi-billion dollar global conventional weapons trade
does not mean disaster, according to some campaigners looking to
develop effective international arms controls.
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[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United
Nations]
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