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Discussion of range of related issues poverty, violence and environmental degradation. Also looked at what sort of progress the governments made on the document the 'Forward looking strategies', which agreed to by governments in Nairobi in 1985 related to ways to advance the status of women. The hole in the ozone layer have been of concern occurring over antarctica, which can releases more ultra light radiation which impacts the population.

One Radio Australia's interview with a local Fijian from Kadavu island, Korokoro village. The Pacific already experienced the lash of the chain saw, sandalwood have all but disappeared with excessive selling during the last century. On Kadavu island, in Fiji, the Kadavu timber company leased land from Korokoro village for 17 year, the company cleared cut the land. In 1974 the Government stepped in and stop the destruction....