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EAST: ISRAELI LEFT EMERGES FROM COMA AMID ATROCITIES
SHEIKH JARRAH, Occupied East Jerusalem, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Amid the wave of violence that swept through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over the last few days, there are signs that the Israeli left may be emerging from its collective coma.
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RIGHTS: FEWER JOBS, LESS MONEY, SAME OLD STORY
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS/GIN) – Ask Nupur Acharya about the treatment she receives from her husband and two grown sons and the answer is not one for polite company.
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MALAWI: OLD TRADITIONS DENY WOMEN ACCESS TO LAND
LILONGWE, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case.
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INDIA: RESERVED SEATS PLEDGED FOR WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
NEW DELHI, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - With assured backing from India's main opposition groups, the ruling Congress party hopes to see voted through in the upper house of Parliament Monday a bill reserving 33 percent of seats in national and provincial legislatures for women.
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Q&A: QUALIFIED WOMEN HAVE BETTER CHANCE IN TOP JOBS
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time when the world body has placed a high priority on gender empowerment.
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RIGHTS: BURMESE RAPE SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Chang Chang, from the northern Kachin State of Burma remembers when her life going to school and working on the family farm was shattered.
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SOUTH AFRICA: WORLD CUP MAY RAZE HOMES FOR CAR PARK
CAPE TOWN, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness.
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SOUTH AFRICA: MORE FUNDS NEEDED FOR HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
CAPE TOWN, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries’ health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving universal access to HIV treatment.
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HAITI: U.S. ACTS QUICKLY ON DEBT RELIEF AHEAD OF PREVAL VISIT
WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - With U.S. President Barack Obama preparing to host Haitian President Rene Preval at the White House Wednesday, Congress is moving quickly to show support for far-reaching debt relief and additional aid for the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation.
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RIGHTS-CUBA: HUNGER STRIKER REFUSES TO GO INTO EXILE
HAVANA, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The state news media in Cuba reported Monday on the case of dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike for 13 days and refuses to go into exile in Spain.
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IRAQ: ELECTIONS BRING JOY AND UNCERTAINTY
WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The holding of Iraq's third parliamentary elections on Sunday has generated a sense of satisfaction in Washington, but there is a feeling of anxiety about how the post-election negotiation process to form a new government might proceed.
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UGANDA: PRESSURE MOUNTS TO MAKE PUBLIC OIL AGREEMENTS
KAMPALA, Mar. 4, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Uganda’s members of parliament (MPs) are pressurising government to make public details of oil production-sharing agreements it signed with various international oil companies.
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IRAQ: SECULAR CANDIDATES HAVE THEIR BEST CHANCE
WASHINGTON, Mar 6, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - As Iraqis go to the polls on Sunday, a key question in the minds of many in Iraq and Washington is whether secular candidates can continue their recent rise and possibly come out as winners.
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POLITICS: SRI LANKA, BRITAIN SPAR AGAIN OVER TIGERS
COLOMBO, Mar. 5, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Tensions between Sri Lanka and Britain may have calmed down somewhat after the civil conflict ended in this South Asian country last year, but are rising again after the government accused London of aiding the defeated Tamil Tigers to regroup internationally.
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HAITI: EXPERTS URGE SHAKEUP IN "CULTURE OF AID"
NEW YORK, Mar. 5, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - A delegation of human rights experts is preparing to visit Haiti to assess the human rights and aid situation in the earthquake-crippled nation and to urge the international community to follow a series of guidelines they have prepared to help donors' to "overcome the mistakes of the past."
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LATIN AMERICA: WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAWS - WHERE'S THE ENFORCEMENT?
CARACAS, Mar. 5, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Advanced new legislation and constitutional reforms on women's rights are paving the way for equal opportunities for women in Latin America and the Caribbean. But application and enforcement remain a distant goal.
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CENTRAL AMERICA: WOMEN ADVANCE IN POLITICS - AND WANT MORE
GUATEMALA CITY, Mar. 5, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The victory of Laura Chinchilla in Costa Rica's presidential elections, and the growing participation of women in Central American parliaments, point to their progress in the region's spheres of political power. But they still have a long way to go, experts say.
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RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: PROPERTY RIGHTS AT LAST FOR WOMEN
MBABANE, Mar 5, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names.
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RELIGION-MEXICO: LEGION OF CHRIST SCANDAL ESCALATES
MEXICO CITY, Mar 5, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - A new scandal has increased the pressure on the conservative religious order Legion of Christ, one of the most influential in the Catholic Church, to compensate the victims of alleged sexual abuse by its founder, Mexican priest Marcial Maciel, and carry out internal reforms.
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RIGHTS: ARAB WOMEN CAUGHT BETWEEN EXTREMES
UNITED NATIONS, Mar. 4, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The status of women in a predominantly male-chauvinistic Arab world continues to fluctuate from one extreme to another.
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RIGHTS: U.S. REVIEWS INDONESIA TIES AND MILITARY TRAINING
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The administration of President Barack Obama hopes to resume U.S. training of an elite Indonesian military unit whose members have been convicted of gross human rights abuses in East Timor and elsewhere in the sprawling archipelago.
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RIGHTS-MEXICO: "YES, I DO" WANT A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LICENCE
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 4, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Emma Villanueva and her partner lined up at the civil registry office in the Mexican capital to register for a marriage licence Thursday, the day that Latin America's first same-sex marriage law went into effect.
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PHILIPPINES: CHILDREN’S CHARITIES FEEL ECONOMIC CRUNCH
MANILA, Mar. 3, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Children's charities and non-government organisations (NGOs) in the Philippines face tough times ahead as major overseas funders cut back on financial support due to the global financial crisis, against a backdrop of donor fatigue.
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CHILE: POOR WILL SUFFER DISPROPORTIONATELY, ACTIVIST SAYS
SANTIAGO, Mar. 3, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Chile has begun to think about the costs and challenges of rebuilding a large part of the areas hit by the Feb. 27 earthquake and tsunami, while rescue and aid operations continue.
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INDIA: RIOTS REVEAL EXPLOSIVE COMMUNAL TENSIONS
KOLKATA, India, Mar. 3, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - This week’s riots in two southern Indian towns highlight how communal tensions in this country of nearly 1.2 billion people simmer just under the surface, exploding at the slightest provocation.
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ENVIRONMENT: WANTED - AN EFFECTIVE MULTILATERAL SYSTEM
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Mar. 3, 2010 (GIN) - The echoes of failure still resounding from the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December are spurring efforts to reform the international legal framework. Civil society groups are demanding a new, more agile system that is both influential and effective.
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RIGHTS: WOMEN MORE EDUCATED, NOT MORE EQUAL
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - When it comes to female education rates, progress has been made around the world, and in many countries girls and young women outnumber and outperform boys and men at all levels of schooling. Still, these advances have yet to translate into greater equality in employment, politics and social relations.
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DEVELOPMENT: GRASSROOTS GROUPS FLORISHING IN CHINA
BEIJING, Mar. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Chinese civil society is coming increasingly to the fore as wealthy tycoons create big charitable foundations and grassroots organisations form networks of their own, observers and activists say.
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MIGRATION: FRENCH RIGHTS GROUPS PROTEST PLIGHT OF IMMIGRANTS
PARIS, Mar. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The European Union is studying a range of measures aimed at strengthening its external borders to deter undocumented migrants from entering via Mediterranean member states such as Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain.
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PHILIPPINES: URBAN POOR PREFER UNSAFE HOUSING TO RELOCATION
MANILA, Mar. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Edgar Borras sifts through his remaining possessions in a demolished shanty beside a Manila waterway, preparing to bring them to his wife and 12-year-old son who now live in a remote relocation site in a province outside the Philippine capital.
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POLITICS-NIGER: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS THE RETURN OF DEMOCRACY?
NIAMEY, Feb. 26, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - As its promised transition to democratic rule begins, the military junta that overthrew Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja on Feb. 18 has named a former information minister, Mahamadou Danda, as the new prime minister while retaining legislative and executive powers for itself.
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AFRICA
Mar 8
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: FIVE YEARS TO CHILDREN BORN FREE OF HIV
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INT’L WOMEN’S DAY: ‘WE WILL DEMONSTRATE, AS THEY CELEBRATE’
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Mar 5
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE ON THE INCREASE
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MALAWI: CLIMATE CHANGE IS CHANGING FARMING METHODS
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DR CONGO: LOCAL POULTRY COULD SPELL END TO FROZEN IMPORTS
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HEALTH: SMOKERS STAY FIRMLY CHAINED TO THEIR HABITS
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Mar 1
ZIMBABWE: UNIVERSITY WOMEN GRADS IN RISKY TRADER JOBS
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ASIA
Mar 9
MEDIA-NEPAL: SELF-CENSORSHIP CREEPING UP AFTER KILLINGS
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CAMBODIA: RAPE ON THE RISE DESPITE STRICTER LAWS
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Mar 4
BURMA: WOMEN DISSIDENTS JAILED ‘BUT NOT SILENCED’
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POLITICS: INDONESIANS COMPLAIN ABOUT ‘NOISE’ OF DEMOCRACY
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DR-CONGO: EU URGED TO BAN 'CONFLICT MINERALS'
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THAILAND: RURAL PROTESTERS PREPARE TO PAINT BANGKOK RED
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DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: NGOS BRACE FOR TIGHTER GOV’T CONTROL
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Feb 28
POLITICS-BURMA: KAREN WOMEN ASSUME NEW ROLE AS VILLAGE CHIEFS
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Feb 27
THAILAND: THAKSIN VERDICT LEAVES JUDICIARY’S STAMP ON POLITICS
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MIDDLE EAST
Mar 9
RIGHTS: MIDDLE EAST WOMEN DIVIDED OVER PATH TO PEACE
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Mar 8
MIDEAST: PALESTINIANS MOVE PRO-ACTIVELY TOWARDS STATEHOOD
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Mar 5
MIDEAST: PALESTINIAN HOMES ON 'DAVID'S GARDEN' SPARED FOR NOW
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MIDEAST: GAZAN WOMEN ARE WAGE EARNERS UNDER OCCUPATION
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Mar 3
MIDEAST: MIXED PICTURE FOR ADVANCING WOMEN 'S RIGHTS
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AFGHANISTAN: TRAFFICKERS FIND NEW ROUTES FOR DRUG INPUTS
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ENVIRONMENT-LEBANON: COASTAL POLLUTION THREATENS FISHING
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US-IRAN: DEBATE OVER MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN GAINS STEAM
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MIDEAST: JOBLESS TEENS SIFT TRASH FOR CASH
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IRAQ: ARE KURDS' DAYS OF KINGMAKING OVER?
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CHILE: BACHELET’S LANDMARK PRESIDENCY ENDS ON A HIGH NOTE
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Feb 28
MIDEAST: ISRAELI ‘HERITAGE’ PLANS SPARK PALESTINIAN FURY
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JORDAN: WHERE IRAQI WOMEN ARE ALSO FATHERS
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US-IRAN: U.S. SANCTIONS THREATEN MAJOR INDIAN OIL FIRMS
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Feb 27
MIDEAST: PALESTINIANS EXCLUDED FROM BULK OF WEST BANK
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MIDEAST: HOW TO CHECK BOTH IRAN AND ISRAEL
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LATIN AMERICA
Mar 10
DDHH-AMÉRICA CENTRAL: DICTÁMENES CUMPLIDOS A MEDIAS
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Mar 8
ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: GREEN AREAS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER
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BRAZIL: AMBITIOUS DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO REDUCE INEQUALITY
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COSTA RICA: COMPETITION HEATS UP FOR FIRST-WORLD SENIORS
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Mar 7
MEXICO: SCIENTISTS REINVENT THE CORN TORTILLA
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Mar 5
LATIN AMERICA: CANADA MOVES TO OVERSEE MINING PRACTICES
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Mar 4
LATIN AMERICA-US: CLINTON ATTEMPTS DAMAGE CONTROL
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Mar 3
LATIN AMERICA: SUBDUED RESPONSE TO CUBAN DISSIDENT'S DEATH
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GUATEMALA: UNLIKELY TO MEET MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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Mar 2
BOLIVIA: CASH FOR CHECKUPS TO SLASH MATERNAL DEATHS
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ZIMBABWE: CONSTITUTION IN THE LIMELIGHT
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Mar 2
PERU: RELOCATING ENTIRE VILLAGES FOR MINES, DAMS
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Mar 2
CHILE: A TIDAL WAVE OF SOLIDARITY
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Mar 1
URUGUAY: NEW PRESIDENT AIMS TO CUT POVERTY IN HALF
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CHILE: ASSESSING QUAKE DAMAGES, ACKNOWLEDGING MISTAKES
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PERU-CHINA: CHINESE NATIONAL FIGHTS EXTRADITION TO DEATH ROW
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Feb 26
HONDURAS: NO PEACE FOR PRESIDENT LOBO ON HIS HOME FRONT
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Feb 26
DEATH PENALTY: ON TRIAL FOR THEIR LIVES - BY PUBLIC OPINION
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CARIBBEAN
Mar 8
TRINIDAD: WOMEN DEMAND A REAL GENDER POLICY
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Mar 5
CUBA: OVER 60s TO TOP 2 MILLION IN FIVE YEARS
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Mar 4
CLIMATE: A DRY CARIBBEAN CONSIDERS ITS OPTIONS
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Mar 1
CARIBBEAN: A NEW ERA OF SOUTH-ORIENTED GEOPOLITICS?
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HAITI: EARTHQUAKE EPICENTRE COPES WITH AFTERMATH
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US & CANADA
Mar 8
U.S.: ACLU AD CHALLENGES MILITARY COMMISSIONS
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Mar 5
MATE CHANGE: ARCTIC SHELF LEAKING POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS
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Mar 5
RIGHTS-US: SENATE DEBATES INDEFINITE DETENTIONS
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EEUU-INDONESIA: RENOVADA COOPERACIÓN MILITARY
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Mar 4
U.S.: GRASSROOTS GROUPS GET MORE BANG FOR DONORS' BUCKS
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Mar 4
U.S.: DETAINED MIGRANT WOMEN SHACKLED DURING CHILDBIRTH
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Mar 3
RIGHTS-US: JUSTICE NOT ALWAYS BLIND, ESPECIALLY TO GENDER
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Mar 2
POLITICS: U.S. STILL NONCOMMITTAL ON LANDMINE TREATY
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Mar 2
RIGHTS-US: “WE THE PEOPLE” BUT WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?
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Mar 2
HEALTH: IMF POLICIES SHORTCHANGE AIDS PROJECTS, BOOK SAYS
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Mar 1
U.S.: HEALTHCARE SHOULD INCLUDE ABORTION ACCESS, WOMEN SAY
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Mar 1
US-AFGHANISTAN: HABEAS CHALLENGES FOR BAGRAM PRISONERS
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Feb 28
US-MEXICO: VIOLENT DRUG WAR LINKED TO NORTHERN DEMAND
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Feb 28
U.S.: BLACKWATER'S MIGRAINES MULTIPLY
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Feb 28
US-HAITI: KATRINA VICTIMS FEEL KINSHIP, OFFER HELP .TEXT
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Feb 28
U.S.: SENATE TORTURE PROBE LEARNS OF UNDISCLOSED EMAILS
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Feb 28
MEXICO: ECOLOGICAL SMOKE FROM FUEL EFFICIENT STOVES
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Feb 27
US-IRAN: DEBATE HEATS UP OVER ARREST OF ABDOLMALEK RIGI
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Feb 27
U.S.: WASTEFUL AFGHAN TRAINING PROGRAM BLASTED IN REPORT
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EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
Mar 8
THAILAND: HALF A MILLION MIGRANT WORKERS DODGE REGISTRATION
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Mar 8
EUROPE: BANKS PUSH INTO GREEN FINANCE DRAWS SKEPTICS
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Mar 5
HEALTH: POTATO DRAGS GM FOOD INTO EUROPE
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Mar 5
RIGHTS-CHINA: DISSIDENT’S WIFE PREDICTED HIS HARSH SENTENCE
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Mar 5
EUROPE: ECONOMISTS BLAME GERMANY FOR MEDITERRANEAN CRISIS
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Mar 5
VIETNAM: WAR MOVIE WITH PEACE THEME SEEKS TO HEAL WOUNDS
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Mar 2
EUROPE: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ON THE RISE
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Mar 2
EAST EUROPE: TAXING FAST FOODS FOR HEALTH
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Mar 2
RIGHTS-AUSTRIA: SUPPORT FOR ANTI-MIGRANT CAMPAIGN SKYROCKETS
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Mar 1
ECONOMY-GREECE: AUSTERITY MEASURES UNSETTLE PUBLIC
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Feb 28
RIGHTS-GERMANY: CHURCH RECORDS CONFIRM PEDOPHILE COVERUP
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Feb 27
RIGHTS: WHAT FISH MAY DO FOR WESTERN SAHARA
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GLOBAL / UNITED NATIONS
Mar 5
US: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VOTE THREATENS TIES WITH KEY ALLY
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Mar 5
BIODIVERSITY: CITES FACES POLITICAL STORM OVER TUNA BAN
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Mar 5
RIGHTS: U.N. RIPS U.S. OVER SOARING HOUSING COSTS
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Mar 3
RIGHTS: U.N. WOMEN'S AGENCY REMAINS POLITICALLY PARALYZED
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Mar 2
RIGHTS: SAUDI ARABIA FAULTED FOR FEUDAL JUSTICE
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Mar 1
RIGHTS: RISE AND FALL OF GENDER EMPOWERMENT
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Feb 28
Q&A: "WE CAN'T CONTINUE TO PAY LIP SERVICE TO GENDER EQUALITY"
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INDIA / PAKISTAN
Mar 9
DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: LESS WATER, MORE BURDENS FOR WOMEN
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Mar 8
Q&A: 11.8 SECONDS THAT BROKE TABOOS FOR WOMEN
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Mar 4
Q&A: MORE WOMEN JOURNALISTS BUT NOT MORE GENDER AWARENESS
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Mar 3
MEDIA-ASIA: COMMUNITY RADIO CARVES OUT SPACE FOR ITSELF
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Mar 2
PAKISTAN: EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION MORE POPULAR, BUT MYTHS ABOUND
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Feb 28
POLITICS: DEFYING U.S., PAKISTAN KEEPS CUSTODY OF BARADAR
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