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Ekushey Book Fair 2008
29.02.2008
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From: Machizo Multimedia Communication
Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Bangladesh] [Education] [Culture]
Image: Ekushey Book Fair 2008
29.02.2008 The 22-member Arab League recently introduced a regional policy to regulate satellite television broadcasting services that will "restrict freedom of expression and information," writes an international human rights watchdog.
From: Human Rights Watch
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Related topics/regions: [Middle East]
Peer educators are trained to lead group discussions about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to improved health.
29.02.2008 A program in the poverty-stricken Central Terai region of Nepal seeks to improve women's and girls' health by training young people as peer educators, community activists, and counselors in the fields of health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS.
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From: Centre for Development and Population Activities
Related topics/regions: [Nepal]
Image: Peer educators are trained to lead group discussions about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to improved health. © Centre for Development and Population Activities
A farmer / Photo credit: BBC
29.02.2008 India has announced its budget for the next financial year. In a move to provide a major relief to the small farmers, the government has decided to cancel their entire debt. It may be noted that for past many years now the farmers have been committing suicides due to indebtedness and other related reasons.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Debt]
Image: A farmer / Photo credit: BBC
29.02.2008 International non-governmental organisations in Pakistan have come under considerable pressure after an attack on a UK-based Plan International office in Mansehra near Islamabad, in which four people had died. In recent years, threats have been directed against NGOs and their staff, particularly women.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Human rights] [Civil society] [Terrorism]
Cover: Maternal and Newborn Care Practices Among the Urban Poor in Indore / Photo credit: UHRC
29.02.2008 Two studies by the Urban Health Resource Centre talk of maternal and newborn care among the poor in central India and state of urban health in the national capital. Apart from highlighting the need for better access to healthcare facilities, the reports underline the cultural factors and prevalence of poverty as obstacles.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Children] [Poverty] [Health] [Infant mortality]
Image: Cover: Maternal and Newborn Care Practices Among the Urban Poor in Indore / Photo credit: UHRC
28.02.2008 Despite the global interest in the rise of China, no-one is paying much attention to its ideas and who produces them. Yet China has a surprisingly lively intellectual class whose ideas may prove a serious challenge to western liberal hegemony, says Mark Leonard.
From Prospect
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Related topics/regions: [China]
28.02.2008 Alarming local and international rights activists, several officials in the Thai government are speaking freely about the 'necessity' of using extra-judicial killings as part of a national clampdown on narcotics.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Thailand]
28.02.2008 An international media freedom group has voiced concern over the health of detained Chinese cyber-dissident and human rights lawyer Yang Maodong, who has been on hunger strike for 11 weeks.
+ CPJ Highlights China's Poor Press Record
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From: Reporter Senza Frontiere
Related topics/regions: [China]
Killer cigarette / Photo credit: Sagar Heerani / India Together
28.02.2008 According to a recent study, around a million people will die of smoking in India alone in next two years. The country is on the threshold of a tobacco-unleashed epidemic, says Ramesh Menon, a journalist cum documentary filmmaker and recipient of the 2006 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Health] [Disease]
Image: Killer cigarette / Photo credit: Sagar Heerani / India Together
Health specialists say hundreds of students affected by the bomb blast in Baghlan are suffering from mental disorders / Photo credit: Abdul Samad Nademjoo / IRIN
28.02.2008 Hundreds of children who had witnessed a blast in Afghanistan’s Baghlan city last November are still traumatised, suffering from paranoia, dizziness, stress and sleeping disorders. Health experts are of the view that children in the conflict-affected country are at risk of suffering deep scars of war.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Children] [Health] [Conflict] [United Nations]
Image: Health specialists say hundreds of students affected by the bomb blast in Baghlan are suffering from mental disorders / Photo credit: Abdul Samad Nademjoo / IRIN
Disability sign
28.02.2008 There are approximately 60 million persons with disabilities in India. Most of them are poor, living in rural areas. It is pity that only 1.5% of them are the beneficiaries of various poverty alleviation and welfare schemes.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Poverty] [Disability]
Image: Disability sign
The U.S. president and Indian prime minister in New Delhi; March 2006.
27.02.2008 Leading Indian politicians have outrightly rejected the idea of a U.S.-imposed deadline after a team of U.S. senators warned that a new inhabitant of the White House might quash a potential deal on the transfer of nuclear technology.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [India] [United States]
Image: The U.S. president and Indian prime minister in New Delhi; March 2006. © Paul Morse - White House
27.02.2008 It’s been more than a year now since the State of Emergency was imposed in Bangladesh. More than 250,000 people have faced arrests during this period. The Asian Legal Resource Centre has documented numerous cases of arbitrary arrests, often carried out at a scale that is difficult to fathom in many other countries.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Politics] [Democracy] [Justice and crime]
Fermiamo la guerra
27.02.2008 Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin blasts Britain's involvement in "Extraordinary Rendition" and its role in maintaining secretive prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in which individuals face torture.
From Stop the War Coalition
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Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [United Kingdom]
Image: Fermiamo la guerra
Phool Kumari / Photo credit: BBC
27.02.2008 When a dalit widow was appointed as cook in a government-run school in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, no one was ready to eat the food cooked and served by her. Everyone conspired to sack her and saw to it that she was never reinstated.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Children] [Social exclusion] [Ethics & value systems]
Image: Phool Kumari / Photo credit: BBC
Nepali gays want their voices to be heard / Photo credit: Reuters
27.02.2008 At least five Nepali gays will contest elections for the Constituent Assembly, scheduled to be held this April, to take up the issue of discrimination against their community. In a nation that treats homosexuality as illegal and immoral, this is an attempt to fight exclusion.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Social exclusion] [Sexuality] [Ethics & value systems]
Image: Nepali gays want their voices to be heard / Photo credit: Reuters
27.02.2008 Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is organising a three-day event called eINDIA2008 in New Delhi in July 2008. The event will bring together representatives of the ICT industry, government, civil society, academia and private sector from across the world to share the best practices and digital opportunities for development.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Capacity building] [International cooperation] [ICT] [Civil society]
Militias in Mogadishu, Somalia
27.02.2008 Over half the top 20 countries in the world where people are most under threat of genocide or mass killing are in Africa, says Minority Rights Group International.
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From: Minority Rights Group International
Related topics/regions: [Africa]
Image: Militias in Mogadishu, Somalia © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
26.02.2008 A former high-ranking official from Pakistan's "shadowy but powerful" Inter Services Intelligence admitted to having manipulated the 2002 elections in favor of President Musharraf and is now saying the organization's political activities should be laid down.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Pakistan]
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