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article "Abandoned women suffer because the law
is compromised by customs and traditions which
go against Islamic principles and Afghanistan's
civil codes," said Suraya Subhrang, the women's
rights commissioner at the Afghan Independent
Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).
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article A 2005 report indicates that the world's richest nations greatly exaggerate their aid to economically poor countries. In total, 'real aid' in 2003 accounted for US$27 billion, or 0.1 percent of combined donor income. Nearly 90 percent of all contributions from the USA and France are considered phantom aid (diverted for other purposes). Read
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letter A
letter by Bette Midler to President Bush on marriage Excerpt from the letter: Forget Britney.
Forget Kobe. Forget Strom. Forget about all the people that we know
who have taken so frivolously the pure and simple beauty of love and
tarnished it so consistently. Look instead at the joy in the beautiful
faces of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - 51 years together! I mean, honestly
Mr. To read the complete letter click here |
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article The Intern on
Page One Excerpt from the
article: Cutting Corners To Stand above the News Clutter These news sources, once inaccessible to average Americans, now appear alongside mainstream news stories in the results of a simple Google News search. According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, more than 40 millions Americans go online for election news. Much of this comes via Google News and other news search engines that return news links based upon a quantitative – not qualitative – search process. As a result, major news organizations find their headlines intermingled with those of publications they might consider less scrupulous than their own. How do mainstream American media outlets lift themselves above the fray? For the most part they don't, said Ken Auletta, media critic for The New Yorker and author of "Backstory: Inside the Business of News". To read the complete
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article White Man to
the Rescue? Excerpt from the article: Nicholas Kristof
is once again accusing American feminists of ignoring Third World women
and girls. Last spring, he discovered obstetric fistula in Africa –
the tear between the birth canal and the lower intestine that can happen
during protracted labor and that, unless corrected, condemns a woman
to a lifetime of physical misery and social ostracism. Kristof profiled
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia and wondered why "most
feminist organizations in the West have never shown interest in these
women." Perhaps, he wrote, "the issue doesn't galvanize women's
groups because fistulas relate to a traditional child-bearing role."
Right, we all know that feminists only care about aborting babies, not
delivering them safely. To read the complete
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article Questionable
Freedom Excerpt from the article: Nicholas Kristof
of the New York Times blames women's organizations for failing to address
the issue of trafficking. He recently published a series of diary-style
articles detailing his project to buy two young Cambodian women out
of slavery. In his series, which is as carefully orchestrated as a reality
TV show, he repeatedly refers to the attractiveness of his purchases,
and sexualizes them with terms like "lovely," "giggly,"
and "wisp." And though he's outraged by their plight, Kristof
has no scruples about re-victimizing them, subjecting both women to
antagonistic grilling: "Why not try to escape at night? Couldn't
you call out to the police for help? Do you really want to leave?"
Readers may understand that he wants to pre-empt questions from his
U.S. audience, but these young women might not be as savvy. These already
frightened victims probably found Kristof's third-degree pretty traumatizing.
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article Dear Friends, We can recognise George Bush or Saddam Hussein or Pinochet and some may even recall what Idi Amin looked like but do we know what the head of the Burmese military supreme dictator Senior General Than Shwe looks like ? Tune into NDTV 24X7 at 10 p.m. on the 2nd of October to see my film - THE FACE. ( The Face will be telecast within a program entitled 'A Force more Powerful' ) The Face ( 9 minutes ) is a tribute to the democracy movement in Burma . Here you see a unique image of most brutal dictator in the world -General Than Shwe of ththe Burmese Military. *The FACE* also remembers Win Ma Oo and Thet Win Aung and the sacrifices of the students of Burma in their movement for freedom. THE FACE is also available as dvds for screenings at cost price . If required write to thetornfirstpages@gmail.com Please forward to those who may be interested regards amar AMAR KANWAR - -- AMAR KANWAR New Delhi India Email : amarkanwar@gmail.com |
