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The short, one-minute video is grainy but the poor picture quality makes the
scene no less chilling. Shot from a balcony, it shows the recently ousted
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed walking out of a building, pleading
with military officers to stop rioting police.
An analysis by Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, which the U.S. Army has
not approved for public release but has leaked to Rolling
Stone magazine, provides the most authoritative refutation
thus far of the official military narrative of success in the
Afghanistan War since the troop surge began in early 2010.
Legislation designed to discourage the controversial practice
of bride kidnapping fizzled recently in Kyrgyzstan's
parliament.
As 'positive' news flows out of Burma - release of political prisoners, ceasefire
talks in ethnic areas, increased freedom, formation of labour unions ? people
inside the country and exiles have been in heated discussion. What does
'reform' entail and are the changes going to be fully implemented?
The state of Rio de Janeiro in southeast Brazil will introduce
a pioneering policy in March to reduce the under-reporting
of crimes against transvestites and transsexual people, who
will be able to identify themselves with their preferred names
when they report crimes to the police.
Despite much government fanfare, the drop in Chile's
unemployment rate is not enough to satisfy experts or workers,
who point to the deeper problems of sporadic work,
underemployment and low wages that are aggravating the
country's endemic inequality.
Vaccines against drug addiction appear to be a better strategy
than the repressive worldwide "war on drugs", but first they
must overcome resistance from pharmaceutical laboratories and
secure financial backing, scientists say.
Caribbean islands are doubly exposed by the convergence of
weak economies heavily dependent on foreign imports and
greater vulnerability to climate change, according to ECLAC
Executive Director Alicia Bárcena.
State and local Commissions on the Status of Women (CSW) are
facing shrinking budgets and even total elimination at a time
when women are some of the hardest hit by the financial
crisis, says Susan Rose, vice chair of Human Rights Watch's
Santa Barbara Committee.
Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent
built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old
twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been
malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished herself, cannot
produce enough breast milk to feed them.
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