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05.10.2009, 11:00
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Most Afghan women are illiterate, face poverty, have limited access to healthcare, and subjected to continued and widespread violence. As if this is not enough, they are often arbitrarily imprisoned for “moral crimes”.
08.12.2009, 10:07
Decades of fighting has almost wiped out the Sikh and Hindu communities in Afghanistan. Most of them fled the country, and those who are left are struggling to find a place in Afghan society.
03.05.2010, 09:15
In India there is a class struggle which the law seems powerless to subdue. Rules have been changed to allow people of a low caste to take religious positions – but it makes little difference to traditionalists.
01.10.2010, 22:36
A court has ruled that the disputed holy ancient town of Ayodhya in India will be split between the Muslim and Hindu communities.
06.06.2009, 00:37
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Africans are learning the hard way that in China the consequences for drug smuggling are more grave than a stained criminal record or a long sentence behind bars. Drug smugglers face a life penalty, but not in prison.
16.07.2009, 22:29
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Sword-carrying Sikhs roaming the Indian city of Amritsar are a normal sight; but white people wearing turbans definitely are not. The strangeness lies in the fact that they are non-Indians who converted to Sikhism.
21.06.2009, 10:24
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Barack Obama has urged Iran to end the violence against protesters. The Iranian government in turn says it faces not demonstrations, but riots.
11.06.2009, 14:06
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has demanded that a four-year-old-girl be saved from almost certain death. The girl’s parents, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, were preventing hospital doctors from treating her.
15.02.2010, 11:17
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“War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations,” according to the creator of a social model called "the Venus Project" – American futurist and inventor Jacque Fresco.
06.05.2009, 14:11
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A US panel added Russia to its watch list of 11 countries which it believes are regressing in the area of religious freedom. While this raises several genuine problems in Russian society, some arguments seem flawed.
Published: 11 September, 2009, 20:46
Edited: 14 September, 2009, 12:00
Zeb and Haniya have created history by being Pakistan’s first all-women rock band. The Lahore-based duo, originally from the Taliban-infested North West Frontier Province, is now hitting headlines in Asia.
