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RIGHTS-UGANDA: Baganda Fight for Their Heritage
By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi
KAMPALA - Specioza Nakabugo (63) sits on a mat under a mango tree on a well-mowed grass patch, her expression a blend of boredom and gloom.
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CHILE: Women in Arms
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The official version of Chilean history renders women’s political participation "invisible" and relegates them to a secondary or anecdotal role, says journalist Cherie Zalaquett, author of a new book, "Chilenas en armas" (Chilean Women in Arms).
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Q&A: "Guardian Angel" of Gulf Transsexuals
Suad Hamada interviews Bahraini lawyer FAWZIYA JANAHI
MANAMA - Transsexuals in the Gulf call Bahraini lawyer Fawziya Janahi "guardian angel". She is the Arab world's only female lawyer who takes up cases on behalf of clients who want to change their sex.
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MIDEAST: Egypt Makes Cultural Clout Count
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO - Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world. Despite recent challenges to this role with the advent of satellite television, experts say that contemporary Arab culture remains largely defined by Egyptian literature, music, film and television.
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RIGHTS: Before the Olympics in Brazil…
By Danielle Batist
SWANSEA, U.K. - Athletes competing for Olympic gold speak to the imagination of most of us. Homeless people playing an international football tournament may be a less familiar sight. Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro will get a chance to see both.
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JAPAN: Death from Overwork Persists Amid Economic Crunch
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - One morning nine months ago, Kenji Hamada’s colleagues were surprised to find him in their Tokyo office slumped over his desk. They thought he was sleeping, but when he did not wake up after two hours, they realised he was dead.
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CAMBODIA: Global Crisis Mostly Bypassing the Young – For Now
By Robert Carmichael*
PHNOM PENH - Mey Chamnan has learned the hard way about the global economic crisis. Both she and her husband were fired from their 50 U.S.-dollar a month jobs in a local garment factory after declining overseas orders caused huge job losses across Cambodia’s garment industry.
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AFGHANISTAN: The Cheap Way to Hell
By Lal Aqa Sherin*
KABUL - For the last three weeks, 30-year-old Ghulam Nabi has lain in a Kabul hospital bed, suffering. His face is etched with hopelessness, loneliness and despair over the life he once had and has now lost forever.
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CHILE: Fashion Finds Green Style
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - Young Chilean designers are turning their creative energy to recycling, natural fibres and working with disadvantaged groups as they produce clothing and accessories - but it is an effort that is not free of tensions.
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CHINA: Cultural Counteroffensive at Int’l Book Fair: Hit or Miss?
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair may have been more of an embarrassment than prestige for its guest of honour – China – but the country’s cultural mandarins still believe that the future of cultural ideas belongs to the Middle Kingdom and that the global financial crisis will play a role in helping them achieve that.
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UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth
By Joshua Kyalimpa
PALEMY, Uganda - Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.
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Q&A: "Women Will Benefit From Secularism"
Cam McGrath interviews Egyptian feminist author NAWAL EL-SAADAWI
CAIRO - Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
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PORTUGAL: Bible Is "A Catalogue of Cruelties," Says Saramago
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as "a manual of bad morals," and a "catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature."
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CULTURE-TAIWAN: Film Lets Audiences Revisit Overlooked Past
By Lin Zixin
TAIPEI - An overlooked piece of Taiwan’s cultural history is slowly making its way back into people’s hearts and minds with the documentary ‘E Sha Age’, due to be shown this week.
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CULTURE: First Woman Head Seeks New Direction for UNESCO
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - The rapturous applause that greeted Irina Bokova Thursday as she was confirmed UNESCO's new director-general was a sign that the organisation is keen to move on from recent controversies.
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