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Q&A: Geert Wilders Gets a Big Email Hug
Liza Jansen interviews IMAM FEISAL ABDUL RAUF of the Cordoba Initiative
UNITED NATIONS - Since the terror attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, persistent misconceptions about Islam have contributed to a dangerous climate of mistrust and disharmony between the Muslim world and the West.
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Q&A: Put the New Women's Agency in Africa
Suzanne Hoeksema interviews NAISOLA LIKIMANI, advocacy officer of FEMNET*
UNITED NATIONS - On Sep. 14, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution that gave the green light to the creation of a new U.N. agency for women.
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Q&A: ‘ODA Is What Governments Want to Do at Their Whim’
By Helen Clark
HANOI - Think of a world where rich nations did not fund what was popular but instead collaborated to solve the developing world’s most pressing health needs.
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Q&A: 'This Calm Will Not Last'
Jon Elmer interviews Palestinian icon LEILA KHALED
AMMAN - Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first in a series of high-profile actions intended to put the Palestinians on the political map.
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RIGHTS-CHINA: ‘Give Uyghurs a Chance to Live in Peace’
Catherine Makino interviews REBIYA KADEER, president of the World Uyghur Congress
TOKYO - Following the bloody clashes in July in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xingjian region in China, activist Rebiya Kadeer found herself in the midst of another controversy, having been accused by the Chinese government of instigating the riots.
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PHILIPPINES: ‘Running After President Arroyo Is Only Just’
Stephen de Tarczynski interviews ALBERTO LIM, executive director of the Philippines’s premier business organisation
MANILA - Philippine political affairs are rarely straightforward. The former Spanish and U.S. colony, which also endured occupation under Japan during the Second World War, has experienced major upheavals since independence was finally achieved—and recognised, this time—in 1946.
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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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Q&A: EU to Sri Lanka on GSP Plus Probe: ‘No Tit for Tat’
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - Despite acrimonious exchanges between Sri Lanka and the European Union (EU) over human rights violations on which rests the fate of continued tax-free exports to Europe, development assistance continues unhindered to the Indian Ocean island, according to Europe’s top diplomat here.
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Q&A: "We Refuse to Be Held to Ransom By Terrorism"
Beena Sarwar interviews VEENA MASUD, Pakistan Women’s Swimming Association
KARACHI - Karachi-based, Trinidad-born and educated Veena Masud is a school principal who wants to see Pakistani women shine in the international sports arena.
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Q&A: Peruvian Cardinal Does Not Want Rebel Priest as President
Ángel Páez interviews activist priest MARCO ARANA
LIMA - Catholic priest Marco Arana, who is also a social and environmental activist, has not yet officially decided to run in Peru's next presidential elections, but he is already facing opposition from the highest-level Catholic Church officials in the country.
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