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Q&A: Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools
Suzanne Hoeksema interviews AKINYI M. OCHOLLA, Chair of Minority Women in Action
UNITED NATIONS - With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
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Q&A: It’s Time Students Learned Beyond the Classroom
Mutsuko Murakami interviews DR CAROL MA HOK KA, a noted advocate of service-learning
TOKYO - An increasing number of universities and colleges across Asia today are running a programme called "service-learning," a teaching and learning strategy that has become synonymous with precisely what its name stands for.
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Q&A: No 'One-Size-Fits-All' for Surging South-South Cooperation
Thalif Deen interviews SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, Secretary-General of UNCTAD
UNITED NATIONS - A major international conference on South-South cooperation is scheduled to take place early December in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi against the backdrop of a rising trend in regional economic integration in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
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Q&A: "CEDAW is UNIFEM'S Entry Point"
Andrea Borde interviews JOANNE SANDLER, Deputy Executive Director, UNIFEM*
UNITED NATIONS - On Sep. 14, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly adopted a resolution that opened the door for the creation of a new U.N. agency specifically for women.
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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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