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RIGHTS: Arab TV Soaps Reinforce Gender Bias
By Suad Hamada
MANAMA - Arabic TV channels wait for Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, to launch new soaps that generally portray women negatively. Ramadan starts this year at the end of August.
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PAKISTAN: An Unexpected Tribute to MJ
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - In this South Asian nation, people fondly remember a pop-singer who stole many hearts.
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CULTURE-MEXICO: "New Seven Wonders" Win Falls Flat
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government spent time and money in 2007 to get the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza declared one of the "new seven wonders of the world" in a contest organised by a Swiss-Canadian businessman. But winning has failed to deliver the desired results.
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TRADE-MAURITIUS: Paradise Island, Pirates’ Den
By Nasseem Ackbarally
PORT LOUIS - Pirated goods - from music and vehicle parts to clothes, perfumes and software - are sold at ridiculously low prices on the streets or in local shops. This is big business in the paradise-like island state of Mauritius.
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PARAGUAY: University Opens Doors to Native Students
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN - Video camera in hand, Isidro Romero is getting ready for another day of classes in the Paraguayan capital. He is studying Communications as part of a programme aimed at breaking down the barriers that have blocked access to university level studies by the country’s small indigenous minority.
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CHILE: Festival to Showcase Films on Native Peoples
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Thanks to the growing number of films by and about indigenous peoples, over 90 movies, mainly from Latin America, will be screened and voted on by spectators at the First Chilean Indigenous Peoples' Film Festival in the Pacific port city of Valparaíso.
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JAMAICA: For an Abortion Law That Reaches the Poor
By Zadie Neufville
KINGSTON - When a Jamaican women’s group Sistren realised the voices of poor women were missing in a national debate on abortion rights, they boldly staged a play before parliamentarians reviewing a draft law that seeks to clarify when abortion can be deemed legal.
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ARGENTINA: Drumming Up Black Awareness
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina’s small black community, ignored by historical constructions that have traditionally focused on the influence of European immigration, is now fighting for recognition of its contribution to culture in the Argentine capital.
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Q&A: Notes From Iran’s Underground Music Scene
Omid Memarian interviews ARASH SOBHANI, lead singer of the rock band Kiosk
BERKELEY, California - As Iran’s conservative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fights for his political future against two reformist challengers in the June elections, Arash Sobhani, a lead figure in the country’s underground music scene, says it’s a very tough time to be an artist in Iran.
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FILM-RWANDA: Genocidaires Face Off With Their Victims
By Matthew Berger
NEW YORK - In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbours, friends, and family members across Rwanda. Nine years later the killers came home from prison to live side by side again with their victims.
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RIGHTS: Historic Court Under the Spotlight in New Film
By Joy Wiltermuth
NEW YORK - The International Criminal Court has struggled since its inception to realise its core mandate to prosecute the world’s worst human rights offenders, putting on trial propagators of genocide, war crimes and the inductors of child soldiers into civil conflict.
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BOOKS: Canada's Agent Orange Victims Still Seeking Justice
By Matthew Berger
NEW YORK - Bruce Brown died of cancer at age 18. Some of Marilyn Kissinger’s other friends lived into their early and late twenties, dying in the late 1960s. Most had died by the late 1980s.
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RIGHTS-CHILE: Ex-Soldier Arrested for Víctor Jara Murder
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - A judge in Chile has charged a former soldier in the 1973 murder of internationally renowned Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only person prosecuted in the case was the commanding officer at the temporary prison camp where the songwriter was killed shortly after the Sept. 11, 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
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CHILE: Study Shows How Leading Paper Colluded with Dictatorship
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The coverage of human rights violations cases by the powerful conservative Chilean newspaper El Mercurio during the country’s 17-year dictatorship was the focus of a meticulous study by five young reporters.
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ARGENTINA: Blogs – a Shortcut to Fame?
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - While many are still warning that the Internet will do away with reading, unknown writers in Argentina who have joined the global trend of blogging are winning prizes around the world and watching their online writings turn into books, plays and television screenplays.
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