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Native People of El Salvador Finally Gain Recognition
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - After decades of struggle, indigenous people in El Salvador will finally be recognised in the constitution – a first step towards recovering their community identity, which they have been denied by the state and by society at large.
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Q&A
Mother Earth Should Not Be "Owned, Privatised and Exploited"
Aline Jenckel interviews, TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network
UNITED NATIONS - For centuries, indigenous peoples and their rights, resources and lands have been exploited. Yet long overdue acknowledgment of past exploitation and dedicated efforts by indigenous peoples have done little to end or prevent violations of the present, stated indigenous leaders in the Manaus Declaration of 2011.
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Tunisia's Revolution is Just Beginning
By Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA - Lingering violence, intolerance and oppression in Tunisia, following the ousting of former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, tells the revolutionaries who sparked the Arab Spring that their work is just beginning.
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Islamists Stall Gender Equality Bill
By Kafil Yamin
JAKARTA - The fate of a gender equality bill pending in Indonesia’s parliament and aligned with the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms discrimination against women (CEDAW) has become uncertain after falling afoul of powerful Islamist groups.
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COLOMBIA
Saving the River Basin, One Schoolchild at a Time
By Constanza Vieira
NEIVA, Colombia - "Out of love for the river, we reforest, recycle, and make this place beautiful," says a sign welcoming visitors to the Floragaita school, where a balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) tree with enormous white flowers guards the entrance to the lush green grounds on a hill in the heart of Colombia’s Andes mountains.
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Caste Blocks Revamp of Nepal's Sex Workers
By Naresh Newar
MUDA, Nepal - Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with entertainment and prostitution.
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Women 'Invisible' in Myanmar
By Roberto Tofani
YANGON - While Aung San Suu Kyi enjoys iconic status in Myanmar (also known as Burma), women remain invisible in this country steeped in Buddhist tradition and emerging from decades of military rule.
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Modern Obstetrics and Midwives Need to Join Forces
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - María dos Prazeres de Souza has lost count of the number of births "without a single death" she has attended as a midwife, an occupation that there is renewed interest in strengthening in traditional communities in Brazil where state services are not available or are not entirely acceptable for cultural reasons.
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KYRGYZSTAN
Justice Elusive for Kidnapped Brides
By Azita Ranjbar*
BISHKEK - Even though she was kidnapped, pressured into marrying a man from a nearby village, and then abandoned without means to sustain herself and the couple's two young children, Totugul can't rely on Kyrgyzstan's courts for help.
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Spreading Climate Literacy in Cuba
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Local communities can play a key role in adaptation to climate change if they are helped to properly understand the problem and take it on board. "Climate literacy is needed," says Ángela Corvea, a long-time Cuban environmental activist.
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Latin American Media Chose Not to Publish Certain WikiLeaks Cables
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - According to a book published in the Argentine capital, major Latin American newspapers with access to the secret cables obtained by Wikileaks decided not to print them because doing so would run counter to their own interests.
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First School for Transvestites Opens in Buenos Aires
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - With 35 students, the first secondary school specifically for transvestites and other members of sexual minorities who face discrimination in mainstream schools opened in March in the Argentine capital.
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Cloning - Lifeline for Cashmere Shawl Industry
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR, India - After scientists in Kashmir successfully cloned the pashmina goat, that produces the famous ‘cashmere’ wool, hopes are running high for the revival of the traditional shawl-making industry in this Indian state.
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Brazilian Favela Becomes a Living Museum
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - The history, daily life and folk artistry as well as spectacular views of this southeastern Brazilian city are all part of a living museum created by community leaders in a favela that is displaying its cultural heritage as well as its wounds.
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Montevideo Selected as Regional Internet Centre
By Álvaro Queiruga
MONTEVIDEO - The capital of Uruguay has become the headquarters of Latin America’s six leading Internet organisations, brought together in the same building.
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