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RELIGION-BRAZIL: Intolerance Denounced at UN
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - "Ialorixá" Gilda died of a massive heart attack in 1999 after members of a pentecostal church swarmed into her temple and hit her over the head with a Bible. Her death drew attention to the growing religious intolerance in Brazil, which was denounced this week at the United Nations.
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RIGHTS-INDIA: India's Historic Gay Ruling
By Ranjita Biswas
KOLKATA - A day after the Delhi High Court's landmark judgment to overturn a colonial law that criminalised homosexuality, Indians expressed mixed reactions to the verdict.
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AUSTRALIA: Attacks Expose Ills Of A Much-Touted Education System
By Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY - The modern façade of its cities, cost-effectiveness and its high standards of education make Australia an attractive destination for foreign students. But the recent spate of attacks on Indian students has exposed the many ills afflicting the Australian education system, threatening its lucrative markets.
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ENVIRONMENT: 'Slow Down Living'
By Blake Evans-Pritchard
PISTOIA, Italy - A group of Christian environmentalists met in Pistoia in central Italy over the weekend to call for an end to mass consumption and a return to family values.
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MIDEAST: Not Correct Soccer, But Better
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
SAKHNIN, Israel - In this Arab town in northern Israel, Michael Zantovsky, the Czech Republic ambassador, is throwing an end-of-term party, an event markedly different from customary diplomatic bashes.
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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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AUSTRALIA: Policy May Force Indigenous Communities From Traditional Lands
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - A government plan purporting to improve the lives of people living in isolated areas of Australia’s Northern Territory will be implemented at the expense of surrounding homeland communities and ignores the cultural and health benefits for people living on those traditional lands, warn critics.
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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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SOUTHEAST ASIA: Regional Rights Body Dismissed as "Toothless"
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Southeast Asia is weeks away from getting its own regional human rights body, but not everyone is cheering the birth of this new mechanism due to be approved at a foreign ministers’ meeting here. Least of all the region’s vibrant human rights community, spread across the 10 countries that belong to the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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MALAYSIA: Blacklisted For Not Enforcing Trafficking Laws
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - After years of lobbying by rights activists and the international community, Malaysia passed an effective and comprehensive law in 2007 against human trafficking with provisions for protection, shelter and return of trafficked person to their home countries.
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RELIGION-CUBA: Women in the Pulpit
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Izet Samá has no regrets about her decision to devote every waking hour to her mission as pastor of the Presbyterian-Reformed Church, guiding a small congregation in the Cuban province of Havana.
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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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POLITICS-INDIA: Hindu Fundamentalism in Retreat
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - As the leaders of the pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blame each other for the massive debacle that the party suffered in the April/May elections it is clear that its fundamentalist agenda has few takers in a rapidly modernising India.
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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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