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I Will Not Give Up
27 Nov 2009 16:54:00 GMT
Author: Oxfam

By Bao Xiuhong

I met Xiaojing, a 27-year-old T'ai ethnic minority woman, in October 2009. Xiaojing, who did not wish for me to publish her real name, talked about her life over the past few years. Xiaojing used to see herself as an ordinary woman, an ordinary farmer, living in a village in Yunnan province. ...

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No homes in sight for 900,000 Myanmar cyclone survivors
25 Nov 2009 17:02:00 GMT
Author: A Myanmar expert in Bangkok

BANGKOK - For about 100,000 people in Myanmar who have been living in makeshift shelters since Cyclone Nargis hit 18 months ago, Wednesday's news of fresh donor money spells light at the end of the tunnel.

But for the remaining 900,000 people whose homes were destroyed or damaged, the prospects are dim.

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China: Children who are left behind
25 Nov 2009 02:38:35 GMT
Author: Global Voices

On November 12, several days before the International Childrens Day, an explosion erupted in an illegal fire cracker factory in Guangxi which resulted in 2 children workers dead and 11 others injured.

According to the Southern Weekends report, these children victims were left behind by their parents, who are migrant workers and have to work in cities all year long to earn money and support their families. They lived with their aging grandparents and struggled to work before and after school time to earn some pocket money for snacks.

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Trials not yet a deterrent to rapes in Congo
24 Nov 2009 17:39:00 GMT
Author: Frank Nyakairu

NAIROBI (AlertNet) - In the year since the start of the first trial at the international war crimes court involving an alleged Congolese warlord, rape on a mass scale has continued unabated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thomas Lubanga, accused of training child soldiers to kill and rape, went on trial at the International Criminal Court in January and two more of his compatriots went on trial at the court on Tuesday, charged with crimes against humanity including rape and sexual slavery.

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Climate change and conflict: respecting complexity
24 Nov 2009 11:29:00 GMT
Author: Dan Smith

The climate deal won't happen at Copenhagen in December. The work will continue. And as more people become aware of and motivated by the links between climate change on the one hand and conflict, peace and security on the other, both the possibility and the necessity of clarity about those links increase.

It is an area of discussion where making an extra effort of care and precision is justified.

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