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Thursday, September 02, 2010   20:47 GMT    
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PHILIPPINES
Criminal Ban, Stigma Drive Unsafe Abortions
By Diana Mendoza
MANILA - "I felt scared. When I looked around, all the mothers had finished giving birth, while I was still there. The blood that flowed from me had already dried and caked onto my body," Lisa, a 19-year-old married mother of three, says, recounting her experience in post-abortion care at a public hospital here in the Philippine capital.
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SRI LANKA
Anger Rises Over Torture Case, But Solution Unclear
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - The ordeal of a Sri Lankan domestic worker whose Saudi Arabian employer allegedly drove nails and metal wires into her body has sent alarm bells ringing among government officials and activists, but how such abuses can be stopped remain far from clear.
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SOUTH AFRICA
"Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point"
By Kim Cloete
CAPE TOWN - "Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive," says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense.
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500,000 Pregnant Women at Risk in Pakistan Floods
By Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - Aid groups and U.N. agencies are raising the alarm over the vulnerability of pregnant women and babies in flood ravaged Pakistan.
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INDIA
Kashmiri Youngsters Wage Online Struggle
By Athar Parvaiz – Asia Media Forum*
SRINAGAR, India - Rasik Rasheed’s (not his real name) hefty Internet bills hardly bother his family. Cooped up at home due to curfews and strikes here for nearly three months now, youngsters like him have been busy not just with their studies but with waging what they call the Kashmir struggle on the Internet.
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JAPAN
Househusbands Giving Birth To More Gender Equality
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
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RIGHTS-PAKISTAN
Mob Brutality Raises Painful Questions
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan - A breakdown in Pakistan’s justice system, a sign of a society desensitised to violence, an example of mob brutality.
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Climate-related Security Predictions Coming True in Pakistan
By Matthew O. Berger
WASHINGTON - Analysts have been warning for several years that the impacts of climate change directly relate to the national security of the U.S. and other countries, but the link has never been so clear as it is today in northwest Pakistan.
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RIGHTS-BAHRAIN
Law on Young Offenders Needs Fixing - Critics
By Suad Hamada
MANAMA - It was his second time to be caught stealing a car, so Turki was meted a jail term of five years. But the young repeat offender was only 17 years old at the time of his arrest, and therefore was still considered a minor under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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ECONOMY
"Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence"
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris.
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