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 By Rima Saini
Born out of poverty, skewed cultural norms, entrenched sexist attitudes and weakly enforced legislation, female foeticide is an undeniable problem in Indian society. Rima Saini looks at the story behind India's 'missing girls', and the fight to put a stop to this worryingly widespread practice.
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Monday, 06 June 2011 15:56 |
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 By Nayha Kalia
The developers of an Islamic Cultural Centre in Lower Manhattan - controversially dubbed the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ – spoke with Nayha Kalia during their visit to London. Sharif El – Gamal and his partner Nour Moussa are here to clarify the intentions behind the development called Park51.
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Monday, 06 June 2011 15:44 |
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 By Ruth Grove-White
Explosive media coverage about an apparent ongoing ‘amnesty’ of asylum seekers with long-standing applications is largely missing the point. The furore is based on the recent report of the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) into the work of the UK Border Agency (UKBA). Among other issues, the report reviews UKBA progress in clearing the backlog of up to 450,000 unresolved asylum applications, many which have been gathering dust in UKBA offices since the late 1990s.
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Monday, 06 June 2011 15:30 |
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 By Sami Zubaida
Democracies are about more than elections and majorities: they require genuine separation of powers, autonomous institutions and associations, all regulated by the rule of law. The current Turkish situation is the product of social and institutional patterns, now in question, in which multiple centres of institutional power confronted and checked one another, unlike the centralised and personalised regimes of much of the Arab world.
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Saturday, 04 June 2011 15:02 |
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 By Matt Boyes
Speaking at the Hay-on-Wye festival earlier this week, David Miliband didn’t just raise questions about the direction of the Labour Party under his brother’s leadership. He also touched on a much wider issue.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 04 June 2011 15:06 |
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