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		<title>MYANMAR: Demand open trial, retrial and dropping of contempt proceedings in case of Phyo Wai Aung</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U Tun Tun Oo, Chief Justice, Office of the Supreme Court, Office No. 24, Naypyitaw, MYANMAR Re: MYANMAR: Demand open trial, retrial and dropping of contempt proceedings in case of Phyo Wai Aung Dear Chief Justice, I am writing to you concerning the case of Phyo Wai Aung, the young man whom the Myanmar Police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world must heed Khader Adnan’s call to respect rights of Palestinian political prisoners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Human rights organizations, prisoners support groups and Palestine solidarity organizations from Palestine, Israel, Canada, England, France, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States have united to support Khader Adnan’s fight for the rights of Palestinian political prisoners. Last night they  released the following call for international action.  The world must heed Khader Adnan’s call: Make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/latin-america/the-world-must-heed-khader-adnan%e2%80%99s-call-to-respect-rights-of-palestinian-political-prisoners/</link>
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		<title>Mountain Perspective and India’s Water Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this article suggestions have been given to the government of India in context to its draft National Water Policy 2012 towards water resource planning, development and management in the Mountains of India. This policy document talks about national level water related issues like; legal, usage, climate change adaptation, availability, management, pricing, infrastructure, planning, R [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya to host Africa&#8217;s dairy conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eastern and Southern Africa Dairy Association that brings together dairy producers in ten African countries Wednesday announced the 8th Dairy Conference and Exhibition which will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on April 25-27. The event promises to be the largest convergence of dairy stakeholders in Africa bringing together providers of technologies and solution in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rule of Law: Politicized Attorney General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Ackerman is a U.S. born and trained scolar (Ph.D. in political science, University of California, Santa Cruz) who is also a Mexican citizen. He is a researcher in the Institute of Judicial Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and editorial director of the Mexican Law Review. He is a columist for La [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to law enforcement: Stop linking Muslims to Terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yet another curtsy to the politically correct orthodoxy, President Barack Obama&#8217;s White House plans to tinker with federal police curriculums for counterterrorism training classes. The first bit of &#8220;revamping&#8221; is the removal of all material that groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, find offensive or containing a &#8220;negative&#8221; image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Equality Still Far Away in Tanzania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents have been advised to maintain tranquility in their families in order to avoid psychological troubles for their children, brought about by conflict. This counsel was given by Ms Agnes Mwasembo when speaking to human rights defenders in Mbozi town, Mbeya region, Southern Highlands of Tanzania recently, during a visit to her office by representatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/gender-equality-still-far-away-in-tanzania/</link>
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		<title>Women and Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 9 December 2010 a Sudanese woman was the victim of 40 lashes by a police officer in execution of his duties. Her crime was wearing pants inside the traditional long dress covering the pants. An audience of male observers were laughing while the woman was crying in a public display of how Sharia Law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges in Talking with the Taliban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan by 2014 has set into motion a hastened process of reconciliation. Among the flurry of activities that is going on, the most conspicuous is the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban, the key stakeholders in building durable stability in the war torn country. It’s a foregone conclusion that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/middle-east/challenges-in-talking-with-the-taliban/</link>
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		<title>Musical concert dedicated to raise awareness against power cut in Nepal (VIDEO)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People throng in for a cause of NO ELECTRICITY. It is high time since the past 5 years that people have been suffering high level of power cuts from 18 to 20 hrs every day. The government has been silent about the issue which stands live example of high corruption and carelessness shown towards public [...]]]></description>
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