Iranian Child Victim of Prostitution
by Julia Rooke, BBC/Crossing Continents - Sold into prostitution aged nine, condemned by an Iranian judge to hang at 18, Leila was saved by a group of human rights activists.
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The Castaways of Illegal Immigration
by Catherine Norris Trent and Virginie Herz, France 24, France - Around 600 illegal immigrants live in makeshift camps around the northern French harbour town...
AIDS Spreads to Haunt Philippines' Modern-Day Heroes
by Ana Santos and Xu Lingui, Xinhua, China - There are 5 million people in Asia living with HIV/AIDS with around 400,000 people being newly...
Muslims Must Confront the Truth about Mumbai
by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent, UK - Denial and obfuscation once again stop us from examining who the killers were, why they did what they...
Pirates Hurting Egypt through the Suez
by Tamsin Carlisle, The National, United Arab Emirates - Egypt’s 82 million people have enough economic worries without Somali pirates cutting into the government’s revenues....
Laos Still Paying the Price of Vietnam War
by Thin Lei Win, Reuters, UK - Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military dropped more than 2 million tons of explosive ordnance, including an...
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