Fattened by Pills
by Paula J. Caplan, Boston Globe, USA - As Americans struggle to keep New Year’s weight-loss resolutions, experts’ alarms about obesity ring in our heads.
Female Bylines
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February 1, 2010
BYLINE PORTAL
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander, Tom Dispatch, USA - How the War on Drugs gave birth to a permanent american undercaste....
Gaza Women Denied Inheritance Rights
by Rachelle Kliger, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Palestinian inheritance law follows Islamic law, which stipulates that women are only entitled to half the inheritance amount...
Criminalising Homosexuality: A Threat to Human Rights
by Sokari Ekine, Pambazuka, Kenya - Urgency is required at this very moment as the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is pending before the Ugandan parliament....
Cambodia Drug-Resistant Malaria Stirs Health Fears
by Thin Lei Win, Reuters, UK - A New England Journal of Medicine study last year showed that conventional malaria-fighting treatments derived from artemisinin took...
A Female Approach to Peacekeeping
by Doreen Carvajal, New York Times, USA - Any conflict where you have an all-male army, it’s like a holiday from reality. If you inject...
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