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1. Women’s rights on paper versus in practice

Asian News, Thursday 4 December 2008
IN recent years, the Pakistani government appears to have made strides in protecting women’s rights.

2. Pakistan earthquake....three years on

Asian News, Wednesday 8 October 2008
THE devastating natural disaster on 8 October 2005 left devastating memories in our minds.

3. Action, not lip-service, for Pakistani women

Asian News, Wednesday 24 September 2008
US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson has made it clear that one of the United States’ primary goals in Pakistan is the empowerment of women.

4. India’s most famous world peace leader on UK tour

Asian News, Tuesday 23 September 2008
INDIA'S most famous world peace leader, His Holiness Sri Vasanth Gurudevji has arrived in the UK for the forthcoming Millennium Development Goal and World Peace Festival 2008.

5. Seven years after the 'war on terror'

Asian News, Wednesday 24 September 2008
IT is seven years since that terrible day of 11 September, 2001 when terrorists killed 3000 Americans, triggering a massive global response by the United States. As President Bush’s term comes to an end, it is time to assess the prudence of his policies.

6. Human trafficking in Bangladesh and beyond

Asian News, Monday 6 October 2008
Dhaka - Sold to a dance bar owner and forced to work in the “flesh trade”, Zarina (whose name has been changed to protect her identity), a 16-year-old girl and daughter of a day labourer from Krishnapur in southeast Bangladesh, was a recent victim of human trafficking. This illegal trade has assumed dangerous proportions in recent years.

7. Fertility tourism rife in India

Asian News, Wednesday 30 July 2008
The ads are brazen: 'healthy young women - superovulated exclusively for you!'. The fees are half those of UK clinics ('flights and hotel included!'). And the industry is unregulated, leaving doctors free of legal and ethical constraints. No wonder more and more Europeans are going to India for fertility treatment. Raekha Prasad from The Guardian reports

8. Polio cases jump in Pakistan as clerics declare vaccination an American plot

Asian News, Thursday 15 February 2007
PARENTS of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.

9. Gender tests give rise to female foeticide

Asian News, Wednesday 29 August 2007
The widespread use of illegal tests to determine the sex of a baby is fuelling a rise of female foeticide cases in India according to social activists.

10. Brotherly love

Asian News, Tuesday 1 October 2002
SO OFTEN customs and festivals serve to divide people along lines of race, religion or gender. But not the south Asian custom of Raksha Bandhan. This unites brother and sister, and, historically at least, Hindu and Muslim. Our correspondent in India, Sheetal Kiran, who has just celebrated Raksha Bandhan at her home in Poona, explains.
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