Submitted by admin on Mon, 2007-03-19 08:00. ::
According to a story in tomorrow's New York Times (reg. req.), the AIDS epidemic has now arrived in Afghanistan, although it remains almost entirely unacknowledged in this conservative, religious country.
The incidence of the disease is presently still low compared to Afghanistan's neighbors, but it is likely to become more common due to the return of refugees, Afghans going abroad to s...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2007-03-19 08:00. ::
The Helen Bamber Foundation, set up to help victims of torture and other human rights violations, is counselling 35 women trafficked into the UK.
Clinician Lucy Kralj said each woman had experienced "horrific brutality".
But the Home Office often did not believe what had happened to them, and some victims escaped their captors only to be jailed, the foundation said.
The govern...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2007-03-19 08:00. ::
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Cloistered by two decades of war and then the strict Islamic rule of the Taliban, Afghanistan was long shielded from the ravages of the AIDS pandemic. Not anymore.
HIV and AIDS have quietly arrived in this land of a thousand calamities. It remains almost completely underground, shrouded in ignorance and stigma as the government struggles with the help of American ...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2007-03-19 08:00. ::
Dean Sim, a mother of two, came to the UK after paying £15,000 to a fixer in Malaysia who promised her a legitimate job in the UK.
On arrival in London she was dumped with no money, housing or job and found herself living on the streets.
In China Town a "friendly" woman told her about a cleaning job in Cheltenham.
As the UK marks the 200th anniversary of the Parliamentary Act ...
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-03-18 08:00. ::
IT MAY be that those never say die Internet monitoring officials on China's mainland will be able to pull it off. Stranger things have happened! But seriously, to be able to keep a lid on the Internet while clamping down on the nation‚s bloggers?
"Good luck!" said one tech savvy-student in my Asia Media class at the University of California, Los Angeles. I got the sense that most student...
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-03-18 08:00. ::
TWO parallel events occurred last week in the Asia-Pacific and West Asia, but trust political expediencies to push them worlds apart.
On Tuesday, Japan and Australia forged a new defence and security treaty. Both vigorously denied that it had anything to do with a rising China in their midst, which only tended to confirm that it had.
Why else would Tokyo and Canberra, staunch region...
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-03-18 08:00. ::
North Korea will take part in an international conference on Asian women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.
The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan says the conference on the so-called "comfort women" will take place in Seoul in May.
The council says North Korea has sent a letter saying it will send five delegates to the meeting whi...
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-03-18 08:00. ::
TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Japan has been shortened in response to Tokyo's saying there was no proof that women who worked in wartime brothels were coerced, Yonhap news agency said on Sunday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sparked outrage overseas when he said earlier this month there was no evidence that Japan's government or army had forcibly brought ...
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-03-18 08:00. ::
One of the many benefits of being married again is I get to see how my other half lives. My other half is a working woman in the corporate world. Of course the best part about that is every day, in every way, she reminds me I'm thrilled not to be in that world anymore.
Day in and day out, my very hard working wife provides a sterling example to our children of what to avoid in their "pro...
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2007-03-17 08:00. ::
With more sexual predators turning to the Internet, lawmakers moved Thursday to force all convicted sex offenders to reveal their e-mail addresses, Internet screen names and the like.
The measure was approved by the House by a 108-0 vote and now moves to the Senate. If approved there, residents could check Illinois' sex offender registry and see the Internet information.
State Rep....
