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Salem-News.com (Mar-30-2009 10:56)

Global Condemnation of `Corrective` Rape of Lesbians in South Africa

The South African legal system must recognize "corrective" rape as a hate crime in addition to a rape in order to establish a greater punishment for this brutal and widespread crime.

(CAPE TOWN, S. Africa) - Corrective rape in South Africa A new ActionAid report describes the chilling rise of "corrective" rape in South Africa - in which South African lesbians are being raped in an effort to "cure" them of their sexual orientation.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-07-2009 22:09)

Women’s Conference Leaves Liberians Out in the Cold

It seems the slum-dwelling women of Monrovia will have little to celebrate on International Women’s Day today.

(MONROVIA, Liberia) - Images of Liberia Slums were bulldozed for an international conference on women in the Liberian capital Monrovia.

Hundreds were told to move out of their homes of over 30 years with only minutes to remove their belongings before bulldozers flattened them.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-07-2009 20:53)

Why 10,000 Ugandans Eagerly Serve in Iraq

Thousands of men and women from poverty-stricken Uganda risk their lives for $600 a month in Iraq.

(KAMPALA, Uganda) - Under a relentless equatorial sun and the gaze of her Zimbabwean instructor, Juliet Kituye quickly reassembles her AK-47. Next to her, a young man in a ripped red T-shirt discharges imaginary rounds at an invisible target.

On a disused soccer pitch in the suburbs of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, 300 hopefuls are being put through rudimentary firearms training.

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Salem-News.com (Mar-05-2009 12:25)

Portland`s First World Water Day Celebration Will Benefit Water For All

Portland Roasting Coffee Company hosts March event that will help provide fresh, clean water via unique water pump technologies to African countries most in need, like the coffee growers in Ethiopia.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Merry-go-round water pump On Sunday, March 22, 2009, Portland Roasting is spearheading the first World Water Day Celebration in Portland, Ore., to increase awareness of and concern for the more than 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water, and to raise funds to install as many pumps as possible in Ethiopia.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-19-2009 18:10)

The Rush to Nazify Sudan by U.S. Academics

Give us Sudanese a break so we can find our own solutions to our own problems and grow the institutions to regulate them!!

(EL FASHER, North Darfur) - Salem-News.com Barely a week goes by without a welter of intellectual indulgence (or think of a word that rhymes with vibration) from some more Johnny-Come-Lately American academic ‘experts’ about Sudan.

US academia, plus America’s media, activists and civil society organizations, are clearly (if unwittingly) trying to de-humanise Sudan in the same way Iraq was in the run up to the invasion.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-17-2009 20:55)

Rich Countries Grab Land to Safeguard Future Food Supplies

Land grabs are taking place in poor countries all over the world where governments are desperate for income.

(LONDON) - Farmers in Sudan Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up agricultural land in developing countries to secure their own long-term food supplies.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-11-2009 07:35)

History Repeated in Africa? Aid in One Hand, Bible in the Other

US aid group, seen as cover to promote Christian missionary work, expelled from Darfur.

(KHARTOUM, Darfur) - In Darfur: US aid comes with Arabic Bibles A US aid group has been expelled from Sudan's war-hit region of Darfur for having a large stock of Arabic-language bibles, the official SUNA news agency reported on Saturday.

The Texas-based "Thirst No More" humanitarian group's Internet website says its work in Darfur focuses on "bringing clean, safe, and sustainable drinking water," with no reference to Christian missionary work or distribution of bibles in Muslim Darfur.

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Salem-News.com (Jan-28-2009 07:48)

Water for Life Campaign Spreads to Willamette Valley Churches

“If we want democracy and political stability around the world, the first thing we need to ensure is that people are not thirsty” - Professor Susan Smith

(SALEM, Ore.) - Professor Susan Smith For many people, Lent means going without for a few weeks, but for 2 billion people, going without is a way of life. Willamette University Professor Susan Smith is helping address the imbalance.

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Salem-News.com (Jan-27-2009 07:26)

Female Genital Cutting Affects Millions in the World

A petition that Internet users can sign sends a message to U.S. politicians to help end this serious world problem.

(SALEM, Ore.) - African girl A growing number of women's rights advocates are calling for an end to the practice of Female Genital Cutting: described as an invasive cultural practice that removes part or all of the external female genitalia.

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Salem-News.com (Jan-20-2009 15:13)

Zimbabwe`s Despair Continues

Cholera kills almost 2000-Concern Worldwide issues urgent appeal.

(NEW YORK) - Zimbabwe Children The death toll in Zimbabwe from cholera has almost topped 2000, out of total of more than 37,000 confirmed cases, worsening the plight of nation hammered by hyper inflation, food shortages, and an HIV and AIDS epidemic that affects 15 percent of the population.

Already active in the country distributing food, building up livelihood opportunities and caring for people living with HIV and AIDS, Concern Worldwide, the international humanitarian organization, has begun an aggressive program of cholera prevention targeting more than 200,000 people in the districts of Chegutu, Nyanga, and North and South Gokwe.

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