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Monday, July 30, 2007

The Guardian
30 Jul 2007

Population Foetuses aborted and dumped secretly as India shuns baby girls
Randeep Ramesh Nayagarh, India Nursing homes
The Guardian
28 Jul 2007

A hundred yards from a school playing field on the edge of Nayagarh, a small town in eastern India, is an innocuous damp circular patch covered with what appears to be sticks and stones. A closer look reveals that the debris is shards of tiny skulls... read more...

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Sex discrimination rife and equality will take generations, says axed commission
John Carvel Social affairs editor
The Guardian
24 Jul 2007

Sex equality will take generations to achieve at the current “painfully slow” rate of progress, the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said today in a final report before being wound up by the government after more than 30 years fighting gender bias... read more...

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

We should welcome the dawn of the migration age
Ban Ki-moon
The Guardian
10 Jul 2007

It is a commonplace to say that we live in a globalised world. Less well understood is that globalisation is taking place in stages. We are in the second: the age of mobility. In its first stage, as flows of capital and goods were liberated, the... read more...