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Article: Living in fear: Sri Lanka's Tamil...
Article: Above the law
Article: Breaking literary barriers
Article: Tibetan community holds worldwide vigil
A protest has been held in Amsterdam to call attention to a spate of self-immolations in Tibet and Nepal. The demonstration drew about hundred Tibetan supporters. Despite freezing temperatures, they gathered at Dam Square in the...
Radio Show: Reason for hope
In this week’s programme we hear from the indominitable Dr Myint Myint Khin from Burma. A doctor and professor of medicine for most of her career, Dr Khin has never shirked from expressing her often dissident views, despite the...
Article: Mumbai's LGBTs walk with pride
Mumbai organised its fifth “Queer Azadi (freedom in Hindi) March” (QAM) this Saturday. Over 500 people gathered on the streets of South Mumbai to demand equal rights for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender people. With all...
Article: Kachin women sold as Chinese brides
Nan Bun is the daughter of a poor farmer in Kachin state in Burma, just over the border from China. Because she had to help in the fields since her childhood, she was already 21 when she passed her ninth grade exams.
Radio Show: Burma's media scene is changing fast
A few years ago, he would have been imprisoned simply for talking to someone from the foreign media, but today, he’s happy not just to talk, but to be photographed and to be named. Tiha Saw talks about the reforms in Burma...
Video: Tuberculosis resistance neglected by Indian Government
Recently, a doctor in Mumbai sounded the alarm about tuberculosis treatment. For two years he has been treating 12 TB-patients, but the medicines have not helped. These patients have a resistance to every known type of antibiotics....
Article: Burma's brutal reality behind the benign face of reform
Phil Thornton reporting from Kachin state While the international community and Asean reward Burma’s government for its cautious reforms, a conflict in the Kachin area in the north has displaced nearly 60,000 people. There have been...
Article: Too little pay for one meal a day in Jaipur
Seema Vairva weighs just 30 kilos. Both she and her baby son have been diagnosed with anaemia. Seema is a domestic worker in Jaipur, and a Dalit – the social group at the bottom of India’s traditional caste ladder. Jaipur,...
Article: A call to end darkness in Burma
As the government in Burma, also known as Myanmar, engages in its much-touted reform process, a civil society movement in Burma’s Arakan state is steadily gaining strength. Earlier last week, protesters continued to demonstrate...
Article: Dutch Tamil Tigers appeal against "flawed law"
Five men jailed for supporting Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers (LTTE) last October have begun their appeal against conviction in The Hague. The case marks the first time an EU member state has considered the question of whether the Tamil...
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