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Are all Men Pedophiles (Trailer)

16/05/2012

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Child Mannequins Questioning, Photo by Nova Hart

Reblogged from This is MY Soapbox: Are all men pedophiles? Of course not! But this is the recent subject of a documentary. I’ll let you watch the trailer. The trailer isn’t bringing up any facts that would change my mind. Just because models start off their careers at the age of 16 doesn’t imply that all [...]

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Bagmati River Slum Razed

10/05/2012

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Kathmandu, Nepal, Little Girl in Slum by Bagmati River, Photo by The Advocacy Project

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 18:19 PM EDT, 10 May 2012 KATHMANDU, Nepal – Wednesday, 8 May 2012, was a day of great disruption and equal measure of sorrow for the residents of the shanty town at UN Park in the Thapathali area in Kathmandu. Most of the make-shift neighborhood encompassed an area 400-metre long, [...]

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Exclusive ICBM Club Gains Member

19/04/2012

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French Nuclear Test, Photo by x-Ray Delta

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:23 PM EDT, 19 April 2012 NEW DEHLI, India – Following close on the heels of North Korea’s failed rocket launch earlier this week, the Indian government successfully launched the Agni-V from India’s east coast. According to other reports, Agni (means “fire” in Hindi and Sanskrit), a fitting term for [...]

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Drone strikes 'may' come up in talks with Pakistan: US officials

13/04/2012

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US Airforce Predator Drone, Photo by Defense Technology News

Reblogged from DAWN.COM: The joint Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) in Islamabad called for an immediate halt to drone strikes in FATA. – Photo by AP WASHINGTON: The United States has indicated that the issue of drone strikes may also come up for discussion in future talks with Pakistan, although a State Department official [...]

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Humiliating North Korean Rocket Crash

13/04/2012

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Kim Jong-un, Photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 22:19 PM EDT, 13 April 2012 PYONGYANG, North Korea – Yesterday, amid the fanfare of ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder and “eternal president” Kim Il-sung, his grandson, Kim Jong-un suffered a humiliating set-back when the rocket that was to herald his military might [...]

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Pakistan’s Dirty Secret War

05/04/2012

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Baloch Freedom Fighter, Photo by Belochistan

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 20:50 PM EDT, 5 April 2012 BALOCHISTAN, Pakistan – Recently, we wrote about the Tuareg of North Africa and the battle they are fighting in Mali for independence as an autonomous country. There is another little known group of people also fighting for their independence, as well as control over [...]

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India and Iran Thwart US Sanctions

26/03/2012

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Shri M. Hamid Ansari, VP, India with Ambassador Rajiv Sikri, Photo by South Asian Foreign Relations

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 10:04 AM EDT, 26 March 2012 NEW DELHI, India – Three years ago, on 13 April 2009, Shri M. Hamid Ansari, the current Vice President of India, released a book titled, “Challenges and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy” authored by Ambassador Rajiv Sikri of the International Institute for Strategic Studies [...]

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Death by Marriage | Rape Victim Amina Filali

18/03/2012

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Mukhtar Mai, Pakistani Gang-Rape Survivor and Activist, Photo by Lauren (Rose Without A Thorn)

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:31 PM EDT, 18 March 2012 MOROCCO – On Saturday, 17 March 2011, thousands of people around the world awoke to the horror of the suicide of a young girl who had been forced to marry her rapist. Her rapist was given the option of marrying the girl under Article [...]

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Japan still coping with human, economic costs of tsunami one year later

10/03/2012

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Buddhist Monk - Kyoto, Japan, Photo by Lauris Ducasse

Reblogged from National Post | News: By Yoko Kubota OFUNATO, Japan – With a minute of silence, tolling bells and prayers, Japan will on Sunday mark the first anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis that shattered public trust in atomic power and the nation’s leaders. A [...]

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