Politics and Policy
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British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has condemned Pakistan’s treatment of the Baloch people in a speech at the United Nations in Geneva.
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Society
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By Spriha Srivastava
As my car came to a halt at a traffic signal on the way to south Delhi, a bunch of children dressed in the shabbiest of clothes came running towards me. One of them tried to sell me a box of tissues while a teenage girl held an infant in her arms and begged for money for his food. I was baffled to see the same thing happen at every traffic signal until I reached my destination.
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Society
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By Dina Begum
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh has been sinking for as long as I can remember watching the BBC broadcasting yet another flood, cyclone and disaster in my country of birth. After a while you become desensitised to the women in cotton saris wading through chin-high water with a metal box or water carrier in hand, and the weeping old men who cry with their heads in their hands.
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Society
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Slums are headline news — again. From Stewart Brand’s über-optimistic take in his book Whole Earth Discipline to the murk and violence of Slumdog Millionaire, slums are portrayed alternately as miracles of innovation and the ultimate trainwreck. Barbara Kiser finds the truth lies somewhere between.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
On Tuesday 2nd March The xx played a gorgeous, accomplished gig at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, building an atmosphere of hushed intimacy in which their debut album was joined by some of their Youtube-friendly cover versions. Do You Mind was the spine-tingling highlight.
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Politics and Policy
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In 2003, two people were stopped and searched outside London’s Excel Centre and prevented from attending a peaceful protest against the arms fair taking place inside. Journalist Pennie Quinton was forced to stop filming despite showing her press card, and Kevin Gillian was stopped for 20 minutes when riding his bike.
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Politics and Policy
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Bangladesh has been rocked by the recent flaring up of decades old ethnic tensions, as Bengali settlers set fire to hundreds of indigenous homes. Pinaki Roy reports from Dhaka on the latest developments and explores the background to the violence.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
Opening with a solo piano that seesaws gently between chords, there is something deliciously schizophrenic about Joanna Newsom’s Good Intentions Paving Co.
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Society
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Rejected by the rest of the Tamil population and ignored by the Sinhalese authorities, tea workers who migrated from Tamil Nadu centuries ago are exploited in the plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands. Melanie Gouby reports.
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Politics and Policy
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In January this year the European Court of Human Rights delivered a heavily critical judgement on police stop and search powers. In the second part of his special report, Tomas Mowlam looks at the future of Section 44 and stop and search in the UK.
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Politics
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By David Cronin
Before I visited Gaza ten months ago, I continuously heard it being described as the world’s largest open-air prison. Yet it was only when I passed through Erez, the high-tech border crossing run by a private Israeli firm, that I grasped what the phrase meant. The debris of destruction wrought by ‘smart weapons’, the constant surveillance from warplanes overhead, the heavy air pollution, the grinding poverty, the absence of basic materials needed for reconstruction – all these factors combined to make me feel something akin to suffocation.
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Society
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A new Home Office report blames the sexualisation of society for violence against women. It recommends a crackdown on the media, but Eamonn Dwyer wants to know why it didn’t suggest introducing the hijab.
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Society
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By Nabila Pathan
With the Equality Bill fresh in the recent news cycle, it is hardly surprising that the recent government announcement of university budget cuts of £500 million provoked coverage on the impact on equality. After all, many of this government’s higher education policies have focused on increasing places for students, whether it was 50 percent participation targets by 2010 or getting universities to publish their admissions policies.
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