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NEPAL: Humanitarian challenges remain despite Maoists entering parliament
16 January 2007
(IRIN
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As Maoist leaders join the Nepalese parliament after their decade-long armed rebellion, the numbers of internally displaced people remain one of the biggest humanitarian concerns, said aid workers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/64365/NEPAL-Humanitarian-challenges-remain-despite-Maoists-entering-parliament
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THAILAND: Burmese migrants excluded from AIDS treatment
15 January 2007
(IRIN
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Zaw, 30, from Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar (Burma), came to Thailand eight years ago in search of job opportunities unavailable in his impoverished homeland. He found work on construction sites and, more recently, in a sawmill in Khao Lak, a beautiful coastal area where new hotels have been springing up in response to Thailand's booming tourist industry.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/64389/THAILAND-Burmese-migrants-excluded-from-AIDS-treatment
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NEPAL: Hari Bhatta, “All we want is justice”
15 January 2007
(IRIN
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"I was only 15 years old when I was forced to flee my home after my father, Shiva Prasad, was brutally killed by the Maoist rebels six years ago. He was our only breadwinner and his death has severely impoverished our family.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/64362/NEPAL-Hari-Bhatta-All-we-want-is-justice
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NEPAL: Child soldiers ‘still recruited by Maoists’
11 January 2007
(IRIN
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A 16-year-old youth, who was too afraid to reveal his real name, explained how he managed to escape the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in December 2006.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/64359/NEPAL-Child-soldiers-still-recruited-by-Maoists
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AFGHANISTAN: Links and References
11 January 2007
(IRIN
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The Research Section of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), which comes under the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), prepares annually the “Global Illicit Drug Trends”. The report takes a statistical approach to assessing the status of world supply in and demand for illicit drugs.
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/63041/21/AFGHANISTAN-Links-and-References
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NEPAL: Fears that new constitution fails to address human rights violations
10 January 2007
(IRIN
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For the past two years, Debi Sunwar has been desperately waiting for justice after the extrajudicial execution of her 15-year old daughter, Maina, who was illegally detained, raped, tortured and killed in February 2004 by the Nepalese Army.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/64358/NEPAL-Fears-that-new-constitution-fails-to-address-human-rights-violations
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AFGHANISTAN: UN rejects landmines along border
9 January 2007
(IRIN
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The United Nations has rejected a recent decision by the Pakistani government to fence and mine in 'selected places' its 2,400 km border with Afghanistan to prevent cross-border militancy.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/64357/AFGHANISTAN-UN-rejects-landmines-along-border
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NEPAL: UN arms monitors to begin work next week
5 January 2007
(IRIN
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The first batch of United Nations arms monitors are to begin their work in Kathmandu and the southwestern border city of Nepalganj, on Monday, Ian Martin, personal representative of the UN Secretary-General, confirmed on Friday.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/62970/NEPAL-UN-arms-monitors-to-begin-work-next-week
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NEPAL: Low caste communities still suffering discrimination
5 January 2007
(IRIN
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Nepal’s impoverished low caste ‘Dalit’ community continue to be discriminated against almost 20 years after the caste system was banned, human rights activists in Nepal's southwestern city of Nepalganj have complained.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/62971/NEPAL-Low-caste-communities-still-suffering-discrimination
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CENTRAL ASIA: Weekly news wrap
5 January 2007
(IRIN
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Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on Saturday voted in favour of a new constitution in what has been billed as a step towards stability in the mountainous former Soviet republic, despite the opposition’s boycott of the vote.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/62972/CENTRAL-ASIA-Weekly-news-wrap
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