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 KAVRE - Being a community-based mediator in domestic violence cases is not for the faint-hearted. Saru Tamang has been slapped, verbally abused and threatened by male members of her village in Kavre District when she has gone to mediate in domestic violence cases. The village has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV) in the country, say local rights activists. full report
• Domestic violence still common - activists
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| AFGHANISTAN: Farmers in the midst of poppy cultivation dilemma |  JALALABAD, 31 December 2008 (IRIN) - Farmers in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, have been told by Taliban insurgents to grow poppy, but the government has warned them not to.
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| | NEPAL: Fighting back against the child widow taboo |  RAJBIRAJ, 30 December 2008 (IRIN) - At the age of 11 Purni Shah was forced by her family to marry a 25-year-old man. Four years into the marriage, her husband died leaving her a child widow.
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| | PAKISTAN: Poverty forcing families to put children to work |  LAHORE, 28 December 2008 (IRIN) - “My only wish in life is to have a decent meal with my family at least once a day. Everything else, even my personal dignity, is now a secondary issue,” said Muhammad Rafiq, 35, at a brick-kiln in Lahore, capital of Punjab Province.
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| | PHILIPPINES: Bunkhouses ease pressure on Mindanao schools |  CENTRAL MINDANAO, 18 December 2008 (IRIN) - The government is erecting bunkhouses in conflict-affected Mindanao in a bid to decongest schools being used as evacuation centres. Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) are being housed in schools on the southern island following an upsurge in fighting between government forces and the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in August.
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| | PAKISTAN: Why do parents send their children to orphanages? |  KARACHI, 18 December 2008 (IRIN) - “I’m really hurt by the way the media pried into my private life and show-cased it to the public,” said Rukhsana Bibi. Last month, Bibi, a mother of four, handed over her youngest daughter, Wardah, aged four, to the Edhi Foundation, a local orphanage in Pakistan.
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