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The fragile health system in the cash-strapped Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), long described as one of
the world’s most secretive countries, is on the verge of
collapsing, Amnesty International (AI) warned Thursday.

In a western corner of Cambodia known for battles waged by the genocidal
Khmer Rouge decades ago, a new war is being fought. Its target, this time, is the
lethal malaria parasite that is resistant to the most effective drugs available
today.

Tourists taking in the sun and sand in the idyllic Maldives
may be forgiven if they are unaware of the political
developments in this country, even when President Mohamed
Nasheed’s government teetered on the brink of collapse
recently.

Gazing out at the lush greenery that surrounds the village of Salaita in northern
India, a smile of satisfaction appears on retired army general A.P.S. Chauhan’s
face.

More than a year after the riots in China’s remote Xinjiang
autonomous region, the country’s bloodiest ethnic clash in
decades, calm has returned to the capital Urumqi. But the
underlying tensions remain – tensions that Beijing will be
forced to address as it moves forward in its campaign to
develop the country’s west.

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Abstinence is currently taught as the only form of sex education in a third of public schools. Although most Americans oppose federal funding for abstinence-only education, the federal government has spent more than $1 billion on Title V and community-group programs that promote abstinence before marriage as the sole healthy and moral choice. Studies show that students in abstinence-only programs are no more likely to abstain from sex than their peers who are in comprehensive sex education programs. Moreover, argue Doan and Williams, abstinence-only programs perpetuate gender stereotypes that disproportionately constrain women, retail medical disinformation, and violate the separation of church and state.

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