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Kolkata plays host to sex workers conference
Kolkata, Sun, 22 Jul 2012
Kolkata, July 22 (ANI): Sex workers from over 41 countries, who were denied permission to attend the International AIDS Conference in the U.S., held a parallel conference here.
Titled the Sex Worker Freedom Festival, the weeklong conference that commenced on Saturday was organised by the Durbar Mahila Samanvaya Committee (DMSC), and was attended by over 550 sex workers.
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Nepal’s government should investigate, not promote an army colonel implicated in dozens of cases of enforced disappearance and torture, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International said today

The large dams being built on the rivers of the eastern Himalayas have become highly controversial. What is occurring in the Brahmaputra Valley today is resistance by a riverine people against powerful elites bent on pursuing a strategy of accumulation by dispossession, and trying to turn their rivers into free fuel for hydropower plants, in utter disregard of the impact on their lives and livelihoods.

The new abortion law passed last month decriminalizes abortion in the circumstances of serious ill-health of the woman or malformation of the foetus, rape, incest or statutory rape. But, it means that all women can now speak openly about abortion, and can, when ill after a complication resulting from a future illegal abortion, go to the hospitals for treatment with more freedom. And the struggle continues.

The law came into the National Assembly only two months after the women’s organization, the Muvman Liberasyon Fam (MLF), had held ceremonies in two cemeteries with the families of women who had died as a direct result of abortion still being illegal. The MLF had over the past three years accentuated its campaign for abortion decriminalization