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It’s time to act:
Protecting the girl child from abuse
Living in an increasingly violent world with few
protective structures to defend her, the girl child has never been
more vulnerable to abuse than she is today. Whether physical, sexual
or psychological, it is girls more than their male counterparts that
suffer when it comes to violence, discrimination and deprivation of
their rights.
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CHOGM - A blessing to Sri Lanka
This paradise isle, the pearl of the Indian
ocean is in the proud possession of a rich culture and heritage.
Being triumphant over alien invasions and subsequently by a
humanitarian operation the present Sri Lankans had every reason to
believe that the Motherland would be a leading light in this part of
the globe,
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The other side of agriculture
“The worst mistake in the history of the human
race”, was the title given by Prof. Jared Diamond, UCLA School of
Medicine, for his paper, in the Discover, May 1987. Diamond gives
three sets of reasons that agriculture was bad for health. Instead
of the varied diet of the gatherer, the farmer had to limit himself
to the few plants he cultivated,
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