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Toilets provide dignity for Nepal’s disabled
KAPILBASTU 30 May 2013 (IRIN) – Before my house had a toilet, I would have to ask my grandsons to help me out into a field, hold me up, and stay with me until I was done,” Krishna Devi, a 59-year-old...
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Sri Lanka minister promises to prioritize Tamil repatriation in 2014
COLOMBO 19 August 2013 (IRIN) – Sri Lanka says it will prioritize the repatriation of thousands of Tamil refugees in India next year, more than four years after the 1983-2009 civil war. > Read this...
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Bangladesh’s migrants also need HIV services
DHAKA 26 November 2013 (IRIN) – Interventions aimed at curbing the burden of HIV among people migrating from Bangladesh to India in search of work risk having only temporary impact if such efforts are...
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Chin State’s food insecurity has many causes
UKKHO 02 December 2013 (IRIN) – Bamboo has a dark history in Chin State, on the borders of India and Bangladesh in Myanmar’s northwest. Roughly every 50 years the bamboo forests flower and produce...
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Lessons from Aceh’s ‘build back better’ experience
BANGKOK 23 December 2013 (IRIN) – Lessons from the reconstruction process in Indonesia’s Aceh Province following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami can better shape the long-term impact of ‘build back...
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ANALYSIS: The plight of Myanmar’s Chins in India
AIZAWL 03 January 2014 (IRIN) – Recent political reforms have not improved conditions in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin State, but life in neighbouring India – where many Chin people continue to seek...
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Chin migrants face bleak prospects in India
AIZAWL 06 January 2014 (IRIN) – Before a car accident injured him, 45-year-old Vanlathanga worked as a labourer cutting timber in the mountains of northeast India’s Mizoram State. Like many migrants...
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Teacher training offers hope for Myanmar’s rural education
AIZAWL 17 January 2014 (IRIN) – A church school in India for young ethnic Chin migrants from northwestern Myanmar is training a new generation of missionaries, who will return to their mountainous...
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Remittance rip-offs
LONDON 22 April 2014 (IRIN) – All over the world migrant workers are sending money home to their families. The money pays hospital bills and school fees, buys land, builds houses and sets up small...
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Is the UN peacekeeper selection process flawed?
BANGKOK 29 July 2014 (IRIN) – Reports on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Nigeria released in July 2014 at the Open Society Institute in New York reveal failures in human rights vetting for soldiers in...
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Aceh redux: Aceh at 10 – A look back at the response
BANDA ACEH 22 December 2014 (IRIN) – A decade after the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Aceh, the isolated tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on the morning of 24 December 2004, IRIN looks at the...
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Aceh’s unfinished recovery
BANDA ACEH 26 December 2014 (IRIN) – In a guest post, Lilianne Fan with Overseas Development Institute examines the fallout of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which released the energy of 23,000...
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India-Pakistan: The new victims of an old border dispute
SIALKOT 25 February 2015 (IRIN) – India and Pakistan’s decades-old territorial dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir is often portrayed as a dormant conflict. But for the people of the region...
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After killer heatwave, will India take action?
NEW DELHI 05 June 2015 (IRIN) – Temperatures are slowly falling in India with the approach of the cool monsoon rains, but a heatwave that left more than 2,300 people dead has raised questions about...
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India urged to repeal soldiers’ impunity
DELHI/YANGON 02 July 2015 (IRIN) – A law preventing civilian courts from prosecuting security personnel in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has led to a quarter century of human rights abuses,...
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Fuel shortage threatens Nepal aid as winter comes
DELHI 12 October 2015 (IRIN) – Almost six months after Nepal was devastated by a massive earthquake, relief efforts are literally running on fumes. Tankers are unable to drive across the border from...
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Afghanistan-Pakistan earthquake – updates
LONDON 26 October 2015 (IRIN) – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan at 1:39 pm local time (0909 GMT) on Monday, 26 October, sending shockwaves that were felt as far away as...
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Teacher training offers hope for Myanmar’s rural education
AIZAWL 17 January 2014 (IRIN) – A church school in India for young ethnic Chin migrants from northwestern Myanmar is training a new generation of missionaries, who will return to their mountainous...
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Remittance rip-offs
LONDON 22 April 2014 (IRIN) – All over the world migrant workers are sending money home to their families. The money pays hospital bills and school fees, buys land, builds houses and sets up small...
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Is the UN peacekeeper selection process flawed?
BANGKOK 29 July 2014 (IRIN) – Reports on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Nigeria released in July 2014 at the Open Society Institute in New York reveal failures in human rights vetting for soldiers in...
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