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- Environmental Activists Expose Dangers of E-Waste
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  November 14, 2008, Delhi, India: In the streets of Mustaffabad, a poor quarter of Delhi, children in sandals sit on top of piles of broken glass and twisted metal, smashing computer monitors. Men with blowtorches melt circuit boards, while nearby, women sort and scrub other boards with diluted acid. Charred fiberglass and copper dust litter the ground.
  
  This is the world of the electronic waste (e-waste) recyclers, who make a living by tearing apart the toxic remains of old home computers, cell phones and printer cartridges from the United States and other countries. India imported about 50,000 tons of e-waste last year, and e-waste employs about 25,000 people in Delhi.
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- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Not Welcome at Salvadoran Summit, Say Women Advocates
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  October 9, 2008, San Salvador, El Salvador: Advocates for women's rights in El Salvador are calling on their government to bar the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, from attending an upcoming presidential summit because of his attempts to repress and intimidate women in his country.
  
  Mr Ortega is accused of threatening women leaders, and of sexually abusing his stepdaughter during the 1980s.
  
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- Plans for gipsy bungalows near Dereham
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  Breckland Council could set a national planning precedent after plans were submitted to build six bungalows for gipsies or travellers on land near Dereham.
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- True Love Collides with Caste Discrimination in Nepal's Villages
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  July 9, 2008, Siraha District, Nepal: Satyanarayan Mandal and Hemlata Chaudhary had been in love for six years. The only problem was that Satyanarayan was a Dalit, while Hemlata came from an upper caste.
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- Advocacy Project - Wastepicker Children Face Discrimination
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  Wastepickers scour through open trash bins for recyclable paper, metals, glass and plastics, which they then sell. According to Chintan, they account for almost 1 percent of Delhi's population and handle about 20 percent of the city's waste. They earn, on average, one or two dollars a day.
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- Clifford Chance discrimination case
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  A Haitian woman is suing one of the world's biggest law firms, Clifford Chance, for racial discrimination
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- Boy Scouts Face Setback in Supreme Court
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  Six years after the Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts could ban gay leaders, the group is fighting and losing legal battles with state and local governments over its discriminatory policies. The latest setback came Monday when the high court without comment refused to take a case out of Berkeley, Calif., in which a Scouts sailing group lost free use of a public marina because the Boy Scouts bar atheists and gays.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Not Welcome at Salvadoran Summit, Say Women Advocates

For more information about Ortega’s human and women’s rights record, read the press release written by CEMUJER, a Salvadoran human rights organization, here: http://www.advocacynet.org/page/cemujerpr.

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