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28.04.2008 Few people are aware that Louisiana is home to the United Houma Nation, nearly half of whose members were displaced when Hurricane Katrina struck. They are still struggling to get their lives back.
From: Reznet

28.04.2008 A bill to amend laws allowing workers to sue for pay discrimination on the basis of gender, race, or age was blocked Friday from debate in the U.S. Senate.

28.04.2008 Hundreds of Chileans have announced their intention to leave the Catholic Church following the Vatican's involvement in a local constitutional ruling to ban free contraception.

28.04.2008 Viimeinkin, lienee moni Nepalin kastijärjestelmän alimmalla portaalla istuva ajatellut, kun maolaiset voittivat Nepalin perustuslakia säätävän kansalliskokouksen vaalit. Maolaiset ovat antaneet äänen daliteille, Nepalin yhteiskunnan köyhimmille ja syrjäytyneimmille. Nyt he ovat nousemassa päättäjiksi.

28.04.2008 Nepal Maoists owe their impressive performance to marginalised communities in the recently held elections for Constituent Assembly. It is now up to the former rebels to prove themselves and see how they can come up to the expectations of these people whose interests nobody in the past bothered to address.

25.04.2008 Around 250 women and lower-caste Dalit have been elected to Nepal's new Constituent Assembly, reversing centuries of exclusion and raising hopes for a major political push to eradicate discrimination from Nepali society.

16.04.2008 They may be washing others' dirty linen now, but the women do not mind it. Swift Wash, a laundry project started by local NGO Arz in Goa brings dignity and hope to rehabilitated sex workers in this western state of India.

08.04.2008 The social exclusion and discrimination faced by Roma means they are not equal partners in the European Year of the Intercultural Dialogue, the European Roma Information Office said in a statement marking International Roma Day (8 April).

01.04.2008 ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going’ is an old adage. Three stories of incredible courage and resilience in the face of adversity are just illustrations of numerous other women in rural India who are putting up a brave fight against poverty, diseases, societal attitudes, bureaucratic apathies, physical attacks and so on.