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...Yangon. In 1997 soldiers destroyed a handful of local facilities that Maung had set up in the hill country in Burma. To replace them, she and her staff have assembled teams of health-care workers who slip into Burma and deliver care, village by village. The volunteers, known as backpack medics, face arrest if caught, and Maung knows that if she steps back over the border, the junta will pounce. So for now, she stays at Mae Tao, providing medical care for a nation of the displaced and hoping to return to the land of her birth. "We're building...
...camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
...said. The HUPD advisory reports that the victim described her alleged assailant as a Hispanic male of about thirty years old. The advisory adds that the suspect is of a medium build, with black hair, a moustache, and was wearing blue jeans and an orange backpack at the time of the assault. The advisory did not divulge further detail, other than calling the incident an indecent assault and battery. The HUPD website says indecent assault and battery occurs “if a perpetrator intentionally has physical contact of a sexual nature with the victim without the victim?...
...percent of rape victims are between the ages 12 and 17, and more than 80 percent are under 30. “I wish the students I see walking through Cambridge were more conscious,” she wrote. “I stopped a young woman wearing a backpack just last week because she had on headphones and was not tuned in at all to the street. She was an easy target for someone looking to assault.” She said that, while Harvard now offers a strong response program for rapes, this was not always case...
...network have never seriously listened to native students. They never listened when my car windows were broken after a march regarding the team name issue. They never listened when two white male peers harassed me for wearing a “Change the Name” button on my backpack. They never listened when a car full of white girls chased my sister down the street and told her to go back to the reservation. Honor us? Surely, they jest.I have been waiting silently for the day to come when an outside agency would step up and step...