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...island can halt centuries of environmental despoliation and maybe even reverse some of the damage. "With a lot of luck and effort and help, Madagascar can pull back from the brink," says Frank Hawkins, technical director of the Madagascar Center for Biodiversity Conservation, a unit of the U.S. environmental NGO Conservation International. He and his wife, Joanna Durbin, who heads the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island, are heartened by the 2002 election of reform-minded President Marc Ravalomanana, who has pledged to expand his country's network of protected conservation areas from 1.7 million hectares to 6 million...
...regardless of who leads it. Already, the public mood is turning against deploying more South Korean troops, especially after the brief kidnapping of seven missionaries last week. These evangelicals?part of a band of some 150 Korean Christians spreading their Gospel throughout the Middle East, according to the Korean NGO Global Civic Sharing?were stopped at a checkpoint early on April 8 and accused by a group of Iraqis of being American spies. (Pastor Byun Kyung Ju told TIME that at the same checkpoint she saw another group of Asians in a car in front of them also being detained...
...Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment designed to find out just how much corruption a modern nation can withstand before it ceases to function. "We are hurtling toward disaster," warns Qazi Faruque Ahmed, president of Proshika, a prominent Bangladeshi ngo that runs schools and voter-education programs...
...train Mugabe's feared youth militia - known as the Green Bombers after the uniforms some wear - that have been so ruthlessly effective at suppressing opposition to the regime. The youths attack suspected opposition supporters with sticks or iron bars, and are known for their brutality. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, based in Harare, estimates they beat thousands of government opponents in the run-up to the 2002 elections. The Peace Solidarity Trust, another Zimbabwe-based rights group, says they commit the majority of torture that occurs in Zimbabwe. First set up in late 2001, the camps are officially part...
...staff writer for the Harvard Lampoon—that semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—to facilitate the on-stage antics between actors. His skits poke fun at South Asian stereotypes—Medical students or NGO-bound achievers with nagging mothers and painkiller addictions...