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...scenes were an unprecedented public show of defiance from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.). The party won a parliamentary majority in the first round of a general election on March 29, and its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, bested Mugabe in the presidential election, without winning an outright majority. That was the cue for the security forces and their allied militias to unleash a wave of repression which Human Rights Watch says resulted in the deaths of 166 opposition supporters and activists, more than 5,000 injured and tens of thousands of Zimbabweans displaced. Three months of that was enough...
They make up a "hidden community," AIDS experts say, usually prevalent in cultures where the social stigma attached to homosexuality is severe. In some cultures, sex between men is prohibited outright; in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in Africa, for example, gay sex is cause for execution, which drives many men underground and increases their likelihood of engaging in risky sex. Robert Gray, regional representative of Population Services International (PSI) Asia, an international NGO, predicts that this high-risk group will become a major driving force of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia, Eastern Europe and other places over the next...
...rising food prices. The U.N. estimates that 14 million people urgently need food aid, including 2.6 million in Somalia and more than 1 million in Kenya. In Ethiopia, 4.6 million people are at risk, and 75,000 children have severe acute malnutrition. Nearly a quarter-century ago, an outright famine led to Live Aid, an international fund-raising effort promoted by rock stars, which produced an outpouring of global generosity: millions of tons of food flooded into the country. Yet, ironically, that very generosity may have contributed to today's crisis...
...mistakes of senior executives. The outcry is not limited to the unions and leftist parties; even the conservative Christian Democrats are jumping on the bandwagon. A working group of the CDU parliamentary faction has suggested setting strict limits to remunerating executives with stock options, or even banning the practice outright...
...glaring incongruity in the law: while it allows employers to demand that workers spend more time at work, 35 hours remains the reference length of the French workweek. That's a smart move, since polls show the French are fond of the 35-hour week, and quashing it outright could prove unpopular...