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...Laikipia and Samburu regions of central and northwestern Kenya for five years. Christian says the safaris enable them to pursue their passion for conservation. "The idea is to get people to appreciate nature through traveling here and supporting the local communities, so they in turn become inspired to protect the animals and everything around them...
...laws don't fit into a modern system of criminal law and should be abolished. "Germany's anti-Nazi criminal laws are highly problematic, because they can't be justified rationally," says Tatjana Hörnle, professor of criminal law at Bochum University. "The prohibition of Nazi symbols protects a taboo of particular historical significance. But the task of criminal law should be to protect individuals from harm and not people's feelings or taboos...
...reprints of Mein Kampf. Some Germans are also still uneasy about simply lifting the anti-Nazi laws and moving on - not just because of lingering guilt, but because of the resurgence of far-right groups and political parties. "We need to keep the current strict anti-Nazi laws to protect people and their basic rights," says Hajo Funke, professor of political science at Berlin's Free University. "Far-right violence is on the rise and we have to contain it." (Read a story on the neo-Nazis of Mongolia...
Iraq dreams of what is called sustainable peace - a qualified condition that allows life to go on with an acceptable level of tumult. And so, with a measure of bravado, the government recently announced the imminent removal of most of the concrete blast walls that separate warring neighborhoods and protect citizens traveling on main and secondary roads. As it tries to put the bad days of Sunni vs. Shi'ite violence behind it, Baghdad is rewarding post-sectarian behavior, giving $2,000 to couples who marry outside their sect - an incentive for Sunni-Shi'ite nuptials - in an effort...
...says. "I believe that violence will increase before the parliamentary elections, and I think that the party which will not find a base or do not find people to vote for them would work to make violence," he says. The government, he adds, does not have enough resources to protect its citizens. Hussam, a cashier at a bustling restaurant in another part of town, agrees with Nour's assessment. There will be violence as the country tries to figure out who controls the national legislature, he says, but it will not be the same as the old Sunni...