Word: refugee
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...MALTREATMENT OF WOMEN AS A MATTER OF cultural practice tantamount to political persecution? Yes, say opposition M.P.s and feminist groups demanding that Canada grant refugee status to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution. Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and become the first country to enshrine...
India's most glamorous city, home to the glitzy "Bollywood" film industry, has become the capital for the country's primal violence between Hindus and Muslims. Behind Bombay's white seafront facade, the communities have been at war since more than 200 people, mostly Muslims, died in outbreaks following the...
The story of Matthiessen's life sounds like a colorful adventure tale. The son of a New York City Social Register architect, he had already, by the time he graduated from Yale, studied at the Sorbonne, served in the Navy and sold fiction to the Atlantic. After a short stint...
One estimate of top-level male figure skaters in North America who have died of AIDS-related diseases. The plague also hobbled tennis immortal Arthur Ashe. And Magic, whose familiar flair in this year's N.B.A. All Star Game and at the Olympics proved there is life after HIV, put...
SINCE THE ERUPTION OF SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN Northern Ireland 23 years ago, Christmas in Britain has frequently brought the distinctly unjoyous prospect of Irish Republican Army terrorism. 1992 is already part of that deadly tradition. At the height of Thursday's morning rush hour, two bombs exploded in central Manchester...