Word: sheela
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...organization is visiting settlements around the world to map out practical paths for change. We are also working with partners like Sheela Patel of Slum Dwellers International, who is helping to relocate more than 23,000 households in Mumbai by organizing communities to present their demands directly to state and municipal governments. The challenge is to replicate that experience globally--to give the poor a platform for demanding legal rights and hold political leaders accountable for responding. The commission is also partnering with CIVICUS, an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action, to put this vital issue on the agenda...
...There is hardly any issue that deserves more attention. Of primary importance is making the problem visible. Thank you for giving us the example of rock stars, philanthropists, doctors and activists who are fighting a battle that seems impossible to win. That truly is journalism that makes a difference. Sheela Braganca Innsbruck, Austria Highlighting the unique alliance of Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates will bring new hope for solving the global health crisis. Having practiced medicine for almost 50 years, mostly in France, I recently returned from a teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. I was appalled...
...years, from the 18th century English vogue for wearing mouse-skin eyebrows, to the Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
With Patterson fading on the final hurdle, the race came down to Taylor and UCLA's Sheela Johnson, who was still running strong. But Taylor held...