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...behavior that leads to an aids-free lifestyle. Donors may build irrigation facilities, but beneficiaries must ensure their continuing operation. Schools may be established, but farmers must first appreciate the value of formal education for their children. In many impoverished villages, parents still bear dozens of children to be unpaid farmhands. Responsible parenting is urgently needed. Lorie Toledo Paranaque City, the Philippines...
...religious but not rigidly so. After his son graduated from Jordan's Mu'tah University, Ra'ed's father set him up with a law office in Amman, but in three years the practice failed to prosper. In 1999, his family says, Ra'ed spent six months as an unpaid intern at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Amman, working with a legal-protection unit to help Iraqis fleeing Saddam Hussein's regime. When his father questioned the lack of salary, Ra'ed replied that he envisioned a future career as a U.N. official...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) may owe over $12,000 for two years of unpaid shuttle services, leading some council members to question the adequacy of past systems of financial record-keeping...
...With Lunar New Year approaching, tens of millions of the country's migrant workers will soon attempt to collect unpaid wages before heading home for the holiday. More clashes with employers are possible. Meanwhile, Chen is back home, trying to shrug off stares from neighbors who look down on her because of her stint behind bars. "To them it's like I went to prison for killing somebody," she says, "but it was just a strike." All part of the daily grind...
...given tasks outside her job description - such as keeping the bathroom stocked with toilet tissue - Truffet-Lefebvre felt "humiliated and very sad" to see much of her responsibility handed to a new assistant. Diagnosed with depression in September 2001, she left the following June after a prolonged period of unpaid sick leave. "I had to stop working there. Otherwise, I would have cracked," she says. She took her case to the local employment tribunal in Evry, and a four-judge panel agreed she'd been the victim of bullying at work, and ordered Nikon...