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UNHCR,Caritas to organize concert

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Caritas Nepal are organizing a concert 'Music for Relief' in Damak on November 28, with the famous Nepali rock band 1974 AD joining in to promote awareness of issues surrounding HIV/AIDS

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Posted in Diaspora / Exile / Resettlement on 27 November 2009 Comments (1)

The 0ther gross side of Bhutan

Repressive regimes everywhere employ torture on political prisoners to both extract information and to weaken the dissent. From the notorious Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantanamo in Cuba, the contemporary politics is replete with torture chambers of many kinds. It’s ironic that a country, which conjures up an image of the Himalayan paradise in the [...]

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Posted in Feature on 23 November 2009 Comments (36)

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