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Upon the orders of a tribal council who wished to punish her family because her brother had sexual relations with a girl from a powerful clan and higher caste, Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai was kidnapped and gang-raped in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002. The act was payment for her family’s ‘crime of honor.’ Her brother was sodomized by a [...]

In Tibet, the real situation is not idyllic and allegations of repression occur almost daily. Its economy grew by 13.4% in 2006, the highest figure since 1995. In 2007, over 4 million people visited the country, and its revenues grew by 73.3% to reach 451 million euros. However, the government in exile claims that these resources have been monopolized [...]

China has a new way to solve its problems: activism. In complete reversal of the repression that the Chinese had for years, the spirit of activism is sweeping the country. Civil society now serves as the proper checks and balance mechanism of government. Even if China is not as totally free as the rest of the free world, with the presence of restrictions [...]

The BUY NOTHING DAY awareness ad campaign comes at a perfect time when the whole world, especially the US, is in economic recession. It’s a call to action to save money and natural resources. The campaign, thus, asks people to consume less. The campaign runs after Thanksgiving precisely to convince people not to indulge in frantic and frenzied shopping [...]