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Business Insider: Marijuana isn't so bad

Pot can improve lung function for years before causing a decrease.
Taiwan activists move center stage

Tight presidential race serves up sizable activism gains.
Japan: no new executions

2011 was the first year in 19 years that no one was executed.
Kirchner's surgery a success

The Argentina president underwent surgery for recently diagnosed cancer

Fault Line: Aid, Politics and Blame in Post-Quake Haiti

Donovan Webster - January 10, 2012 22:45

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Where billions of dollars in aid went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left 220,000 people dead — and at least 1.6 million more homeless — remains a confounding mystery. full story

In the camps, row after row of despair
Amid Haiti's ruins, the power of art
A success story: Teach a man to fish
Haitian diaspora reaches back home
Haiti's politics of blame
Seeking truth in the 'NGO republic'

"The Army, The People..."

The money behind the Egyptian military

Charles M. Sennott - January 22, 2012 21:47

CAIRO – Will the military relinquish its executive power as it has promised to the Egyptian people and guaranteed to its US benefactor? full story

Military trials suppress Egypt dissent
Egyptian-Americans advise on 'new Egypt'
The black box of Egyptian military power
Egypt's forgotten revolutionaries
Mohammed Abbas: Running for Revolution

Healing the World

Deadly tuberculosis stalks Europe

John Donnelly - December 30, 2011 06:14

GENEVA — Belarus needed help. It had just confirmed a study that found 35 percent of all TB cases in the capital of Minsk were multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) — the highest rate in the world ever recorded for the deadly disease, which takes up to two years to treat and is cured in Western Europe only one third of the time. full story

Tell stories that matter: USAID chief
Funding issues threaten AIDS fight
Rwanda: Coordination poor in health plan
Kenya: A glimpse into GHI's future
GHI's missing piece in Nepal
Guatemala: The drain of malnutrition
Maternal death stalks Malawi
GHI: A rough beginning
The mishandling of Obama's GHI
Special report: healing the world Q&A
Healing the world: survey of 8 countries
Healing the world: Bangladesh
Healing the world: Ethiopia
Healing the world: Guatemala
Healing the world: Kenya
Healing the world: Malawi
Healing the world: Mali
Healing the world: Nepal
Healing the world: Rwanda

The Rainbow Struggle: A global battle over gay rights

Serbia: A 'gay ghetto' in modern Europe

Sasa Milosevic - December 22, 2011 12:24

BELGRADE — LGBT Serbians and their allies report that the country’s society is rabidly intolerant of sexual minorities, painting homosexuality as a Western import bent on destroying the nation and its Christian religion. full story

Gay allure in Cambodia’s ancient city
Obama pushes LGBT rights into limelight
The gray area of gay refugees
The importance of global LGBT news
LGBTI refugees seek haven in Lebanon
Nepal's other revolution: Red to pink
Sweden still sterilizing transgendered
Opinion: A globalized LGBT rights fight
Madrid bookseller pushes LGBT visibility
Spain: Gays fear backlash after advances
Argentina: Building on same-sex marriage
'Honor killing' targets Turkey's LGBTs
S. Africa: Violence haunts gays
The making of Dan Choi
Gays in the Army: The ongoing battle
The Rainbow Struggle: A primer

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Paul Vrieze - February 3, 2012 06:00

PHNOM PENH — The complaints about mistreatment of Cambodian maids by their Malaysian employers has surged, as young women's jobs turn into harrowing ordeals. full story

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