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Most everything about Israel's West Bank barrier is disputed; Israelis and Palestinians disagree on its name, its route and its impact. Israelis call it the "security barrier" or "the good fence." Many Palestinians call it "the apartheid wall" or the "racist fence." A NPR series captures the realities of life along the barrier, including the struggles of the people who find good and bad in it everyday. Read about here.
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Holi is an annual festival celebrated on the day after the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna. It celebrates spring, commemorates various events in Hindu mythology and is time of disregarding social norms and indulging in general merrymaking. During Holi, Hindus attend a public bonfire, spray friends and family with colored powders and water, and generally go a bit wild in the streets.
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For 20 years, a rebel group called the Lords's Resistance Army (LRP) and its notorious leader Joseph Kony, has been waging war against the Ugandan government, burning down villages, killing civilians, and abducting and forcing children to serve as soldiers and sexual slaves. The LRP have also been accused of widespread human rights violations, including mutilation, torture, rape, and a number of massacres. Often, the abducted civilians are mutilated by having their noses, ears, lips and limbs cut off. Based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize life in northern Uganda, causing millions of people to abandon homes and live in dire conditions at the Internally Displaced Persons Camps. People in the area are helped by the Doctors Without Borders that provides health care, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, battle e[ode,and. carries out vaccination campaigns and offers mental health care.
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The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization; economical, social and political globalization. In addition to three indices measuring these dimensions, an overall index of globalization and sub-indices referring to actual economic flows, economic restrictions, data on information flows, data on personal contact, and data on cultural proximity were calculated. Data are available on a yearly basis for 158 countries over the period 1970 - 2006 (enlarge the picture to see the animated map).
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In the Gaza Strip people are returning home or to the rubble that was once their home. In Arabic societies a home is usually everything a family possesses. For many people all is lost now.
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