FGM Remains Rampant in Some Kenyan Communities KEHANCHA, KENYA Each February, the United Nations holds the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, or FGM. The practice is believed to affect more than 140 million girls and w

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Only Hospital in Sudan's S. Kordofan Struggles to Treat Patients DELAMI COUNTY, SOUTH KORDOFAN The rebel-held areas of Sudan's Nuba Mountains have been under blockade since the start of a civil war in 2011 with the Sudanese government denying all acc

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The ship was brand new and so was Millvina Dean, just two months old, the youngest passenger on the Titanic. And this is your mother and you. Yeah. But 96 years old Millvina, the last living Titanic survivor needs the luck now she had then. I was to

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At Wednesday afternoon J.T. Gaskins should be at school ,he is not sick on break ,he has been kick out , we just want them to be open to change . A Cancer survivor Gaskins wants to pay attribute to all the survivors, over the holiday ,he decided to g

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By Cathy Majtenyi Murambi, Rwanda 12 July 2007 Rwanda's rolling green countryside and laid-back city life paint a picture of peace and tranquility. But beneath the calm surface, the people of this African Great Lakes country are still struggling to c

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The vessel, a small British-flagged catamaran, was carrying what is being described as symbolic quantities of toys, musical instruments and prosthetic limbs. Its passengers included a Holocaust survivor, a former Israeli fighter pilot and an Israeli

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Tom Peterson worked for many years to build a solid business selling television sets, stereo systems, and home appliances. He gave people good value, a full satisfaction guarantee, and friendly service. With the help of his wife Gloria, who handled t

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This is a small batch from the weekly literature program InkQuill. In 1993, Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List hit movie theatres. Once released, this historical drama became a global sensation. Capturing the soul-disturbing terror of the Holoc

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 February 2006 Four months after the devastating South Asian earthquake, more than 300,000 survivors still depend on United Nations airlifts for lifesaving food and suppli

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By Larry London Washington 21 August 2007 Beyonce Knowles has achieved success on many levels. She founded the pop/RB trio Destiny's Child; created her own clothing line, House of Dereon; is an Oscar-nominated actress; and has released two solo album

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AS IT IS 2013-05-05 North Korean Labor Camp Survivor Tells His Story Hi again. Nice to have you with us on As It Is. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. Today we are talking about a man named Shin Dong-hyuk. He spent the first 23 years of life inside a labor camp

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By Valer Gergely Washington 27 March 2007 watch Sephardic Music report The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. held a concert this week to help revive traditional Sephardic music from the former Yugoslavia. For producer Valer Gergely, VOA's Jim

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Poliomyelitis, known as polio, is a viral disease that can cause paralysis. It once infected millions of people each year, but vaccination efforts around the world have brought the yearly number of new cases to just less than 1000. That dramatic redu

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The European Union and dozens of countries have pledged to speed up social support for Holocaust survivors and the search for art and other items that were stolen during World War II by the Nazis. At the meeting in Prague, they agreed to establish a

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: You would expect a trip into space would change a person - their heart, their soul, but their eyeballs? For years, a north Texas doctor has been trying to find out what causes this vision change among astronauts. Her latest researc

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For decades, Holocaust survivors have told their stories to students and museum visitors in person and in videos. The Holocaust ended more than 70 years ago, and so every year, fewer survivors are alive to tell their stories. The I

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The phone lines at the state attorney general's office in Pennsylvania have not stopped ringing. Hotline numbers have surged with calls in the aftermath of a scathing grand jury report which describes decades of child sex abuse an

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Where the forces of nature meet? In a hidden world, a tropical miracle. At this moment, evolution is building a living colossus, a giant built by nature's tiniest creature, a model of reincarnation, a survivor born from disasterthe Great Barrier Reef

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 February 2008 A United Nations report released February 1shows rape is being used as a weapon in Kenya as the country is roiled in ethnic violence since the December elections. The survey of rape victims was conducted in the

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 17 January 2007 watch Uterus Transplant report A New York hospital is taking initial steps to offer the first uterus transplant in the United States. Doctors in Saudi Arabia performed the procedure a few years ago but

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