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Torture Interferes with Memory In the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologist Share O'Mara notes that torture can interfere with the brain's memory retrieval apparatus, making it counterproductive to the aim of producing useful informatio

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Egypt has fully banned the tradition that some call female circumcision and others call female genital mutilation. The government acted after a girl in southern Egypt died. Her mother took her to a docto

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Broadcast: Feb 24, 2003 By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Activists for the rights of women have declared a yearly observance to oppose the cutting of female sex organs.

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Kenyan Girls Develop App to End FGM Five Kenyan schoolgirls have developed an app to help women and girls end female genital mutilation (FGM). The girls will soon take part in the yearly international Technovation competition in California. Technovat

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By Cathy Majtenyi An international conference to press for the eradication of female genital mutilation in Africa and around the world opened in Kenya Thursday.

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AS IT IS 2016-02-13 UN: More Female Genital Mutilation Than Thought Millions more girls and women are victims of female genital mutilation than previously thought, said the United Nations (UN). UNICEF is the UN childrens agency. They said in a report

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Helping Victims of Torture Tuesday is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The theme is: Rehabilitation works and is a torture survivors right. June 26th is the 25th anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture. When we talk abou

VOA标准英语2011--Kenyans to Sue Britain Over Torture Clai

Kenyans to Sue Britain Over Torture Claim Four Kenyans, three men and one woman, plan to take legal action against the British government over alleged colonial-era atrocities. Britain's High Court ruled Thursday that the elderly Kenyans can sue over

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By Scott Stearns White House 04 October 2007 The Bush administration is defending itself against reports that it authorized harsher techniques to interrogate suspected terrorists than it has previously acknowledged. VOA White House Correspondent Scot

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By Scott Stearns White House 05 October 2007 President Bush is defending his administration against reports that it authorized harsher techniques to interrogate suspected terrorists than it has previously acknowledged. VOA White House correspondent S

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JEFFREY BROWN:Next: abandoning a widespread and painful rite of passage. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the West African nation of Senegal. His report is part of our Agents for Change series. And a note: Some viewers may find the su

2007年VOA标准英语-Surgery Helps Women Recover from Female Genital

By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 17 July 2007 Groundbreaking reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone gential mutilation is being performed in Burkina Faso. Despite efforts across Africa to stop the practice of excision, includin

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今天我们要学的词是torture。 Torture, 是折磨的意思。对敌方战斗人员使用折磨的手段，前一段时间在美国引起了极大的争议。美国总统布什上星期五发布了一道行政命令，禁止对敌方战斗人员使

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今天我们要学的词是torture。 Torture, 是折磨的意思。对敌方战斗人员使用折磨的手段，前一段时间在美国引起了极大的争议。美国总统布什上星期五发布了一道行政命令，禁止对敌方战斗人员使

VOA常速英语2008年-Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Somal

By Cathy Majtenyi Somaliland 03 March 2008 Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is a traditional practice that is performed throughout the Horn of Africa and other parts of the continent. The procedure is often called female circumcision, and it is ill

2007年VOA标准英语-Eritrea Bans Female Genital Mutilation

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 April 2007 The Eritrean government has banned the practice of female genital mutilation. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Proclamation 158 went into force on the last day of March. It mandates jail terms or fi

2007年VOA标准英语-UNICEF Urges End to Female Genital Mutilation i

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says the practice of female genital mutilation remains unacceptably high in Egypt.But, a UNICEF representative tells VOA the Egyptian government is committed to ending this

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模仿文本： Egypt's come at the bottom of a list of 22 Arab states in which to be a woman. Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital mutilation and the surge in violence in Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring have all contributed toEgypt