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Why We Need Tougher Laws Against Female Genital Mutilation

Voice of America | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Mali, World Health Organization, Gambia, Togo, Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation, Elise Johansen, Day of Zero Tolerance, United Nations, Somalia, Fgm, Djibouti, Impact News

United Nations, international and human rights organizations are calling for an end to female genital mutilation and appealing for tougher legislation...

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New UN Security Council Stays Politically Divided

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Slovenia, UN General Assembly, European Union, Israel, Palestine, Togo, India, UN Security Council, World News

After 16 rounds of marathon voting, Azerbaijan, a former Soviet Republic, won a seat on the U.N. Security Council. Its rival Slovenia withdrew from one of the most hotly contested races in several years.

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UN Security Council Elections -- It's down to the Azeris and the Slovenes

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Western Sahara, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, UN General Assembly, Slovenia, Israel, Palestine, European Union, India, Togo, UN Security Council, Azerbaijan, World News

On Friday the General Assembly elected Morocco, Togo, Pakistan and Guatemala to serve two-year terms in the Security Council, starting in January 2012. But the Eastern European seat failed to get the two-thirds vote needed.

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Cancer Rises in Africa, a Continent Unequipped to Deal With it

David J. Olson | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Ncds, Rwanda, HIV/AIDS, Non-Communicable Diseases, Togo, George W. Bush, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Cancer, Botswana, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, Swaziland, World News

HIV-positive Africans have a 30-90 times higher risk of Kaposi sarcoma, a 5-times higher risk of lymphoma and at least twice the risk for cervical cancer compared to HIV-negative Africans. Yet most African languages don't have a word for cancer.

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University CLOSED Because Of Student Riots

AP | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: University of Lome Student Riots, Togo Student Riots, University of Lome, Togo, College News, College News

LOME, Togo — Togo's government has ordered the indefinite closure of the country's largest university days after students started riots demandin...

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The Dichotomy of Haiti: Hell Meets, well, Heaven

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Jeremie, Gateway to Haiti?S South, Togo, Cayes-Jacmel, Jacmel, Coffee Merchants, Sri Lanka, Mario Benjamin, Leogane, French Quarter, Citadelle, Ewe, West Africa, Artibonite, Kenscoff, Dante?S Inferno, Franketienne, Poverty, Caribbean, Neuschwannstein, Ghana, Earthquake, Benin, Oiww, Rene Preval, Southern Province, Tourism, Nobel Prize, Cap Haitien, Haiti, Orphans International Worldwide, Petionville, Gonaives, Petit-Goave, Saint-Marc, Port-Au-Prince, Central Plateau, Impact News

There is a fundamental dichotomy in Haiti between Heaven and Hell. I chose to embrace its heaven while trying to eradicate its hell.

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Togo deaths 'excuse to round up activists'

The Independent | Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Togo, Home News

Angolan police are rounding up peaceful activists and accusing them of responsibility for this month's deadly attack on the Togo football team, a huma...

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Togo 'will play' in Angola cup

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angola, Togo, Home News

Confusion as player says the team will defy a government call to head home after shooting....

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Terrorism Hysteria In Full Force After Togo Attack But South Africa Can't Be Defensive

Ken Gude | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Soccer, World Cup, Angola, African Cup of Nations, Togo National Team, Togo, Sports News

An attack in Angola has caused some to question whether the World Cup should go ahead in South Africa this summer. That kind of hysteria is exactly what the terrorists are trying to provoke.

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Woman charged in NJ forced labor case convicted

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newark-New Jersey, Togo, Home News

NEWARK, N.J. — A woman accused of forcing girls from Africa to work in New Jersey hair braiding salons for no pay has been convicted of human trafficking and visa fraud in a case her lawyer says highlighted African cultural norms that failed to translate in America.

Prosecutors argued that Akouavi Kpade Afolabi, called "Sister" by the women she oversaw, helped bring at least 20 girls between the ages of 10 and 19 from the West African nations of Togo and Ghana on fraudulent visas to New Jersey starting in 2002.

They said she manipulated the impoverished young women, who aspired to live better lives in America, and kept them in slavery-like conditions while stealing all their pay – even tips as meager as fifty cents.

Afolabi's lawyer, Bukie Adetula, countered that his client was considered a benevolent mother figure and revered community leader – both in her native Togo and New Jersey. He said she was known for lending people money and aiding young women to escape their poverty-stricken homeland to learn a marketable skill in America.

"I don't think the jury quite got it, the whole essence of the defense that this was cultural; the argument that they (Afolabi) brought Togo to America," Adetula said.

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Togo to play Africa Cup of Nations

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angola, Togo, Home News

Football team decide to participate in tournament in spite of gun attack in Angola....

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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Torture, Tunisia, Morocco, Toilets, United Nations, Corporal Punishment, United States, Special Rapporteur, Equitorial Guinea, China, Human Rights Violations, Montevideo, Iran, Amman, Alien Deportation, Russia, Israel, Falun Gong Camps, Togo, India, Saudia Arabia, Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria, Manfred Nowak, Immigration Laws, Toga, World News

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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Togo team bus attacked in Angola

The Independent | Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angola, Togo, Home News

A bus carrying the Togo national team has reportedly come under attack from gunfire in Angola. ...

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Lassissi Afolabi: Togo Man Admits To Smuggling Girls, Forcing Them To Work At Hair Braiding Salons

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kidnapping, Lassissi Afolabi, Hair Braiding Salons, Togo, Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, World News

NEWARK, N.J. — A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to wo...

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Traveling as Press vs. NGO Head: Same Adventure

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Lome, United Nations Department of Public Information, Hong Kong, Guatemala City, Sri Lanka, Galle, Air France, South America, Asia, Ngo, Guyana, Chennai, Dallas, Paris, Singapore, Peru, Indonesia, Port-Au-Prince, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Miami, Dominican Republic, Aceh, Dubai, Swine Flu, Mexico City, Journalist, Africa, Ghana, San Salvador, Central America, International Development, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Colombia, New York, Haiti, Refugee Camps, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Tamil, Tsunami, Hurricane Jeanne, Togo, Post 9/11, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Huffington Post, JFK Airport, Bangalore, Gonaives, Bucharest, Media News

I have flown from Haiti to Peru to Guyana in the Americas, Hong Kong to Indonesia to Sri Lanka in Asia, and Togo to Ghana in Africa.

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Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Serfs, Hanificiation, East Asian Studies Major, India, Taiwan, Mandarin, Family Planning, Dalai Lama, Colonialization, Puritans, Poverty, Native American, Han Chinese, Togo, Hong Kong, Ghana, Theocracy, Iran, Tibet, Priest Class, Anti-Chinese, Appalachia, Slaves, Singapore, U.S. Healthcare System, Ewe, Buddhist Clergy, Birth Control, Middle Kingdom, Buddhism, Separation of Church and State, Sharia, Thomas Friedman, World News

The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.

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Jim Luce Returns (In Part) to Corporate America

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Togo, Elite Group International, Funding Non-Profits, Orphans, Non-Profits, Philanthropic Initiatives, Lucetec, Philanthropy, Ngo, Luce Foundation, Messan Minyanou, For Profit, Corporate America, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Orphans International Worldwide, International NGO, Egi, World News

I am excited today about the non-profit Orphans International now having the opportunity to attract the professionals it needs to move forward as I step aside.

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