Archive for September 5th, 2008
Big risks for rising number of child brides
Posted by: apathe on: September 5, 2008
The number of girls in poor countries who marry before the age of 18 will double to 100 million in the next decade, putting many at risk from AIDS, a report said on Thursday.
global food crisis is making matters worse by pushing more families in the developing world to send young daughters into marriage [...]
Singing for the subcontinent
Posted by: apathe on: September 5, 2008
Yusuf Khan, a Canadian citizen with Pakistani parents, claims his
heritage is from Jaipur, his mother’s home before partition. He is in
India for his album Jaanejana which he says has only three messages – love, peace and humanity.
‘I don’t believe in the divisions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, to
me these are all one – [...]
