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| Defiant Travellers Open Community Center as Britain's High Court Prepares to Rule on Their Eviction |
Dale Farm, UK, May 5, 2008: The Dale Farm Travellers opened a small community center on Saturday, a week before the British High Court is due to rule on whether they can be legally evicted. The center will provide IT training with help from Advocacy Project Peace Fellow, James Dasinger. The inauguration was attended by Lord Avebury (above right), a British peer and prominent human rights advocate. He is pictured with Grattan Puxon (left) and Richard Sheridan, president of the Dale Farm Housing Association.
Nepal Women and Dalit Ride into Parliament on Maoist Coattails
(April 24)
With almost all of the results of the April 10 election now confirmed, it is clear that the Maoists won a sweeping victory, just two years after abandoning a violent civil war. Women in particular were able to ride the coattails of the Maoists’ triumph. Around 200 women deputies will sit in the new Assembly, one third of the total.
AP has recruited three Peace Fellows, Jes Therkelsen, Heather Gilberds, and Shubha Bala to volunteer this summer for Dalit rights and democracy in Nepal with the Jagaran Media Center (JMC) and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP).
Privatizating Waste Collection Puts India's Waste-Pickers at a Disadvantage
(April 3, 2008)
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