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		<title>Students Return To School in Beletweyne, Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A town in the Hiraan region of Somalia is experiencing some good news as more students are returning to school. School officials and locals of Beletweyne believe that this is due to the developing peace and calm in the region.  
Last year, numerous schools around the region were forced to close due to lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion Law Meets Ignorance in Ghana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gluttmacher Institute in US recently did some research in Ghana and discovered that ten percent of pregnancy-related deaths were due to unsafe abortions. Health experts say that insufficient facilities and the lack of law awareness are the factors to blame for these deaths.  
Abortion has been declared legal in Ghana as early as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://HUMANITARIANTRAVELER.COM/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Congo News: Rape Cases Still On the Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Republic of Congo is deemed to be the most dangerous place in the world for women, thanks to thousands of rape cases that occur each year. One of the convicted rapists is Eleka Amungu who raped a 15-year-old girl last year. Amungu claims that he loved the victim and wanted to make her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://HUMANITARIANTRAVELER.COM/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Trafficking Persons Increase in Nepal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government of Nepal is taking the blame for the rise of human trafficking in the country, especially among young women. Local humanitarians are pointing the finger to the failed implementation of anti-trafficking laws. This results to numerous Nepalese women being smuggled to India to work in brothels.  
The Human Trafficking and Transportation Act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://HUMANITARIANTRAVELER.COM/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Ushahidi: Software for Catastrophe Relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Individuals who find themselves in natural disasters, crimes and other types of catastrophes re now just a
click away from safety, thanks to a recently invented software that was used in the devastating earthquake
in Haiti.
The website of the software is “Ushahidi” which, when translated to Swahili, means “testimony”. The
software has already been used during the 2008 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://HUMANITARIANTRAVELER.COM/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Children Trafficking Still High in Southeast Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US State Department recently added several Southeast Asian countries in its list of human trafficking watch list. The governments of these added countries are advised to boost their efforts when it comes to tracking down and punishing perpetrators. 
Laos, Thailand and Vietnam are countries that have made plenty of effort over the past year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV Infection Causes Discrimination in Kenya and Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a country like Somalia where the population is predominantly Muslim, it’s very rare for HIV victims to speak about their condition. What’s even more rare is if the HIV victim is a woman. Despite this, a 50-year-old woman who is a Somali refugee is speaking out about her disease.  
The mother of four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://HUMANITARIANTRAVELER.COM/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Health and Nutrition of Children in Mali: A Responsibility for the Whole Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The responsibility of feeding children used to lie solely on the women of Mali. Now, however, nutrition experts are reporting that men are participating more and more in the activity. This is considered to be an important progress especially in a country that is devastated by under-nutrition in its children.  
According to an NGO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shelters for Homeless Haitians: In Danger of Hurricane Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has merely been months since the nation of Haiti was devastated by powerful earthquake and citizens have barely recovered from the disaster. Unfortunately, it seems that the Haitian people are about to face a new challenge as the country’s storm season draws near. Strong wind and rains are currently sweeping through the country, destroying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://HUMANITARIANTRAVELER.COM/?p=122</link>
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		<title>Indonesian Humanitarians Rally for Children’s Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NGOs and other humanitarian groups in Indonesia are expressing concern over the vulnerable position of children in the country, given the fact that children’s rights are still not part of the government’s top priorities.  
The National NGO Coalition for Child Rights Monitoring recently released a report that showed how child protection in Indonesia can [...]]]></description>
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