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Three out of five children in Afghanistan are orphans. Jane Mills meets an Afghan refugee who is determined to help them.
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Educating women is the key to eradicating poverty and hunger, said Catherine Bertini, Executive Director of the UN's World Food Programme and Under-Secretary General of the UN. It would break the vicious circle of malnourished and mal-educated women giving birth to malnourished children.
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Good governance starts with individuals, discovers Paul Williams.
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Verwoerd is one of the names most associated with apartheid. William Smook discovers that Wilhelm and Melanie Verwoerd break all the stereotypes.
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Women from around the world light a candle to launch a peace initiative with a difference. Mary Lean joined them in the mountain village of Caux, Switzerland.
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Louise Diamond, Director of Peace Works, Washington DC, gives her impressions of the conference:
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In every sphere of life, it seems, women are expected to play a support role, assisting men to occupy more effectively the centre stage.
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I was not alone in my hurt. The world hurt with me. I withdrew the feminine essence and found myself in a hard, hurting world, filled to the brim with violence and an unending onslaught of barbarism.
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As the South Commission launches its report in Caracas, Ailsa Hamilton meets a Tanzanian Cabinet Minister who believes in speaking her mind.
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'If it were not for Margit Borg Sundman, I would be dead today.'
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