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‘No one can dare ask why’

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Women are banned from leaving their homes without a male companion and nobody dares ask about schooling for girls living here. Taxation, that’s sometimes fair and often on the rich but compulsory, can be prey to rival taxmen and lead to beatings and imprisonment for non-payment. Justice is dispensed in mobile

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UN rights chief fears Myanmar heading to ‘full blown conflict’ with echoes of Syria

The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, has warned Myanmar is heading toward a “full blown conflict” with “clear echoes” of Syria in 2011, unless the international community steps in to stop the violence. In a statement Tuesday, Bachelet urged states to take “immediate, decisive and impactful measures to push Myanmar’s military

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