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News Analysis
Robbed of their innocence
EVERY MONTH, three to four women are dying from AIDS in Mumbai's "red light" districts. Both health workers and social workers have confirmed this. Many more might be dying of other diseases. But it is this statistic that rings an alarm because ...
A safe nest
A YOUNG woman wearing a black maxi walks in with a pale thin child, a girl. She takes her to a room full of lively, highly excitable children. The younger ones, some only 18 months old, are being fed fruit, some others are resisting the ...
For a few dollars more
AT AGE 11, Marina Khatun faces a bleak future. She is physically deformed, slow in her mental faculties and unlettered. Compounding her woes is the fact that her family, located in West Bengal's Murshidabad district bordering Bangladesh, is poor ...
U.N.'s role in combating terrorism
By Feodor Starcevic

The United Nations has had a main role in establishing international norms against terrorist acts and their codification into international law. To the world body and some of its specialised agencies we must give credit for the existence today of ...

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