Aid plan for India's 33m widows
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India outlines an ambitious programme aiming to help women overcome the stigma of losing their husband.
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India's refusal to allow access to the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is preventing aid from reaching the most desperate survivors of last week's tsunamis, international aid groups said Monday, as the country's death toll was expected to top 15,000.
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Over two million elderly Tanzanian women are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS due to neglect, ignorance and poverty, a new study by HelpAge International has revealed.
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Authorities in India plan legal action against relatives of an old woman found abandoned on a rubbish tip.
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Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They cannot remarry. They are forced to shave their heads and typically wear white. Even their shadows are considered bad luck.
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At least 25 foreign-born surviving spouses and perhaps many more -- most of them widows -- are on the brink of deportation, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington.
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The Spanish government is to approve on Thursday 50 million euros (65 million US dollars) in grants and loans to help South Asian countries in their reconstruction after they were struck by devastating ...
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In a model case of how donations should work, tsunami victims in Thailand get the help they need in an orderly fashion.
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SRINAGAR, India -- Jana Begum squatted on the floor of her small kitchen with a friend, confiding to her how her life felt like a kind of purgatory, year after year spent waiting for a husband who had vanished shortly after his arrest by Indian security agents five years ago. To this day, Begum...
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The World Bank is ready to fund development projects in Kashmir if that helps bring peace to the insurgency-wracked region, President James D. Wolfensohn said Thursday as he pledged US$9 billion in aid to India over the next three years.
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The United States will provide $350  million in aid for victims of Asia's devastating tsunami, a  government official said on Friday.
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Uganda announces a $330m (Â£173m) plan to help almost 2m people displaced in its 20-year northern conflict.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Three years ago, a towering wave swept aside the flimsy home of A. Muttama in Nagapattinam, India, and stole away her three children. Together with her husband, Selvaraj, a fisherman, she turned her back on the sea. After two years in shelter, they moved to Madras, where he found work as a rickshaw driver.
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Malawian widow Akice Kunkhoma  makes just pennies a day as she looks after five grandchildren  orphaned by AIDS, but she still owes the world's richest  nations $240 -- with interest.
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The union cabinet approved a 27.31 billion rupee relief package on Wednesday for victims of the deadly tsunami that slammed into the country's eastern shore last month.
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About 70 percent of the money from international donors will pay public salaries, while 30 percent is expected to be used for development, food relief, and other assistance.
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.