Indonesia bars doctors from female genital cutting
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Doctors and nurses in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, can no longer perform female genital cutting, a senior Health Ministry official said on Wednesday.
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China is to outlaw the selective  abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio  of boys to girls that has grown since a one-child policy was  introduced more than 20 years ago.
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A Malaysian traditional folk healer who dances in the nude while treating her patients has upset some people in the conservative, mainly Muslim country, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
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China is to outlaw the selective abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls that has grown since the one-child policy was introduced more than 20 years ago.
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VIENNA -- Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading activist for women's rights warned yesterday.
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Police in Burkina Faso arrest 14 people for carrying out female genital mutilation on young girls.
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President Ahmadinejad's account rejected in Iran which is second only to Thailand for sex changes.
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More parents are turning to  medical clinics to perform genital mutilation, wrongly assuming  that it spares girls physical and psychological damage, a U.N.  agency warned on Monday.
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DENPASAR, Indonesia  - Indonesia's resort island of Bali has banned screenings of a film on the 2002 bombings there because it could "reopen old wounds", a provincial film board official said on Thursday.
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Malaysian doctors have reattached a man's nearly severed penis after his first wife, enraged by his comparison of her sex skills with those of his younger second wife, decided to chop it off with a kitchen knife.
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Indonesia prepares law to prohibit the use of chemicals as weapons    JAKARTA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government is preparing a draft law to prohibit the use of chemicals as weapons, Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said here Wednesday.
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In an effort to prevent the spread of anthrax into the capital, the Jakarta administration has temporarily banned livestock supplies from Bogor regency, where a number of villagers in one district have died or fallen ill from the disease over the past week
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China&#39;s media regulators  have banned reality TV shows that feature plastic surgery or  sex-change operations, after some viewers complained they were  &quot;horrifying and sickening,&quot; local media reported Tuesday.
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The Indonesian island of Bali bans a film about bombings that killed more than 200 people five years ago.
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All Indonesian airlines including national carrier Garuda are to be banned from flying to the EU over safety concerns.
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China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China's HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday.
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The Indonesian government has quietly imposed a ban on foreign journalists traveling to provinces it fears could be at risk of breaking away, as well as to several other areas that have been conflict zones in the past, officials said.