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Indian demonstrators holds placards during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student in the Indian capital, in New Delhi on December 27, 2012. An Indian student who was left fighting for her life after being brutally gang raped on a bus in New Delhi arrived December 27 in Singapore for treatment at a leading hospital. The attack sparked a wave of protests across India in which a policeman died and more than 100 police and protestors were injured. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images) India’s Media has a Rape Problem
Victim blaming is rampant in Indian media, and the government is complicit -- even when it tries to confront sexual violence.
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TO GO WITH AFGHANISTAN-US-ARMY-CONFLICT-FOCUS BY GUILLAUME DECAMME In this photograph taken on August 13, 2015, US army soldiers walk as a NATO helicopter flies overhead at coalition force Forward Operating Base (FOB) Connelly in the Khogyani district in the eastern province of Nangarhar. From his watchtower in insurgency-wracked eastern Afghanistan, US army Specialist Josh Whitten doesn't have much to say about his Afghan colleagues. "They don't come up here anymore, because they used to mess around with our stuff. "Welcome to Forward Operating Base Connelly, where US troops are providing training and tactical advice to the 201st Afghan army corps as they take on the Taliban on the battlefield. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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In this photo taken on May 20, 2015 shows Rohingya migrants resting on a boat off the coast near Kuala Simpang Tiga in Indonesia's East Aceh district of Aceh province before being rescued. Indonesia's foreign minister demanded answers from Canberra about claims Australian officials paid thousands of dollars to turn a boat back to Indonesia after Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to deny the allegations. AFP PHOTO / JANUAR (Photo credit should read JANUAR/AFP/Getty Images) How Europe Can Help the Rohingya
Can Europe offer any borderless lessons to help Southeast Asia with its own migrant crisis?
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LUEBBEN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 04: Workers prepare an electricity transmission tower, also called an electricity pylon, in order to hang electricity transmission cables from it on December 4, 2014 near Luebben, Germany. Germany is expanding its electricity grid as part of its large-scale shift from conventional coal, gas and nuclear-based energy production to renewable sources, especially wind and solar. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) -
Afghan Foreign Minister, Salahuddin Rabbanion (C) chairs the second round of four-way peace talks at the Presidential palace in Kabul on January 18, 2016. A second round of four-country talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations with the Taliban began in Kabul on January 18, even as the insurgents wage an unprecedented winter campaign of violence across Afghanistan. Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States convened in the Afghan capital for a one-day meeting seeking a negotiated end to the bloody 14-year insurgency. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai / AFP / SHAH MARAI (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) Embracing the Enemies We Know in Afghanistan
Despite mutual distrust, Washington must include both the Taliban and the Haqqani Network in negotiations to achieve peace in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 20: An Afghan policeman stands guard outside a polling station August 20, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghans voted Thursday to elect a president for the second time in history with election officials stating that turnout was healthy despite sporadic violence by the Taliban. The incumbent President Karzai is considered to be the frontrunner despite claims of corruption and what many consider an ineffectual government. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) -
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (L) shakes hands with army chief Raheel Sharif during a ceremony to mark the country's Independence Day in Islamabad on August 14, 2015. Pakistan on August 14 celebrated its 68th anniversary of the country's independence from British rule. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) -
499920472-1 How To Jumpstart the Afghan Economy
To shore up its economy, Afghanistan and other South Asia countries need to stop playing power politics.
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503973708 Pakistan’s Juggling Act
To maintain its economic stability and security, Pakistan must stay neutral amid rising tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Pakistani policemen stand guard outside Bacha Khan university a day after an attack by militants in Charsadda, about 50 kilometres from Peshawar, on January 21, 2016. Pakistan observed a day of national mourning for the 21 people killed when heavily-armed gunmen stormed a university in the troubled northwest, exposing the failings in a national crackdown on extremism. AFP PHOTO / Aamir QURESHI / AFP / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) -
Afghan policemen keep watch as firefighters wash a road at the site of suicide attack against a minibus carrying employees of popular Afghan TV channel TOLO, which killed seven, in Kabul on January 20, 2016 A vehicle carrying employees of popular Afghan TV channel TOLO was the target of a deadly bombing in downtown Kabul on January 20, officials and sources within the media organisation told AFP. The bombing near the Russian embassy in downtown Kabul also left 24 people wounded, in the latest in a wave of attacks despite an international push to jumpstart Taliban peace talks. / AFP / SHAH MARAI (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) -
Pakistani army soldiers take part in search operation at the Bacha Khan university following an attack by militants in Charsadda, about 50 kilometres from Peshawar, on January 20, 2016. At least 21 people died in an armed assault on a university in Pakistan on January 20, where witnesses reported two large explosions as security forces moved in under dense fog to halt the bloodshed. AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED / AFP / A Majeed (Photo credit should read A MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images) -
Afghan president-elect Ashraf Ghani (4th L) sits with Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chief Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani (4th R) and other officials during a ceremony at the IEC compound in Kabul on September 26, 2014. Ashraf Ghani won Afghanistan's disputed presidential election decisively with 55 percent of the vote, results revealed Friday, after the figure was kept secret for five days over concerns that fraud allegations could trigger violence. AFP PHOTO/ Noorullah SHIRZADA (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images) -
TOPSHOTS This picture taken on February 24, 2013 shows Pakistani youth crossing a street during a nationwide power blackout in Karachi. Pakistan was hit by a nationwide blackout for more than two hours after the breakdown of a major plant caused power stations to stop working across the country, officials said on February 25. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN (Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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