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Jehovah’s Witness Challenge To South Korea’s Military Service

Kim Ju-hwan
Kim Ju-hwan Malte Kollenberg

SEOUL — Kim Ju-hwan is headed toward an uncertain future. The 24-year old university student was sentenced to a year in jail for refusing to serve in South Korea’s military. As a Jehovah’s Witness, Kim says he’s morally opposed to war. “Based on what I learned in the Bible, I’m a conscientious objector. There’s a verse that says love your enemy. That’s my belief, and it’s how I’m trying to lead my life.” All able-bodied South Korean are required to serve in the armed forces for about two years. But for conscientious objectors like Kim Ju-hwan, there is no alternative […]

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Being LGBT In Colombia: Victims Of Hatred, Casualties Of Civil War

2013 LGBTI pride parade in Bogota
2013 LGBTI pride parade in Bogota Diego Cambiaso - Worldcrunch

BOGOTA — The LGBTI community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual/Transgender and Intersexual) in Colombia has suffered disappearances, forced migrations, mutilations, humiliation and abuse. The phrase “damaged bodies, silent crimes’ has come to be used by this community to describe their suffering often made even worse by the civil war that has torn Colombia apart over the […]

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Latin America’s Female Leadership Paradox

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Argentina's Cristina Kirchner -- the exceptions that prove the rule
Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Argentina's Cristina Kirchner -- the exceptions that prove the rule E]Martin Zabala - Xinhua/ZUMA

Despite the high profile women presidents of Brazil and Argentina, the fairer sex is notably underrepresented in cabinet positions across Latin American governments.

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The “Mainland Brides” Of Taiwan Try To Emerge From The Shadows

A wedding in Tainan, Taiwan
A wedding in Tainan, Taiwan Lordcolus

TAIPEI – It was at 10 p.m., after she had attended yet another social event, that Lu Yuexiang was finally able to meet us at the restaurant. Lu, 48, is the chairperson of the Chinese Production Party, which she founded in 2010 to fight for the rights of mainland-Chinese immigrants in Taiwan. The party, which […]

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Indigenous Of Chile: Why Discrimination Against Mapuches Still Runs So Deep

The Mapuches represent about 6% of the Chilean population
The Mapuches represent about 6% of the Chilean population Idioma y Cultura Mapuche

-Editorial- SANTIAGO – In the morning on Jan. 4 in Araucania, a region in southern Chile where the Mapuche people live, a group of masked men attacked and set fire to the house of a local landowner and farmer who had spent years litigating with indigenous groups. The landowner, Werner Luchsinger and his wife were […]

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Gay, French, Faithfully Catholic – Living A Paradox, As Marriage Debate Heats Up

Gay rights demonstration in Paris
Gay rights demonstration in Paris Tseb

PARIS – To look at them, you would never know the agony these young men, relaxed and self-assured, have endured. Drinking wine and eating blinis in their comfortable Parisian apartment, Nicolas (not his real name), Bertrand, Fabrice and Damien all tell a similar story. Raised in practicing Catholic families, and believers themselves, they have taken […]

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