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• For    decades, American   leaders and opinion makers have chosen to ignore the dark  side     of democratic India. Now new reports documenting  the   pervasive abuses  committed     by the   Indian
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• For   decades, American  leaders and opinion makers have chosen to ignore the dark side   of democratic India. Now new reports documenting the  pervasive abuses committed   by the  Indian
• Sexual abuse in police stations. Crimes "solved" by countless extrajudicial  killings. Life-threatening prison conditions. Widespread torture. Thousands of  unpunished murders in politically inspired
• extrajudicial
• Sexual abuse  in   police stations.  Crimes "solved" by countless  extrajudicial      killings.  Life-threatening prison conditions. Widespread   torture. Thousands of     unpunished  murders   in politically  inspired    pogroms. Sixty  million children in forced labor.

•    Sexual  abuse   in      police  stations.   Crimes "solved" by  countless    extrajudicial        killings.   Life-threatening prison conditions.  Widespread     torture. Thousands of       unpunished   murders     in  politically   inspired      pogroms.  Sixty   million children  in forced labor.  
• firsthand evidence not only of warrantless arrests, illegal detentions, torture  and the deaths of thousands
• recent decades, is not alone. Another report, on the state of police reform in  India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, is soon to be published by the Commonwealth Human  Rights Initiative, based in New Delhi. A former Indian police official who  has seen it says it will make many of the same observations.
• Major problems included extrajudicial killings of persons in custody,  disappearances, and torture and rape by police and other security forces.
• Corruption existed at all levels of government and  police.... Increasing attacks   against religious  minorities and the promulgation of antireligious conversion   laws were concerns. Violence associated with caste-based  discrimination   occurred. Domestic  violence, child marriage, dowry-related deaths, honor crimes,   female infanticide and feticide remain serious problems.  Trafficking in persons   and exploitation of  indentured, bonded and child labor were continuing problems.
• Corruption existed at all levels of government and police.... Increasing attacks  against religious minorities and the promulgation of antireligious conversion  laws were concerns. Violence associated with caste-based discrimination  occurred. Domestic violence, child marriage, dowry-related deaths, honor crimes,  female infanticide and feticide remain serious problems. Trafficking in persons  and exploitation of indentured, bonded and child labor were continuing problems.

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• what do you think about the situation described in this article? - Anthony Santagato on 2009-08-17

• The content of the  short article was even more curious, and it left the   Soviet press facing  the difficult task of explaining a major U-turn - away from   thunderous  anti-Fascism, and towards friendly relations with the Nazis.
• The content  of   the      short article  was   even more curious,  and it left the       Soviet  press   facing     the difficult  task   of explaining a  major U-turn - away from       thunderous     anti-Fascism,  and   towards friendly  relations with the Nazis.
• The content of  the   short article was  even more curious, and it left the     Soviet press  facing   the difficult task  of explaining a major U-turn - away from     thunderous    anti-Fascism, and  towards friendly relations with the Nazis.

• The content of the short article was even more curious, and it left the  Soviet press facing the difficult task of explaining a major U-turn - away from  thunderous anti-Fascism, and towards friendly relations with the Nazis.

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• early death is as strong today
• as it was a century ago, a study
• shows.

  • oh this goes against what other peope would though
• Despite major changes in the causes of death since the 1900s, the association  between deprivation and mortality remains "firmly entrenched", it found.
• Despite major changes in the causes of death since the 1900s, the association  between deprivation and mortality remains "firmly entrenched", it found.
• Despite major  changes in the c auses of  death   since the 1900s,  the association     between  deprivation   and mortality  remains "firmly entrenched", it found.
• auses of death  since the 1900s, the association   between deprivation  and mortality remains "firmly entrenched", it found.

• deprivation and mortality remains "firmly entrenched", it found.

   

  It is possible that the health effects of poverty have passed through the  generations, wrote Dr Ian Gregory in the

• compared that with data from 2001.

   

  His figures highlight the dramatic improvement seen in early deaths over the  past one hundred years.

   

  In the 1900s, 33% of deaths occurred in the under fives and only 13% occurred  over the age of 75 but a century later deaths

• 1900s compared with cancer, heart disease and stroke in 2001.

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• 
• This is despite widescale reforms such as the introduction of the NHS and social  security in addition to large rises in standards of living and huge advances in  medicine,
• The unknown factor is what would have happened if we hadn't done anything -  could things have got much much worse - and I suspect they could have done.
• The unknown factor is what would have happened if we hadn't done anything

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• the graph also raises another troubling issue - after trillions of dollars in research the death from cancer has soared fro 8% of all deaths to 28% in industrialized nations such as England and most likely the US - Anthony Santagato on 2009-09-12
• checking to see if the function words - Anthony Santagato on 2009-09-12