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For better health
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health, a global network of policy-makers, researchers, and civil society organisations brought together by the World Health Organisation, has made vital recommendations (
Learning from the EU
Non-members too often conceive membership of the European Union as a matter of almost unlimited economic benefits, political and administrative probity, and smooth functioning. But EU membership also involves substantial moral and political ...

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Take on this intellectual challenge
By Markandey Katju

The formation of the Kalidas-Ghalib Academy for Mutual Understanding is meant to promote India’s composite culture and oppose divisive forces.

News Analysis

Children in the crosshairs
By David Cromwell

Omissions in coverage of the Middle East are symptoms of a deep-rooted bias that suppresses public awareness of the true gravity of Israel’s human rights abuses.

Guantánamo Bay: at last, justice — of a sort
By Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

The U.S. has repeatedly engaged in torture of perfectly innocent people.

Killers call the shots in ‘justice’ system
By Martin Chulov

Criminals rush to join U.S. payroll — Ordinary Iraqis despair of seeing law and order.

From home and away, advice for a first lady
By Rachel L. Swarns

Passionate debate stirring among working mothersMichelle Obama’s champions insist that she will remake the role of first lady

Corrections and clarifications
* * The President’s name is Pratibha Devisingh Patil and not Devi Singh Patel as in the text of the report “New issues, old ties mark Pratibha’s visit to Indonesia, Vietnam” (November 24, ...

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