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| BANGLADESH: Acid attacks continue despite new laws |  DHAKA, 5 January 2009 (IRIN) - Acid attacks against women and girls are continuing despite legal campaigns to halt their spread. Over 2,600 cases have been reported since 1999, according to the Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) of Bangladesh.
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| | MAURITANIA: Water treks grow longer, rougher |  BOURA, 2 January 2009 (IRIN) - As water captured in village wells during the 2008 rainy season runs out or dries up, residents in southern Mauritania are spending more time and travelling farther in their hunt for water. Water gatherers in Boura village, 400km southeast of the capital Nouakchott, told IRIN January means the start of longer water treks.
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| | ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza rockets cause shock, fear in southern Israel |  NETANYA, 2 January 2009 (IRIN) - Zulfira has been living in Sderot near the border with Gaza for 14 years. For the past eight years she endured Kassam rockets fired from Gaza. “I just pray,” she said.
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| | TOGO: How to improve a “worst form of labour” |  LOME, 31 December 2008 (IRIN) - A private sector-employment agency in Togo that trains, places and advocates for domestic workers said it is trying to improve notoriously abusive work conditions for domestic workers. In October 2007, the Togolese government classified domestic work as one of the worst forms of labour, making it illegal for anyone younger than 18 to be employed as domestic workers.
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| | AFGHANISTAN: Farmers in the midst of poppy cultivation dilemma |  JALALABAD, 31 December 2008 (IRIN) - Farmers in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, have been told by Taliban insurgents to grow poppy, but the government has warned them not to.
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