Thai women fight sex trade abuses with rights groups
Thai lawyer Khunying Kanitha Wichienharoen leads advocacy for women amid Patpong sex district abuses. Activists highlight trafficking, rape, and minimal penalties while Empower group offers classes and legal rights information to prostitutes. Supported by Helen Brown and Thongbai Thongpao, efforts push for education, new laws, and safer refuge options.
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New York Times
Bangkok
Thailand
Kanitha Wichienharoen
Patpong
London
Kanitha
Khunying Kanitha
Thai Association For the Promotion of the Status of Women
Women Lawyers’ Association
Thammasat University
United States
Columbia, Howard
Thongbai Thongpao
Thongbai
Empower
Pope greets 50000 youths with disco hymn in France
At Lyon Gerland stadium Pope John Paul II received about 50,000 young people with a disco beat hymn Rise Up and Walk and calls to combat religious indifference, terrorism, and hunger. He urged action on a proposed world day of peace and interfaith prayer on Oct 27.
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Lyon
France
John Paul II
Gerland
John Paul
Vatican
Assisi
Italy
Emilia Sardo
Paris
Burgundy
Paray-Le- Monial
New York High Schools Dispense Contraceptives through Clinics
A Board of Education report shows nine New York City high schools run state funded birth control services at school health clinics or affiliated clinics. The program began in 1984 at some schools with distribution on site or via referrals to hospitals.
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New York Times
NEW York
New York City
Board of Education
Robert F. Wagner Jr
Marion Schwarz
City Hall
Louis D. Brandeis High School
West Side High School
Chicago
U.S. hints at moving up arms treaty limit breach
Reports indicate the Reagan administration weighs exceeding the 1979 strategic arms treaty limit by November by arming a 131st bomber with cruise missiles. Officials say timing hinges on policy, not tech, ahead of Reagan Gorbachev talks. Iceland primes minister confirms Reykjavik site for summit and Raisa Gorbachev expected. Nancy Reagan reportedly not planning to attend.
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Gazette
United States
Administration
Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Iceland
Moscow
Reykjavik
Steingrimur Hermannsson
Gorbachev
Raisa
Washington
White House
Dale Petroskey
Nancy
Mrs. Gorbachev
Supreme Court Faces 91 Cases With Racial and Creationism Debates
The 1986 87 term opens under a new chief justice and new associate as the court weighs racial disparities in death sentences and the constitutionality of teaching creationism. The docket includes employment discrimination, pregnancy benefits, and challenges to affirmative action and AIDS related cases. The administration pushes conservative positions, while Justices Brennan and the Republican appointees reshape ideological dynamics.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
Charles
Fried
William Bradford Reynolds
William J. Brennan Jr
Reagan
William H. Rehnquist
Antonin Scalia
Rehnquist
Scalia
RCMP pull new rifles after accidental discharges
RCMP in Ottawa recalled recently issued semiautomatic rifles after a series of accidental discharges. An officer protecting the U S ambassador's residence shot himself in the thigh, another bullet went through a security hut roof, and a third discharge occurred during a troop muster. No injuries reported besides the ambassador's guard. Neighbors urge evictions of diplomats amid the incidents.
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Washington Post
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
U.S
Mounted Police
RCMP
Toronto
Niles
Rockcliffe Park
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