Culture Express Explosion: Modren Civilization from East to West

World: Climate solutions seen harming indigenous peoples
Large-scale solutions to help slow global warming often threaten the very indigenous peoples who are among those hardest hit by a changing climate, the UN University said on Wednesday. Biofuel plantations, construction of hydropower dams and measures to protect forests, where trees soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas as they grow, can create conflicts with the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.

Benin: More than 40,000 children trafficked each year
A new study released jointly by the Ministry of Family and Children and the UN in Benin shows that more than 40,000 children aged between 6 and 17 were trafficked in 2006.

Racial inequality persists in US
Black Americans still trail whites on such basics as income, education, and health, a study showed on Wednesday. Across a range of economic indicators including measures of employment, poverty, housing, income, and wealth, blacks were much worse off than whites. Three times as many US blacks as whites live below the poverty line, defined as an income of $20,000 for a family of four. The disparity between the races on unemployment narrowed slightly, but blacks were still twice as likely to be jobless.

UK children ‘becoming more materialistic’: poll
British adults believe children are being damaged by increased commercialisation and a negative media portrayal of their age group, a poll found this week, but experts believe grown-ups are to blame.

Singapore: Chinese New Year exodus as cultural rituals abandoned
Rather than spending New Year at home with extended families in what is traditionally the year’s one guaranteed family reunion, Chinese Singaporeans, some 77 per cent of the population, are fleeing their New Year in droves. Experts say the trend of abandoning traditional wider family obligations for short breaks overseas has accelerated as the economy booms and as Asia’s budget airline networks encourage soaring leisure travel.

Muslims, West see divisions deepening: survey
Most people in Muslim and Western countries believe divisions between them are worsening and each side believes the other disrespects their culture, according to a poll released on Monday. The Gallup poll, published in a report on Muslim-Western relations for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this week, reflects ‘an alarmingly low level of optimism regarding dialogue between Islam and the West’, WEF chairman Klaus Schwab said.

Iraq: Syriac language struggling to survive
Syriac language is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once a major literary language spoken throughout the Middle East. The influence of Syriac language is declining in Iraqi society. According to the Syriac culture and arts department in Iraq’s Kurdistan, over half of the Syriac community cannot read or write in their native tongue.

Yemen: Despite progress, still an uphill struggle for women
Yemeni women, especially those living in rural areas, continue to have high illiteracy rates, insufficient medical care and face gender discrimination, specialists said at an event held in Sanaa on 8 March to mark International Women’s Day 2008.

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