Climber's family keep K2 pledge

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Jim Ballard, the husband of climber Alison Hargreaves, who died on K2 in Aug 1995, has attracted considerable criticism for taking the couple's two young children to visit the spot where their mother undertook her last climb. However, he feels that it was appropriate to make this visit, despite the potential dangers involved, as he had promised the children that they would do so. The expedition involved trecking for many days, but great care was taken to ensure that the children were in no danger.

Family, Hargreaves, Alison

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Sikhs query the deadly price of peace

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The western Indian state of Punjab has seen a return to police following moves by security forces to crush puritanical Sikh gangs which closed down pubs and attacked young women dressed in western clothes. However, Sikhs are still claiming that the security forces were guilty of many human rights violations, with thousands of bodies of Sikh youths having been disposed of in secret. Those investigating these disappearances claim to have been threatened by security force officials.

Political aspects, Human rights, Punjab, India, Sikhism

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The women who build cities then vanish in the dust

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Rural Indian women known as 'women of the dust' construct city buildings and move on to the next. They earn about 28.60 rupees or 50 pence for a 10-hour day, paid to their husbands. Mobile Creche organises 400 daycare centres for these workers' children in Delhi, Bombay and Pune. Oxfam commissioned a play about them from theatre company Tamasha. Playwright Ruth Carter visited India to research the play.

Construction, Women, Employment, Buildings and facilities, Portrayals, Authorship, Building, Manual work, Unskilled labor, Carter, Ruth

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