I will not make the same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself cause my heart so much misery
I will not break the way you did
You fell so hard
I've learned the hard way, to never let it get that far
Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
I lose my way
And it's not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake, a smile, a laugh
Every day of my life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole to start with
Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust
Not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid
I watched you die
I heard you cry
Every night in your sleep
I was so young
You should have known better than to lean on me
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw your pain
And now I cry
In the middle of the night
For the same damn thing
Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side
So I don't get hurt
Because of you
I tried my hardest just to forget everything
Because of you
I don't know how to let anyone else in
Because of you
I'm ashamed of my life because it's empty
Because of you
I am afraid
Because of you
Because of you
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Long time Muslim yoga instructor expresses shock over UKM lecturer's statement
By : Melissa Darlyne Chow
GEORGE TOWN, PENANG:
A long-time yoga instructor has expressed shock and dismay over statement by a Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) lecturer who said that practising yoga could cause Muslims to deviate from the teachings of Islam.
Datin Suleiha Merican, 56, who has been practising yoga for 40 years, said the meditation technique is a science of health and had nothing to do with religion.
"When we are strong in our faith, why would we want to deviate? The professor's statement is totally uncalled for," she said.
Suleiha was commenting on Prof Zakaria Stapa's statement that yoga could be traced back to Hinduism and that practising it could cause Muslims to deviate from the teachings of Islam.
Zakaria, who is from the Faculty of Islamic Studies, also urged Muslims who are practising yoga to stop it and return to the teachings of Islam.
Suleiha said she still diligently performed prayers every day despite practising yoga.
"There is no conflict at all as yoga is not religion-based. There is no problem. I would definitely encourage Muslims to practise yoga," she said.
Suleiha said yoga was the answer to health problems, such as headaches and back pain. She noted that hospitals in the United Kingdom and United States offerred yoga as an alternative therapy.
"Every part of the world I have gone to there are Muslims who practice yoga practitioners, for instance in Iran," she said.
Suleiha, who runs the Maya Yoga Studio in Damansara Perdana, said yoga ran in the family as her father and her grandfather were also yoga instructors.
It was reported that the national fatwa council is also expected to announce its stand on Muslims practising yoga soon.
The Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) deputy director-general of operations, Othman Mustapha, was quoted as saying that an announcement on the decision would be made by the council soon.
GEORGE TOWN, PENANG:
A long-time yoga instructor has expressed shock and dismay over statement by a Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) lecturer who said that practising yoga could cause Muslims to deviate from the teachings of Islam.
Datin Suleiha Merican, 56, who has been practising yoga for 40 years, said the meditation technique is a science of health and had nothing to do with religion.
"When we are strong in our faith, why would we want to deviate? The professor's statement is totally uncalled for," she said.
Suleiha was commenting on Prof Zakaria Stapa's statement that yoga could be traced back to Hinduism and that practising it could cause Muslims to deviate from the teachings of Islam.
Zakaria, who is from the Faculty of Islamic Studies, also urged Muslims who are practising yoga to stop it and return to the teachings of Islam.
Suleiha said she still diligently performed prayers every day despite practising yoga.
"There is no conflict at all as yoga is not religion-based. There is no problem. I would definitely encourage Muslims to practise yoga," she said.
Suleiha said yoga was the answer to health problems, such as headaches and back pain. She noted that hospitals in the United Kingdom and United States offerred yoga as an alternative therapy.
"Every part of the world I have gone to there are Muslims who practice yoga practitioners, for instance in Iran," she said.
Suleiha, who runs the Maya Yoga Studio in Damansara Perdana, said yoga ran in the family as her father and her grandfather were also yoga instructors.
It was reported that the national fatwa council is also expected to announce its stand on Muslims practising yoga soon.
The Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) deputy director-general of operations, Othman Mustapha, was quoted as saying that an announcement on the decision would be made by the council soon.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
National Fatwa Council to make a ruling on yoga
GEORGE TOWN: The National Fatwa Council will soon come out with a ruling on yoga exercise.
The Islamic Development Department’s deputy director-general (operations) Othman Mustapha said the council’s chairman, Prof Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin, would make the announcement.
Othman told reporters this after opening the two-day seminar on Islamic Jurisprudence and Eternal Islamic Thinking at Universiti Sains Malaysia here yesterday.
On Tuesday, lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Islamic Studies Centre advised Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it as it could deviate from their belief. – Bernama
I wonder what makes them think that yoga deviates muslim's belief? yoga practise is not only about exercising your body and mind, but also teaches effective breathing methods. yoga is a very good alternative way of exercising for those people who has less enthutiasm in intensive workout such as cycling, jogging, rock climbing, diving, mountain-biking, and etc. I started yoga in year 2006 (out of curiousity n to challenge myself) but slowly it has become one of my hobby in my workout schedule. Well, I found it not only can release my stress but also can stretch away all my muscle pain due to those jogging n combat fighting. I'm not sure how yoga can actually deviates someone's belief as I'm not a Muslim and I'm not familiar abt Muslim's laws n pantang but for sure is there are already so many people benefit from yoga practice around this world!!! And for you, life is yours, body is yours, you can choose what is best for you. I'm sure I already did.
And for those who agrees with our Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Islamic Studies Centre lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa, pls read below:
The Muslim prayer has five positions and each of the five prayer positions has a corresponding yoga position, and the positions together “activate” all seven “chakras” (energy fields) in the body. The idea of activating a chakra may sound linguistically strange, but it is easier to understand once one translates that word into more familiar language. This simple form of “yoga” offers physical, mental, and spiritual benefits five times a day as Muslims assume certain positions while reciting Qur’an and athkar (remembrances).
For more info, pls browse through http://198.65.147.194/English/Science/2001/01/article6.shtml
The Islamic Development Department’s deputy director-general (operations) Othman Mustapha said the council’s chairman, Prof Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin, would make the announcement.
Othman told reporters this after opening the two-day seminar on Islamic Jurisprudence and Eternal Islamic Thinking at Universiti Sains Malaysia here yesterday.
On Tuesday, lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Islamic Studies Centre advised Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it as it could deviate from their belief. – Bernama
I wonder what makes them think that yoga deviates muslim's belief? yoga practise is not only about exercising your body and mind, but also teaches effective breathing methods. yoga is a very good alternative way of exercising for those people who has less enthutiasm in intensive workout such as cycling, jogging, rock climbing, diving, mountain-biking, and etc. I started yoga in year 2006 (out of curiousity n to challenge myself) but slowly it has become one of my hobby in my workout schedule. Well, I found it not only can release my stress but also can stretch away all my muscle pain due to those jogging n combat fighting. I'm not sure how yoga can actually deviates someone's belief as I'm not a Muslim and I'm not familiar abt Muslim's laws n pantang but for sure is there are already so many people benefit from yoga practice around this world!!! And for you, life is yours, body is yours, you can choose what is best for you. I'm sure I already did.
And for those who agrees with our Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Islamic Studies Centre lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa, pls read below:
The Muslim prayer has five positions and each of the five prayer positions has a corresponding yoga position, and the positions together “activate” all seven “chakras” (energy fields) in the body. The idea of activating a chakra may sound linguistically strange, but it is easier to understand once one translates that word into more familiar language. This simple form of “yoga” offers physical, mental, and spiritual benefits five times a day as Muslims assume certain positions while reciting Qur’an and athkar (remembrances).
For more info, pls browse through http://198.65.147.194/English/Science/2001/01/article6.shtml
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Islamists stone Somali woman to death for adultery
KISMAYU, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery, witnesses said, the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.
The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in a square of the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August.
Stones were hurled at her head and she was pulled out three times to see if she was dead, witnesses said. When a relative and others surged forward, guards opened fire, killing a child.
"A woman in green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning," one local resident, Abdullahi Aden, told Reuters.
"We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands. A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child."
The European Union's presidency condemned the stoning.
"The EU ... condemns a particularly vile execution, which the Islamist insurgents who took control of the city deliberately publicised," it said in a statement.
The Islamists last carried out public executions when they ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia for half of 2006. Allied Ethiopian and Somali government forces toppled them at the end of that year, but they have waged an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign since then, gradually taking territory back.
As when they ruled Mogadishu in 2006, the Islamists now controlling the Kismayu area are again providing much-needed security, but also imposing fundamentalist practices such as banning forms of entertainment seen as anti-Islamic.
Relatives of the woman executed in Kismayu, whom they named as Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, were furious.
"The stoning was totally irreligious and illogical," said her sister, who asked not to be named. "Islam does not execute a woman for adultery unless four witnesses and the man with whom she committed sex are brought forward publicly."
Islamist leaders at the execution said the woman had broken Islamic law. They promised to punish the guard who had shot the child in the melee around the execution.
"We apologise for killing the child. And we promise we shall bring the one who opened fire before the courts and deal with him accordingly," one unnamed Islamist leader told the crowd.
In Nairobi, ministers of the east African bloc IGAD gathered ahead of a meeting on Wednesday of heads of state, expected to put pressure on the Somali government to share power with moderate members of the opposition.
Some opposition leaders signed a U.N.-brokered ceasefire agreement with the government in Djibouti on Sunday, although insurgent leaders on the ground have rejected the pact.
The foreign minister of Ethiopia, which has thousands of troops in Somalia defending the government, said the conflict needed a political not a security solution.
"We are hopeful that the agreement concluded in Djibouti the day before yesterday, both on cessation of hostilities and on broadening the base of the institution of governance, will be adhered to by all," Seyoum Mesfin told the Nairobi meeting.
Underlining the urgency of the situation, a roadside bomb went off on Tuesday in Merka town, south of Mogadishu, targeting officials' cars and killing four people, witnesses said.
Among the dead was the acting governor of the Lower Shabelle region. The deputy police chief was injured.
(Additional reporting by Ibrahim Mohamed in Mogadishu, Guled Mohamed in Nairobi)
Copyright © 2008 Reuters
The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in a square of the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August.
Stones were hurled at her head and she was pulled out three times to see if she was dead, witnesses said. When a relative and others surged forward, guards opened fire, killing a child.
"A woman in green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning," one local resident, Abdullahi Aden, told Reuters.
"We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands. A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child."
The European Union's presidency condemned the stoning.
"The EU ... condemns a particularly vile execution, which the Islamist insurgents who took control of the city deliberately publicised," it said in a statement.
The Islamists last carried out public executions when they ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia for half of 2006. Allied Ethiopian and Somali government forces toppled them at the end of that year, but they have waged an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign since then, gradually taking territory back.
As when they ruled Mogadishu in 2006, the Islamists now controlling the Kismayu area are again providing much-needed security, but also imposing fundamentalist practices such as banning forms of entertainment seen as anti-Islamic.
Relatives of the woman executed in Kismayu, whom they named as Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, were furious.
"The stoning was totally irreligious and illogical," said her sister, who asked not to be named. "Islam does not execute a woman for adultery unless four witnesses and the man with whom she committed sex are brought forward publicly."
Islamist leaders at the execution said the woman had broken Islamic law. They promised to punish the guard who had shot the child in the melee around the execution.
"We apologise for killing the child. And we promise we shall bring the one who opened fire before the courts and deal with him accordingly," one unnamed Islamist leader told the crowd.
In Nairobi, ministers of the east African bloc IGAD gathered ahead of a meeting on Wednesday of heads of state, expected to put pressure on the Somali government to share power with moderate members of the opposition.
Some opposition leaders signed a U.N.-brokered ceasefire agreement with the government in Djibouti on Sunday, although insurgent leaders on the ground have rejected the pact.
The foreign minister of Ethiopia, which has thousands of troops in Somalia defending the government, said the conflict needed a political not a security solution.
"We are hopeful that the agreement concluded in Djibouti the day before yesterday, both on cessation of hostilities and on broadening the base of the institution of governance, will be adhered to by all," Seyoum Mesfin told the Nairobi meeting.
Underlining the urgency of the situation, a roadside bomb went off on Tuesday in Merka town, south of Mogadishu, targeting officials' cars and killing four people, witnesses said.
Among the dead was the acting governor of the Lower Shabelle region. The deputy police chief was injured.
(Additional reporting by Ibrahim Mohamed in Mogadishu, Guled Mohamed in Nairobi)
Copyright © 2008 Reuters
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The child sex tourism prevention project
Combating slavery in the 21st century
An estimated two million children are enslaved in the global commercial sex trade. Many of these children are either sold into prostitution to pay off family debts or forcibly recruited on the street to work in brothels, where they are required to have sex with as many as 30 men each day. Some prostituted children are just 5 years old.
United States citizens are among those from several wealthy countries who exploit children trapped in the commercial sex trade and fuel a demand for younger children.
Some Americans take advantage of prostituted children while traveling to impoverished countries for business, tourism and other legitimate reasons. Others travel abroad specifically for a "sex tour."
Sex tourists travel to countries such as Cambodia, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and Brazil, expecting anonymity, low-cost prostitution, easily accessible children and impunity from prosecution.
Notably, it is estimated that one-third of the prostitutes in Cambodia are children.
The United States has laws that prohibit sex with minors in other countries and has greatly increased government efforts to combat this problem. Under the Protect Act of 2003, United States citizens or residents who engage in sexual activity abroad with a child under 18 can face 30 years in a U.S. prison. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now actively investigating American sex tourists abroad and making arrests.
Sexually exploited children are severely wounded physically and emotionally. Many acquire diseases such as HIV and AIDS, and almost all experience rejection by their families and communities in addition to fear, shame and despair.
Combating child sex tourism
As part of World Vision's commitment to protecting children, we have joined forces with national governments, law enforcement agencies and other organizations to combat child sex tourism through the Child Sex Tourism Prevention Project. World Vision has implemented this project in Cambodia, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil and the United States.
With backing from the U.S. Department of State and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, World Vision has tackled this problem with a three-pronged strategy:
>> Deterrent messages
World Vision developed a targeted media campaign to deter would-be sex tourist in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil and the United States.
In an effort to dissuade child sex tourists at each step of their activity, deterrence messages have been placed in locations such as:
U.S. airports
Television
Billboards and street signs overseas
Hotels
Airline in-flight videos
Magazines
The Internet
Taxis
>> Law enforcement assistance
World Vision works with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help identify child sex tourists and provide information that could lead to their prosecution and conviction. Our extensive staff (23,000 employees in 100 countries), community networks and our work with children enables World Vision to lend valuable assistance to local and U.S. law enforcement agencies. World Vision has held workshops in Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico and Brazil to help increase law enforcement assistance.
>> Prevention programs
World Vision works to prevent children from being drawn into the commercial sex trade through interventions like education, advocacy and the creation of other means to make a living. World Vision operates at local and national levels to specifically prevent child sex tourism in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Thailand, Mexico and Brazil with efforts soon to expand to other sex-tour destination countries.
Three ways you can help
Advocate. Ask your senators and representative to push for an increase in resources to prosecute U.S. citizens who sexually exploit children overseas.
Report an American sex tourist. If you have information regarding a person who has sexually exploited a child, or suspect someone of child sex tourism, you can contact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Become a Child in Crisis Partner. For $20 a month, you can help one child after another escape a life of horror.
Now STOP CHILD TOURISM!!!
An estimated two million children are enslaved in the global commercial sex trade. Many of these children are either sold into prostitution to pay off family debts or forcibly recruited on the street to work in brothels, where they are required to have sex with as many as 30 men each day. Some prostituted children are just 5 years old.
United States citizens are among those from several wealthy countries who exploit children trapped in the commercial sex trade and fuel a demand for younger children.
Some Americans take advantage of prostituted children while traveling to impoverished countries for business, tourism and other legitimate reasons. Others travel abroad specifically for a "sex tour."
Sex tourists travel to countries such as Cambodia, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico and Brazil, expecting anonymity, low-cost prostitution, easily accessible children and impunity from prosecution.
Notably, it is estimated that one-third of the prostitutes in Cambodia are children.
The United States has laws that prohibit sex with minors in other countries and has greatly increased government efforts to combat this problem. Under the Protect Act of 2003, United States citizens or residents who engage in sexual activity abroad with a child under 18 can face 30 years in a U.S. prison. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now actively investigating American sex tourists abroad and making arrests.
Sexually exploited children are severely wounded physically and emotionally. Many acquire diseases such as HIV and AIDS, and almost all experience rejection by their families and communities in addition to fear, shame and despair.
Combating child sex tourism
As part of World Vision's commitment to protecting children, we have joined forces with national governments, law enforcement agencies and other organizations to combat child sex tourism through the Child Sex Tourism Prevention Project. World Vision has implemented this project in Cambodia, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil and the United States.
With backing from the U.S. Department of State and the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, World Vision has tackled this problem with a three-pronged strategy:
>> Deterrent messages
World Vision developed a targeted media campaign to deter would-be sex tourist in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil and the United States.
In an effort to dissuade child sex tourists at each step of their activity, deterrence messages have been placed in locations such as:
U.S. airports
Television
Billboards and street signs overseas
Hotels
Airline in-flight videos
Magazines
The Internet
Taxis
>> Law enforcement assistance
World Vision works with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help identify child sex tourists and provide information that could lead to their prosecution and conviction. Our extensive staff (23,000 employees in 100 countries), community networks and our work with children enables World Vision to lend valuable assistance to local and U.S. law enforcement agencies. World Vision has held workshops in Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico and Brazil to help increase law enforcement assistance.
>> Prevention programs
World Vision works to prevent children from being drawn into the commercial sex trade through interventions like education, advocacy and the creation of other means to make a living. World Vision operates at local and national levels to specifically prevent child sex tourism in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Thailand, Mexico and Brazil with efforts soon to expand to other sex-tour destination countries.
Three ways you can help
Advocate. Ask your senators and representative to push for an increase in resources to prosecute U.S. citizens who sexually exploit children overseas.
Report an American sex tourist. If you have information regarding a person who has sexually exploited a child, or suspect someone of child sex tourism, you can contact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Become a Child in Crisis Partner. For $20 a month, you can help one child after another escape a life of horror.
Now STOP CHILD TOURISM!!!
Over one billion people will be hungry next year!!
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Rising food prices will push the number of hungry people in the world over one billion next year, a U.N. expert said Monday.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported in September that at least 925 million people are hungry in the world today, compared with 848 million between 2003 and 2005, said Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. Human Rights Council's independent expert on the right to food.
"But the data relates to the beginning of 2008, and since then the estimate is that at least 44 million more people have become hungry,'' he said. "So we are now closer to the billion _ and with a bit more efforts we'll arrive at the billion by next year.''
De Schutter told reporters after briefing the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee that rising prices and increasing hunger are driving the world "far away'' from achieving the U.N. goal of reducing extreme poverty by half by 2015.
"The situation of hunger in the world is alarming,'' said de Schutter, a law professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium and currently a visiting professor at Columbia University's Law School in New York.
"The prices of food commodities on international markets have been going down since they reached a peak in June 2008, when the level of real food prices was 64 percent above their levels of 2002,'' he said. "But prices on domestic markets remain at historically high levels.''
In many countries, especially developing nations that import food, he said, "the brutal increase in prices in 2007 and the first half of 2008 has left severe marks on the poorest households.''
Families have reduced the quantity of food they eat and switched to poorer diets, and they have cut back on health care and schooling, "leading to irreparable damage to the health and education of millions of children,'' de Schutter said.
But he said the food crisis has also provided governments and international agencies with the opportunity to help those who spend the largest proportion of their family budgets on food and are most in need _ small farmers, landless laborers, herdsmen, fishermen and the urban poor.
The real challenge, de Schutter said, is ensuring that increased production will raise the incomes of the poorest "rather than simply increase the quantity of agricultural commodities available for those who can pay.''
Small farmers should be helped to produce more while being protected from the consequences of volatile international prices and the risks of unfair competition from agricultural producers in industrialized countries who are massively subsidized, de Schutter said.
"The urban poor should be helped by social safety nets, and cash-for-work or food-for-work programs, which increase their purchasing power and help them to cope with periods of higher prices,'' he said. - AP
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported in September that at least 925 million people are hungry in the world today, compared with 848 million between 2003 and 2005, said Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. Human Rights Council's independent expert on the right to food.
"But the data relates to the beginning of 2008, and since then the estimate is that at least 44 million more people have become hungry,'' he said. "So we are now closer to the billion _ and with a bit more efforts we'll arrive at the billion by next year.''
De Schutter told reporters after briefing the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee that rising prices and increasing hunger are driving the world "far away'' from achieving the U.N. goal of reducing extreme poverty by half by 2015.
"The situation of hunger in the world is alarming,'' said de Schutter, a law professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium and currently a visiting professor at Columbia University's Law School in New York.
"The prices of food commodities on international markets have been going down since they reached a peak in June 2008, when the level of real food prices was 64 percent above their levels of 2002,'' he said. "But prices on domestic markets remain at historically high levels.''
In many countries, especially developing nations that import food, he said, "the brutal increase in prices in 2007 and the first half of 2008 has left severe marks on the poorest households.''
Families have reduced the quantity of food they eat and switched to poorer diets, and they have cut back on health care and schooling, "leading to irreparable damage to the health and education of millions of children,'' de Schutter said.
But he said the food crisis has also provided governments and international agencies with the opportunity to help those who spend the largest proportion of their family budgets on food and are most in need _ small farmers, landless laborers, herdsmen, fishermen and the urban poor.
The real challenge, de Schutter said, is ensuring that increased production will raise the incomes of the poorest "rather than simply increase the quantity of agricultural commodities available for those who can pay.''
Small farmers should be helped to produce more while being protected from the consequences of volatile international prices and the risks of unfair competition from agricultural producers in industrialized countries who are massively subsidized, de Schutter said.
"The urban poor should be helped by social safety nets, and cash-for-work or food-for-work programs, which increase their purchasing power and help them to cope with periods of higher prices,'' he said. - AP
Monday, October 6, 2008
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