Articles by Preethi Nallu
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Meeting Myanmar’s Former Child Soldiers
Preethi Nallu – Al Jazeera,
13 Aug 2012
Teenagers continue to serve in both the state military and armed groups, despite new approach by country’s leaders. Myat Win, a 19-year-old former child soldier, says he was forcibly conscripted into the Myanmar military, taken off a street by a pair of policemen at the tender age of 15 and sent to an army training centre under deceitful promises, and without the knowledge of his family.
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Preethi Nallu – Al Jazeera,
25 Jun 2012
Even before the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also called Rio+20, commenced on June 20, hundreds of non-governmental groups focused on ecology, climate change and development gathered for a counter-conference that they named “The People’s Summit” – an alternative to the UN mechanisms that have yet to produce the needed results called for at the 1992 Earth Summit, which also took place in Rio.
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