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February 2010

Is ritual bull slaughter morally acceptable? Professor David Benatar examines a Zulu rite of passage from a Western perspective in "Cultural value cannot justify cruel slaughter," reprinted with permission from Cape Times. See also The Pig Page and Mailbag.

Does development aid alleviate poverty? Is development aid based upon flawed assumptions? Prof Solomon Benatar, BODHI's Ethical Adviser, reflects upon these and other questions in "Why development aid hasn't eased poverty," reprinted with permission from Cape Times.

BODHI has responded to a plea for help from Susanta Chakma by providing a one-off INR- 50,000 for the salary of a teacher at Bijoypur School, Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India.

From WHO Bulletin: In one of his last interviews, the late Sir John Crofton talks about his seminal research into multidrug therapy for tuberculosis patients in the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the WHO-recommended tuberculosis treatment today.

January 2010

Happy New Year, everyone!

Start the decade off right by becoming one of the "Global Voices for Peace in the CHT" (Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh). This campaign began during the week of the International Human Rights Day (10th December 2009). It aims to encourage the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to implement the CHT Peace Accord which her government signed 12 years ago with the indigenous peoples of the CHT. For more please visit our Human Rights page.

Health education progress at SNEHA School in AP, India

Last year BODHI added a health-education component to our support for this SNEHA school. Mr Susanta Chakma writes, 'With the support of BODHI, we started health education programme and provided de-worming medicines to the students. For safety and security of SNEHA, medicines were given to the students in front of the parents.

'Health education in sanitation for instance washing of hands after defecation, causes and prevention of water-borne diseases, malaria, nutrition, etc is provided to the children regularly during assembly, in classrooms, in moral science period and during school weeks. Students prepare different charts and diagrams on different health issues during school week, etc. Different health issues are also part of the syllabus of Science.'

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