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When child marriage is law of the land
Imagine a world where nine-year-old girls can't go to school but they can become wives.
As Iraq holds elections, the council of leaders have approved a draft law that would cut the age at which a woman can marry in half – to nine.
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Thirsting for water in LA LA Land
Los Angeles may be the city of Angels, but it's hot as hell these days. CNN's Christiane Amanpour explains.
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Los Angeles mayor bullish on immigration reform
By Mick Krever, CNN
Immigration reform in the United States, long forestalled, is a matter of practicality, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“This isn't about favors for anybody; this isn't about where the rules were broken or not,” he said. “This is about being practical, pragmatic and making sure that we have that workforce for tomorrow.”
Garcetti himself is the product of America’s melting pot; he is Los Angeles’ first Jewish mayor, is part-Mexican, and bilingual. At 43, Garcetti is the city’s youngest mayor in a century.
“All Americans, whether you're Latino or not Latino, have a stake in making sure the immigrants – who, again, don't just come from Latin America, but come from Asia and Europe and Canada – that they're fully integrated into our country.”
“It's been the strength of our country. It'll be the demographic growth of our country, and the economic driver of this country.”
Veteran U.S. lawmaker Carolyn McCarthy, stepping down, looks back on two decades of fighting for gun control
By Mick Krever, CNN
Is America’s National Rifle Association unbeatable?
As mass shooting after mass shooting has failed to force implementation of even the most popular gun control measures, that sentiment has almost become a truism of American politics.
For 18 years, one American congresswoman – whose own family felt the bitter reality of gun violence – has made it her mission to enact reform.
“We have come a long way from where we first started,” Carolyn McCarthy told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Monday.
“My nemesis has been the National Rifle Association. But I also see now, today, new voices speaking out.”
The NRA, which held its annual convention this weekend, seems to be racking up victory after victory. In Georgia, a new law allows weapons in schools, churches, libraries, airports and even bars.
But gun control advocates have quietly been winning cases against the NRA, McCarthy said – cases that don’t make the news.
“The message has always been that we’re trying to take away everyone’s right to own a gun. We’re not. Never have been. It’s gun violence, gun safety that we’re trying to do.”
China not the target of Philippines security agreement with U.S., says ambassador
By Mick Krever, CNN
A new 10-year military agreement between the United States and the Philippines was “not designed” to counter China, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Cuisia told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed the deal during the last stop of his four-nation tour of Asia. It will allow America a greater military presence in the Philippines, a former American colony and long-time ally.
Ambassador Cuisia spoke with Amanpour having just departed a banquet with the American President and Philippine President Benigno Aquino.
Like Japan, another stop on Obama’s tour, the Philippines has territorial disputes with China.
“It will certainly strengthen the defense and security alliance between the United States and the Philippines,” Ambassador Cuisia said.
China, unvisited, looms large over Obama trip
By Mick Krever, CNN
Sometimes, where you don’t go says as much as where you do.
At the end of his week-long, four-nation tour of Asia, the country that U.S. President Barack Obama didn’t visit looms largest: China.
“Our goal is not to counter China, our goal is not to contain China,” President Obama said after signing a security agreement with Philippine President Benigno Aquino. “Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are respected.”
The message is indicative of the tightrope he has had to walk over the course of his visit: reassure allies, but don’t frighten China.
“I think he and his entire administration have been striking a very good balance,” says Gary Locke, who until two months ago was a member of that very administration as U.S. ambassador to China.
“Just in the last several weeks and months there have been numerous high-level visits by top administration officials” to China, he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview.
Two Tutus preach forgiveness
By Mick Krever, CNN
Forgiveness: It was the Rainbow Nation's first miracle.
When South Africa emerged from apartheid twenty years ago, it was deeply scarred by decades of institutionalized racism, bigotry, and violence.
Vengeance would have been a natural desire.
But President Nelson Mandela had another idea: truth and reconciliation. Put the past out in the open, but forgive.
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He chose Desmond Tutu, the Archbishop of Cape Town, to lead that effort.
Now, Tutu is taking his campaign for forgiveness to the internet - and the world. He is one of the world's undisputed heavyweight human rights champions, and he has never feared speaking truth to power.
He and his daughter, an Anglican priest, are launching an initiative to try another way of healing divisions – from personal grudges to global struggles.
How Japan’s prime minister is shaking things up
By Mick Krever, CNN
Japan’s waters are full of riptides, but the country’s prime minister isn’t opposed to taking a dip.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday, the first stop on his high-stakes tour to four key American allies in Asia.
Notably absent from his list of destinations is China, whose huge economic growth, and the influence that comes with it, looms large over the region.
President Obama has reiterated his commitment to America’s security agreement with Japan, albeit while sticking as much as possible to dry, diplomatic language.
“Territories under the administration of Japan are covered under the treaty,” he said. “There's no shift in position, no red line; we're simply applying the treaty.”
If there’s apprehension in that statement, it is because Japan’s conservative Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has upended the commitment to pacifism that has defined post-World War II Japan.
Among Prime Minister Abe’s affronts, according to his detractors: Visiting a memorial to Japanese war dead, among whom are convicted war criminals; refusing to apologize for Japan’s use of sex slaves in wartime China and South Korea; and a commitment to rewrite Japan’s constitution, which places great limits on the country’s military.
The world's largest democratic election
The man who may be India's next prime minister, Narendra Modi, is insisting he wants to be a leader for all Indians, not just the Hindu majority.
The latest reassurances come amid concern over his ties to Hindu nationalists, and anti-Muslim comments made by some in the group over the past few days.
But despite these concerns, the election momentum is still in Modi's favor.
Why newest nation could become the bloodiest
By Mick Krever, CNN
Fears of all-out civil war in the world’s newest country, South Sudan, are at an all-time high a week after rebels slaughtered at least 400 people in the town of Bentiu.
“This is the newest country in the world, and it threatens to become one of the bloodiest countries in the world,” David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, told CNN’s Paula Newton on Wednesday.
A scant three years ago, the country was full of jubilation as it celebrated its independence from Sudan after an internationally brokered referendum.
That changed last year, when the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, accused his former vice president of planning a coup; Riek Machar is now the president’s nemesis and a rebel leader.
Conflict between rival groups broke out in December, as a political power struggle erupted into violence. More than a million have fled their homes in what was already, one of the world's poorest nations.
“It’s large-scale, it’s random, and it is afflicting the whole country,” Miliband said. “The danger of genocidal killings is very real.”
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