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The military and the political solutions go hand in hand -- a two-pronged attack on the ethnic problem.
CNN: 'It Is a Very Critical Time'
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Priyath Liyanage of the BBC's Sinhala service says the handing of the defence post to Tilak Marapone, a former attorney general and not a military man may indicate the new government's willingness to take a non-aggressive approach towards the ethnic problem which has ruined the economy.
BBC: Sri Lanka cabinet finally sworn in
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One problem is that their ethnic composition is skewed: there are few Pushtuns in the police, leaving locals distrustful.
ECONOMIST: The battle for hearts and minds in eastern Afghanistan
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" A 2009 American Civil Liberties Union report called racial and ethnic profiling "a widespread and pervasive problem throughout the United States, impacting the lives of millions of people in African-American, Asian, Latino, South Asian and Arab communities.
CNN: Helpless as my son, 13, was profiled, cuffed
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The problem is that the sense of meaningful ethnic identity is evaporating, along with the passion that used to fuel Irish-American pilgrimages to the homeland, and so North American visits to Ireland are falling, falling.
FORBES: 70 Million Irish Please Come Home (Briefly): But Don't Mind Our In-Fighting
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Dropping out remains a serious problem at the secondary level, especially among racial and ethnic minorities.
UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section
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And often this problem is further complicated by issues of tribal rivalries and ethnic problems between various areas.
NPR: Afghanistan Update: New Offensive Targets Taliban
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Dropping out remains a problem at the high school level, especially among students from racial and ethnic minorities and low-income families.
UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section
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These four principles illustrate that the concept of sustainable development in the Earth Charter embraces the view that the problems of poverty, environmental degradation, ethnic and religious conflict, and social injustice are all interdependent, and that policies that address one problem can impact and improve other issues.
UNESCO: Understanding sustainable development
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The problem with the state of Israel and the Zionist lobby is that they never acknowledge the crime of ethnic cleansing on which the state was founded.
BBC: Stephen Pollard: Sunday Times cartoon was 'disgusting'