The meetings are strictly confidential, and attendees are understandably sheepish about sharing their plights.

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Plastiki has been an excellent focal point for the world's audience to learn more about the ocean and its plights.

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The plights of wild African elephants, gunned down for their ivory, and domesticated Asian elephants, made redundant by powered machinery, are well known.

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She is optimistic that the "Stand Up For Afican Mothers" campaign will create much needed awareness of the plights of the people she's helping.

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As she battles with depression, Noch Noch is on a quest to be the wake-up call for others in similar plights in her blog, Be Me.

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And moreover, he would be very outspoken about how some Americans treat immigrants, and our inability to see their plights as great civil rights issues of our time.

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However, the social, political and economic plights facing Romania at this time had a direct impact on her rugby, particularly given the strong links between sporting teams and the military in the country.

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But he came in for criticism after 11 September 2001, when he said the attacks on New York were "blown out of proportion" and people should be more worried about the plights of whales and elephants.

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