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Outlook: 30/06/2011

30/06/2011

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The Indonesian mother whose baby was put up for sale because she couldn't pay the midwife

The Indonesian mother whose newborn baby was put up for sale because she couldn't pay the midwife.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.

Today, Robin Lim, the midwife in Indonesia who's fighting the hospitals that take babies hostage when their mothers can't pay the bills. 

Also, Wangu Kanja from Kenya on how her ordeal being car-jacked, held hostage and raped convinced her to do something to change attitudes towards rape victims in Kenya. 

And, Parameswaran Subramanyama a Tamil hunger-striker on his court battle against the British newspapers that accused him of secretly eating during his fast.

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