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1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds »
Posted by: gamahuche 6 months, 1 week ago in News
An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay ...
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US to fight 'anti-Israeli crap' at UN »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The US envoy to the United Nations says that Washington has a duty to fight the growing anti-Israeli sentiments in the world.
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The segregation of Roma children in schools in the Czech Republic - Open Society Institute »
Posted by: gamahuche 2 weeks ago in Political News
In the Czech city of Ostrava, Roma children were 27 times more likely to be placed in "special schools" for the mentally disabled than non-Roma ...
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Bush Calls Torture "an Affront to Human Dignity Everywhere", June 26, 2003 »
Posted by: dissent 7 months ago in News
Today, on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United States declares its strong solidarity with torture victims across the ...
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It's not just Afghanistan: it's everywhere from Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan. »
Posted by: dissent 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Central Asia has oil and gas.
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And heroin.
Journalist Simon Reeve said of his trip to the Stans, such as Uzbekistan:
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Coups Arranged or Backed by the USA »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Since 1945, the USA has been responsible either directly or indirectly of helping remove dozens of governments, many democratically elected, around the world. Sometimes the ...
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Privatising Water is Denying People a Human Right: UN »
Posted by: dissent 8 months, 1 week ago in News
The President of the United Nations General Assembly has told delegates at the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul, Turkey, that, "those who are ...
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UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims |
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The Guardian »Posted by: dissent 5 months ago in News
The UN has held an unprecedented public hearing in Gaza to broadcast live witness accounts from Palestinians who described seeing their relatives killed and injured ...
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Obama's deafening silence on Honduras »
Posted by: dissent 3 months ago in Political Opinion
Seven weeks after the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras, the divide between the United States and Latin America continues to grow ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN Gaza inquiry 'to proceed despite Israel' »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 1 week ago in News
A UN inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza will go ahead even if Israel does not co-operate, says Richard Goldstone, who leads the inquiry ...
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Signs of worsening malnutrition among Gazan children »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 1 week ago in News
Rising poverty, unemployment and food insecurity in Gaza, compounded by the recent 23-day Israeli offensive, have increased the threat of child malnutrition, say UN agencies ...
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Obama Honors Anti-Mugabe Activists »
Posted by: newsguy2005 1 day, 20 hours ago in Political News
Barack Obama bestowed the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award on a Zimbabwean activist Monday, calling the country's leader Robert Mugabe a dictator in ...
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UN questions Israelis on Palestinian torture allegations - Haaretz - Israel News »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
United Nations human rights experts questioned Israeli officials on Tuesday about hundreds of allegations of torture of Palestinian detainees by security forces, which they said ...
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Slumdog Child Sale »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 1 week ago in News
Indian police in Mumbai are probing accusations that the father of a child star of the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" tried to sell his daughter ...
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Right Winger Argues Against Food as a Basic Human Right »
Posted by: capj71 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
On MSNBC this afternoon, Firedoglake’s Jane Hamsher, and Townhall’s Jillian Bandes were engaged in the standard lefty/righty blogger cable news debate on ...
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