Living under Sharia law for the first thirty years of her life,a virtual slave to Islamic law, Darwish never questioned or challenged her rights--or dared to even think about the validity of Sharia laws.
One of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked a torrent of outrage after releasing a song which refers to black Egyptians as monkeys. Haifa Wehbe, an award-winning Lebanese diva who has been voted one of the world's most beautiful people,
A suburban Chicago woman has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly yanking the head scarf of a Muslim woman in Tinley Park two days after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.
On October 18, 2009, Fausto OtzÃn, a Guatemalan indigenous human rights lawyer, was found badly injured in a ditch. He suffered multiple machete and stab wounds and passed away shortly after being found. He was only 32 years old and leaves behind a wife
RAMIN Pourandarjani was a brilliant medical student with a promising future, until he was found dead in a dormitory at Tehran police headquarters last week
This year 1.2 million girls and boys were victims of child trafficking. That means they were taken from their families. Sold into slavery. Forced to work 7 days a week with dangerous equipment. They endured beatings, malnutrition, and other abuse. Gi
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas.
During a stop in Shanghai on his Asia visit, the president engages in a Q & A with Chinese university students, an unusual bit of U.S.-style democracy for them.
The justices reverse an appeals court ruling, saying jurists wouldn't have been swayed by Fernando Belmontes' tough childhood. Belmontes beat a woman to death with a dumbbell to steal her stereo.
After decades of captivity and imprisonment by her trafficker, the state of California, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, human trafficking survivor Maria Suarez finally found freedom on August 11, 2009 when she was granted a long awaited US...
Amnesty International recently issued a major report Iran: the last executioner of children, As of May 2009, there were at least 137 known juvenile offenders awaiting execution in Iran.
"Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate. . ."
After decades of captivity and imprisonment by her trafficker, the state of California, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, human trafficking survivor Maria Suarez finally found freedom on August 11, 2009 when she was granted a long awaited US...
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is permissable to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not
responsible for the threatening situation" Including Children and yes
even Babies
The Truth so help me God, Allah, Buddha, the Great Spirit or whatever
you might believe in.
Why should mental illness be the only chronic ailment treated legally, not medically? Put mental illness back in the health care system were it was before Reganomics delivered 1.25 million sick people to prisons and jails at zero savings to taxpayers.
Addiction, the economy and the lure of living well have sucked many into the narcotics underworld. The trend threatens the foundations of Mexican society.
The crisis in Congo is often known as the 'forgotten conflict', yet it is a war that has killed over 5 million people. And a year after the crisis in Goma, east Congo, hit the headlines, the situation in Congo has only got worse.
The coup government of Honduras is severely repressing opposition, curtailing constitutional rights, allowing excessive police violence which could be linked to several deaths, beatings and disappearances.
We have just two days to persuade these countries to act - let's get a flood of signatures on a petition and deliver it directly to the meeting in Namibia. Sign at the link below and forward this email to anyone who ...
Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.
In the Mideast to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls Israeli offers on Jewish settlement growth 'unprecedented,' but the Palestinians insist on a freeze.
Mohammed Jawad, widely considered the prison's youngest detainee, is back home in Afghanistan after a judge ordered him freed. He is angry and confused. Many U.S. officials are unhappy he's free.
Care2 News Link: http://www.care2.com/news/member/513396753/1289391 We hope many of you can make it to Atlanta for what promises to be an engaging and inspiring weekend in the fight for human rights! The 2009 conference theme is "Dignity: All Rights for All People." You'll leave with ideas for activism to take home.
"We keep running into this," said one of the boys, Clinton Anchors, 18. Over the past year, he said, he and five other teenagers living together on the streets had taken under their wings no fewer than 20 children -- some as young as 12
World(tags: usa ) Ella - 1 day ago - guardian.co.uk
A shocking 37 million Americans live in poverty. the highest percentage in the developed world. They are found from the hills of Kentucky to Detroit's streets, from the Deep South of Louisiana to the heartland of Oklahoma. NO HEALTHCARE..HOMELESS..
At ten years old, you were probably spending most of your time playing with Barbies or Matchbox cars. Not Kimmie Weeks: He was busy trying to save his country instead. Weeks, now 26, was born in the turbulent African nation of Li
Al Qaeda and its allies remain a threat, particularly because of an increasing ability to attract recruits from Central Asia and Turkey to offset the diminishing number of Arab and Western militants.
WHICH type of H1N1 vaccine will YOU be forced to take? October 17, 2009 1:20 AM
See the photo and link below. I want to drop Care2 News Network story regarding enforced H1N1 vaccines in this space, but cyberstalkers prevented it. Go to Care2 News Network's Health section and see my news, pls. WHICH type of H1N1 Vaccine Will YOU Be Forced to Accept? http://www.care2.com/news/member/513396753/1278196
As Aung San Suu Kyi reviews Western sanctions against her country and a debate opens up about their affect on the military regime, a Washington agency has admitted that efforts to keep Burmese gems out of the US are failing...
The secretary of the Navy and former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus announced Friday that the Navy's new dry cargo ammunition ship will be named after Medgar Evers.
MUNCIE -- Without warning, a 21-year-old Indiana National Guard soldier killed himself with his brother's gun while watching Zombieland in a Muncie movie theater Monday night.
The 2009 award goes to: David Suzuki (Canada), René Ngongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Alyn Ware (New Zealand - Aotearoa), Catherine Hamlin (Ethiopia)
AUSTIN, Texas - A Texas county offered a $40,000 settlement to a 72-year-old grandmother whose Tasering by a deputy constable was captured on video and shown nationwide.
The sentences are the latest sign that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hard-line camp is intensifying efforts to block another round of anti-government rallies
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little History on Post WW II . Very informative and most people are
totally unaware of it. The Crimes are horrendous. An you thought the
Germans were a bad bunch.
Painful scenes of killings, beatings and repression against the inhabitants of Ashraf batons, axes, and trampled upon wheels Hamwe hurts the heart and conscience of every honest person should not doubt that there is a clear crime against humanity
attack by Iraqi forces -- at the behest of the Iranian regime -- upon the Iranian opposition group, the PMOI, at its headquarters in Ashraf, as a result of which 36 of its members were taken prisoner. In recent days, the situation has got far worse. Accor
The choice is seen as a nod to Brazil's status as an emerging global player. Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo are passed over in the decision to give South America its first Olympics.
Repeat drunken drivers can legally have 10 days tacked onto their jail sentence for refusing to take a breath test, a deeply divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
JAIL POLANSKI Petition!The New agenda is a non-partisan Feminsit Organization that is standing up for Women and girls around our country.Speak out for victims and tell the judicial system that Rape is a crime no matter who you are!
Within days of the United States announcing its new policy of engagement with the Burmese military junta, a top official of the Obama administration on Tuesday initiated the US-Burma dialogue process at the United Nations in New York...
The grand jury transcripts of the sex abuse case paint a far more damaging picture of the events that allegedly unfolded between the director and a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's home in 1977.
Bigotry against children at Valley Swim Club punished; Native Americans helped; Cyrus Vance for NY D.A.; Colombia, MA PD valor; movement to assist incarcerated mental patients growing!
Iran is one of the only countries in the world that still executes children and child offenders. At least 15 child offenders have been executed in Iran in the last two years. On October 16, 2008, The Government of Iran announced an end to this shameful pr
United Nations committee said Friday that use of Taser weapons can be a form of torture, in violation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture. BAN TASERS IN THE USA: SIGN PETITION!
President Robert Mugabe has accused the West of using "filthy clandestine divisive antics" to undermine Zimbabwe's power-sharing government. He again called for sanctions to be lifted, saying they were "ruining the lives of our children"...