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World News tagged with 'HUMANRIGHTS!'

Time to Take a Stand for Refugees
World  (tags: world, Refugees&Relief, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, interesting, asia )

Cal
- 1 day ago - greenleft.org.au
On November 15, Indonesian authorities said they had shot and wounded two Afghan refugees they said were trying to escape after their boat was intercepted three days earlier.
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Afghans Say Poverty, Not Taliban, Main Cause of War
World  (tags: world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', politics, Afghanistan, freedoms, conflict, news, society, war, violence, government, interesting )

Cal
- 2 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Most Afghans see not Taliban militants but poverty, unemployment and government corruption as the main causes of war in their country, according to a report by a leading aid group released on Wednesday
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New Prison at Bagram Points to Shift in Approach
World  (tags: world, asia, Afghanistan, usa, war, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 3 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Detention Facility at Parwan Will Replace Notorious Bagram Prison
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Obama Says Washington Not Trying to Contain China
World  (tags: diplomacy, usa, china, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', news, world, interesting )

Cal
- 4 days ago - reuters.com
U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese students on Monday he did not fear their nation's rise, ahead of talks on trade imbalances and currency strains that underline the sometimes tense embrace between the two giants
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Act By November 18th - President Obama, Please Discuss Darfur While in China
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, conflict, freedoms, government, HumanRights, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, Refugees&Relief, violence, war, Darfur, Sudan )

Gillian
- 5 days ago - thehungersite.com
We have an opportunity to make sure the genocide that continues in Darfur (a western province of Sudan) is top-of-mind during President Obama's upcoming trip to China. China is Sudan's largest trading partner and most important international backer.
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UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars"*
World  (tags: world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', politics )

Cal
- 5 days ago - ipsnews.net
Controversy has surrounded the reforestation project in the park which is jointly run by the Netherlands-based FACE Foundation and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and was started with a view to generating carbon credits.
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China Criticized Over Alleged 'Black Jails'
World  (tags: humanrights, china, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', interesting, government, terrorism, politics, world )

Cal
- 6 days ago - cnn.com
Chinese authorities should abolish secret jails used to unlawfully detain citizens who travel to the capital and other major cities to file complaints, Human Rights Watch says.
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President Obama: Stand Up for Tibet!- Please Take Action !!
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', freedoms, government, china, tibet )

Tierney
- 8 days ago - actionnetwork.org
U.S. President Obama will make his first presidential visit to China on November 15th. This visit presents a critical opportunity for him to take bold and concrete action towards a just and lasting resolution for the Tibetan people.
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Iran Charges Three Detained Americans With Spying
World  (tags: ethics, iran, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', middle-east, news, world )

Cal
- 9 days ago - reuters.com
Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a prosecutor as saying on Monday, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there was no evidence to back the charges.
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Mr. Netanyahu, Tear Down This Wall!
World  (tags: israel, palestine, the apartheid wall, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, crime, death, terrorism, violence, war, humans, children, freedoms, politics, society, corruption, war, violence, terrorism, world, death, crime, israel, ETHICS? )

David
- 10 days ago - justforeignpolicy.org
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall..."Their paeans to universal freedom ring hollow, when they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank".
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BAN ZIMBABWE BLOOD DIAMONDS- Please Take Action !!
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, death, corruption, violence )

Tierney
- 16 days ago - avaaz.org
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has sent his brutal army to seize control of his country's diamond fields. 200 civilians have been murdered and profits from our wedding rings are used to fuel violent political conflict
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Tamil Refugees -- Escaping From Hell
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, asia, Sri Lanka, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', world, politics )

Cal
- 17 days ago - greenleft.org.au
While two boat loads of Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka push their case to be admitted into Australia, two reports on Sri Lankan atrocities against Tamils have been released without a word from the Australian media or government.
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Lying to Kids Is the First Lesson of Politics
World  (tags: politics, lies, crime, corruption, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, freedoms, ethics )

David
- 19 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
The government's lies about drugs have one big upside: they teach our children to be suspicious of power. Lying to everyone is what politics is all about, that's the lesson we have all been learning in recent times. Leaders, no. Misleaders, yes.
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Honduran Rivals Agree a Deal to End Crisis
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', GoodNews, politics, world, freedoms )

Cal
- 20 days ago - reuters.com
Honduras' de facto government has accepted a U.S.-driven deal that opens the door for the return to power of President Manuel Zelaya, toppled in a military coup four months ago.
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IRAN: Grim Fates for Prisoners With Ties to Foreigners
World  (tags: iran, politics, repression, freedoms, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', corruption, world, humanrights )

Cal
- 21 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
No mercy for those accused of trying to topple the Islamic Republic. Britain on Thursday protested a four-year jail sentence apparently imposed on one of its senior employees at its embassy in Tehran accused of spying and fomenting violence
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