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World News tagged with Human rights

Sexual Abuse Prompts Senegalese Legal Reforms
World  (tags: Senegal, Rape, violence, AIDS disease, abuse, woman, school girls, human rights, conflict, crime )

Dee
- 8 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Growing numbers of girls in Senegal are being raped, with abuse often happening while they are at school. "I wanted to be a lawyer, that was my dream," says a young Senegalese girl, smiling.
22 comments
Ethical? Tetley's Tata Tea Starving Indian Tea Workers Into Submission -- TAKE ACTION!
World  (tags: Human Rights, Tata/Tetley_Tea, India, starvation, corporate_abuse )

Just
- 35 days ago - iuf.org
"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. . ."
53 comments
TELL YOUR SENATORS Upgrade Aid to Fight World Hunger & Poverty TAKE ACTION!!!
World  (tags: US, Senate, Senate Bill, bipartisan, congress, world hunger, world poverty, Senate Bill S.1524, petitions, human rights, humans, hunger relief, poverty help, Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Ac, sponsor John Kerry )

Kristmas
- 52 days ago - one.org
Please use this site to help send a email to your US Senators urging them to help support S. 1524 - USAID fighting world hunger & poverty! TAKE ACTION!!!
12 comments
The Kayapó Nation: Protectors of the Amazon (Video)
World  (tags: Brazil, Kayapó Nation, Human Rights, Amazon Rainforest, Sustainability, Conservation )

Ben
- 59 days ago - conservation.org
Because deforestation is one of the leading causes of climate change, not only does this loss threaten the survival of many indigenous communities such as the Kayapó, it impacts people the world over. Often called the "lungs of the earth"...
5 comments
Right Livelihood Award 2009
World  (tags: Right Livelihood Award, Human Rights, Peace, Democracy, Sustainability, Agroforestry )

Ben
- 64 days ago - rightlivelihood.org
The 2009 award goes to: David Suzuki (Canada), René Ngongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Alyn Ware (New Zealand - Aotearoa), Catherine Hamlin (Ethiopia)
6 comments
Somali Militants Execute 'Spies'
World  (tags: Somalia, militants, violence, executions, government, freedoms, death, human rights )

Dee
- 80 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Islamist militants in Somalia have executed two people they accused of spying for foreign organizations.
6 comments
Sudan's Darfur Hit By New Clashes
World  (tags: government, Darfur, Sudanese soldiers, rebels, conflict, war, violence, death, Human Rights, politics, corruption, humanitarian, security )

Dee
- 87 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Sudanese soldiers have been fighting with rebels in the Darfur region in recent days, the army has confirmed.
2 comments
Australian Dies After Court Win
World  (tags: government, Australian, Right to die, death, chest infection, Human Rights )

Dee
- 87 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
An Australian quadriplegic, who last month won a landmark legal right to starve to death, has died.
3 comments
Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid's Legacy
World  (tags: South Africa, government, education system, teachers, Post-apartheid, students, human rights, education, jobs, dreams )

Dee
- 88 days ago - nytimes.com
KHAYELITSHA, South Africa-Seniors here at Kwamfundo high school sang freedom songs and protested outside the staff room last year because their accounting teacher chronically failed to show up for class.
9 comments
New Protests in Western China
World  (tags: China, Uighurs, Human Rights )

Ben
- 104 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
There have been fresh protests in western China's Xinjiang region, where almost 200 people were killed in ethnic violence in July.
2 comments
Save Darfur | Don't Forget Darfur Photo Petition
World  (tags: darfur, action, human rights, crime, Refugees, petition )

Jelica
- 105 days ago - savedarfur.org
Our Darfur/Darfur exhibit will bring the people of Darfur face to face with world leaders. Now is your chance to go face to face with them as well. Will you add your picture to our "Don't Forget Darfur" photo petition? Your photos will create a mosaic tha
6 comments
Child Divorcee Struggles With Fallout
World  (tags: world, Yemen, religion, government, society, culture, child brides, freedoms, human rights )

Dee
- 106 days ago - inthefield.blogs.cnn.com
Looking back at my first impression of Nujood Ali and her incredible act of defiance, I was very naive.
6 comments
Reporters Describe N Korea Ordeal
World  (tags: government, N. Korea, journalists, human rights, conflict, freedoms )

Dee
- 106 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Two US journalists jailed for illegally entering North Korea have described their ordeal for the first time. The journalists spent four and a half months in detention in North Korea.
2 comments
PETITION - Can You Help Barayuwa Mununggurr to Secure the Future of 600 Indigenous Australian Vibrant Homelands? + Video
World  (tags: Australian Aboriginals, Land Rights, Human Rights, Civil Liberties, conflict, Dreamtime, Preservation of the past, freedoms, ethics )

David
- 106 days ago - getup.org.au
"Next week we are meeting with the Government to look at ways in which we can work together in partnership for our future in our Homelands. When we walk into meetings at Parliament House, it would make us so confident to have you with us in spirit".
49 comments
Malawi Child Tobacco Pickers Being Poisoned
World  (tags: child labour, tobacco, human rights, children )

Karen
- 114 days ago - cbc.ca
Child labourers who pick tobacco in Malawi are being poisoned by absorbing up to two cigarette packs' worth of nicotine each day, a children's rights organization said Monday in London.
6 comments
 
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