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Human Rights Petition: Ecuador's Fake "Clinics" That Torture LGBT in Order to "Cure" Them
World  (tags: LGBT, bigotry, hate, torture, discrimination, petition, gay rights, prison, abuse, starvation, sexual abuse, shackled )

Thubten
- 208 days ago - change.org
Escaping patients report cases of physical and psychological abuse incl. threats, shackling, days without food, sexual abuse, and physical torture. Paula Ziritti, 24, spend 2yrs in one such facility, 3 months was shackled while guards threw urine on her.
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UZBEKISTAN: Forced Child Labour Kills
World  (tags: world, abuse, Uzbekistan, child abuse, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', death, children, politics, humanrights, freedoms, ethics, asia )

Cal
- 220 days ago - ipsnews.net
A 13-year-old boy has become the latest victim of state-sponsored forced child labour in Uzbekistan as its regime continues to ignore boycotts and international condemnation of its practices during the country's annual cotton harvest.
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Child Bride's Secret Court Bid to Escape Wedding
World  (tags: world, Australia, child brides, crime, abuse )

Rose
- 237 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au
A Sydney teenager has been placed on the airport watch list after she launched secret court action to stop her parents taking her to Lebanon for an arranged marriage.
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Child Marriage: Eleven-Year-Old Girl Bartered Off to Satiate Father's Lust
World  (tags: children, girls, abuse, child brides )

Rose
- 238 days ago - tribune.com.pk
SUKKUR: In a woman's complaint cell, barefooted, but decked up like a bride, 11-year-old Nadia told The Express Tribune of how her father had bartered her off in 'marriage' to a boy almost twice her age.
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ACTION ALERT: Enforce International Laws On Cocoa Industry To End Child Slavery And Trafficking! PLEASE SIGN !
World  (tags: west africa, slavery, child trafficking, cocoa planations, violence, abuse, laws, protection )

Simone
- 239 days ago - forcechange.com
It is difficult to imagine that the delicacy of chocolate has caused such anguish to the lives of children in West Africa. More than ten years ago the Cocoa Protocol was created with the ultimate goal of ending child labor, slavery and trafficking.
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'Desmond Tutu: Child Marriage 'One of the Critical Issues of Our Time'
World  (tags: child brides Desmond Tutu, abuse )

Rose
- 243 days ago - soschildrensvillages.ca
An estimated 10 million girls worldwide are married each year before they are 18, and in poor countries one in seven girls are married before they are 15. According to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, they are still children. Child
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Stop Human Trafficking Now... Take Action...
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', children, corruption, crime, death, ethics, europe, freedoms, humans, asia, usa, society, Rape, Abuse, Drugs, Gang rape, Beatings, Abducted )

James
- 262 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Human Trafficking, The Sex Slave Trade, these are real things in our times, the slave trade is not gone its NOT over its worse now than it ever was and that is a fact.
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Peace at What Price?: U.N. Sex Crimes in Congo - ABC News
World  (tags: un, congo, corruption, conflict, humanrights, lies, abuse )

Judith
- 334 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Widespread allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse of Congolese women, boys and girls have been made against U.N. personnel who were sent to help and protect them--despite a so-called zero tolerance policy touted by the United nations toward such
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He Was 14 Yrs. 6mos. and 5 Days Old --- and the Youngest Person Executed in the United States in the 20th Century | Flickr : Pa
World  (tags: USA South Carolina, death penalty, Human Rights Violations, children, abuse, black americans, crime, history )

Laurence
- 437 days ago - flickr.com
In a South Carolina prison sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn't fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
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Don't Call It Vegetarian, It Is 'Meat Free'
World  (tags: abuse, animalrights, ethics, goodnews, protection, society, suffering )

Mathew
- 489 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Research by Mintel finds that the number who agree with the statement 'I eat meat-free foods' is about 60 per cent in the Uk.
153 comments
Afghan Women Speak Out on Abuse From Behind Mask! Video!
World  (tags: humans, women, Afghanistan, violence, protection, abuse )

Cher
- 507 days ago - cnn.com
TV show in Afghanistan focuses on abuse.
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WEST BANK: Poll Finds Palestinians Afraid to Criticize Authority
World  (tags: world, middle-east, news, palestine, politics, abuse, society, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, ethics, government, corruption, terrorism, news, humans )

Cal
- 522 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
This fear comes from the general feeling of the Palestinian public in the West Bank and Gaza of becoming increasingly ruled by a police state by Palestinian local authorities, i.e., by Fatah and Hamas respectively.
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David Cameron: Waterboarding Does Not Save Lives | Bush Confesses to Torture in New Book
World  (tags: Torture, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', Bush confesses. war, crime, conflict, ethics, freedoms, government, HumanRights, humanrights, humans, iraq, news, politics, world, usa, violence, terrorism, society, bush, bushadministration, abuse, cheney, congress, corruption )

John
- 526 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
"Look, I think torture is wrong and I think we ought to be very clear about that," Mr Cameron said. "And I think we should also be clear that if actually you're getting information from torture, it's very likely to be unreliable information."
36 comments
WikiLeaks Threat Sparks Massive Review of Diplomatic Documents | 3 Videos
World  (tags: u.s., usa, war, abuse, americans, bushadministration, cheney, congress, constitution, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, elections, ethics, government, Govtfearmongering, lies, iraq, military, news, politics, propaganda, terrorism, troops, violence, war, world )

John
- 546 days ago - edition.cnn.com
The military has charged Pfc. Bradley Manning with leaking videos to WikiLeaks, as well as downloading documents from military computers while he served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. Among the documents he is alleged to have taken are 150,000 diplo
9 comments
Iraqis Claim British Abused Them, Demand Probe
World  (tags: ethics, world, iraq, British troops, torture, abuse, freedoms, crime, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', politics, humanrights, war, news )

Cal
- 564 days ago - cnn.com
Scores of Iraqis who claim they were abused by British troops are demanding an independent inquiry into their treatment, via a lawsuit against the British government this week.
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