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QuéBec's Student Strike Turning Into a Citizens' Revolt
World  (tags: Canada, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, freedoms, government, media, news, politics, society )

Kit
- 4 hours ago - truth-out.org
On May 22, nearly half a million people marched in the streets of Montreal in defiance of a recently adopted law denying protester's civil liberties, namely the right to protest, freedom of association and of expression.
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Egypt Election: Rivals Claim Run-Off Place
World  (tags: world, politics, Egypt, elections, society, news, middle-east, humanrights, conflict, government )

Cal
- 15 hours ago - bbc.co.uk
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egyptian president, Mohammed Mursi, is likely to face former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq in a run-off vote, according to partial election results.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Congress: Renew the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act
World  (tags: BURMA, burma, myanmar, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, HumanRights, government, freedoms, conflict, society, world, news, asia )

Cal
- 1 day ago - secure3.convio.net
While Burma has taken some important steps toward democracy, its military continues to commit widespread human rights abuses -- particularly in Burma's ethnic states. We must encourage forward momentum but we cannot reward violent regimes -- we need to send
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AUSTRALIA: Policy Driving Indigenous From Lands: Amnesty
World  (tags: politics, Refugees&Relief, world, aborigines, australia, government, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, freedoms, society )

Cal
- 2 days ago - abc.net.au
Amnesty International has issued a scathing assessment of Australia's policies on Indigenous affairs and refugees in its latest report on human rights around the world.
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World Powers to Hold Nuclear Talks With Iran in Baghdad
World  (tags: world, politics, news, iran, nuclear disarmament, conflict, usa )

Cal
- 3 days ago - cnn.com
- Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad on Wednesday about Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
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Europe's Leaders Double Down on a Failed Strategy -- Paul Krugman
World  (tags: Austerity, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', economic policy, European Union, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, freedoms, government )

Kit
- 3 days ago - truth-out.org
I guess we knew this was coming, but in the face of the French and Greek election results and the broader evidence that Europe's economic strategy is an utter failure, the usual suspects are, you guessed it, doubling down.
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Syrian Rebels Cling to Bullets and Hope
World  (tags: world, politics, middle-east, news, violence, Syria, UnitedNations, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, conflict, media, government, death, crime, death, HumanRights, humanrights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', society, conflict )

Cal
- 4 days ago - guardian.co.uk
While the west looks elsewhere, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is exploiting sectarian divisions
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Iran Committed to Full Annihilation of Israel.
World  (tags: Iranian threats, violence, middle-east, conflict )

Stan
- 4 days ago - dailycaller.com
Iran is dedicated to annihilating Israel, the Islamic regime's military chief of staff declared Sunday. "The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel," Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said.
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Israel PM: Illegal African Immigrants Threaten Identity of Jewish State
World  (tags: world, politics, israel, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', society, news, Refugees&Relief )

Cal
- 4 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The Israeli prime minister has stoked a volatile debate about refugees and migrant workers from Africa, warning that "illegal infiltrators flooding the country" were threatening the security and identity of the Jewish state.
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Exposed: In Brazil, World's 'Most Threatened Tribe' Outnumbered 10:1 By Invaders
World  (tags: world, politics, news, Brazil, native rights, uncontacted tribes, cultural genocide, government, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', HumanRights, humanrights, freedoms, conflict, society )

Cal
- 9 days ago - survivalinternational.org
Survival International has learned that a government survey estimates there could be up to 4,500 invaders - ranchers, loggers and settlers - now occupying just one of the four territories inhabited by the Awá tribe, whose total population stands at no mor
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America's Increasing Support for Syria's Rebels: 5 Takeaways
World  (tags: world, politics, society, middle-east, israel, Syria, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, government, news, violence, interesting, conflict )

Cal
- 9 days ago - theweek.com
With a U.N.-backed peace plan in tatters, America gingerly cooperates with opposition forces fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad
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Peace Now   video
World  (tags: APN, peace, Mandy Patinkin, Israel, world, conflict )

Nancy
- 9 days ago - youtube.com
APN Board Member Mandy Patinkin, addressing Peace Now's conference in Tel Aviv
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ACTION! Ethiopia: Stop Land Grabbing and Restore Indigenous Peoples' Lands!
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, ethiopia, corruption, Indigenous, conflict, government, politics )

K. J.
- 10 days ago - culturalsurvival.org
Ethiopia's policies are deliberately making some of its citizens poorer and hungrier. The government is forcing the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest off their ancestral lands and leasing these lands to foreign companies.
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Syria Violence Spills Into Streets of Lebanon's Tripoli
World  (tags: world, middle-east, violence, politics, Syria, Lebnaon, ethnic clashes, war, news, conflict, government, death, humanrights, humans )

Cal
- 11 days ago - photoblog.msnbc.msn.com
Street battles pitting Lebanese Sunnis who generally support the Syrian uprising, against Alawite supporters of Assad's regime killed at least one person Monday, raising the death toll to four since Sunday. The clashes began Sunday after authorities detai
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Recovering From the Arab Spring, at a Price
World  (tags: world, politics, LIbya, Jordan, middle-east, healthcare, Arab Spring, recovery, freedoms, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!' )

Cal
- 12 days ago - ipsnews.net
- The Arab Spring sent scores of sick and injured Libyans, fleeing their war- torn country, straight to Jordan, where the influx of patients is putting a lot of pressure on Jordanian hospitals and disrupting the lives of Libyan and Jordanian patients ali
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