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World News tagged with cruelty

Sgn Petition: Call on Nepal's Prime Minister to Provide Justice for Maina Sunuwar
World  (tags: world, amnesty, international, nepal, justice, Maina Sunuwar, torture, crime, death, cruelty, violence, HumanRights, freedoms, government, corruption, children, electric, shocks, drowning )

Tom
- 104 days ago - amnesty.org
In 2004, the Nepal Army took 15 year-old Maina Sunuwar from her home and repeatedly pushed her head under water and applied electric shocks to her wet hands and feet. She died after an hour and a half of torture. They buried her body in a secret grave.
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Sign Petition: Support Sudanese Woman's Rights - Lubna Hussien
World  (tags: world, violence, public, order, police, journalist, Lubna, Hussien, trousers, flogging, lashes, women's, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty, law, bashir, war, criminal, icc, darfur, crime, Khartoum )

Tom
- 104 days ago - iamlubna.com.venus.dnstemplate.com
This is Lubna's petition to eliminate article 152 from Sudan's criminal law. Article 152 has been implemented in Sudan since 1991. It stipulates that any conduct or clothes in violation of public decency should be punished with 40 lashes or bail or both.
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Sign Petition: End Domestic Violence in the Muslim World
World  (tags: world, middle-east, sharia, law, africa, muslim, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, girls, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 105 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Assaults on women and young girls, especially domestic violence, acid attacks, honor killings, FGM and forced marriage that have become a growing problem in some Muslim countries, are barbaric, inhumane and completely contrary to Islamic teachings.
26 comments
Sign Petition: International Coalition for Women's Rights
World  (tags: society, culture, world, muslim, sharia, law, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, children, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 105 days ago - petitiononline.com
Sharia law deems a woman unequal and subordinate to her husband. Under Sharia, women's testimony is worth half that of men's, women have limited rights to divorce and child custody and women can be executed for apostasy or stoned to death for adultery.
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Pakistan Moves to Outlaw Domestic Violence
World  (tags: world, middle-east, pakistan, muslim, domestic, violence, humiliation, beatings, mutilation, flogging, rape, honor, killing, stoning, acid, attacks, FGM, lashes, women, girls, human, rights, freedom, abuse, cruelty )

Tom
- 105 days ago - google.com
Pakistan moved towards outlawing domestic violence when lawmakers approved a bill Tuesday that will punish those found guilty of beating women or children with jail terms and fines. The law, passed unanimously, was called a "big day" for Pakistani women.
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Sign Petition: Free US Journalists Euna Lee & Laura Ling
World  (tags: world, North, Korea, US, journalists, human, rights, freedom, women, government, crime, prison, justice, abuse, cruelty, trafficking, china, reporters, media, conflict )

Tom
- 163 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We call on the Government of North Korea to release Euna and Laura on humanitarian grounds. These women are wives, mothers, daughters, sisters; they are missed by their families and friends, who would like to see them safe and back at home.
14 comments
Get This Slideshow Here Shooting and Crying - Nothing New Since 1948... Or Is It?
World  (tags: palestine, israel, genocidewar crimes, cruelty )

Eleanor
- 228 days ago - palestinethinktank.com
With amazement the world public has noticed in recent weeks that war crimes had apparently been committed in Gaza. (1) Even Israeli soldiers and military staff now report about their own cruelties against the Palestinian population,......
2 comments
Sign Petition: Save Women Now From Oppression and Violence
World  (tags: World, America, Middle-East, government, Islam, Law, Sharia, Arab, Muslim, Women, beatings, stoning, lashes, executions, violence, cruelty, honor killings, beheading, sad )

Tom
- 257 days ago - petitiononline.com
Women are oppressed, beaten, murdered in America and around the world in the name of Islamic supremacism. We call upon the leaders of the world to take responsibility to SAVE WOMEN NOW from this cruel, vicious, and deadly ideology.
15 comments
Islamic Honor Killings Take Center Stage On International Women's Day
World  (tags: World, America, Middle-East, government, Islam, Law, Sharia, Arab, Muslim, Women, beatings, stoning, lashes, executions, violence, cruelty, honor killings, sad )

Tom
- 257 days ago - worldnetdaily.com
It's not enough for Americans to adopt "resolutions" opposing violence when Islamic girls are stoned for being victims of gang-rapes. Such violence has moved into the United States, with beatings and murders, including a recent beheading, documented.
14 comments
Sign Petition: Stop Cruel Fur Farming in China and Worldwide
World  (tags: world, china, animal, cruelty, fur, farming, bears, dogs, cats, pets, death, suffering )

Tom
- 258 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
This petition will be sent to the U.S. Ambassador to China and the Chinese Minister of Commerce to help get new legislation against the cruelty of fur farms in China and around the world. Thank you for taking your time to sign.
33 comments
Sudan's President Bashir Charged With War Crimes
World  (tags: world, humanrights, sudan, darfur, rape, murder, genocide, torture, extermination, pillage, cruelty, war, violence, terrorism, Refugees&Relief, conflict, death, crime, ICC, Hague )

Tom
- 261 days ago - latimes.com
ICC Judges find Bashir "intentionally directed attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians and pillaging their property."
7 comments
Desperate Plight of Nepal 'Slave Girls'
World  (tags: world, children, slavery, girls, orphans, poverty, rape, cruelty, money, education, human rights, freedom, nepal )

Tom
- 261 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In the undergrowth, 13-year-old Junu Shrestha hacks away to gather fodder for her landlady's cattle. When she has collected a pile bigger than herself, she hoists it on her back and fixes it with a headband. She trudges back to the house, 20 minutes away.
6 comments
James Schuler Abuses Dog - Gets Away With It Because It Is Legal!
World  (tags: cruelty, animal abuse, legal loopholes, usa, abuse, corruption, suffering, pepie )

Eureka
- 314 days ago - animalsave.info
Owner, James Schuler, of 214 Temple St, Dunkirk, NY 14048-1422, (716) 366-1493 refuses all offers of help. Chautauqua County Humane Society, says horror of her life is legal. Dunkirk is hiding behind an inadequate law. Visit site, lots you can do! ACT!!
96 comments
Taxi to the Dark Side   video
World  (tags: Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, torture, prisoners, war, docmentary, cruelty, courts-martial, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush )

RC
- 392 days ago - video.google.com
British documentary that examines the disgrace and inhumanity of torture that was administered to detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo, with tacit approval of the Bush administration and military. Proves how we were lied to over and over again.
33 comments
THE UGLY TRUTH -- THE UGLY AMERICANS!
World  (tags: middle-east, americans, lies, cruelty, psychosis )

Just
- 525 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info
"In our sterilized world, with our censored news we rarely see the ugly side of what we are responsible for... remember... our tax dollars are paying for this... This video contains disturbing scenes of American troops...
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