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World News tagged with oppression

UN Vote: Australia Backs Israeli War Crimes
World  (tags: Palestine, Israel, colonialism, imperialism, u.s., usa, Australia, UnitedNations, unitednations, UN, U.N., Goldstone Report, Goldstone Commission, war crimes, warcrimes, war crime, oppression, occupation, massacre, murder, war, military, cover-up )

Simon
- 3 days ago - greenleft.org.au
SHAME: Australia & the USA were among 18 countries that voted AGAINST the U.N. Goldstone report into Israel�s war on Gaza. Over 1400 Palestinians & 13 Israelis (including 10 soldiers), were killed in the massacre. The report showed most were civilians.
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Colombians Come to Venezuela in Droves
World  (tags: Venezuela, Colombia, capitalism, fascism, war, civil war, refugees, migration, immigration, oppression, exploitation, poverty, revolution, socialism, democracy, HumanRights, humanrights, leftwing, left, leftist, progressive, egalitarian, equality )

Simon
- 10 days ago - venezuelanalysis.com
Some people imagine that "Venezuela is a dictatorship that people are fleeing". The reality is very different: a democracy, where the people have elected socialist governments in recent years, ensuring less poverty, more human rights, & more people coming
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Obama 'White Power in Black Face'
World  (tags: Obama, President Obama, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, u.s., usa, troops, war, military, dishonesty, corruption, lies, propaganda, oppression, imperialism, US imperialism, U.S. imperialism, Africom, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, demonstration, protest )

Simon
- 16 days ago - au.news.yahoo.com
Decrying Obama as "white power in black face", 100s of Black Americans marched on the White House on Saturday to protest Obama's policies, and to demand he bring US troops home, scrap the USA's Africom, and end U.S. aggression against Cuba & Venezuela.
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Snipers Fire on Zelaya! Death Squads Arrive in Honduras! Urgent - Take Action Now!
World  (tags: Honduras, Honduras coup, fascism, imperialism, capitalism, coup, coup d'etat, oppression, bourgeoisie, assassination, assassinations, death squads, paramilitaries, terrorism, torture, school of the americas, U.S. imperialism, US imperialism, USA )

Simon
- 44 days ago - axisoflogic.com
According to Pastors for Peace, Radio Globo from Honduras is reporting that snipers are shooting into the Brazilian Embassy where President Zelaya & 100s of supporters have taken refuge. And paramilitary death squads from Colombia have arrived in Honduras
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Sign Petition: Call for the Immediate Release of Aung San Suu Kyi and All Prisoners of Conscience in Myanmar
World  (tags: world, Aung, San, Suu, Kyi, nobel, peace, prize, justice, conscience, health, myanmar, military, junta, arrest, imprisonment, Insein, Prison, burma, human, rights, liberty, oppression, government, crime, politics, UnitedNations )

Tom
- 166 days ago - change.org
Suu Kyi has already spent much of the past 20 years under house arrest. Her prolonged imprisonment in Insein Prison, which has been referred to as the "darkest hell-hole in Burma," could effectively be a death sentence given her declining health.
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The Paradox of Israel's Pursuit of Might
World  (tags: israel, war, oppression, hatred, fascism )

Eleanor
- 198 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palled
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Sign Petition: Support CA Assembly Resolution to Honor Tibet
World  (tags: world, religion, tibet, china, holiness, dali lama, peace, honor, government, freedoms, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', oppression )

Tom
- 252 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Resolution ACR6 to honor His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet was shunted off to a possible death in the Rules Committee of the CA State Assembly on March 16th, when Democratic lawmakers shamefully bowed to the pressure of Chinese government lobbyists.
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Somalia to Get Sharia-Based Law - Al Jazeera
World  (tags: world, Somalia, Sharia, Islamic law, humanrights, freedoms, middle-east, violence, war, politics, government, women, oppression, stoning, honor killings, beheadings, africa )

Tom
- 258 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
Farhan Ali Mohamed, the information minister, said implementing sharia, or Islamic law, would help end attacks by the militias. Tuesday's move was an attempt to isolate more extreme armed groups by agreeing to a demand supported by much of the Somali pop
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China Closes Tibet to Foreign Eyes
World  (tags: world, china, tibet, human rights, oppression, killing, discrimination, genocide, apartheid, violence, politics, humanrights, government, conflict, freedoms )

Tom
- 258 days ago - blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Despite China's promises that foreign journalists would be allowed to operate freely, the authorities have not only closed off Tibet, but also the parts of Western China where Tibetans live. It is the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet.
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CEDAW: Discord Likely Over Ratifying UN Women's Rights Pact
World  (tags: world, women, CEDAW, UN, rights, abortion, prostitution, sexual slavery, discrimination, oppression, government, politics, freedoms, honor killings, stoning, lashes )

Tom
- 260 days ago - google.com
A global women's rights treaty completed 30 years ago has a better-than-ever chance for U.S. Senate ratification this year, yet the hunt for the needed 67 favorable votes is likely to incur the wrath of activists on both the left and right.
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Al Jazeera - Focus - Ending Violence Against Women
World  (tags: World, International Women's Day, CEDAW, discrimination, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, honor killings, stoning, lashing, slavery, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children )

Tom
- 260 days ago - english.aljazeera.net
In many countries women are active participants in the political process and have made progress toward economic equality. However, women's rights to life, to physical integrity, to health, education and freedom from violence, remains largely unfulfilled.
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International Women's Day: Crisis of Poverty and Violence
World  (tags: International Women's Day, women, rights, freedom, poverty, violence, crime, safety, oppression, voting, work, education, health, families, children, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India )

Tom
- 260 days ago - straitstimes.com
While women from Australia to Liberia gathered to hail achievements and to campaign on issues such as work equality, voting rights and abortion access, there was little to celebrate for the female population in many parts of the world.
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Targeting Israel With Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions, and Prosecutions
World  (tags: Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions, Prosecutions, Palestinian slaughter, displacement, occupation, oppression, israel, middle-east, terrorism, violence, war, world, conflict, death, crime, freedoms, humanrights )

Madalena
- 270 days ago - uruknet.de
Enough is enough. After 61 years of Palestinian slaughter, displacement, occupation, oppression, and international dismissiveness and complicity, global action is essential. Israel must be held accountable. World leaders won't do it, so grassroots movemen
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Burma: Saffron Revolution Day
World  (tags: Burma, Dicktatorship, Oppression, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Ben
- 423 days ago - abc.net.au
It has now been a year since Burma's military junta brutally put down the so-called Saffron Revolution led by thousands of Buddhist monks, demanding democratic and economic reform. According to the United Nations, 30 monks and other protesters died..
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500 Tibetans Arrested in Nepal
World  (tags: Nepal, Oppression, Violence, Tibetan arrests, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Ben
- 519 days ago - phayul.com
New Delhi, June 22 - Some 500 Tibetans were arrested outside the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu on Saturday for demonstrating against the gross display of power by China which paraded the Olympic torch through Tibet's Capital, Lhasa.
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