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World News tagged with people

Peru's Indigenous People Win One Round Over Developers
World  (tags: world, peru, amazon, rainforest, indians, indigenous, people, human, rights, freedom, civil, liberty, politics, government, money, business, logging, hunting, fishing, habitat, destruction, environment, private, investment )

Tom
- 140 days ago - latimes.com
Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.
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Appalling Levels of Child Abuse Found in Aborigine Communities
World  (tags: world, Australia, Aboriginal, women, indigenous, people, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, rights, women, children, abuse, rape, violence, prime, minister, john, howard, politics, government, racism )

Tom
- 141 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Children in Australia's aboriginal communities are six times more likely to be abused or neglected than the country's non-indigenous children. Young girls are also routinely raped, often by packs of men, amidst an entrenched culture of silence.
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What the Pakistani People Would Tell Obama
World  (tags: world, obama, war, violence, taliban, pakistan, people, politics, middle-east, humanrights, freedoms, government, ethics, conflict, usa )

Tom
- 202 days ago - latimes.com
"The U.S. should say in advance, the moment there's a military takeover, we're not going to deal with or financially support dictators. There's been a view that the U.S. is willing to sacrifice Pakistan's democracy to preserve its own."
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Colombian Activist Waits in Prison Limbo
World  (tags: world, columbia, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, government, corruption, displaced, Afro-Colombians, land, cattle, lumber oil, supression, discrimination, indigenous, people )

Tom
- 236 days ago - latimes.com
Community organizer Carmelo Agamez, who was helping people with land claims, has spent five months in jail and still has not seen the evidence against him, been told who his accuser is or been notified of a trial date. Welcome to justice, Colombia style.
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Help Protect Community Rights in Ghana
World  (tags: Ghana, mining, people, environment )


- 588 days ago - act.oxfamamerica.org
The Prestea Mine has posed challenges to the rights and livelihoods of the people who live around it. Since 2001, this has included two cyanide spills and a violent confrontation between community members and mine guards. (Please sign.)
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Bomb Explodes at Mosque in Iran
World  (tags: Iran, people, Iran, Shiraz, deaths, wounded, mosque, bomb )

ON VACATI
- 592 days ago - cnn.com
A bomb exploded during evening prayers Saturday at a mosque in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, killing eight people and wounding 66, Iran's state-run television reported.
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CCTV Camera Microphones to Be Axed
World  (tags: CCTV, tracking, privacy, human-rights, people, government )


- 667 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Hidden microphones mounted on CCTV cameras which can eavesdrop on private conversations in the street are set to be outlawed, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
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From the Depths of Moscow
World  (tags: world, Russia, people, HumanRights )

Cal
- 686 days ago - latimes.com
A commuter new to the city is haunted by the images of the poor and desperate and buoyed by glimpses of kindness she sees on the subway.
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Bangladesh Cyclone Kills Reported 1,100
World  (tags: deaths, cyclone, people )

Jessie
- 740 days ago - news.yahoo.com
By JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 11 minutes ago DHAKA, Bangladesh - Military ships and helicopters joined in rescue and relief operations Saturday for survivors of a cyclone that savaged coastal Bangladesh.................
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Al-Fayed Delivers New Slur on Royal Family
World  (tags: diana, death, alfayed, car, paris, princess, people, murdured, inquest, royalfamily )

Ali
- 824 days ago - news.com.au
THE British Royal Family must have "ice water in their veins," says the father of Princess Diana's lover who will forever be convinced their deaths in a Paris car crash were not an accident.
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The Color of Law On the Pope, Paternalism and Purifying the Savages
World  (tags: Religion, Pope, Catholicism, hypcricy, denial, culture, society, world, faith, crimes, history, liberation, rights, justice, people )

Barb
- 888 days ago - zmag.org
The Pope seems to have selective amnesia when it comes to the Church and its horrendous history of human rights disasters against people of color. This happens at a time when Catholicism is becoming an increasingly southern religion and an increasingly...
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