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Activists Demand End to Sex Abuse of Migrant Children in Southern Mexico
World  (tags: world, politics, Mexico, children, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', violence, society, conflict, news )

Cal
- 27 days ago - latimes.com
The dangers are especially acute for what officials say is a growing number of children and youths who cross into Mexico without adults. Many are kidnapped and made to work as prostitutes, with police and authorities turning a blind eye
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Is Health Care a Human Right? Should Money Play a Role in Human Rights?
World  (tags: human rights, elf, bill of rights, equal life foundation, equalmoney, equality, oneness, ethics, freedoms, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humans, society, UnitedNations, world, africa, blog, humanrights, politics )

Bernard
- 4 days ago - marlenvargasdelrazo.wordpress.com
By us accepting the fact that we are only part of a Nation and not of the Human Group as a Whole, we tacitly agree to be either well supported like some first world countries in the European Union or be absolutely disenfranchised from our living rights
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How Famine Killed 133,000 Kids in Somalia
World  (tags: world, politics, africa, hunger, drought, children, death, ethics, Refugees&Relief, society, humanrights )

Cal
- 18 days ago - theweek.com
Experts say the tragedy could have been avoided
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Support Women Persecuted for Blogging About Human Rights Violations
World  (tags: womne's rights, Violeence Against Women Act, usa, news, government, ethics, congress, politics, freedoms, humanrights )

Cal
- 10 days ago - forcechange.com
"Reporters without Borders" organization for helping to ensure the freedom of speech and freedom of press for women all over the world.
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Guilty of Genocide: Guatemalan Dictator Sentenced to 80 Years in Jail
World  (tags: genocide, world, news, law, society, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', crime, government )

Cal
- 7 days ago - alternet.org
Ríos Montt was convicted of overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala's Ixil region.
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Indigenous Communities Win Court Battle Against UK Mining Company
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 17 days ago - amnesty.org.au
Good news! The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that the Indigenous communities of Niyamgiri Hills have the right to decide whether or not they want a mine on their sacred land.
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Rainforest Tribe Urges Norwegian King to Recall Energy Executive
World  (tags: activsts, native rights, protection, habitat, environment, ecosystems, humans, politics, world )

Cal
- 6 days ago - news.mongabay.com
In an unusual bid to stop a series of dams that will flood their rainforest home, a group of tribesmen in Borneo are urging King Harald V of Norway to call one of his subjects home.
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Is a HOME a Human Right? or Is a Child Living on the Streets An Acceptable Tragedy?
World  (tags: Home, homeless, house, housing, family, elf, equal life foundation, bill of rights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', blog, freedoms, HumanRights, news, politics, society, UnitedNations, world, africa, usa, israel, palestine, middle-east, crime, ethics )

Bernard
- 20 days ago - marlenvargasdelrazo.wordpress.com
Having people existing without adequate housing - or no housing at all - in this world proves that any belief of us being 'evolved' species is absolutely wrong. We still ponder money over each others basic necessities; Rather let a few have opulence?
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CANADA: Suspects Arrested in Via Train Terror Plot Linked to Al-Qaida in Iran: RCMP
World  (tags: news, society, violence, terrorism, politics, Canadaworld )

Cal
- 28 days ago - www2.macleans.ca
Two terror suspects who were arrested for allegedly plotting to attack a Via passenger train received "direction and guidance" from al-Qaida elements in Iran, the RCMP said Monday.
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TAKE ACTION: Egypt: Stop Sexual Violence Against Women Demanding Their Rights
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', women, politics, world, violence )

Beverly
- 15 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
Egyptian women deserve to be recognized as full and equal citizens and should not be subjected to sexual violence for demanding their rights.
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OP-ED: Why Israel Bombed Syria
World  (tags: politics, world, middle-east, israel, violence, Syria )

Cal
- 14 days ago - theweek.com
Israel's focus is on the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah arms/money/land-space connection, and both of its strikes were incision-like interventions designed to protect the homeland from threatening missiles. Nothing more, nothing less
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Women's Prayer at Western Wall Sparks Protest
World  (tags: world, politics, israel, women's rights, religion, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, society )

Cal
- 10 days ago - latimes.com
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City's Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy site in a similar fa
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Australian Government---Shut Down Manus
World  (tags: world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', Australia, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, society, politics )

Cal
- 20 days ago - getup.org.au
The Immigration Department's recent assessment of its own detention centre of Manus Island has found what we've known all along - the conditions in the Manus Island detention centre are inhumane.
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The Dark Side Of The Revolution For Egypt's Coptic Christians
World  (tags: Coptic Christians, persecution, religion, Egypt, middle-east, news, politics, interesting, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, ethics, government, society, world, freedoms, conflict, violence )

Cal
- 15 days ago - worldcrunch.com
Copts are being persecuted in Egypt. So, what's new about that? This has been the norm in our "beloved homeland" since at least the 1970s.
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Food Is a Human Right? - Do You Have Enough to Eat?
World  (tags: poverty, malnutrition, children, equallifefoundation, ethics, politics, rights, activists, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', blog, freedoms, humanrights, interesting, politics, society, world, UnitedNations )

Bernard
- 23 days ago - marlenvargasdelrazo.wordpress.com
870 Million people do not eat enough to be healthy. One in six children in developing countries is underweight. That is roughly 100 million children. What is the solution to this? Is it acceptable?
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