A US Marine on trial for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005 was on Wednesday acquitted of all charges, a military official said.
This is a must see docuementary concerning the destruction of British citizen rights since 1997. TAKING LIBERTIES is a shocking but hilarious polemic documentary that charts the destruction of all your Basic Liberties under 10 Years of New Labour.
RIYADH (Reuters) - When clerics, ministers and businessmen gathered at a forum in Riyadh last month to discuss women in the workplace, there were no women in sight.
Typically for Saudi Arabia, the women who took part were seated in a separate
Healing the Divide, the public arm of Gere Foundation, is working across a wide range of issues: from the growing HIV/AIDS crisis in Asia to the need for prison reform and effective post-release programs in the U.S., from poverty alleviation, .....
"A commentary in the "People's Daily" Saturday accuses the Dalai Lama of plotting recent anti-government protests in Tibet in hopes of undermining the upcoming Beijing Olympics and splitting Tibet from China."
This is the story of 13 year-old Bernice, one of the many children in Ghana who have been driven away from parents too poor to care for them, ended up on the street with no education or money, and been recruited into Ghana's booming child sex trade.
"Just dropping in for a hot minute ... to help out the dry spell, and to give everyone something to do for an afternoon," said still one more.That sordid network was exposed this week, thanks to a global law enforcement operation spanning five countries.
A FRENCH woman badly disfigured by facial tumours caused by a rare and incurable disease has appealed to President Nicolas Sarkozy to allow her to die by euthanasia. In an interview with the Agence France-Presse news agency, former school teacher Chantal
A letter drafted by a group of Muslim scholars and intellectuals who recently gathered to discuss development in the relationship with the 'West', and the best and most logical manner to deal with the acceleration of infringements on the sanctities of IIs
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On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been searching long and hard. Forensic evidence showed that she had been repeatedly raped and tortured ...
Aside from its unique culture and magnificent Khmer ruins, Cambodia has become notorious for a much darker attraction. The country is a source, destination and transit point for modern day slaves: men, women and children sold into the sex trade.....
Why is the world silent about the most horrible abuse of kids imaginable that is happening today? The amount of exploitation, pedophilia, enslavement and physical abuse against children throughout the world is a mark of eternal shame in society.
South African AIDS activists said on Wednesday they planned to take the government to court again over its HIV strategy and said the sacking of a respected deputy health minister had caused "panic and fear". ...
