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QuéBec's Student Strike Turning Into a Citizens' Revolt
World  (tags: Canada, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, freedoms, government, media, news, politics, society )

Kit
- 4 hours ago - truth-out.org
On May 22, nearly half a million people marched in the streets of Montreal in defiance of a recently adopted law denying protester's civil liberties, namely the right to protest, freedom of association and of expression.
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Egypt Election: Rivals Claim Run-Off Place
World  (tags: world, politics, Egypt, elections, society, news, middle-east, humanrights, conflict, government )

Cal
- 15 hours ago - bbc.co.uk
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egyptian president, Mohammed Mursi, is likely to face former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq in a run-off vote, according to partial election results.
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Vietnam: Dow Chemical Shouldn't Sponsor the Olympics
World  (tags: world, politics, Olympics, Dow Chemical, legacy of the Vietnam War, protests, activism, vietnam, IOC, society, news, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 1 day ago - globalpost.com
Vietnam joins the protest against Olympic sponsor Dow Chemical, accused of "green-washing" its Agent Orange sins.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Congress: Renew the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act
World  (tags: BURMA, burma, myanmar, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, HumanRights, government, freedoms, conflict, society, world, news, asia )

Cal
- 1 day ago - secure3.convio.net
While Burma has taken some important steps toward democracy, its military continues to commit widespread human rights abuses -- particularly in Burma's ethnic states. We must encourage forward momentum but we cannot reward violent regimes -- we need to send
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AUSTRALIA: Policy Driving Indigenous From Lands: Amnesty
World  (tags: politics, Refugees&Relief, world, aborigines, australia, government, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, freedoms, society )

Cal
- 2 days ago - abc.net.au
Amnesty International has issued a scathing assessment of Australia's policies on Indigenous affairs and refugees in its latest report on human rights around the world.
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ANALYSIS: Egypt's Elections: A Struggle Between Secularism and Political Islam -- and How It May Transform the Middle Eas
World  (tags: world, politics, Egypt elections, Egypt, balance of power, diplomacy, regional diplomacy, news, interesting, government, israel, middle-east, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, society, usa )

Cal
- 3 days ago - worldnews.msnbc.msn.com
The upcoming Egyptian elections have the potential to not only change Egypt, but the entire Middle East. There's a strong possibility that decades of American policy in the region can be overturned. The elections have huge implications for the United Sta
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Syrian Rebels Cling to Bullets and Hope
World  (tags: world, politics, middle-east, news, violence, Syria, UnitedNations, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, conflict, media, government, death, crime, death, HumanRights, humanrights, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', society, conflict )

Cal
- 4 days ago - guardian.co.uk
While the west looks elsewhere, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is exploiting sectarian divisions
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Israel PM: Illegal African Immigrants Threaten Identity of Jewish State
World  (tags: world, politics, israel, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', society, news, Refugees&Relief )

Cal
- 4 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The Israeli prime minister has stoked a volatile debate about refugees and migrant workers from Africa, warning that "illegal infiltrators flooding the country" were threatening the security and identity of the Jewish state.
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60 MINUTES: From Fear to Fortune: Tel Aviv's New Attitude
World  (tags: world, politics, middle-east, news, government, interesting, society, israel )

Cal
- 5 days ago - cbsnews.com
Israel's largest city is bordered on all sides by danger, but its residents now seem more focused on its beaches, bars, and booming high-tech industry
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EGYPT: From Mubarak to Worse
World  (tags: world, Egypt, living coniditions, middle-east, news, politics, society, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, government, humanrights, freedoms )

Cal
- 8 days ago - ipsnews.net
More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak era.
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Cuban Activists Defend Sexual Rights as Human Rights
World  (tags: culture, gayrights, activists, world, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, world, politics, society, news )

Cal
- 8 days ago - ipsnews.net
The Fifth Cuban Day Against Homophobia focused on recognising and including sexual rights as human rights, a cause increasingly advocated by activists demanding respect for sexual diversity in this Caribbean island nation.
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SERBIA: Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide
World  (tags: world, politics, war crimes, Mladic Trial Mladic, Serbia, war atrocities, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', government, humanrights, freedoms, violence, society, news, HumanRights )

Cal
- 9 days ago - ipsnews.net
The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands.
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Exposed: In Brazil, World's 'Most Threatened Tribe' Outnumbered 10:1 By Invaders
World  (tags: world, politics, news, Brazil, native rights, uncontacted tribes, cultural genocide, government, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', HumanRights, humanrights, freedoms, conflict, society )

Cal
- 9 days ago - survivalinternational.org
Survival International has learned that a government survey estimates there could be up to 4,500 invaders - ranchers, loggers and settlers - now occupying just one of the four territories inhabited by the Awá tribe, whose total population stands at no mor
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America's Increasing Support for Syria's Rebels: 5 Takeaways
World  (tags: world, politics, society, middle-east, israel, Syria, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, government, news, violence, interesting, conflict )

Cal
- 9 days ago - theweek.com
With a U.N.-backed peace plan in tatters, America gingerly cooperates with opposition forces fighting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad
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A SOCCER CORRUPTION CASE MARKS KEY SHIFT IN CHINESE ATTITUDES ON STATE JUSTICE
World  (tags: world, government, china, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', news, interesting, humanrights, HumanRights, ethics, society, politics )

Cal
- 10 days ago - worldcrunch.com
The Chinese people are fed up with their justice system which is rife with corruption and lack of due process. There have been too many cases of wrongful convictions and confessions obtained through torture.
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