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Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child - The Petition Site
World  (tags: children, government, HumanRights, UnitedNations, usa )

Lauren
- 5 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
November 20th, 2009, Somalia announced it would ratify the convention. The USA alone is the only country that has yet to do so. This petition has been redone to reflect new information, since the original in 2007.
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Afghanistan's Firebrand--Interview With Malalai Joya
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, women, society, politics, humanrights, conflict )

Cal
- 5 hours ago - motherjones.com
The outspoken former Afghani parliament member on warlords, women's rights, and failed US policy in her homeland.
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Palin: 'Jews Need a Place to Live'
World  (tags: Palin, politics, world, israel, humanrights, middle-east )

Cal
- 5 hours ago - jpost.com
Former US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin disagrees with the Obama administration's demand that Israel halt settlement construction, although her reason for that opinion is puzzling to some (or at the least demonstrates she's not familiar with the
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Sri Lanka to Release 136,000 Tamil War Refugees
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', HumanRights, humanrights, world, war, politics, goodnews )

Cal
- 6 hours ago - news.yahoo.com
Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said
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Sri Lanka: Australian Complicity in Genocide
World  (tags: Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamil, Tamils, HumanRights, humanrights, conflict, asia, Australia, government, capitalism, racism, abuse, politics, corruption, freedoms, disease, hunger, internment camps, concentration camps, death camps, genocide, holocaust )

Simon
- 15 hours ago - greenleft.org.au
Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil people has not ended. 250,000 Tamil people face nightmare conditions detained behind barbed wire in violation of international law, in concentration camps where they are killed, or subjected to torture, rape, disease, etc
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