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Stewart, Colbert and Coldplay at Amnesty International fundraiser
It it Amnesty International's 50th anniversary. As I write about them, I sit here in my Amnesty International t-shirt which arrived yesterday. They are a great organization and they are having a fund raiser on March 4th, entitled the Secret Policeman's Ball. Actually, they... Jon Stewart and Colbert at Amnesty International fundraiser
It it Amnesty International's 50th anniversary. As I write about them, I sit here in my Amnesty International t-shirt which arrived yesterday. They are a great organization and they are having a fund raiser on March 4th, entitled the Secret Policeman's Ball. Actually, they... Nigeria rapped for mass evictions due to Urban Development
" The rights group Amnesty International has criticised Nigeria's government over mass evictions in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Plans for urban development and slum demolition have been a violently contested issue in Port Harcourt. Amnesty is warning that continued...Human Rights Upheaval: Amnesty International in 2009
NGO Monitor Amnesty’s annual report highlights the exploitation of human rights values May 2010 “Amnesty’s annual report repeats the discredited allegations and distorted human rights rhetoric used to target Israel,” said NGO Monitor President Gerald Steinberg.... Malawi|Advocacy Groups Call for Release of 2 Gay Prisoners
UPDATE 17 March 2010AP reports that Malawi church leaders meet on gay rights just days ahead of the March 22nd sentencing scheduled for Monjeza and Chimbalanga.Several advocacy groups continue their call for the...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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281 views | 18 recommendations | 1 comment
Czech Republic Discriminates Against Roma Children
In a damning report by Amnesty International, it accuses the Czech Republic of discriminating against Roma children. One of the ploys to segregate and discriminate against Roma children was to enroll them in... Protestors in Edmonton demand that Khadr be returned to Canada
Omar Khadr was arrested on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2002. He is alleged to have murdered a U.S. soldier with a grenade. Supporters of Omar Khadr consider him a child soldier and want him brought back...
created by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | 2 years ago
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247 views | 20 recommendations | 18 comments
Worldfocus: State of Gay Marriage in Greece
Special Correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson examine the state of gay marriage in Greece. "Homosexuality dates back thousands of years in Ancient Greece, where same-sex relationships were well...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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423 views | 16 recommendations | 2 comments
Iran set to execute three young men convicted of homosexuality
""Killing people for what they did as children is wrong and repellent, and killing them for alleged homosexual conduct is just as wrong and repellent. The Iranian government has flouted its most basic human rights...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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1834 views | 79 recommendations | 19 comments
Leonard Cohen Performs Sold Out Concert in Israel Despite Boycott
Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen performed to a sold out crowd in Israel Thursday night, despite many calls to cancel his show by Palestinian rights activists. It was 75-year-old Cohen's first Israeli...
created by Mary Richard | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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344 views | 64 recommendations | 5 comments
Greek police fail to learn lessons of December
Just hours after the shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens, hundreds started violent protests that would last for weeks and cost the country...
created by Teacher Dude | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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259 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
Canada’s Moral Dilemma: Torture by CSIS – a crisis in democracy
It’s just like “The Stasi” treated dissidents, except this human rights abuse is happening in Canada today. Some call it no-touch torture. The Stasi called it Zerzetsen.
In an article about the torture of a Canadian citizen at the behest of CSIS in the Sudan, The... Protesters turn pirates in immigration centre demo
In a move, reminiscent of pirate movies from the past, demonstrators from Greece, Germany, Italy and France in a flotilla of small boats took to the sea in order to blockade the Greek island of Lesvos (Mytilini)....
created by Teacher Dude | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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224 views | 32 recommendations | 2 comments
Amnesty International: Unlock the camps in Sri Lanka
" Unlock the camps in Sri Lanka Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the recent war in North East Sri Lanka and living in... Greece's disappearing child refugees raise concern
Questions still remain about the fate of 12 under age refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq who disappeared from a shelter in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. According to reports in the Greek press the 12 were...
created by Teacher Dude | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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540 views | 24 recommendations | 3 comments
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