Houston, TX -- A Federal Civil suit has been filed in Texas alleging problems of gross, illegal discrimination and unethical conduct by one of the largest YMCAs in the nation. The conflict seems to involve a former...
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Pennsylvania Republican State Senator John Eichelberger's comments incense LGBT activists. Eichelberger, who is sponsoring a Constitutional amendment to redefine marriage as between a man and a woman, made...
On Tuesday, June 30, a US military board recommended that Lieutenant Dan Choi have federal recognition of his officer status revoked, which would result in his discharge from service. Choi was called to appear in...
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"Women in sunglasses and head scarves speaking through megaphones, brandishing cameras, carrying signs. When they first appeared, the photographs of the 2005 Tehran University women's rights protests were a...
"In 1996, I was sitting with 20,000 grieving women in a stadium in Tuzla, Bosnia. The women were holding photographs of husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and boyfriends who had been disappeared a year earlier in a place called Srebrenica, a UN enclave where Bosnian...
Superstition has led to the killing of more than 60 albinos in Burundi and Tanzania. The Red Cross Red Crescent is backing government efforts to protect them, and defends their right to a life in dignity.As the...
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"A beautiful woman sits in front of a video camera. Her name is Sena Cech and she is a fashion model. ...Halfway through the meeting Cech is asked to strip. She does as instructed and takes off her clothes. Then the photographer starts undressing as well. "Baby - can you do...
" KUWAIT: An unsuccessful third constituency election candidate yesterday filed a petition to the public prosecution challenging the constituency's election results because the two winning female candidates among...
This news, coming from Brazil, would substantiate what many more familiar with the world had said for many years: namely that discrimination existed everywhere and often in the very places that, on the surface,...
Costa Rica is making moves to join 30 other countries in fighting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Officially, the government is promoting awareness raising activities, discussion and...
"Online images recently showed a 17-year-old girl in Pakistan’s Swat Valley being flogged in public for going outdoors with a man not her father, a violation of Islamic practice. In Afghanistan, a proposed law would severely restrict rights of Shia women, forbidding a wife...
Now for once I did not write my self about Niger and the Tuaregs, no this is an article published in the Herald Tribune, the Global edition of the New York Times. This article called "in Niger, a war for what's...
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United Airlines has a new seating policy regarding obese passengers and it is causing controversy. The new seating policy was first announced on March 4, 2009 and went into effect on April 15, 2009. The...
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It seems that some with views like or similar to White supremacist David Duke, are in the odd position of allegedly not being too adverse to a win by the Democratic presumptive presidential...
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Day by day it is getting clear that LTTE cannot establish it's Utopian homeland in Sri Lanka in the wake of the current situation the organization is in. In an analysis run by Sri Lankan news papers, there was a...