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• Bosnia: No Human Rights for Jews, Gypsies

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 521
  Court slams Bosnia for barring Jews, Roma from officeYuman Rites for me but not for thee: Heroin & jihad statelet Bosnia makes its preferences clear:(AFP) STRASBOURG — The European Court of...
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• Sexual Trafficking of Native American Women is Widespread

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 159
  The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center has recently done a study about the sexual trafficking of Native American women and girls, and the Circle News published an article about it earlier this month* ( h/t Racialicious ). Some of the descriptions of violence in the article are extremely triggering. We ...
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• Sexual Trafficking of Native American Women is Widespread

  
  Feministe — Authority: 657
  The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center has recently done a study about the sexual trafficking of Native American women and girls, and the Circle News published an article about it earlier this month* ( h/t Racialicious ). Some of the descriptions of violence in the article are extremely triggering. We ...
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• Addameer: No peace agreement until political prisoners released

  
  Electronic Intifada : Palestine — Authority: 605
  "Reaching the No-Peace Agreement: The Role of Palestinian Prisoner Releases in Permanent Status Negotiations," a briefing paper from Addameer, examines Israels failure to comply with the bilateral agreements regarding the release of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli detention for their involvement in ...
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• California “gay marriage” trial takes national stage

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Reuters : "Trial is set to start January 11 in San Francisco. Boies and co-lead Ted Olson argue that marriage is a U.S. constitutional right too fundamental to limit and that gays and lesbians are a discriminated group that deserve special court protection."
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• Iran: Death of Top Dissident Cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 696
  Iranian citizens and international mainstream media have reported that tens of thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets in Irans main theological center on Monday and clashed with pro-government militiamen during the funeral of the countrys top dissident cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. See ...
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• Afghanistan: Who Will Head the U.N. Mission?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  Laura Rozen explores who will replace Kai Eide as the  head of the U.N. mission  in Afghanistan. She reports rumors that Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura is the “top contender” for the position and is an American favorite. At the same time, there are reports that French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner ...
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• The Simpler Ex-Gay Final Solution

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 603
  Eighteen months ago, British antigay activist Stephen Green was planning to open an “ex-gay” school to perform fake miracles against LGBT people — for a profit, of course. Now, however, Green prefers a more direct solution for homosexuals: Execute them . (According to PinkNews, Green also believes ...
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• Bosnias bar on minorities in parliament ruled illegal

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Bosnias refusal to allow Jews and other minority groups to stand for key elected positions was dealt a final blow today when the European court of human rights ruled the countrys constitution violated fundamental human rights. Jakob Finci, a Bosnian Jew who is currently the countrys ambassador to Switzerland, was ...
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• Latin America to U.S.: So Long, Jerk

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 508
  "Bye bye, America. Thank you for nothing!" says Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) It looks a lot like the beneficent and subversive spirit of Hugo Chavez’s annual donation of 100 million gallons of heating oil to impoverished families in the United States for the last four years has ...
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• European court slams Bosnia for barring Jews, Roma from office

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  European Voice : "The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that provisions in the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina reserving certain offices of state for members of Bosnias three ‘constituent peoples are discriminatory and unlawful . . . Bosnias constitution . . . established a three-member presidency with ...
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• Egypt: Brotherhood Divisions

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  The election of new members to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Executive Guidance Bureau (see our post ) illustrates growing rifts in the movement.  The Christian Science Monitor writes that the MB is divided largely along generational lines about how to oppose President Hosni Mubarak .   The older ...
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• British army torture in Ireland

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 148
  The British army subjected Republicans to waterboarding torture during interrogations in Northern Ireland during the 1970s, according to a report in Tuesday’s Guardian newspaper: here .
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• UN General Assembly Eliminates Reference to “Sexual Orientation,” Gender Identity

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  "Last Friday the United Nations General Assembly voted to delete language from a proposed resolution referencing a document claiming that two new anti-discrimination categories exist: one based on sexual orientation and the other on gender identity."
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• Interfaith Interaction at Parliament of the World’s Religions

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 663
  I recently returned from 8 days in Melbourne Australia where I attended the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. I had taken five of my Claremont School of Theology students along to participate in this remarkable six day gathering of…
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• MPs confirm CIA secret torture prison in Lithuania

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 148
  Disclose.tv CIA secret prison in Lithuania Video From British daily The Morning Star : US had secret detention camp in Lithuania Tuesday 22 December 2009 by Tom Mellen A commission of Lithuanian MPs have confirmed that its spooks had let the US set up a secret detention camp in Lithuania over the ...
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• Big Step Forward On Treaty For The Visually Impaired At WIPO

  
  Intellectual Property Watch — Authority: 522
  Over ninety-five percent of printed works are in formats inaccessible to people with visual impairments, representatives of the visually impaired said last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization. An agreement to allow exceptions in copyright law, they argued, could address this "book famine" by removing ...
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• Is Tissa Getting Bail?

  
  indi.ca — Authority: 491
  The jailing of journalist Tissainayagam was a travesty and a shame to even our stumbling justice system. He was charged inciting racial violence and supporting the LTTE (basically by saying the North was getting bombed) and the conviction was shoved through. He was sentenced to 20 years hard labor. It was a great ...
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• DRC activist attacked

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 430
  The home of Emmanuel Kabengele, the head of a leading Congolese human rights group, has been burned down.  The cause of the blaze is unclear but arson is suspected as Kabengele has been harassed in recent months. The group – the Centre d’Etudes et de Formation Populaire pour les Droits de l’Homme (CEFOP/DH) ...
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• Cash and goods worth millions of Kyats were looted from a shop in Rangoon’s San Chuang Township and the owner assaulted in a daring robbery on December 20.

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  Clothes shop looted in Rangoon New Delhi (Mizzima) – Cash and goods worth millions of Kyats were looted from a shop in Rangoon’s San Chuang Township and the owner assaulted in a daring robbery on December 20. A police officer in San Chuang Township told Mizzima on Tuesday that the burglars broke into a clothes ...
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