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• Clinton Should Press Arroyo on Killings — Human Rights Watch

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 118
  HUMAN RIGHTS   US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should press President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines to prosecute military members responsible for politically motivated killings, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said that the historically close relations between the US and the ...
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• Rapid settlement for Oceanic Viking refugees

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  Paul Maley & Stephen Fitzpatrick; 10/11/09; (3 Items)The 78 asylum-seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking have been promised rapid resettlement in Australia, Canada or New Zealand but have refused to leave the Customs vessel if it means going back into immigration detention. As Foreign Minister Stephen Smith held talks ...
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• Chinese hold first Urumqi executions

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  10/11/09; China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said last night, the first executions since the violence in July. “The first group of nine people who were sentenced to death recently have already been executed in succession, with the ...
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• China executes nine over Xinjiang unrest

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  10/11/09; http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-executes-nine-over-xinjiang-unrest/story-fn3dxix6-1225795914593China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said, the first executions since the violence in July. “The first group of nine ...
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• Traditional indigenous owners to reclaim Maralinga bomb site

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 148
  David Nason; 10/11/09More than 50 years after their ancestral lands were devastated by nuclear testing, the Tjarutja people of western South Australia will next month be handed back the infamous expanse of remote desert the British named Maralinga. After years of legal jousting, plans are being finalised for a formal ...
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• Goldstone’s doubly revealing nightmare from which we have not awoken

  
  Augean Stables — Authority: 574
  In his “debate” on Thursday November 5, at Brandeis, during question and answer, Goldstone got chummy with the audience and told them about an anecdote about how he felt going into Gaza: As far as conditions in Gaza are concerned, I must say that my visit to Gaza turned out very differently from what I had ...
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• Lebanon: Operation: Sex Change

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Queer Arab Magazine Bekhsoos supports the Operation: Sex Change campaign , aimed to raise awareness about transgender issues across the world. The campaign started on November 8, the International day of action for sexual and bodily rights across Muslim societies, and ends on November 20, the Transgender Day of ...
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• Netanyahu To Abbas–Let’s Have Peace-On My Terms!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Abbas that”we should not place preconditions for holding talks,” but went on to note on the desire for Palestinians to allow return of refugees who fled in 1948, “they must abandon the fantasy of flooding Israel with refugees, give up irredentist claims to the ...
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• Representation, Outcomes, and Fairness in Legal Proceedings

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 548
  As my colleague Rebecca Blemberg recently blogged about , California has moved in the direction of recognizing a right to counsel for civil litigants with critical legal needs. The concept of a constitutional right to counsel in certain civil cases is often referred to as “ Civil Gideon, ” after the Supreme ...
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• No Apologies is now broadcasting

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  November 9, 2009 No Apologies is now broadcasting NoApologies is now broadcasting over the internet. You can visit our broadcasting site by clicking here. If you have trouble navigating the site, click here to see the list of posted videos. We are learning as we go, so there will be much room for improvement in the ...
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• So You Want to be an Engaged Citizen II

  
  An Ordinary Person — Authority: 108
  A common complaint among many people is that government, politicians and government entities are not responsive to the needs and concerns of average, ordinary citizens. That there are no easy, direct routes for ordinary people in order to have meaningful communications and relationship with government and the people ...
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• Love of the Land: The Right Way to Investigate Gaza

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 163
  The Right Way to Investigate Gaza NATO Belgrade bombing campaign in 1999 Evelyn Gordon Contentions /Commentary 09 November 09 A group of South African immigrants to Israel submitted a novel proposal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week. Netanyahu, they said, should accede to the ...
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• Obama: “This is a Health Care Bill, Not an Abortion Bill”

  
  themcglynn.com/theliberal.net — Authority: 142
  President Says Still More Work to be Done on Legislation Passed by House by Jake Tapper, Karen Travers and Devin Dwyer, ABC News Monday 09 November 2009 President Obama said today that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this ...
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• 1989, a ripple effect from Tiananmen to Checkpoint Charlie?

  
  The Peking Duck — Authority: 410
  Foreign Policy offers an interesting if somewhat debatable book excerpt on the role the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations played in influencing soon-to-follow demonstrations in Europe, where less than six months after the crackdown in Beijing the Berlin Wall would crack as well, realigning the world’s ...
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• Fall of Berlin Wall Anniversary More Than Just Media Overkill

  
  Politicus.US — Authority: 122
  Considering the amount of coverage that the arbitrarily chosen 20 th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall received, one would think that it was purely, or at least mostly a media event. As it turned out, despite the cold rain falling on November 9, 2009, it was more of a celebration of the human ...
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• Europe Cracks Down on Home School Parents

  
  Home Education Foundation — Authority: 124
  http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2009/November/Parents-Targeted-as-Europe-Cracks-Down-on-Home-Schooling/ Europe Cracks Down on Home School Parents By Dale Hurd CBN News Sr. Reporter The latest version of Adobe Flash Player is required to watch this video. Please click on the link below to download the ...
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• China Executes 4 Tibetans - Urgent Action Required

  
  RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution — Authority: 440
  Executions - Urgent Action China has executed four Tibetans for their roles in the protests in Tibet last year, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. Lobsang Gyaltsen, Loyak, Penkyi and reportedly a fourth unidentified Tibetan,...
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• Berlusconi says Italy will not remove crucifix from public display

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  JURIST : "Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Friday that Italy is not bound by last weeks European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) ruling that displaying crucifixes in a public school classroom violates the European Convention on Human Rights."
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• Middle East International Refounded

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  The Middle East International has  restarted its printing press  after a six-year hiatus, releasing a  free PDF issue  online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and analysis from writers based in-country who [know] what they [are] talking about.” There are several articles ...
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• The Wall Project: Berlin To Los Angeles

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  aharvey2ks Flickr photostream/Creative Commons To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , The Wende Museum developed the Wall Project , in which eight sections of the Berlin Wall were relocated to Los Angeles, and an adjacent symbolic wall was built, painted by artists and torn down for the ...
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