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• Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 517
  AFP – A leading rights group Saturday called on the Thai government to allow 158 Lao Hmong refugees, who have been detained for three years pending deportation, to be resettled in four western countries. Read more here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group (AFP)
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• Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 517
  AFP – A leading rights group Saturday called on the Thai government to allow 158 Lao Hmong refugees, who have been detained for three years pending deportation, to be resettled in four western countries. Originally posted here: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group ...
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• In Draft Resolution, United Nations Rebukes Iran for Rights Violations Since Election

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A measure, which is almost certain to pass in the General Assembly, denounces a rise in violence, torture and limits to free speech.
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• Poland: Catholics Propose Adding Cross to National Emblem

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 731
  The recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Soile Lautsi, who was offended by crucifixes displayed in her childs school in Italy, states : The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities… restricted the right of parents to educate ...
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• Barbados, Guyana: Doctor Complicit?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 731
  Barbados Underground suggests that the doctor who examined the minor brutalised by Guyana police “was complicit in the torture…the concealment of a crime against humanity and…he possibly committed obstruction of justice.”
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• Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  laszlo-photos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a ...
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• Catholics, evangelicals pledge to ignore gay rights and abortion laws

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 679
  Religious leaders signed a pledge Friday announcing that they won’t abide by laws that support gay marriage or abortion. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and Focus on the Family’s Founder James Dobson and President Jim Daly joined 125 other conservative religious leaders from Colorado in signing the so-called ...
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• Poland: Online Campaigning for the Rights of Employees

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 731
  ‘Security. Is IKEA OK? On Nov. 3, I noticed that a new Twitter account was following me on that microblogging site, and its name intrigued me: @czyIKEAjestOK [is IKEA OK?]. It turns out that the account set up only a day before, on Nov. 2, belongs to an initiative of Polish citizens who work for IKEA via another, ...
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• Copenhagen: An Anti-Globalization Movement Comes of Age

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 117
  By Naomi Klein, The Nation The book is a fascinating account of what really happened in Seattle, but when I spoke to David Solnit, the direct-action guru who helped engineer the shutdown, I found him less interested in reminiscing about 1999 than in talking about the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in ...
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• Ron Weddington’s Racist, Bigoted, (Malthusian), Evil letter to Bill Clinton after his election

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 118
  I came across this recently and it took me a bit to track down the original document.  It seems that it may only be available in pdf?  Here is the PDF I found of the original.  So that it might get wider exposure, I asked a trusted ACM volunteer to transcribe it for me.  I think the insight into the mind of ...
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• Social Action Roundup Nov. 18th

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Participant Media presents entertainment that inspires and compels social change. Behind these films and issues, there are thousands of people nationwide who work tirelessly on campaigns that use the films as inspiration to make a difference. As a member of the company’s Social Action team, which develops ...
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• Russia: Local Authorities Slow Broadband Development

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 731
  Town of Kraskovo coat of arms (from the official site) Russian activists gathered in Kraskovo, a small town near Moscow, to call for increasing broadband Internet access and protest against Internet provider monopoly.  The activists also talked about superficial regulations that slow down the development of wide ...
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• Memory & Justice

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 443
  Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - photo licensed under creative commons On November 1, The International Center for Transitional Justice launched a new website, Memory & Justice. The website was initiated as a guide for memorial sites that observe mass atrocities around the globe. In commemoration of these ...
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• Activist group ProgressNow calls for boycott of business behind Obama-jihad billboard

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 679
  In response to a billboard campaign launched this week linking Pres. Obama to terrorist jihad and the Fort Hood shootings, ProgressNow has issued an action alert today calling on consumers to boycott Wolf Auto, the dealership sponsoring the billboard campaign. Dealership owner Phil Wolf is taking a second ...
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• Progress, not perfection, for Latin American GLBTs

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 135
  Although the news of the gruesome murder of a Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a cross-dressing Puerto Rican teenager — seen as a test of new hate-crimes laws in the United States — received extensive attention in both the Latino/a and gay media, the Latin American press gave more coverage to the upcoming nuptuals of ...
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• Another Gitmo Detainee Wins in Federal Court; Score Is Detainees 31, United States 8

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 767
  Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released by a U.S. federal district court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners. Judge Gladys Kessler’s written opinion is still ...
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• The Human Rights Council marks 20th anniversary on the Rights of the Child

  
  RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution — Authority: 487
  The Human Rights Council devoted a full-day discussion with two panels on childrens rights to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The discussion focused on the achievements and challenges in implementing the...
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• Project Cuddle

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  I will never understand how anyone could abandon a baby. Luckily there are folks like Debbe Magnusen around to help care for those children left behind. In 1996 after reading a newspaper article about the discovery of a dead baby in a file cabinet in Yorba Linda, Calif., in 1996, Magnusen started a hotline called ...
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• Bring back real liberals

  
  Rene's Apple — Authority: 430
  Heres the President in China, asked by students if they should be able to use Twitter freely. A real liberal-Adlai Stevenson, or Hubert Humphrey-would believe in extending personal liberty, most especially in the area of freedom of political speech, and wouldnt be reluctant to tell the Commies theyre wrong in this ...
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• Weekender: Expressing Myself

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 424
  I started blogging more than a year and a half ago, in April last year. I felt the desire to express my views, without publishing my real name on the internet with every post. I don’t think that I wrote something that I couldn’t have signed with my real name, too, but I value privacy.So [...]
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