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• Blackwater’s Iraq murder and bribery scandals

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 490
  This video from the USA is called Blackwater Guards Indicted for Role in Nisour Square Massacre ; Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now. From the New York Times in the USA: Blackwater Said to Approve Iraqi Payoffs After Shootings By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN Published: November 10, 2009 WASHINGTON ...
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• Freedom from Fear in the Health-Care Debate

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 629
  There comes a moment when we can say a word or speak a concept so often that it loses meaning and simply becomes sound.  The concept becomes exhausted, thin, one-dimensional.  Such was the case with the word and the concept…
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• The Future of Support for Gay Marriage

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  One of the more hopeful things I’ve read on the internet today (esp. considering what happened in Maine last week ) comes courtesy of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish .  This morning they posted an interesting chart that looked at different age groups and explicit support for gay marriage in different ...
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• Why Wont HRC Jump On Board the DNC Boycott?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 721
  Often viewed, accurately, as an extension of the Democratic party, the Human Rights Campaign has gone back and forth with how much criticism its willing to levy on the White House and members of Congress. But now that members of the indie (read: non-Gay Inc.) activist scene are boycotting the Democratic National ...
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• Help Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” This Veteran’s Day

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  sidewalk_flyings Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” , the law that mandates the discharge of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) service members, has gained serious traction over the past year, and as we celebrate Veteran’s Day tomorrow, you ...
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• Campaigning on maternal mortality in Latin America

  
  Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights — Authority: 98
  By Fernanda Doz Costa,Researcher on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the AmericasLast Friday, I participated in a very interesting hearing about maternal mortality, where four experts from the Americas gave testimony before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights  in Washington DC.It was great working in ...
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• Kurds Are Threat to Minority Groups, Rights Group Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Actions by Kurdish authorities are threatening minority groups in northern Iraq with “another full-blown human rights catastrophe,” according to a human rights group.
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• Sri Lanka: Support The IDPs

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  V.V. at Sepia Mutiny writes about an initiative of a Sri Lankan diaspora group in the USA who are organizing a fund raising event. The fund will support two charities which are working in the Sri Lankan IDP camps, where approximately 200,000 people are detained.
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• NY Times Profiles DP Benefit Tax Provision in House Health Reform Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Check out the New York Times’ story, “Potentially One Less Tax Penalty for Gay Couples” profiling the provision we’ve told you about in the House version of health care reform that would end the unfair taxation of domestic partner health benefits (similar benefits offered to married spouses are not taxed):This ...
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• Guantanamo Conditions ‘Deteriorate’

  
  Chrisy58's Weblog — Authority: 138
  Published on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Al Jazeera English Guantanamo Conditions ‘Deteriorate’ by Andrew Wander On the night that Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, 21-year-old Mohammed el Gharani was sitting in a segregation cell in Guantanamo Bay’s high security Echo Block.   A year ...
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• Maldives: Girl Slaves

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Codexero dicusses about girl slavery in Maldives.
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• Trevor Phillips faces calls to quit as chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Parliamentary committee accuses Phillips of sanitising internal criticism and having conflicts of interest The embattled chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today faced calls for his resignation after being accused of "sanitising" internal criticism and having conflicts of professional ...
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• New Rand Corp Study on DADT

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  This post is from Jarrod Chlapowski, a U.S. Army veteran who recently joined the Human Rights Campaign to consult on ending the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Having been trained as a Korean linguist and cryptologic voice interceptor, he served in Korea, supporting the 3rd Military Intelligence ...
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• The gay underground railroad in Iraq

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  There’s been widespread anti-gay violence in Iraq this year, and we’ve not heard much about it. Police increased their harassment of homosexuals and bodies of openly gay men were found mutilated on Baghdad streets – the victims of armed militias. Human Rights Watch reports that thousands of gay men have been ...
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• Journalism roundup

  
  The Best Defense — Authority: 646
  Theyre roundingup reporters again in Iran. Since the June 12 "election," "Atleast 100 journalists and bloggers have been arrested ... and 23 are stillbeing held," states a group that tracks journalistic freedom. "At the sametime, around 50 have been forced to flee the country to escape the relentlessrepression." ...
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• johnny cash, indians, and nixon

  
  Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority: 103
  I never heard this one, although I knew that Johnny Cash often stood up for what he believed. a great story on Salon about how Cash brought Indigenous issues to a White House much different than the one with today’s resident. The story was probably sparked by Obama’s invitation to Native Americans to spend a [...]
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• OurFamiliesCount.org Census Campaign Officially Launched

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Today, the Human Rights Campaign joined leaders and advocates among the LGBT community today in the launch of Our Families Count ( www.ourfamiliescount.org ) — a new voluntary public education initiative promoting LGBT visibility and participation in next year’s U.S. Census.  The new 2010 Census education ...
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• Ruling in Bennett case postponed to Wednesday

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 130
  High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu on Tuesday 10 November 2009 once again postponed to Wednesday 11 November 2009 delivery of his ruling in an application in which Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana is seeking to strike out Deputy Agriculture Minister Designate Roy Bennett’s defence outline. Justice ...
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• Shadi Sadr wins 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip Award

  
  womensphere — Authority: 133
  Dear friends Greetings from Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)! We are delighted to announce that Ms. Shadi Sadr is the recipient of the 2009 Tulip Award, the Dutch Human Rights Defenders Award. ‘Shadi Sadr is being awarded the Human Rights Defenders Tulip for her exceptional courage, perseverance and work ...
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• This Hell would be useful!

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 511
  Book Review: The Infernova by S. A. Alenthony Price: US$11.21 Paperback: 220 pages Publisher: Blackburnian Press (August 11, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0981967892 ISBN-13: 978-0981967899 Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the ...
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