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• U.S. Warns against International Efforts to Criminalize Homosexuality

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 551
  Although her subordinate Eric Goosby seemed to defend no-strings aid to Uganda last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this afternoon said international efforts to criminalize homosexuality are “unacceptable.” It remains unclear to what extent this policy will affect U.S. foreign aid for HIV/AIDS ...
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• Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

  
  Luciole Press Blog — Authority: 148
    Wrong Number Miracle Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter money By ERIC S. PAGE Mon, Nov 30, 2009   Virginia Saenz could hear the desperation in the voice of the telephone message. It was 5 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and ...
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• Support Same-Sex Marriage in Mexico City

  
  Akimbo — Authority: 546
  We’d like to promote an exciting initiative being put forth by a group of activists and organizations- including Grupo Lesbico Universitario , pictured above- working for a LGBT rights agenda in the Mexico City Legislative Congress.  These advocates have joined forces to support and promote a reform to Article 146 ...
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• Council on Foreign Relations Publishes “Public Opinion on Global Issues”

  
  Opinio Juris — Authority: 589
  by Peggy McGuinness The just-released CFR web publication “Public Opinion on Global Issues” offers one-stop shopping for those looking for public opinion surveys across a range of transnational policy issues.  The overview explains how CFR and the Univ. of Maryland consolidated all publicly available ...
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• Announcing the Voices of Honor Campaign

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This post is from Jarrod Chlapowski, a U.S. Army veteran who is working with the Human Rights Campaign 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 Battalion on more ...
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• Afghan policy a litmus test for realism vs rights?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  The Taliban may be a serial repeat offender of human rights in general and of women’s rights, but moral considerations are not looming large in current debates about Afghan strategy.President Barack Obama’s address speech tomorrow provides an opportunity not only to make the case for sending more troops to ...
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• Zimbabwe

  
  Floating Life — Authority: 427
  While we all wait here in Oz to see how the Liberal Party’s three ring circus pans out – see entry above – I thought I’d mention a story I caught on BBC World Service last night. I went straight to the relevant site this morning.Washington, DC – President Barack Obama and Ethel Kennedy presented [...]
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• Hindus and Jews ask Slovakia to apologize to Roma women victims of forced sterilization

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Following Czech Prime Minister’s landmark “regret” over involuntary sterilization of Roma women, Hindus and Jews have asked Slovakia also to accept the responsibility, offer “apology” and provide adequate financial compensation to the victims.Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. ...
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• Gazan farmers killing Gazan children

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 594
  (via DL), we hear this bad news : Water in the Gaza Strip is so salty that it is unfit for human consumption... ...the amount taken from underground aquifers last year to supply 1.5 million people with drinking water and for agriculture was 160 million cubic metres, but that natural replenishment was 80-90 million ...
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• Write-a-Thon Series: Musaad Abu Fagr

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 127
  This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series . For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ © AI Musaad Abu Fagr A State of Emergency has existed in Egypt since 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, but these days the greatest emergency in Egypt is the state of ...
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• Honduras, Fictional Election

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 476
  There is no attempt to make this believable, like a Disneyland management committee they don’t have to, they just imagineer the make believe for a captive audience and count the money. And any trouble, the guards take care of that and nice hacks pretend not to notice and write- Lobo Wins Peaceful Honduran Election ...
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• Iran: Internal IRGC Coup?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 439
  In response to an  IAEA resolution  criticizing Iran’s failure to cooperate with its nuclear program (see here for  full text ),  Iran has declared it will no longer  voluntarily cooperate  with the IAEA and  announced  its intention to build 10 new  nuclear enrichment sites . In addition, one conservative ...
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• Discrimination keeps Palestinian women out of Israels workforce

  
  Electronic Intifada : Palestine — Authority: 585
  Israels finance minister was accused last week of trying to deflect attention from discriminatory policies keeping many of the countrys Palestinian Arab families in poverty by blaming their economic troubles on what he described as Arab societys opposition to women working. Jonathan Cook reports.
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• U.S. too timid in supporting Arab democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 432
  Are Arab democrats and reformists losing confidence in the Obama administration? A recent spate of articles would suggest so.The U.S. is committed to using “principled engagement” to promote democracy in the Arab and wider Muslim world, Michael Posner, assistant US secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, ...
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• War, not ‘reconstruction’ in Afghanistan

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 148
  This video from the USA is called Rethink Afghanistan War (Part 5): Women of Afghanistan. By Lizzie Cocker in Britain: Billions go to waste in Afghan rebuilding Monday 30 November 2009 A disproportionate amount of aid in Afghanistan is being used to fight resistance to the occupation rather than being ...
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• World requires radical new economic models to fight poverty and mitigate global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new report calls for a radical re-envisioning of current economic models in order to tackle poverty, mitigate and adapt to climate change, and solve other environmental problems. The report was crafted by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and ...
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• Illegitimate Honduran Elections Go Forward--With US Support

  
  myMADRE — Authority: 418
  Honduras illegitimate acting government went forward with presidential elections Sunday despite widespread belief that a rogue regime could not hold valid elections. The United States, Panama and Costa Rica were among the few countries saying that they would recognize the results of elections held by the de facto ...
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• ‘It’s like Rwanda’: UN expert on Maguindanao massacre

  
  ellen tordesillas — Authority: 137
  by Romel Regalado Bagares COTABATO CITY.–Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar didn’t like what he saw when he visited for the first time Sunday the massacre site in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town. It reminded me of something—it’s just like Rwanda,” said Dr. Baraybar after spending a few ...
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• Fair Trade Christmas Lists and Links

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  So the stores are playing Christmas music and down here in Texas the highs are only the 70s and 80s, so the holiday season must be upon us. But as we gear up for the celebrations, the spiritual reflections, and…
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• News: Tiger Woods, ENDA, Catholic Church, Jake Gyllenhaal, Burj

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 752
  Human Rights Campaign refuses to comment on ENDA delay, accuses journalist Rex Wocker of being "out of touch" with groups efforts. Operas "barihunks" get some attention . Jake Gyllenhaal may or may not be a single man . L.A. Times condemns Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox signers of ...
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