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• Su 2Nd Statement

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
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• when will obama speak out on human rights?

  
  ATLmalcontent — Authority: 137
  China has detained several dissidents ahead of the president’s visit, and it’ll be interesting to see if he takes note. Thus far his silence on human rights abuses has been deafening. (Commenters, please refrain from the hyperbole consistent with Obama Derangement Syndrome.)
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• The Bishops’ Billion-Dollar Business Bonanza

  
  themcglynn.com/theliberal.net — Authority: 143
  As always, follow the money. By: Teddy Partridge Saturday November 14, 2009 5:07 pm Article Overlooked in the discussion of the Catholic Bishops’ heartfelt moral compulsion to intervene in the health care reform debate to ensure no woman assisted with federal dollars ever gets an abortion is the ...
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• Gratitude is an Attitude: Teachings from Cedric Prakash, S.J., a Human Rights Defender from India

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 536
  Last week, I learned from Cedric Prakash, S.J., who currently holds the Marquette University’s Distinguished Wade Chair, that the people of India do not have words to express the concept of “thank you.”   Culturally, their orientation comes from a place of non-possession that makes recognition for giving ...
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• China detains dissidents ahead of US visit

  
  themcglynn.com/theliberal.net — Authority: 143
  Separately, some of the activists who spoke to the FT said the Chinese government had handpicked six students from Shanghai’s elite Jiaotong University to participate in a “town hall” meeting that Mr Obama hopes to hold with young Chinese in Shanghai on Monday. By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing, FT Article ...
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• SAME we can believe in: Obama administration grants Defense Secty. new powers to block release of detainee abuse photo

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 886
  SAME WE CAN BELIEVE IN: The Obama administration has granted Defense Secty. Robert Gates new powers to block the release of 21 color photos showing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans. The ACLU sued for release of the images. Federal courts previously rejected attempts to keep them secret. ...
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• Sumatra hunger strike: the last recourse for a forest community

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 475
  Here in Riau, Indonesia, signs of the struggle to save the last of Sumatra’s forest is everywhere. Daily, the papers cover stories of timber and oil palm companies destroying forests, engaging in corruption, driving land conflicts, sponsoring violence, and marginalizing indigenous peoples. Today, on the way to a ...
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• Cell Phones Become Handheld Tools For Global Development

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone ...
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• The Wall Street Journal on Obama, China, and Chongo-Ri (Bumped)

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 521
  So, if you’re coming here from the Wall Street Journal editorial to see the satellite images of Chongo-ri, you’ll find them here . You might also want to read more about North Korea’s labor camp system and what happens to people who enter those camps. We’re about to find out whether President Obama ...
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• C. Sinclair: Refugees of Boom-and-Bust

  
  AMNP — Authority: 136
  “At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.”.:via->TED TalksRelated posts:Zaha ‘Sonned’ by Cameron ...
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• Obama Has Time for Immigration but Not DADT and DOMA?

  
  From the Left — Authority: 474
  Sunday, November 15, 2009 President Obama has moved immigration reform to the top of his to-do list and well before the all-important 2010 midterms. The New York Times reports: The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes ...
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• BN government is waging a war of revenge against the Indian community ?

  
  Rojak and Cocktail — Authority: 124
  Ipoh Barat DAP secretary P. Sugumaran has accused the Barisan Nasional (BN) government of waging a war of revenge against the Indian community by ordering the police to kill suspected criminals, saying that the police had no right to pass judgement without first asking them to surrender. “Their actions are ...
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• Azerbaijan: More reaction to video blogger trial verdict

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 722
  Days after the sentencing of two video blogging youth activists in Azerbaijan, other bloggers are starting to speak out about the imprisonment of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli . The two online activists will spend 2 and 2.5 years in jail after a trial which most consider to be politically motivated and an attempt ...
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• Rights Groups Flood Obama With Advice On China Trip

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 144
  ‘Tis the season for human rights activists to issue statements about China. With President Obama arriving in Shanghai late Sunday to start his first state visit here, a host of groups are trying to use the trip to call attention to issues they say get short shrift in U.S.-China relations.
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• Human Rights Defenders Concerned Over Media Laws in Rwanda

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRD-Net) has called on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) to ask the Government of Rwanda to remove all criminal sanctions of press offenses and introduce legal reforms in line with national, regional and international standards. ...
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• freedom trash

  
  detritus. — Authority: 131
  Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners. Jessica Valenti of Feministing.com in the Sunday New York Times Magazine . NPR ...
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• Zelaya’s Letter to Obama – Rough English Translation

  
  Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras — Authority: 546
  PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC From the Desk ofMr PresidentTegucigalpa, November 14, 2009S. E.BARACK OBAMAU.S. PRESIDENTWashington D. C.Dear President Obama:When we met for the first time on July 8 with the Secretary of StateClinton after the coup was left clear to me and to the world theObama administration’s position ...
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• Zelaya’s Letter to Obama (Spanish)

  
  Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras — Authority: 546
  PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPUBLICA Del Escritorio de Señor Presidente Tegucigalpa, 14 de Noviembre de 2009 S. E.BARACK OBAMAPRESIDENTE EEUUWashington D. C. Estimado Presidente Obama: Cuando nos reunimos por primera vez el 8 de julio con la Secretaria de Estado Clinton después del Golpe de Estado se dejo claro ante mi y ...
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• Peru: Blind Lawyer Strives to Be Judge

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 722
  Edwin Béjar Rojas is a 30 year-old lawyer, and resident of the city of Cusco, Perú. Since the age of 17, Mr. Béjar has been dealing with visual impairment, yet that has not been an obstacle for him to achieve important goals in his professional life. He graduated first of his class from San Antonio Abad ...
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• Divorce in America: End of the American Dream

  
  TNTalk! America. — Authority: 92
  Anti-father and feminist sources indicate that in a nationally representative sample of 11-to-16-year-old children living with their mothers, almost half had not seen fathers in the last 12 months. Protagonists of the nation’s fathers indicate that the nation (United States) has seen an increased refusal of fathers ...
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