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• 13,000 killed in Syria since March 2011

  
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  CNewsworld   More than 13,000 people have been killed in Syria since an anti-regime revolt broke out in March last year, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Sunday. "In total, 13,004 people were killed," Abdel Rahman said, adding that 9,183 of them were civilians. Another 3,072 were ...
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• China hits back on U.S. human rights

  
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  China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijings own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents.
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• Syria forces kill at least 90 in Houla

  
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  BEIRUT: The death toll has risen to at least 90 people from shelling by Syrian government forces on the town of Houla in central Homs province, an opposition group said on Saturday.
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• In memoriam of the 25th of May 2006 Massacre Victims and Families

  
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  East Timor Legal News 25 May 2012 Source: East Timor Law Journal - Exactly 6 years ago today, on 25 May 2006, at the height of what has become known as "The 2006 Crisis" in East Timor, a horrifying massacre of unarmed police officers, walking under the protection of the UN, took place right in front of the Justice ...
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• SPECIAL: US State Dept. report on HR in Sri Lanka issued

  
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  | State Department, USA  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ( May 24, 2012, Washington DC, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was reelected to a second six-year term in January 2010, and the parliament, which was elected in April 2010, share ...
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• INDIA: Judgments cannot replace good governance

  
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  | by Bijo Francis ( A statement issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission ) ( May 24, 2012, Hong Kong/ New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) India will be evaluated at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland today. The three countries (Troika) involved in the review are Kuwait, ...
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• 52 Weeks, 52 Changes: The Vow. The Moment. The Future.

  
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  “Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.” -Steve Jobs With a million and one things to accomplish before Graduation Day 2012, my heart had one prayer: “God, give me one moment where I know this has all been YOUR idea.” After putting in so ...
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• UK can decide votes for prisoners

  
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  The European Court of Human Rights says individual governments can decide how to implement a ban on convicted prisoners voting.
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• Bahrain hunger striker attends retrial in wheelchair

  
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  DUBAI: Jailed Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, on hunger strike for more than three months, was brought to court in a wheelchair on Tuesday when the retrial resumed of 13 men imprisoned over protests that rocked the island last year, activists said.
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• TWO Applauds Pan American Health Organization’s Condemnation of “Ex-Gay” Therapy

  
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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 21, 2012 Contact:  Wayne Besen, Executive Director Phone:  917-691-5118 E-mail:  wbesen@truthwinsout.org  PAHO’s Declaration that Conversion Therapy Violates Human Rights is Significant Milestone, Says TWO BURLINGTON, Vt  – Truth Wins Out applauded the Pan ...
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• Resolution of Chen crisis indicates possible maturation in U.S.-China relationship

  
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  For two nations whose exchanges are perennially fraught with tension and distrust, the arrival of blind activist Chen Guangcheng in New York during the weekend marked a tidy conclusion to a month-long diplomatic drama and an encouraging sign for U.S.-Chinese ties. Read full article > >
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• Post war reconciliations, priority areas, checks and balances

  
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  | by Robinhood (May 21, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)   It is been three years since the end of the war there are no visible post war reconciliation has been manifested in the war affected areas in the north of Sri Lanka. Post war reconstruction, rehabilitation, reconciliation and reintegration are ...
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• the 5.12 beichuan incident, nuclear war games, and why the party fears religious organizations

  
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  The Party’s refusal to either share power or make political decision making transparent and open to public debate creates mistrust: just what have they got to hide anyway, inquiring minds want to know. In addition, through its control of cultural resources, including the arts and the right to convene, the Party has ...
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• Syria town shelling ‘kills 34′

  
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  Shelling by Syrian forces kills 34 people, according to the British-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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• Blind Chinese activist arrives in U.S.

  
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  Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month, says he is at a Beijing airport about to board a flight for New York.
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• Master Scholarships in Human Rights and Democratisation, Australia

  
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  Share Tweet 34 Scholarship for Asia pacific countries students Master in Human Rights and Democratization University of Sydney Scholarship Description: The MHRD is a unique Master degree program in which ...
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• Marriage* is dead…and we** have killed it.

  
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  In so many issues and in so many ways, I shun the extremes. My doubting personality deprives me of certainty and surety, and as a result, I vacillate, never sticking firmly in one camp or another. However, there are some issues as well where I have a position, and my doubt isn’t…self-aware..? enough to change ...
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• Report on “Rescuing Human Rights” Conference at UC San Diego

  
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  Tweet Davey, a long time member of the Tikun Olam reader community, lives in San Diego and attended the Rescuing Human Rights program hosted by StandWithUs at UC San Diego this week.  I wrote about the event before it occurred.  His report is below: Stand With Us and Tritons for Israel ...
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• EDITORIAL: WHAT AAMIR KHAN DOES IS GOOD AND IS DONE PERFECTLY

  
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  | by Basil Fernando ( May 16, 2012, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) Aamir Khan is a topmost name in Indias ( Bollywood)  film industry. I am not familiar at all with Indian films in recent times but I know his name, as almost everybody does. I had the opportunity to watch his series Satyamev Jayate (Truth ...
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• Syria rebels kill 23 soldiers in Rastan -group

  
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  BEIRUT: Twenty-three Syrian soldiers were killed in the town of Rastan on Monday in heavy clashes with rebels who destroyed three armoured personnel carriers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Earlier, opposition sources said nine people, including a local rebel commander, were killed in heavy army ...
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