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• African leaders advise Bono on reform of U2, warn of poverty in "listenable songs"

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  "An expert commission of African leaders today announced their plan for comprehensive reform of the rock band U2." (via Ethan Zuckerman)
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• Líder Indígena Miguel Palacín llega de Perú para Evento Comunitario en New York / Indigenous Leader from Peru Visits NYC to Speak at Community Event

  
  Peruanista — Authority: 416
  This is a bilingual post, the English version at the end of this post.Líder Indígena de Perú visita New York para hablar en Evento ComunitarioPeruanos En Acción & Trade Justice New York Metro invitan cordialmente a la Comunidad Latino Americana al Diálogo Abierto con Miguel Palacín líder de la Coordinadora ...
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• Beyonces Big Bling Is Destroying the Planet -- Seriously

  
  Asylum — Authority: 736
  Filed under: Politics , Style , News , Weird Science Forget everything Al Gore has ever told us -- it turns out that its Beyoncé whos destroying the Earth. Or at least the huge pieces of gold bling hanging from her ears.Thats because celebrity gold-buying habits are just about as detrimental ... Read more ...
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• China Jails Activist Who Challenged Government on Earthquake Deaths

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 816
  A veteran Chinese human rights activist who challenged the government over the faulty construction of schools that led to thousands of deaths in a 2008 earthquake has been sentenced the three years in prison, the Washington Post reports . Huang Qi was convicted of possessing secret state documents, and received ...
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• "Witness" to Timor murders steps forward

  
  East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin — Authority: 137
  http://teamuzunovmedia.blogspot.com/ Saturday, November 21, 2009 "WITNESS" TO TIMOR MURDERS Explosive allegation: WITNESS’ TO TIMOR MURDERS STEPS FORWARDby Sasha UzunovA man who claims he was an Australian soldier on the East Timor-Indonesia border and viewed through binoculars but was powerless to stop the brutal ...
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• Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  Britain is full of license-plate cameras, cameras used to send you tickets if youre caught speeding, or driving in the bus-lane, or entering Londons "congestion-charge zone" without paying the daily fee for driving in central London. And because of Chekhovs first law of narrative ("a gun on the mantelpiece in act one ...
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• Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 473
  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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• Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group (AFP)

  
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  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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• The Human Rights Council marks 20th anniversary on the Rights of the Child

  
  RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution — Authority: 441
  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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• UN blasts Iran’s human rights violations (AFP)

  
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  AFP – A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for “serious, ongoing and recurring” human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections. More here:  (AFP)"> (AFP)">UN blasts Iran’s human rights violations (AFP)
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• Pro-Democracy on the other blog

  
  www.un-understand.co.uk — Authority: 115
  A serious post after yesterdays frivolous one. While I was in Aoyama today, I saw a group of demonstrators outside the United Nations University raising awareness about Aung San Suu Kyis imprisonment. The picture is here Free Burma Coalition
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• Outrage grows over Indias massive ID plan

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 887
  Last week, Wikileaks published what were previously secret documents on a plan to create a unique ID for every single citizen in India -- thats more than a billion IDs, and would be the largest such project in world history. Now, the government agency tasked with implementing that plan is facing widespread backlash.
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• Torturing Afghan Prisoners: Blind and Dangerous

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 488
  As most (Canadian) readers are probably aware by now (American readers will probably still be interested), yesterday, a senior Canadian diplomat, Richard Colvin, testified to Members of Parliament that Canadian Soldiers regularly detained innocent Afghan citizens and then handed them over to Afghan authorities who ...
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• Please Petition Christian Leaders to Oppose Uganda’s Planned Slaughter of LGBT Citizens

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 567
  U.S. and Uganda evangelicals continue to drive legislation to imprison and execute LGBT and HIV-positive Ugandans. The “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” would also require long jail terms for pastors, doctors, friends, and family members who fail to report loved ones to the authorities. And the bill would criminalize ...
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• New remedies in respect of enhanced CRB disclosures

  
  The Social Care Experts Blog — Authority: 417
   by Allan Norman One of the first decisions of the new UK Supreme Court L, R (on the application of) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2009] UKSC 3 (29 October 2009) will offer some welcome reprieve to social care workers and would-be social care workers who have discovered the devastating effects of ...
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• Amnesty International USA: Obama says free Suu Kyi

  
  RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution — Authority: 441
  This past weekend, in the first meeting of its kind to ever take place with a sitting U.S. President, President Obama met with the 10 leaders of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and called for action on human rights...
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• Sado Monarchism by Paul Baines

  
  Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines — Authority: 417
  Sado Monarchism (44" x 55") by Paul Baines is the twelfth limited edition digital print in the Indoor Street Art series available here . Britain offers no real human rights. We are subjects of the Queen who is legally nothing more than a token figurehead for a fractured democracy. We live under the rule of ...
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• Obama, Hu show cooperation but divisions remain (AP)

  
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  AP – President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. See the rest here:  ...
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• Obama, Hu show cooperation — and differences (AP)

  
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  AP – President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. Original post: ...
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• Obama, Hu show cooperation — and differences (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 473
  AP – President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. Originally posted here:  ...
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