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According to the report, the numbers of Ukrainians forced into prostitution “continued to increase” in 2010; women were routinely trafficked to and from the country. The authors listed the countries involved: Russia, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Israel, Greece, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Lebanon, Benin, Tunisia, Cyprus, Aruba, Equatorial Guinea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovakia, Syria, Switzerland, the US, Canada, Belarus … and the UK.
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Five months after former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was toppled by a popular uprising, protesters take to the streets again in one of the biggest days of demonstrations since February. Demonstrators have vowed to take part in a sit-in until the demands of the revolution have been met.
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AN IMAGE processing system that obscures the position from which photographs are taken could help protestors in repressive regimes escape arrest – and give journalists “plausible deniability” over the provenance of leaked photos.
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Inmates in at least 11 of California ’s 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system’s special maximum-security units, officials said Tuesday.
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Post-9/11 inquiry in disarray after revelation that key hearings will be secret and victims will be unable to question intelligence agents…
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Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University, presented “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” the keynote address to “The New History of International Law” lecture series. Sponsored by the Law & History Society and the Center for International & Comparative Law.
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Hedy Epstein of St. Louis will be part of a group of boats sailing in protest of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
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Congress is considering a bill that would federalize E-Verify, creating a single, government-controlled database of highly sensitive, detailed information about every legal worker in the United States.
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The (only) two token cases to be investigated involve the most grotesque brutality imaginable…
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