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Unfazed by fear of being arrested, Saudi female activists are preparing to test a traditional ban on women driving by getting behind the wheel, despite stern…
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Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
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Maher Arar’s story should be a warning to anyone who thinks that the evidence of torture is always obvious. Democratic stats have long used ‘clean’ torture when worried about bad publicity.
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Bahrain Center for Human Rights voices its deep concern over Bahrain’s non-stop assault on freedom of speech, expression and publishing. These attacks have been evident in the authorities’ brutal attack on Bahraini photographers, by firing them from their jobs, assaulting them on duty and arresting them, merely for their involvement in documenting the events of Bahrain’s revolution, which exposed severe human rights violations by the government of Bahrain against protesters.
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Survey shows Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and Somalia also fail females, with rape, poverty and infanticide rife (Top worst countries where basic #humanrights are denied to women http://bit.ly/kEKATA…)…
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Human Rights Watch found that immigrants in federal detention centers were often transferred multiple times, far from their families and advocates, prolonging their time in custody.
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Syria’s tragedy is that it lies at the center of so many clashing interests and agendas, very few of them, if any, seem compatible with the interests of the protesters who are yearning fighting and dying for freedom.
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On Nov. 12, 2008, the right-to-know community published a set of detailed transparency recommendations for President-elect Barack Obama and Congress. Those recommendations, titled Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda, were developed over a two-year period with input from more than 100 groups and individuals.
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A possible execution is in the offing, but the nation’s handful of known hangmen have either died, retired or disappeared.
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The Internet barter system known as “Bitcoin,” which makes it difficult for law enforcement to monitor online transactions, has raised the ire of two U.S. Senators who learned recently about a new website that lets Bitcoin users buy and sell illegal drugs.
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