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Sri Lanka: what price "stability"?
In an interview published today in The Nation, a Sri Lankan newspaper, Mahinda Samarasinghe, the Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, claimed that an international investigation into abuses committed by…
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Easterly on Amnesty's Poverty and Human Rights Campaign
Just a word of introduction as this is my first post here. My name's Sameer Dossani and I'm the campaign director for the Demand Dignity Campaign, our campaign to address…
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Sri Lanka: need stronger action by U.N.
I have to say I'm disappointed. Today, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefed members of the Security Council in an informal session about his May 22 visit to Sri Lanka. The…
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Connecticut Is Wrong To Veto Death Penalty Abolition Bill
I am extremely disappointed that Governor M. Jodi Rell today vetoed HB 6578, which would have abolished the death penalty in Connecticut. Governor Rell’s veto of this legislation represents a…
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Guinea-Bissau: Look Kids…Big Ben, Parliament
Just in case you think the odds are slim that two government figures would be assassinated within a 48 hour period not just once, but twice, think again. And not only…
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Whatever happened to American leadership?
[caption id="attachment_2327" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="(c) US DoD"][/caption] Yesterday the Council of the European Union, made up of ministers from all 27 EU countries, agreed to allow former Guantanamo inmates cleared…
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Obama's Speech and the Arab Reaction
In the immediate aftermath of President Obama’s speech today in Cairo, the heavy web traffic of discussion among Arab activists was divided essentially into two camps. One person claimed that…
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Iranian Presidential Debate Heats Up
Last night turned into a fiery exchange of words during the second of several debates lined up ahead of next week's presidential election. While there currently no English translations available…
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A New Hope?
Nearly twenty years ago Troy Davis was convicted of killing a Georgia police officer. As has become well known, the case against him has grown weaker and weaker as seven…
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(Trying Not to) Remember Tiananmen
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="141" caption="© 1989 Hei Han Khiang"][/caption] It seems Chinese authorities were busy today. While people around the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations and…
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Going Beyond Headlines
[caption id="attachment_2236" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="IFC Films"][/caption] The Lemon Tree is a 2008 Israeli film follows a Palestinian woman’s fight to keep her lemon grove to the Israeli High Court. Released…
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200th Execution under one Governor
With the execution of Terry Lee Hankins last night, Texas Governor Rick Perry has reached a pretty apalling benchmark: 200 executions in his eight and a half years as governor. …