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Why Madonna May Be Good for Malawi
[caption id="attachment_1987" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Madonna with her son in Malawi last March (c) AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images"][/caption] Madonna’s appeal to a Malawi court regarding her adoption of a little girl was…
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Military Commissions Redux
(As originally posted on Daily Kos) 100 days have come and gone with all the accompanying media hoopla but it increasingly seems like President Obama’s first 24 hours represented the…
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Dear President Obama, When you meet with President Peres …
[caption id="attachment_1949" align="alignleft" width="248" caption="Israeli President, Shimon Peres, speaking to AIPAC at annual conference today."][/caption] Israeli President, Shimon Peres, flew to the United States to give a speech at the…
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Obama salutes Tissainayagam
In his May 1 statement in honor of World Press Freedom Day, President Obama singled out for recognition a few journalists unjustly imprisoned for their work: In every corner of…
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Bloggers are Journalists too
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Shi Tao"][/caption] As some people have alluded to in the comments to this post by the Editors, bloggers are most definitely in need of press freedom…
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New Satellite Images Show Bombardment of Sri Lankan "Safety Zone"
[caption id="attachment_1940" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Suspected site of multiple shelling craters within Civilian Safe Zone (c) Digital Globe 2009 / UNOSAT"][/caption] UNOSAT released new satellite images of the Sri Lanka war…
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The Women of Atenco have waited three years for justice…
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="The women of Atenco calling for justice on the 2nd anniversary of the abuses, one year ago."][/caption] ...and they're still waiting. Yesterday and today mark the…
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Sri Lanka: a question of credibility
If we're to believe the Sri Lankan military, they've killed no civilians during their offensive against the opposition Tamil Tigers in recent months. They claim that the security forces have…
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Roma persecution – Antiziganism – intensifies in Europe
Perhaps the most oppressed people in history, Roma - commonly referred to as Gypsies - have been persecuted since they arrived in Europe in 1300 C.E. The New York Times…
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Does "military logic" dictate civilian deaths in Sri Lanka?
Yesterday, the U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes told a press conference in New York, following his two-day visit to Sri Lanka, that "both sides are pursuing their military logics,…
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Juvenile Offender Executed in Iran This Morning
Amnesty International learned today about the tragic and very unexpected execution of Delara Darabi this morning in Iran. Delara had been given a two month stay of execution by Ayatollah…
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Journalists Risking their Lives
This Sunday, May 3rd, is World Press Freedom Day and you can help push back against governments worldwide who violate fundamental rights to free speech and expression. Some of the…