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  • Group Documents Sexual Assaults in Iran Postelection Crackdown 7 Nov 2009 02:31 GMT
    ... , accused Iran's judiciary of covering up the abuses ... tied. In a third case, a 21-year-old woman arrested July 30 told the group that ... commanders and freed prisoners that male and female detainees had been savagely raped by their ...

  • Secretary Clinton Speaks at No Limits Public Policy Conference Luncheon 7 Nov 2009 15:35 GMT
    ... of the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make every day. It is difficult ... to be said, that women's rights are human rights, as well. (Applause.) And as Terry said, ... Terry said, there are many friends from New York who worked with me and stood with ...

  • Two Held in Killings of Russian Lawyer, Reporter (Yesterday) 7 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... a pall over Russia's dwindling circle of human rights activists. Prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrest ... on disappointed and disaffected young men and women. About 2,000 nationalist sympathizers gathered Wednesday in ... was convicted of murdering a young Chechen woman. Mr. Markelov had vowed to block the ...

  • Office shooting...Mass shooting probe...Airplane falls apart 7 Nov 2009 00:32 GMT
    ... » View Picture » Play Video » ORLANDO, Fla. ... cases of sexual assault against male and female detainees arrested during Iran's postelection turmoil. Human ... dropped. NEW YORK (AP) — A government spokeswoman says an engine tailcone fell off a ...

  • International Prosecutor to Seek Inquiry Into Kenya Violence (Yesterday) 7 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... Into Kenya Violence By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, The New York Times NAIROBI, Kenya -- Members of the ... Several of the prime suspects, accused by human rights groups of masterminding the violence, are high-ranking ... of the most unsettling moments, dozens of women and children huddling in a church in western ...

  • Karzai Faces Pressure To Confront Corruption Menace 7 Nov 2009 00:55 GMT
    ... put the lives of British men and women in harm's way for a government that does ... by the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, up to one-fifth of all the ... are often run by warlords responsible for human rights abuses in the country. Ehsanullah Aryanzai, who ...

  • A Rebel Stronghold in Myanmar on Alert (Yesterday) 7 Nov 2009 06:13 GMT
    ... Alert By THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, The New York Times MONG HPEN, Myanmar -- Conquering armies ... are afraid the Burmese soldiers will rape women." Even with their significant forces the Wa ... go in and attack people and create human rights violations as they have in the past," ...

  • Imprisoned Iranian Women Refuse to Deny Their Faith 6 Nov 2009 14:16 GMT
    ... (christiansunite.com) -- On August 9 two Christian women appeared before an Iranian judge who asked them ... Evin prison has received criticism for its human rights violations and executions in recent years. On ... permanent representative to the United Nations in New York City. The email messages will be sent ...

  • How Two Elections Changed America 6 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... Besides putting into power iconic Republican leaders, Richard ... a different direction. He called for elevating human rights as an American foreign policy priority and ... met a small, intense and deeply worried woman whose life had been turned upside down. The ...

  • Baluchistan International Conference in USA on Nov. 21: By Ahmar Mustikhan 6 Nov 2009 15:54 GMT
    ... A number of international activists, scholars and human rights practitioners will be participating in the first-ever ... Wendy works as a graphic designer in New York. She and her husband Albert Larew manage ... He recalls Pakistan military brutality saying Baloch women were used as 'comfort women' in military custody ...

  • Honduran Accord Solidifies Coup D'Etat Rule 6 Nov 2009 14:45 GMT
    ... kidnappings, and nationwide intimidation; according to the human rights NGO Comite de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos ... COFADEH), torturing and sodomizing men and gang-raping women; reactivating the infamous Battalion 316, the CIA-created ... the ouster a coup. On October 30, New York Times writers Ginger Thompson and Elisabeth Malkin ...

  • Two Held in Killings of Russian Lawyer, Reporter (Today) 6 Nov 2009 09:08 GMT
    ... a pall over Russia's dwindling circle of human rights activists. Prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrest ... on disappointed and disaffected young men and women. About 2,000 nationalist sympathizers gathered Wednesday in ... was convicted of murdering a young Chechen woman. Mr. Markelov had vowed to block the ...

  • Fouad Arif of Morocco's Al-Aoula TV Interviews Hillary Rodham Clinton 6 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
    ... Clinton underscored the recent gains by Moroccan women, more than 3,000 of them being elected ... reforms across the board - social, economic, human rights, and more specifically, women's rights. I would ... for when I was a senator from New York, is a modern example of this very ...

  • Virginia, New Jersey elect Catholic governors 6 Nov 2009 04:32 GMT
    ... WASHINGTON — Republicans won the two governor's races ... the union of one man and one woman," Bishop Malone added. "I trust that those ... its commitment to work for the basic human rights to which all people are entitled, it ...

  • LAPD has cleared two-thirds of its rape kit backlog 6 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
    ... rape kits after coming under pressure from women's rights groups and City Council members to ... from a range of public officials and human rights groups in recent years. Earlier this year, ... Watch, an international human-rights group based in New York, issued a lengthy report criticizing the LAPD, ...


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