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Human Rights Watch Damns MONUC in Congo: Leaked UN Internal Memo Supports the Accusations

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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Georgianne Nienaber

What has happened to the innocent in Congo goes far beyond anything that rational minds can comprehend. Is this why the US has turned such a blind eye to what is happening there?

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Iraq: Stop Killings for Homosexual Conduct

Human Rights Watch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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Human Rights Watch

The killings -- committed without evidence or trial, on the basis of prejudice and whim -- violate standards in Sharia law for legality, proof, and privacy.

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Italy Illegal Immigration Crackdown Draws Fire

Huffington Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Unhcr, Libya, Italy Immigration, Berlusconi, Silvio Berlusconi, Foreign Affairs, Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Italy, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Italy Illegal Immigration, Refugees, Advocacy, Italy Iimgration Requirement for Illegal People, Illegal Immigrants in Italy, Immigration Italy, Illegal Imergrants Sanate News 07/15/09, World News

A new law in Italy seeks to impose harsh penalties on illegal immigrants in a country that has been considered a bastion for safe, illegal refuge in E...

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From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 08.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, G-8, Law, Greed, Carbon Emissions, United Nations, Ireland, Globalization, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mary Robinson, Human Rights, Climate Justice, Green Technology, Recession Fears, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seattle, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.

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Somali Refugees, Fleeing War, Face Danger, Abuse In Camps

GlobalPost | Tristan McConnell | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- "Life in Somalia is not life, it is full of bullets; there is no life in Somalia," said 70-year-old Maryam. Before she fled to Ken...

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Yemen hosts African refugees despite economic woes, social problems

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 03.31.2009 | World

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Yemen hosts thousands of African refugees fleeing unrest and poverty in their countries every year - with Somalis topping the list - despite its own e...

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