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Haiti cholera protester shot dead by UN peacekeepers 0

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Post Views: 5 At least one man has been shot dead in clashes with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, amid a continuing cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900 people. UN troops fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators throwing stones

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Women Protest PM Erdo?an in Women’s Meeting 0

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Post Views: 4 Women protested PM Erdo?an at the International Women’s Istanbul Meeting for having said that “men and women are not equal”. Pointing to women murders they said, “”More of us are being killed when you say we are

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INDONESIA: LEFT WITHOUT A CHOICE: BARRIERS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN INDONESIA 0

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Post Views: 10 Many Indonesian women and girls, especially those from poor and marginalised communities, struggle to achieve reproductive health in the face of discriminatory laws, policies and practices, a new report by Amnesty International says.

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Italy urged to stop mass expulsions 0

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Post Views: 9 Amnesty International is calling on the Italian authorities to investigate urgently whether 68 people rescued at sea and then forcibly returned to Egypt within 48 hours were given the opportunity to apply for international protection. The 68

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MI6 chief Sawers: we have nothing to do with torture and rights abuses 0

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Post Views: 11 MI6 chief Sir John Sawers says that MI6 avoids actions leading to torture – but wants courts banned from disclosing info from service or CIA Richard Norton-Taylor MI6 has declined to pass on information about individuals to

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Chaos over restraint rules for deportees 0

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Post Views: 3 Home Office accused of flip-flop on use of restraints after death of Angolan asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga Paul Lewis, Matthew Taylor and Owen Bowcott  Jimmy Mubenga died after being ‘heavily restrained’ for a deportation flight to Angola.

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Chaos over restraint rules for deportees 0

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Post Views: 6 Home Office accused of flip-flop on use of restraints after death of Angolan asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga Paul Lewis, Matthew Taylor and Owen Bowcott  Jimmy Mubenga died after being ‘heavily restrained’ for a deportation flight to Angola.

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Tariq Aziz sentenced to death 0

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Post Views: 11 Former deputy PM of Saddam Hussein issued with execution order by high tribunal for persecution of Islamic parties   An Iraqi court handed down the death sentence against Aziz for his role in eliminating Islamic parties [AFP] Iraq’s

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Moscow mayor urged to protect freedom of assembly 0

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Post Views: 5     Sergei Sobyanin succeeded Yury Luzhkov as mayor of Moscow on 21 October   © AP Graphics Amnesty International is calling on the new mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, to protect the right to peaceful assembly after the

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Seren Yüce unveils the herds of patriarchy in Ço?unluk 0

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Post Views: 4 EM?NE YILDIRIM  ?STANBUL  Seren Yüce’s Alt?n Portakal-winning debut feature “Ço?unluk” (The Majority) is a hard slap in the face — a well-deserved and succinct one that reminds us of the macro social realities of Turkish society through

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