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March 16, 2007Palestine: Israeli restrictions bring suffering Studies by the UN World Food Program (WFP) and the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights, reported by the BBC and LabourStart, respectively, show that food shortages, unemployment and internal tensions...
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Defend womens rights activists in Iran
March 16, 2007A few days before the world celebrated International Women’s Day, a group of courageous and militant Iranian women gathered peacefully in front of the right-wing clerical regime’s Revolutionary Courts to express their solidarity with other women...
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Making Venezuelas economy scream
March 16, 2007Chilean counter-revolutionaries used human suffering as a tool to bring down President Salvador Allende in 1973. Something similar may be going on in Venezuela now. A Caracas reporter surveying food stores recently found shelves to be...
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China chastises U.S. over human rights
March 16, 2007China’s State Council, or cabinet, last week issued a scathing response to U.S. State Department charges that human rights in China deteriorated last year. Washington made the allegations in its annual “Country Reports on Human Rights...
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Furor over efforts to rewrite history
March 16, 2007“[My] stomach seemed to turn upside down,” said Lee Yong-soo. “I remember crawling towards the bathroom, throwing up as I went along, when I was grabbed by a man and dragged into a cabin. I tried...
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