Human Rights
Pakistan rallies around Malala Yousafzai
October 16, 2012The 15-year-old Pakistani woman gravely wounded in a Taliban attack, has come to symbolize a broadening struggle in that country, against the extremist views the Taliban seeks to enforce there.
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Brazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses
May 29, 2012Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
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U.S. military takes on Honduras
May 29, 2012The drug "war" is used to justify U.S. military intervention in Honduras, now a way station for drugs moving from South America to U.S. consumers.
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VIDEO Depicted as gorilla, African American doctor sues UCLA for racism
May 23, 2012A respected African American faculty surgeon filed a racial discrimination suit against the UCLA Medical Center and UC Regents after they refused to take action on blatant acts of racism.
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U.S. intransigence on Cuban Five prisoners a high stakes game
May 22, 2012With appeals all but exhausted, the only hope for relief of unremitting judicial abuse of the Cuban Five lies with President Barack Obama.
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