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Wives Say Jailed Belarusian Opposition Activists Lives Endangered
The wives and fiancee of three jailed Belarusian opposition politicians say their lives are at risk, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. The three women told journalists in Minsk on November 1 that...
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West Papua’s ‘Arab Spring’
It was not in the headlines, but our neighbourhood has had its own ‘Arab Spring’. The Melanesian people of Indonesian-controlled West Papua, have shown the same determination to pursue non-violent...
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NAACP Banquet Honors Freedom Riders
Fifty years ago they brought civil disobedience to the civil rights movement, and Saturday, they were honored for their bravery. Nearly a dozen Freedom Riders were honored Saturday night at the 38th...
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Activist leading fight against Uganda’s anti-gay bill wins RFK Human Rights...
A gay rights activist in Uganda, where a bill that would punish gays with prison or death has stirred worldwide outrage, received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in Washington on Thursday....
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In India, love tests world’s longest hunger strike
Irom Sharmila vows to keep up her fast, now in its 11th year, to protest a law granting legal immunity to India’s armed forces. But Irom, who has a suitor, also dreams of a normal life, and love....
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CHILE: Student Protests Spread Throughout Region
In support of Chile’s ongoing student protests, and voicing their own demands, thousands of people took to the streets in more than a dozen cities in Latin America Thursday demanding quality public...
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The Personal Is Political
Saudi women are divided about whether the country’s rulers should ease restrictive gender policies, but as Eman Al Nafjan writes in Foreign Policy, there are «hundreds, if not thousands, of Saudi...
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UAE: Jail Sentences for Five Activists
The day after the court decisions were made, Attorney Mohammed al-Roken told The Associated Press the public prosecutor’s office confirmed President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s pardon of the five...
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There are tentative signs that the people of Ethiopia are beginning to organise themselves and stand up against the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government, a brutal...
View ArticleNew Orleans’ New Civil Rights Leaders
Like many cities in the South, New Orleans has a proud history of civil rights leadership—along with an equally grim history of civil rights violations. That history is repeating itself today. The...
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Civil Rights Organizers Ask: Where Do We Go From Here?
Older organizers and young activists gather to discuss ways to sustain the #BlackLivesMatter movement in New York. As the cold January wind blew through Manhattan last Friday, some of New York’s...
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A Teachers’ Day Protest in Mexico City Brings an Army of Police into the Streets
Wednesday, 20 May 2015 10:5 Last Friday afternoon in Mexico City, I was waiting for a friend, a dedicated human and civil rights activist for many years in Mexico. He was going to tell me about his...
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