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Human Rights
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Human Rights for All – Even Thatcher and Bin Laden

Since news broke about the death of Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, celebrations have en widespread on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and in real life. Similar scenes were played out in 2011 when Osama Bin Laden ...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Human Rights

A Brutal Account of the Syrian Civil War (Warning: Graphic Content)

On Oct. 28, 2012, journalist Olly Lambert was filming an interview with a Syrian rebel leader in the village of al-Bara for FRONTLINE, a government airstrike hit barely 300 meters from where he was filming. Keeping the cameras ...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights
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The Future for Education is Choice

When educational leaders claim that the Future of Education is in Choice, they are spot on. The new global information age will level the playing field for education across the world. As we speak, thousands of teenagers browse ...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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Human Rights

Girls Are Told Not to Leave Kyrgyzstan

A Kyrgyz MP has proposed a new draft decree that would ban girls under 23 years of age from leaving the country without parental consent. Yrgal Kadyralieva calls the decree she is pushing through the parliament ‘SapargulR...
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Educating Women

WATCH: The Girl Who Demanded School

When she was 12, Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: she would undergo the Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. If she had run away Ntaiya’s father would have been s...
by Natasha Lipman
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Cameroon
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Legal Job Trafficking in Sweden

Over the past two years 47 Cameroonians have gone to Sweden to work with tree plantation in the northern forests. They were all expecting to return to their families with enough money to pay off debts, invest and start a better...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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China
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China’s Red Army Returns Online and Hunts Students

In China’s Southern Guangdong province, the local government honored the Guangdong Baiyun University for its ‘excellent work’ in monitoring activities and opinions of students online, according to the Nandu Daily [z...
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Human Rights

Too Little, Too Late: The Cambodian Genocide Trial

The tribunal that was supposed to deliver justice for those killed under the Khmer Rouge has been dealt – quite literally – a deadly blow. The death last week of one of the few remaining on trial for crimes committed under ...
by Neil Andrews
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Brazil
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Brazil Violently Ousts Indigenous Village Ahead of World Cup

Brazilian riot police violently evicted a group of indigenous people from a former museum they had occupied in Rio de Janeiro to make way for 2014 World Cup construction. Baton-wielding police agents stormed the one-time Museum...
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