Libyan authorities should seize a historic opportunity to promote and protect women’s rights as the country transitions from four decades of dictatorship, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The parliament, government, and other bodies should ensure that women can participate actively and equally in the drafting of the new constitution and [...]
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In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called “conservative” Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the “No Child Left Behind” act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law [...]
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By Jack David The moral core of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was expressed in a question the president posed in his historic speech of March 23, 1983. He asked the nation: “Wouldn’t it be better to save lives than avenge them?” In reply to his own question, Reagan proposed a new policy for [...]
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By Hassan Beheshtipour The new Iran Safeguards Report released by Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano is, in fact, repetition of his past periodical reports which have been presented to Board of Governors of the IAEA every three months. This time, however, Mr. Amano has pointed to four major technical achievements [...]
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Torture allegations against the treatment of Palestinians detainees in Israeli prisons make headlines again. Few days after his arrest, Arafat Jaradat died in Israeli custody. On 27 February 2013, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, called for an international investigation on the death of Palestinian prisoner [...]
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Malaysia’s much anticipated 13th general election saw a rise in citizen participation. This poses a new challenge for the country’s political elite: how to respond to this change. By Yeap Su Yin WHILE MALAYSIA’S 13th general election saw an intense contest between the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) and the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) what is [...]
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A top Bahraini court upheld a 15-year jail term for 14 demonstrators on Monday after they were convicted of killing a Pakistani in Manama during the 2011 uprising, a judicial source said. The Court of Cassation announced its verdict in the presence of 12 of the accused, the source said, adding that the remaining two [...]
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(RFE/RL) — A wave of deadly bombings has hit predominantly Shi’ite neighborhoods of Baghdad, the latest attacks in a monthlong surge of violence across Iraq. At least 33 people were reported killed and dozens wounded in the May 27 blasts, which tore through busy markets and streets across the capital. No one has claimed responsibility, [...]
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The transformation within the global world and speed are key concepts nowadays…. Turkey, with its proactive foreign policy, is trying both to respond to the transformation and its speed and also to contribute to democratisation and peace. There may still be a long way to go, but one can say that for now the picture [...]
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RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin is countering foreign criticism of his pro-Assad policy and Russia’s declining credibility in sections of Arab public opinion by forging ties with Islamist detractors. In a move that serves both Putin’s domestic and Russia’s foreign interests, a cross section of Islamist and secular political opinion in the Middle East and North [...]
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By Namrata Hasija A report released on 14 May, 2013 by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) about sex workers in China has brought the dismal conditions of sex workers in the country into the limelight, and has revived the debate regarding their rights and also the atrocities inflicted on them by higher authorities. What are [...]
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By Shanta-Maree Surendran The Rohingya crisis continues and is spreading beyond Myanmar. Reports detail the flight of individuals and families, seeking asylum in neighbouring nations and further afar. Described as an ‘unwanted people’, no government leaders willing to lend them a voice, and nations unwilling to give them refuge, the Rohingya have been afforded representation [...]
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(EurActiv) — Mexico, which sees itself as a privileged US partner, is concerned about the possible consequences of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Spanish MEP Ricardo Cortés Lastra told EurActiv in an interview. Cortés Lastra, who is the author of the report on the basis of which the European Parliament Resolution “On defining [...]
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Republican Senator John McCain, a staunch advocate of US military aid to the Syrian opposition, has made a surprise visit to war-torn Syria and met with rebels. The controversial move comes as Russia and the US are trying to set up a peace conference. According to a report by the Daily Beast, Arizona Senator McCain [...]
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More than 70 people were killed on Monday in a wave of bombings targeting Shi’ite shopping districts across Baghdad, Reuters reported. More than a dozen blasts rocked markets and retail zones across the Iraqi capital, inckuding a twin car bomb attack that killed at least 13 people in thr Sadr district, Reuters quoted hospital and [...]
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Representatives of the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have described the agreement over agrarian reform, the most complex problem of the peace negotiations underway in Havana, as the “beginning of a radical transformation of rural Colombia”. The agreement, described as “historic” by Radio Caracol and most of the Colombian media, [...]
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In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur’s time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal. This makes cement a semi-conductor and opens up its use in the profitable consumer electronics marketplace for thin films, protective coatings, and computer chips. “This new material has [...]
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A large analysis of more than 100 studies from around the world shows that exposure to pesticides, or bug and weed killers, and solvents is likely associated with a higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. The research appears in the May 28, 2013, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of [...]
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Seasonal primary productivity of plankton communities appeared with the first ice. This phenomenon, still active today, influences global food webs. These findings, reported in the journal Science, are based on fossil records in sediment cores at different depths. The study was led by the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences, a Spanish National Research Council-University of [...]
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U.S. home prices and consumer confidence have both hit multi-year highs. Tuesday’s report from Case-Shiller shows home prices rose by 10.9 percent in March from a year earlier. That is the largest such gain in nearly seven years. The report shows price gains for the third straight month, a sign of tight inventories, growing demand [...]
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