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[Paul C. Gorski]

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from Paul C. Gorski
February 15, 2007
 
Human Rights Organizations Call for Strengthening of UN Genocide ...
( http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2007/webArticles/021407_SAGP.htm )
UN Chronicle - New York,NY,USA
"The importance of the position is undisputed and undisputable", said
Steve Crawshaw, United Nations Advocacy Director of Human Rights
Watch, speaking at UN ...
 
Is Cuba Communist by Circumstance? (
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4855/1/241/ )
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
It bears mentioning that Castro was fighting US Imperialism during
the same period her father, the Reverend Wesley Rice Jr., kept armed
guard over his home ...
 
Older patients suffer age discrimination (
http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/health_and_wellbeing/reports/health_services/patient_age_discrimination_news_article_557_109036.jsp
)
Which? - London,UK
Dr Lorna Layward, research manager for Help the Aged, said: "It is
shocking that such blatant age discrimination exists in GP practices
today. ...
 
Inkster police officer wins discrimination case (
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/UPDATE/702140453
)
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
A federal civil jury awarded a $254000 verdict to a Hispanic
lieutenant with the Inkster police today, ruling the department
discriminated against him ...
 
Emulating US has led to poverty (
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2271655.ece )
Independent - London,England,UK
UK children were yesterday rated bottom of a survey of 21
industrialised countries which looked at issues such as emotional
well-being and poverty. ...
 
Closing the roads that could stop child poverty (
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.1193573.0.0.php
)
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Of course the poverty and deprivation faced by young people is only
the tip of the iceberg. According to the Rowntree Foundation upwards
of a third of ...
 
Calif. groups sue to protect polar bears, walruses from industry ...
(
http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/The_News/Current_News/Calif._groups_sue_to_protect_polar_bears,_walruses_from_industry,_global_warming_off_Alaska_200702148478/
)
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA
The groups say the US Fish and Wildlife Service did not fully
consider the effects of global warming, such as diminished sea ice,
when it wrote regulations ...
 
Harvard Civil Rights Project Report Identifies NCLB Challenges for
... (
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-19614.html
)
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
February 12, 2007 -- Washington -- The Civil Rights Project at
Harvard University has released Domesticating a Revolution: No Child
Left Behind Reforms and ...
 
Authorities investigate shootings of immigrants near US-Mexico border
(
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/14/america/NA-GEN-US-Immigrants-Slain.php
)
International Herald Tribune - France
TUCSON, Arizona: Autopsies have been completed on three undocumented
immigrants who were fatally shot last week in the desert northwest
of Tucson. ...
 
Racism still excludes blacks from some towns (
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/16691681.htm
)
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
James W. Loewen's book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American
Racism, reveals this untold American history, which must be explored
during Black ...
 
Youth Racism a Concern in Germany (
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article&id=2918 )
theTrumpet.com - Edmond,OK,USA
Racism has continually reared its ugly head across all levels of
German society. While German youth commit such acts, German
extreme-right-wing parties gain ...
 
An Open Letter to Mitch Potter, on Truly Disgusting Racism (
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=12114
)
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
Helping victimizers who are conducting a campaign of massacre and
ethnic cleansing is disgusting racism. Another element of your racism
comes from your use ...
 
Argentine Writers Honor Simone de Beauvoir (
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B23AD81FE-908F-4407-B74D-982B42D72929%7D)&language=EN
)
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Havana, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) One of the highlights at this year s
16th International Book Fair was the Women s Literature Table activity
on feminism and ...
 
A Gender Perspective On Demilitarisation (
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=15738 )
PeaceJournalism.com - Nepal
Contemporary feminism is not a major source of challenge to this
global pattern of violence and armed conflict. On the contrary in many
different societies ...
 
Nigeria elections could swing new anti-gay law (
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3712.html )
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
Not only would gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals be targeted not
for specific acts but for existing, heterosexual people who "promote"
their lifestyle, ...
 
Poverty and potential (
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/editorial/display.var.1190719.0.0.php
)
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Poverty is the biggest barrier. As the report says, children who grow
up in poverty are more vulnerable. They are more likely to suffer from
poor health, ...
 
AN END TO POVERTY (
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070214/asp/opinion/story_7361872.asp
)
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Poverty prevails amongst three quarters of the people living on this
planet. The largest proportion amongst them reside in south Asia. ...
 
Poverty Becomes Harder to Overcome (
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200702/kt2007021317442410230.htm )
Korea Times - Seoul,South Korea
Even children born to poor families had chances to overcome poverty
and upgrade their social status through diligence and thrift in the
past, but these days ...
 
Haiti: The struggle against imperialism intensifies (
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr001=fbshl916i2.app13a&page=NewsArticle&id=6393&news_iv_ctrl=1261
)
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
nature of US "democracy" and the ends to which imperialism will go to
hold a nation under the heel of colonial rule. Haiti is one of the
poorest nations in ...
 
US Clout Raises Worries for World Health Agency (
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3066/context/archive
)
Women's eNews - New York,NY,USA
... remove references to sexual and reproductive rights," says Jodi
Jacobson, executive director of Center for Health and Gender Equity in
Takoma Park, Md. ...
 
Miss. House OKs $500000 for planning civil-rights museum (
http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6083353 )
WMC-TV - Memphis,TN,USA
Two weeks after saying the state could borrow 50 (M) million dollars
to create a state civil rights museum, the Mississippi House today
(Tuesday) passed a ...
 
Leave us be, Mexican lesbian couple tells media (
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20070213-1142-mexico-lesbians-.html
)
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
MEXICO CITY Two weeks after entering into Mexico's first gay civil
union, a lesbian couple says the constant media spotlight is wrecking
their ...
 
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA MEETING IN TURKEY (
http://news.kaosgl.com/item/2007/2/13/international-anti-homophobia-meeting-in-ankara-turkey
)
Kaos GL - Ankara,Turkey
The 17th of May International Anti - Homophobia day is a day for
activism and resistance against all physical, ethical and symbolic
violence regarding ...
 
Blumner: Cheap shirts and the false promises of globalization (
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5214538 )
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Pro-globalization types scream ''protectionism'' as if it's a dirty
word. The fact is, we have not abandoned protectionism for the
politically connected. ...
 
Rights group urges India to end caste "apartheid" (
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-02-13T222932Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-287556-1.xml
)
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
New York-based Human Rights Watch said more than 165 million Dalits
-- once known as untouchables -- were "condemned to a lifetime of
abuse simply because ...
 
Inequality rising despite promises of globalization, UN expert says (
http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3667&Itemid=2
)
Associated Press of Pakistan - Pakistan
11 (APP) Much of the world has seen "a significant and disturbing
increase of inequality" in the last two decades, contradicting
predictions that ...
 
 
 
 
 

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