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January 19, 2006
 
 
 <http://www.wfu.edu/news/release/2007.01.18.m.php> Sociologist to discuss
social justice and rape victims
WFU News Service - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
Sociologist Patricia Yancey Martin, nationally known for her research on
gender and organizations, will discuss social justice and the treatment of
rape ...
 
 
<http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7BCB81DCC9-EFD3-4437-8DAD-C742DB10
CE50%7D&language=EN> Salvadorans for Justice after War
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
... rights during the civil war, around 30 Salvadoran social organizations
in the Coalition for peace, Dignity and Social Justice demanded justice
Friday. ...
 
 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1994723,00.html> British
society is dripping in racism, but no one is prepared to ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It would have represented a popular endorsement of flagrant racism. The
extraordinary fact, of course, is that no one, or virtually no one, ever
owns up to ...
 
 <http://www.gaynz.com/news/default.asp?dismode=article&artid=4217> Nigeria:
Fear grips gay and lesbian citizens
Gay NZ - New Zealand
They will strip lesbian and gay Nigerians of their already limited civil
rights. The bill outlaws almost every expression, affirmation and
celebration of ...
 
 <http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/165264> Harassment of lesbian and gay
students common, study reports
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The report is authored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a
national education network and nonprofit organization focused on school
safety ...
 
 <http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/01/011907tutu.htm> Tutu Blasts African
Anglican Homophobia
365Gay.com - USA
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Cape Town, South Africa) Archbishop Desmond
Tutu on Friday accused African Anglican leaders of ignoring the plight of
...
 
 <http://www.gcn.ie/content/templates/?a=1785&z=4> GAY IRAQIS FACE MORE
HOMOPHOBIA
GCN - Dublin,Ireland
Militias in Iraq continue to hunt gays in wake of a 2005 fatwa on all
homosexuals. Gay Iraqi citizens have been the victims of increased attacks
and ...
 
 
<http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/OPINION01/701
190391/1008> Just look at school facilities to see why there is inequity
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
By MICHAEL MODUNKWU. Books, restrooms, libraries, teachers and cafeteria
food are easy ways to demonstrate the inequities in Nashville's public
schools. ...
 
 <http://presszoom.com/story_123149.html> MEETING IN PROGRESS: COMMITTEE ON
ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ...
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands
... eliminating all expressions of inequity, exclusion and discrimination,
and overcoming all existing inequalities between women themselves. ...
 
 <http://allafrica.com/stories/200701190067.html> Zimbabwe: Imperialists
Can't Preach Human Rights
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Because Blair and Bush decided an illegal regime change was needed in
Zimbabwe and had to be done in the name of democracy and human rights, their
partners ...
 
 <http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/01/19/harvard.discrimination.ap/>
Harvard professor: Department is bastion of sexism
CNN - USA
... gender discrimination has withdrawn her resignation, but said Thursday
that the school's landscape architecture department remains a bastion of
sexism. ...
 
 
<http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/NEWS/701190
336/-1/NEWS> Schools cry foul on testing English-learners for No Child Left
Behind
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
This new federal rule, under the No Child Left Behind Act, affects roughly
60000 students statewide. And everyone from parents to teachers to state ...
 
 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/world/americas/19latin.html> Venezuela
Wants Trade Group to Embrace Anti-Imperialism
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
By LARRY ROHTER. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 18 - South American leaders began
gathering here on Thursday for discussions focused on a single, contentious
issue: ...
 
 <http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03SOC190107> Nation
commits to fighting discrimination against women
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
NEW YORK - Viet Nam is committed to enforcing the UN convention on
eliminating discrimination against women and to fulfilling the Millennium
Development ...
 
 <http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0118taxfraud-0118ON.html> Tax fraud
case tied to White supremacy group
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Maricopa County prisoner Crispian Rawlings, 37, was indicted on charges of
tax fraud that benefited a White supremacy group, according to the District
of ...
 
 <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/4481768.html> ABC
rebukes Grey's Isaiah Washington for anti-gay comment
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
Thursday's events followed a critical statement Wednesday from the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Neil Giuliano, GLAAD president, ...
 
 <http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/12485> Liberty, equality, and
controversy as Spain seeks to stamp out sexism
Think Spain - Spain
Feminism was not just a sixties' notion. Long before the bra-burning we had
the suffragettes in Britain hurling themselves under horses, ...
 
 <http://www.unobserver.com/layout4.php?id=3077&blz=1> US Overlooking Egypt
Repression: Report
UN Observer
... and is ready to turn a blind eye to serious rights violations and
growing oppression by the regime, The New York Times reported on Tuesday,
January 16. ...
 
 <http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/470/pp10.htm> Iraq: Bush continues
his dangerous blunder
Socialist Party - UK
Imperialism and capitalism has evidently failed to bring about a democratic
Iraq, only a socialist movement in Iraq and throughout the region can end
this ...
 
 <http://www.workers.org/2007/world/bush-0125/> US crisis in Iraq: can't
stay in, but won't get out
Workers World - USA
US imperialism spent 13 years in Vietnam trying to hold the communists back
from taking over. But it was also at a time when they were trying to destroy
the ...
 
 <http://www.aclu.org/intlhumanrights/gen/28037prs20070117.html> US Welcomes
First-Ever Visit of UN Expert on Human Rights and ...
ACLU (press release) - New York,NY,USA
"We are pleased to finally see the government doing more to engage seriously
with international human rights bodies," said Jamil Dakwar, a senior human
...
 
 
<http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/chronicle/uk/tm_headline=uk-children--li
ving-in-poverty-&method=full&objectid=18494837&siteid=106484-name_page.html>
UK children 'living in poverty'
icBerkshire - Reading,England,UK
Poverty is "scarring" British cities, with around half of children in some
urban areas living below the breadline. To coincide with a day of action on
child ...
 
 
<http://www.catholicexplorer.com/explore4325/nationworld/adoration-blessings
-requi.shtml> Poverty's toll on America stabs at the heart of dignity
Catholic Explorer - Romeoville,IL,USA
ROMEOVILLE-If the cost of poverty were measured by human potential, the
contributions of 15.6 million American residents have been eliminated from
the ...
 
 <http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/18/content_786950.htm> Most
female undergraduate face sex discrimination
China Daily - China
As many as 70 per cent of female undergraduates on the mainland have
encountered apparent sex discrimination as they struggle to grasp vacancies
in the ...
 
 
<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C01%5C19%5Cstory_19-1-2
007_pg3_5> VIEW: European discrimination on trial - Robert Badinter
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
What good are Europe's treaties aimed at ensuring the legal equality of all
citizens when entire groups face systematic discrimination? ...
 
 <http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_3188.shtml> White
supremacy mental disorder
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
White Supremacy should be viewed as a severe mental disorder, a psychotic
state that results in a total distortion of reality. ...
 
 <http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/962/1/> Radical Citizenship in
Wartime, from Vietnam to Iraq
Toward Freedom - Burlington,VT,USA
... SNCC trained organizers, built intergenerational community organizations
that courageously challenged the ferocity of open white supremacy, ...
 
 <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18480944.htm> Global warming
dissenters few at US weather meeting
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... Change Assessment Project, a group of scientists, doesn't think
greenhouse gas emissions are the major cause of global warming and climate
change. ...
 
 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10414/1/355/> 'Dr. King was
nation's greatest unionist.' Millions commemorate ...
People's Weekly World - USA
HOUSTON: The AFL-CIO's national civil rights conference here, Jan. 11-15,
celebrated the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with some 500
union ...
 
 
 
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