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Kroger Joins Campaign to Fundraise for American Cancer Society
Kroger is urging its customers to help fight cancer by donating to the American Cancer Society.]]>
Sen. Mary Landrieu honored by Humane Society of the United States
Sen. Mary Landrieu , D-La., last week accepted the 2011 Humane Horseman of the Year Award from the Humane Society of the United States.]]>
NYC protest gets heated when Yemen leader is seen
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to people protesting his presence in the United States as he exits his hotel in New York, Sunday, Feb.]]>
Human Rights Watch hails India vote on Syria
New Delhi, Feb 4 : Human Rights Watch Sunday hailed India's vote against Syria in the UN, saying New Delhi had "seen through Assad's lies". "By supporting the UN resolution, India has rightly supported the Syrian people," a spokeswoman for the US-based rights body told IANS.]]>
Wave of terror feared for Syrians
SYRIANS were bracing for yet more violence overnight, fearful that the failure of a second UN resolution calling for tougher action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad would unleash another wave of terror across the country.]]>
HRW calls for Palestinian residency rights
A Gaza-born woman recently sneaked into her native land through a smugglers' tunnel because the legal route was blocked.]]>
The Flap over Circumcision
One of the least noticed is the preference for circumcision of boys. Other than among Muslims and Jews, for whom it is a religious or at least traditional requirement, cutting off part of the penis is alien to most other cultures and usually only carried out for medical, or occasionally aesthetic, reasons.]]>
Great Backyard Bird Count turns 15
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Foundation making wishes come tr...
"A dream is a wish your heart makes," as the song goes, and thanks to some local residents and the Make A Wish Foundation a Weirton youth will soon get to experience his own special dream.]]>
Billionaires Channel Millions to Think Tanks
Members of the Forbes 400 have poured millions of dollars into research organizations that fit their social, political and/or business concerns.]]>
Gates Foundation visitor center opens in Seattle
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is opening a new visitor center in Seattle on Saturday.]]>
UN court ruling on Nazi war crime victims - a setback for rights'
This is an astonishing ruling. Today the ICJ has taken a big step backwards on human rights and turned the right to compensation for war crimes into a right without a remedy.]]>
Arab Spring Libyan Militia Tortures Former Ambassador to Death
Mr Omar Brebesh was detained on 19 January after being called in for questioning by a militia in Tripoli.]]>
Kroger and ACS team up to raise funds, awareness to fight cancer
SAVANNAH, GA - Do you shop at Kroger? If so you can help the American Cancer Society the next time you shop.]]>
Zambia: Critiquing the Critique On China in Zambia
In December, Pambazuka News carried an article that critiqued a Human Rights Watch report that had exposed labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia.]]>
DEQ director takes Nature Conservancy post
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director Toni Hardesty is quitting to take over leadership of The Nature Conservancy's Idaho office.]]>
HRW says Syrian forces target children
Syrian forces have detained and tortured children as young as 13 as the government tries to crush an uprising that began nearly 11 months ago, Human Rights Watch said Friday as fresh clashes erupted between regime troops and rebels in the country's south.]]>
Syrian soldiers, rebels clash in the south; 1 dead
Syrian forces have detained and tortured children as young as 13 as the government tries to crush an uprising that began nearly 11 months ago, Human Rights Watch said Friday as fresh clashes erupted between regime troops and rebels in the country's south.]]>
Rights group: Libyan ex-envoy dies after arrest
Human Rights Watch says that a Moammar Gadhafi -era diplomat appears to have died under torture after his arrest by a Libyan militia, the latest in a series of reported abuses by former rebels who overthrew the dictator last year.]]>
Malaria toll 'is twice as high'
The research, published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggest 1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010.]]>
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