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VIENNA, March 4, 2010 - Monitoring of the kind that takes place within the OSCE is crucial to encourage countries to uphold press freedom commitments
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela, left, points with his wife Graca Machel, right, looking on at the gallery in Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010.
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JOHANNESBURG - South African lawmakers sang Nelson Mandela's praises Thursday as the anti-apartheid icon settled into parliament's public gallery for a State...
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Myanmar's ethnic Karens move out from their refugee camp in Tha Son Yang district, Tak province near the Thai-Myanmar border February 5, 2010.
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BANGKOK, February 5, 2010 (IPS) - Thailand’s attempt to repatriate over 3,000 ethnic Karens who fled the conflict in military-ruled Burma last year has triggered strong local and international objections, including from 27 members of the United States Congress.
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urqa-clad Afghan women sit around a grave at a cemetery in Kabul January 30, 2010.
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WASHINGTON - The advancement of women’s rights is critical to political and economic progress everywhere around the world. This is especially true in Afghanistan, where women’s human rights have been ignored, attacked and eroded over decades, especially under Taliban rule.
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U.S. support of honduras' general elections.
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HONDURAS, January 29, 2010 - Amnesty International on Thursday issued a series of recommendations to newly elected Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to repair the damage done to human rights since the June 2009 coup d'état, which left hundreds seeking justice.
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A woman cries as she sings a song during a Sunday service at the meeting hall of the Malaysian Chinese Association party in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010.
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WASHINGTON - The US government watchdog on religious freedom voiced concern about a spate of church attacks in Malaysia, saying that leaders' response would be vital in shaping the,,,
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Helena Paixao, left, and Teresa Pires, a lesbian couple, toast with champagne outside the Portuguese parliament, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in Lisbon after lawmakers passed a bill allowing gay marriage.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.
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82-year old Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva next to EP President Jerzy Buzek (right), December 2009
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In this photo released by the Third Army Region of the Royal Thai Army, Hmong asylum seekers collect their belongings before leaving a refugee camp, in Phetchabun province, Thailand, on Monday Dec. 28, 2009.
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Thai army troops with shields and batons moved into a refugee camp in southern Thailand early today to evict 4000 Hmong asylum seekers and send them back to Laos, despite objections from human rights groups who say they face persecution in their homeland.
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A sign is posted in the desert on the US side of the international border near Calexico, California, adjacent to the Mexican border town of Mexicali.
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SAN DIEGO, Ca. (IPS) - Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
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A crime lab analyst applies chemicals to extract the DNA from a swab that was in the rape kit.
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Los Angeles was poised to become a national model for delivering justice to rape victims last year. The City approved a plan and funding to test the backlog of more than 7,000 sets of untested physical evidence from rape cases for DNA matches.
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Sri Lankan prison guards escort ethnic Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam out of the High Court premises in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Tibetan exiles shout slogans against the Chinese government as they are detained during a protest at the entrance of a United Nations office in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug 14, 2009.
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NEPAL - In the international law of human rights, impunity refers to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice and, as such, itself constitutes a denial of the victims’ right to justice and redress.
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MP George Galloway
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George Galloway has been deported from Cairo despite wanting to return to Gaza to help members of a humanitarian convoy who have reportedly been arrested, a spokeswoman for the convoy said.
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Refugees fleeing from violennce
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Violent conflict has plagued this region for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing the violence in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces. People are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen.
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This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows an Iranian protestor flashing the victory sign during anti-government protest at the Enqelab (Revolution) St. in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in the capital Sunday, killing at least four people in the fiercest clashes in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said.
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