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Sanctions against Iran should not target civilians
By: Bernama, March 2, 2010
Russia could consider agreeing to new sanction against Iran if the international diplomatic efforts failed to settle the issue of Iran's nuclear programme on condition that the sanctions should not target Iranian civilians.
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Iran 'not co-operating' says new IAEA chief
By: BBC News, March 1, 2010
Iran is not co-operating with the UN nuclear watchdog's investigation into the country's nuclear programme, the new head of the agency has said.
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Reformist newspapers banned in Iran
By: BBC News, March 1, 2010
The authorities in Iran have closed down the country's biggest-circulation reformist newspaper, Etemaad, accusing it of breaching media laws.
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Iran: Prosecutor warns protesters ahead of ancient fire festival
By: LA Times, February 28, 2010
Two weeks before a cherished Iranian holiday that's celebrated by setting off fireworks and lighting bonfires, Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dowlatabadi delivered an ominous warning to those seeking to turn the celebration into a protest event.
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Pressure on northern Iran students continues: Eight prison sentences upheld
By: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, February 28, 2010
Student activists have informed International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that an appeals court has upheld the prison sentences for eight Babol Norshirvani University student activists. According to the court document, Mohsen Barzegar, Iman Sadighi, and Nima Nahvi have received sentences of 10 months in prison and one year's deprivation of education.
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Egypt: A blogger sent to a military court for a post he published a year ago
By: Noha Atef, Global Voices, February 28, 2010
For the first time in Egypt, a blogger is to be sent to a military court because of his writing online. Ahmad Mostafa (student) wrote on his blog Maza Asabak ya Watan (What Weent Wrong With You oh My country?!) about a student from the War School, who was expelled and his dad asked to sign a statement saying: "my son was not able to adapt to the military life".
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Iraqi Christians protest slayings
By: Reuters, February 28, 2010
At least 1,000 minority Christians, many holding olive branches, marched in protest near the restive city of Mosul on February 28 to urge the Iraqi government to act decisively after a series of killings.
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Israel police storm holy site to quell protest
By: Aron Heller, AP, February 28, 2010
Israeli police forces stormed the most contentious holy site in Jerusalem on Sunday to disperse masked Palestinian protesters hurling objects at visiting foreign tourists they believed to be Jewish extremists.
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Israel: Knesset takes steps to silence human rights organizations
By: B'tselem, February 28, 2010
Human rights organizations in Israel are facing a dangerous trend of restriction of their activity, which has even gone so far as to challenge the very legitimacy of their work. Along with a slanderous campaign against the New Israel Fund, and following a series of outrageous statements made by Israeli officials against the activity of human rights organizations, an attempt is now under way to restrict their activity by legislation.
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Palestine: Cultivating resistance
By: International Solidarity Movement, February 28, 2010
Last week, two small, rural outposts were awaiting two payloads from a 4×4 that was snaking its way along the winding, West Bank roads of the South Hebron hills. The first was the material to construct some alternative energy sources for these small communities, the second was an international presence that would aid them in the fight for their legitimacy.
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Palestine: Weekly protest video round-up
By: Palestine Monitor, February 27, 2010
Heavy rain prevented popular resistance marches scaling the peaks of Bi'lin last week, but up and down the country demonstrators made their feelings known.
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IPSC boycott Israeli goods protest
By: Palestine Video, February 27, 2010
On Saturday 27th February 2010, members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took to the streets of Dublin asking consumers and retailers to boycott Israeli Apartheid products in solidarity with the Palestinian people who continue to suffer incalculable misery at the hands of the Israeli state. The action marked the beginning of international Israel Apartheid Week.
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Dispatches from the edge: Israeli crackdown
By: Conn Hallinan, The Portside, February 27, 2010
A heavy-handed crack down on Israeli dissidents is drawing sharp criticism by human rights organizations and at least a mild judicial slap on the wrist for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. The authorities are targeting such groups as B'Tselem, New Israel Fund (NIF), the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), as well as foreign activists in the occupied West Bank.
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Ex-UN nuclear chief: Change in Egypt is inevitable
By: Sarah El Deeb, AP, February 27, 2010
The former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency who has emerged as an opposition leader in Egypt appealed to the government Saturday to heed calls for change before frustration over a stale political system ruled by one man for nearly 30 years spirals out of control.
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Nonviolence in Palestine
By: Notes From Amedinah, February 26, 2010
Last night I had a very interesting conversation with a friend about the use of non-violence in the Palestinian resistance.  My friend, whose father was an active member of the non-violent movement in the US, believed that the Palestinians who used any form of violence against Israel - from throwing stones to launching missiles - were undermining the Palestinian cause.
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Iraq: Rebirth of a nation
By: Babak Dehghanpisheh, John Barry and Christopher Dickey, Newsweek, February 26, 2010
Something that looks an awful lot like democracy is beginning to take hold in Iraq. It may not be 'mission accomplished'-but it's a start.
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Lebanon: Hezbollah chief Nasrallah meets Ahmadinejad in Syria
By: BBC News, February 26, 2010
The head of the Lebanese Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has made a rare public appearance in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Sheikh Nasrallah attended a dinner with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iranian parliamentarians want journalists, activists released
By: RFE, February 26, 2010
A small group of reformist members of Iran's parliament want the government to release imprisoned journalists and political activists before the Persian New Year on March 21, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.
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Another puzzle after Iran moves nuclear fuel
By: David E. Sanger, NY Times, February 26, 2010
Imagine the surprise of international inspectors almost two weeks ago when they watched as Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. It was as if, one official noted, a bull's-eye had been painted on it.
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Iran: Prisoners spend their days in line
By: RFE, February 23, 2010
Blogger and journalist Zhila Baniyaghoub writes about the condition her husband, "Bahman Amouei," and other political prisoners face in Tehran's overcrowded Evin prison. Amouei is among the hundreds of journalists and activists arrested in the postelection crackdown.
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Will El Baradei run for president of Egypt?
By: Abigail Hauslohner, Time, February 20, 2010
Egyptian activists, most of them young, were out in force in the midday sun on Friday, Feb. 19, their flags and posters raised high, their chants rippling across the pavement at the arrival terminal of Cairo International Airport. They had come out in a startling show of support for a candidate who has yet to declare his candidacy for the presidency of Egypt.
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Iran: From protest to politics
By: David Hayes, Open Democracy, February 19, 2010
The contest between Iran's state and the opposition movement that arose after the presidential election of June 2009 is now at a critical point. How confident is the regime, where is the "green movement" going, and what should the international community do? Open Democracy writers examine the impasse.
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Shine a light for Palestinian freedom
By: Artists Against Apartheid, February 15, 2010
Elton John is scheduled to perform in Apartheid Israel on June 17th, 2010.  This performance would undermine the international cultural boycott of Israel, which was initiated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as a means of non-violent resistance to Apartheid and Colonialism.
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Egypt: 3,000 years of nonviolent resistance
By: Judith Mahoney Pasternak, War Resisters League, February 2010
"We are dying," wrote a group of 12th-century B.C.E. workers to their bosses, in a collective plea for their overdue pay. When they got no response, they committed history's first known act of nonviolent resistance.
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Egyptian clerics debate permissibility of using Facebook and other websites
By: MEMRI, February 2010
In early February 2010, the Qatari daily Al-Raya reported that the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee had issued a ruling against Facebook, stating that anyone entering this site was committing an offense against the shari'a.owever, the secretary-general of the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, Sheikh Sa'id 'Amer, denied that such a fatwa had been issued.
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Tajikistan: OSCE says Tajik elections failed democratic standards
By: RFE, March 1, 2010
Europe's main election watchdog says Tajikistan's parliamentary and local elections on February 28 failed to meet basic democratic standards. In a statement, the OSCE said its hundreds of observers had "highlighted serious irregularities on election day, including a high prevalence of family and proxy voting and cases of ballot box stuffing," claims seconded by opposition politicians.
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Kyrgyzstan: Police get suspended sentences in journalist's death
By: RFE, February 26, 2010
Two Kyrgyz policemen found guilty of beating a journalist so badly that he later died have been given suspended sentences, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
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Sting in the pay of tyrannical Uzbekistan regime
By: Marina Hyde, The Guardian, February 22, 2010
Once again we must ponder the question "how much money is enough?", inspired by reports that Sting accepted between £1m and £2m to perform for the glory of the brutal despotic regime in Uzbekistan. The services of Sting - whose personal fortune is estimated well north of £150m - were engaged by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter and anointed heir of dictator Islam Karimov.
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Sri Lanka's human-rights and free-speech problems need international attention
By: Peter Mountford, Seattle Times, February 26, 2010
In post-civil war Sri Lanka, where democratic institutions are more imperiled than ever, the international press has a vital role to play - even more important than the diplomatic efforts of our governments - in forcing greater transparency and accountability.
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Philippines: Reliving people power
By: Jeanne Carmel Puertollano, Noynoy, March 1, 2010
People Power is one of my favorite moments in history because of what it represents - how every Filipino can work together to free this country from an exploitative government. It's about working for the freedom which our heroes have fought for. It's about loving this country so much that we'd go all-out to see it free from the forces of evil.
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New guidebook highlights ethnic repression in Burma's Shan state
By: Tania Campbell, March 2010
The recent publication of a guidebook about Burma's Shan State highlights the destruction and repression of its culture and people by the Burmese military junta and reveals the darker side of tourism in that region.
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From undercover journalists' sacrifice, "Burma VJ" wins over 40 international awards
By: South Asia Speaks, March 1, 2010
The extra ordinary effort by the clandestine group led by an untiring, hyper determined democracy activist using the name "Joshua" working from behind iron curtains in Myanmar as undercover journalists to bring to the world, the life and plight of the people of Myanmar sees little parallels in recent media history.
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Burma: Suu Kyi's appeal rejection condemned
By: Mizzima, February 28, 2010
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday said he is 'appalled and saddened' that Burma's military government has rejected an appeal filed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers against her sentencing in August 2009.
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Burma: Court rejects Suu Kyi appeal
By: Aung Hla Tun, Reuters, February 26, 2010
Myanmar's Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest, a ruling diplomats said would cast further doubt on the legitimacy of this year's election.
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'Citizen Journalism' the key to 'Burma VJ'
By: Steve Pond, The Wrap, February 26, 2010
Painstakingly pieced together from pieces of film shot on small cameras and sometimes on cell phones, the film tells the story of an uprising that swept the country in September 2007; led by the country's Buddhist monks, students and others took to the streets for days of protest that were finally quelled by military force, and by the beatings, arrests and killings of monks. U Gawsita, one of the monks who appears in the film leading some of the protests (with megaphone in photo below), later fled the country and now lives in upstate New York; he accompanied the Danish filmmakers on a recent trip to Los Angeles that included the Oscar Nominees Luncheon.
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Little hope for Burma's political prisoners
By: Larry Jagan, Mizzima, February 26, 2010
The United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana believes there that the country's political prisoners will not be freed any time soon. "There seems to be no movement on political prisoners since my last trip [a year ago]," the UN envoy told Mizzima in an interview in Bangkok a few days ago. "In fact the government continues to deny that there are any prisoners of conscience."
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Burma's looming election sham
By: Simon Roughneen, ISN, February 22, 2010
Burma's military junta puts on a show of democracy, freeing one opposition figure while many others languish in prison, and contriving to set up front parties to compete in what can only be a sham poll, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch.
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Crusader rowing upstream in Cambodia
By: Seth Mydans, NY Times, February 19, 2010
"I'm going to get my votes!" cried Mu Sochua as she stepped into a slender rowboat, holding one side for balance. "One by one." The most prominent woman in Cambodia's struggling political opposition, Mu Sochua, 55, is campaigning now, three years before the next election, because she is almost entirely excluded from government-controlled newspapers and television.
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China police ordered to resign over detainee 'torture'
By: BBC News, March 1, 2010
A Chinese police chief has been ordered to resign and a deputy chief has been fired amid allegations that a man died in custody after being tortured.
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China: My dear husband Liu Xiaobo, the writer China has put behind bars
By: Tania Branigan, The Guardian, February 28, 2010
Liu Xiaobo, author of the Charter 08 call for reform in China, was jailed for 11 years last December. In a remarkable interview, his wife, Liu Xia, talks of their love and the passion for literature that has sustained them.
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China insider sees revolution brewing
By: John Garnut, Sydney Morning Herald, February 27, 2010
China's top expert on social unrest has warned that hardline security policies are taking the country to the brink of ''revolutionary turmoil''.
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China: Hunger strike on death row
By: RFA, February 26, 2010
Three Chinese death-row inmates who say they were tortured into confessing to crimes they didn't commit have staged a hunger strike to draw attention to their case, amid a new U.N. warning that the death penalty carries too high a cost to societies that use it.
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China: Hunger strike by death row inmates underlines use of torture, failure of courts
By: Shao Jiang, Amnesty International, February 26, 2010
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, CHRD, has learned that three death row inmates are staging a hunger strike in a Jiangxi prison to draw attention to their convictions, which have been upheld despite a lack of evidence and shocking abuses perpetrated by police assigned to their case.
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Pretoria seized North Korean Weapons
By: Joe Lauria, Gordon Fairclough, and Peter Wonacott, WSJ, February 26, 2010
South Africa told the United Nations in a confidential report that it seized arms traveling from North Korea by way of China, marking at least the third time a government interdicted North Korean weapons shipments since the U.N. last summer adopted harsher sanctions against Pyongyang.
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China: Evicted artists protest after attack in Beijing
By: Andrew Jacobs, NY Times, February 23, 2010
Nearly two dozen artists protesting the forced demolition of their homes and studios marched through the ceremonial heart of the capital before the police intervened and prevented them from reaching Tiananmen Square, the artists said Tuesday.
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Ethiopia's questionable human rights record and its impact on election 2010
By: Gadaa, February 28, 2010
BBC 4 Radio's "The World Tonight" program has aired a special report on Ethiopia's "questionable" human rights record on Friday 26th February 2010 in UK. The report covers on the human rights abuse leading up to the 2010 Election and questions the relationship of the British government with this dictatorial regime.
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Morocco: What fish may do for Western Sahara
By: David Cronin, IPS, February 27, 2010
Legal advice stating that European vessels have no justification to fish off Western Sahara - a territory occupied by Morocco - has provoked a row between the main political institutions in Brussels.
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Nairobi: The grannies fight back
By: International Law Grrls, February 19, 2010
From the troubled shantytowns of Nairobi comes an inspiring story of women working together to protect themselves in a lawless zone.
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Algeria corruption case 'part of political struggle'
By: Lamine Chikhi and Christian Lowe, The Star, February 9, 2010
A corruption investigation into Algeria's state energy firm is a warning signal from some in the state apparatus who believe part of the ruling elite has captured too much power, a former prime minister said.
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Tunisian court rejects journalist's appeal
By: The Nation, January 30, 2010
A Tunisian court today rejected an appeal by anti-government journalist Taoufik Ben Brik against his six-month prison sentence for assault, his lawyer Radhia Nasraoui told Reuters. Ben Brik was found guilty in November last year of assaulting a woman motorist.
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US: Frederick woman recalls her part in civil rights movement
By: Nicholas C. Stern, Frederick Newspost, February 28, 2010
When Barbara Foster learned that Andrew Young would speak this month at her alma mater, Indiana State University, she immediately made plans to attend. Forty-five years ago, Young was among the directors of a weeklong nonviolent resistance training program in Atlanta. Foster attended, along with about 600 other American college students.
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US: Let these women pray
By: Asra Q. Nomani, Daily Beast, February 27, 2010
In an uprising reminiscent of the lunch-counter protests of the 1960s, women at one of Washington D.C.'s most popular mosques are copying the tactics of the civil-rights movement, and refusing to follow rules that ban them from praying with the men. Asra Q. Nomani reports on the arrest, threats, and outrage that followed.
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US: Activists protest Hebron closures
By: Sarah Lazare, Al Jazeera, February 27, 2010
On a normal Thursday evening, a group of protesters transformed San Francisco's busiest shopping district into a scene which reflected the realities of Palestinian life in Hebron in the West Bank.
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US: Raging grannies sing for immigrant rights
By: YouTube, February 22, 2010
The Raging Grannies joined us in Pittsford and Greece, New York to sing this song to rev us up for our meetings with Representative Lee and Representative Massa on Wednesday, 2.17.10.
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Cuban media acknowledge jailed dissident's death
By: AP, February 27, 2010
State media reported the death of a jailed, dissident hunger striker on Saturday, acknowledging four days after the fact a story that most Cubans had already heard through word of mouth.
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Cuban dissidents 'declare hunger strike'
By: BBC News, February 27, 2010
Several Cuban dissidents say they will refuse food in protest at the death earlier this week of a jailed government opponent. Opposition group the Cuban Commission for Human Rights said four jailed dissidents would reject solid food.
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Dissident's death ignites protest actions in Cuba
By: Mark Lacey, NY Times, February 26, 2010
The death of a jailed Cuban dissident this week after a long hunger strike has led to a surge of criticism of the Cuban government and prompted several other dissidents to announce that they will begin forgoing food to press for political change in a nation that allows little public dissent.
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Venezuela: "The IACHR is neither Chávez's enemy nor opponent"
By: El Universal, February 26, 2010
The Venezuelan government considers that a report on Venezuela from the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) forms part of a "smear campaign." However, the author of the document, Commissioner Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, thinks that the report is "balanced," because it "shows problems in the field of civil and political rights, but also acknowledges significant strides in terms of economic, social and cultural rights."
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Spain asks Venezuela to explain alleged rebel link
By: BBC News, March 1, 2010
Spain has demanded an explanation from Venezuela over claims that it assisted two rebel groups which plotted to kill Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe.
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Russia is pressed for data on killing
By: Reuters, February 28, 2010
A media rights watchdog on Saturday urged Russia to publish details of its investigation into the killing of a human rights worker after the Russian press reported that suspects had been identified.
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UK: Mass protest outside UK Border Agency, the first of many?
By: No Borders South Wales, February 27, 2010
Friday's protest outside the UK Border Agency in Cardiff was the largest one to date with over 200 people, mostly refugees. The demonstration lasted three hours and featured speeches, chanting, dancing and a lot of energy. The demonstration was organised by Refugee Voice Wales with prominent members of Zimbabwean, Congolese, Kurdish and other community groups taking a leading role.
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France: Activists call for large-scale boycott to support immigrants
By: Perrine Mouterde, France 24, February 27, 2010
In an attempt to demonstrate the importance of immigrants to the French economy, rights groups are advocating a "no work, no consumption day" on March 1. The message is being spread on the Web, but will it work?
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European parliament warns Belarus on rights
By: European Parliament, February 15, 2010
MEPs insist on five conditions to improve relations between Belarus and the EU in a resolution adopted in Strasbourg. Freedom for political prisoners, media NGOs and political associations are the main points underlined by the European Parliament to renew the period of six months during which travel restrictions imposed on certain Belarus Government officials have been lifted.
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Student coalition rallies for budget transparency
By: Max Godnick, Daily Herald, March 1, 2010
The Open the Books Coalition held a teach-in and a rally this weekend in protest of the University's confidential investment policy. The coalition, a joint effort between Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Labor Alliance and Brown Students for Justice in Palestine, was created to fight for a transparent endowment that the community would play a role in crafting, said Susan Beaty '10, who moderated the teach-in.
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A new way of thinking
By: Mike Kaulbars, News Junkie Post, March 1, 2010
"Is the climate change movement splintering?" asks the Guardian headline.  Really it's just a rhetorical device for reporting on the soul searching that has been going on within the movement as to how to move forward after Copenhagen. It is a much needed discussion given the disappointment of Copenhagen and the subsequent success of the right wing Denial machine.
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Cartoonists outline death penalty controversy
By: Human Rights Tribune, February 28, 2010
The Swiss and American artists were in Geneva this week to present a capital punishment cartoon exhibition on the sidelines of the Fourth World Congress Against the Death Penalty.
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Rev. James Lawson discusses nonviolent resistance strategies at the School of Authentic Journalism
By: Edwin Alvarez, Narco News, February 27, 2010
Thursday, February 4, in the Felipe Carrillo Puerto University Theater, Mérida, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, marked the first session of the School for Authentic Journalism. At the end, the main speaker, Rev. James Morris Lawson, elaborated and expanded upon the concept of nonviolent resistance. He expressed his gratitude and honor for having the opportunity to be in the journalism school at the invitation of Alberto Giordano, the school's director.
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The state of the internet
By: Jesse Thomas, February 22, 2010
Watch the video to see the statistics of the state of the internet around the world.
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Iran: L'opposition a rendez-vous le 16 mars
By: Courrier International, March 1, 2010
"L'objectif du Mouvement vert est aujourd'hui d'alerter l'opinion publique iranienne", a déclaré Mir Hossein Moussavi, chef de file de l'opposition iranienne, sur le site Kalemeh. Il a appelé à des élections "justes et libres", alors que le Mouvement vert conteste toujours la réélection du président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad en juin 2009.
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Zimbabwe: For Mugabe's children, life gets tougher and tougher
By: Rachel Shields, The Independent, February 28, 2010
Grace is just one of "Zimbabwe's forgotten children" who are the subject of a revealing documentary produced by the Bafta-award winning South African film-maker Xoliswa Sithole, which will be screened at 9pm tomorrow night on BBC4. The film examines the lives of some of the country's poorest children, growing up without an education, grappling with poverty and starvation, and either orphaned by Aids or caring for parents who are sick with the disease.
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US: Monk's protest efforts lead him to Oscars acclaim
By: Cassaundra Baber, Utica OD, February 27, 2010
A Utica resident is a key figure in an Oscar-nominated documentary about civilian protest in one of the world's most repressive nations. In September 2007, U Gawsita led fellow monks and tens of thousands of Burmese residents through Rangoon in Myanmar (formerly Burma), in opposition to the country's longstanding military regime.
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New documentary on the largest global demonstration for peace in history in the making
By: Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence, February 26, 2010
A team is working on a full-length documentary, called "We Are Many," about the day when 20,000 Spaniards protested the impending war against Iraq. Although it's not set to come out until late 2011 or early 2012, they have already completed a very nice trailer for the movie (above).
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Screening: Ten tactics for turning information into action
By: OSI, March 1, 2010
OSI is screening 10 Tactics, a 50-minute film documenting inspiring info-activism stories from around the world, with ¬interviews and case studies highlighting dozens of campaigns. This film, produced by the Tactical Technology Collective, provides original and artful ways for rights advocates to capture attention and communicate a cause.
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Calling anti-corruption youth organizations, join the global youth anti-corruption forum
By: Craig Zelizer, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, March 1, 2010
The Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network (GYAC) connects and supports youth organizations fighting corruption through sharing experiences, ideas and resources! GYAC also engages with musicians to produce global songs against corruption and with journalists to provide media coverage. Apply in time to join us at the Global Anti-Corruption Forum in Brussels in May 2010!
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International tribunal on crimes against women of Burma
By: IPS, February 26, 2010
On March 2nd the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma will put into words the crisis facing this country. For the first time ever, 12 courageous women from Burma will share their stories with the international community. The women's testimonies will be heard by a high-level panel of 'judges', including Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams. In telling their stories the women represent thousands of other untold stories from across Burma - stories of fear, anguish, resistance, escape, perseverance and hope for change.
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El-Hibri Peace Education Prize recognizes outstanding peace educators based in the United States working on Peace Education/Social Justice in the Middle East
By: Craig Zelizer, Peace and Collaborative Development Network, February 24, 2010
The El-Hibri Peace Education Prize recognizes outstanding peace educators based in the United States by awarding $10,000 annually to an individual or organization making valuable contributions to peace education and social justice in the Middle East. Winners will be selected based on nominations and interviews with references who can speak to their contributions to the field of Peace Education. Nomination deadline: June 6, 2010
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Vietnam mining project sparks protests
By: Al Jazeera, December 11, 2009
A massive mining project in central Vietnam has created one of the biggest civil protest movements the country has ever seen. Domestic media outlets are banned from reporting on the proposed Bauxite mine, which critics say threatens major environmental damage, for little economic benefit.
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