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    Cutting The Head Off The Snake

    MAY 30, 2012 4:59PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: news, accountability, impunity, justice, human rights, sierra leone, liberia, charles taylor, special court for sierra leone

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1024 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    When it rains, it pours: NAACP now OK with same-sex marriage

    MAY 20, 2012 4:53PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, family, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, william saletan, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, president barack obama, politics, ohio, obama, national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, marriage, lgbt, lesbians, jesse jackson, human rights, hope, homophobia, hiv, george w. bush, gays, gay rights, gay community, fourteenth amendment, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, civil rights, change, california, black homophobia, black homophobes, black community, bigots, bigotry, benjamin todd jealous, barack obama, al sharpton, aids

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 394 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Did Texas execute yet another innocent man?

    MAY 20, 2012 11:18AM

    By Mary Shaw


    Topics: death penalty, justice, human rights, texas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2116 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    A Beastie Boy's Surprising Legacy

    MAY 6, 2012 1:50AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: adam yauch, beastie boys, mca, tibet, human rights, music, feminism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1785 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied for Cambodians

    MARCH 27, 2012 12:54PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: cambodia, genocide, extraordinary chambers in the courts of cambodia, justice, human rights, khmer rouge

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 3112 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Women Lead Defense of Maldivian Democracy (Updated)

    MARCH 10, 2012 11:56AM

    By profkeck


    Topics: politics, news, feminism, belief/religion, equality, women's rights, gayoom, dictator, democracy, waheed, elections, voting, human rights, contraception, protest, mohamed nasheed, coup, maldives, islam, extremism, muslim, international women's day, flogging, hillary clinton, condoleeza rice, michelle obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 4851 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    Birth Control Is Not a Women's Issue: It's a Human Right

    MARCH 5, 2012 7:53PM

    By Maureen J Andrade


    Topics: family, post-sexual revolution, human rights, limbaugh, santorum, birth control

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 3214 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    The Definition of Family

    MARCH 2, 2012 2:55PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: same-sex marriage, politics, family, human rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 2261 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    The Fallujah tragedy: A war crime by any other name...

    JANUARY 12, 2012 7:11AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: iraq, fallujah, iraq war, depleted uranium, war crimes, human rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 3061 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    What I Learned in Peru

    JANUARY 4, 2012 11:54AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: response to terrorism, human rights, family, travel, peru, hope

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1808 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Egyptian military halts "virginity tests" for protesters

    JANUARY 2, 2012 3:48PM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: egypt, sexual abuse, women, arab spring, human rights, amnesty international, islam, women

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 2378 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Becoming a Human Rights Warrior

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 8:30AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: career, human rights, life, parenting, family, the new years resolution i kept, open+call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2783 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Iraq war commemorations ignore ongoing humanitarian disaster

    DECEMBER 16, 2011 10:42AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: unhcr, refugees, human rights, iraq war

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 28350 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Raising Boys Not To Be Total Jerks

    OCTOBER 20, 2011 10:57AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: true story, feminism, human rights, parenting, raising boys, women's rights, miss representation, challenge the media, sexism, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1990 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    ..Late to the Gay Pride Parade...

    JULY 13, 2011 3:31PM

    By Barbara Weicksel


    Topics: news, open+call, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, family, politics, gay rights, gay pride, gay pride parade san diego, equality, human rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 3032 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    On the Second Anniversary of Neda: Iran Not Yet Free

    JUNE 20, 2011 7:34AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: human rights, censorship, citizen journalism, new neda video, martyrdom, icon, tehran, iran, neda video, neda agha-soltan, her name was neda, neda, news, journalism, politics, one year anniversary iran election, one year anniversary neda, for neda, youtube, facebook, video journalism, iran post-election protests, arash hejazi, press tv, mahmoud ahmadinejad, neda conspiracy theories, death of neda, green revolution, iran revolution, cellphone video iran, viral video

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2238 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    WI Voices: Woman may be Forced into Nursing Home

    MAY 27, 2011 12:28AM

    By Heidi Herron


    Topics: human rights, elect senate district 10 shelly moore, recall harsdorf/walker, fight for wisconsin

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1411 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Unsaid (in an Irish family sort of way)

    APRIL 26, 2011 5:06AM

    By Aengus Carroll


    Topics: gay/lesbian, family, lgbt, glbt, aids, ireland, human rights, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 521 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Wikileaks Guantanamo drop adds to controversy

    APRIL 25, 2011 6:59PM

    By Ryan Ebersole


    Topics: wikileaks, guantanamo, human rights, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 46 Ratings
    • 2099 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    We did it. We recalled our WI state Senator.

    APRIL 19, 2011 12:39AM

    By Heidi Herron


    Topics: progressives, grass roots movement, human rights, wi, district 10, harsdorf, walker

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