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Back to homepageTunisia urged to end subversion of groups critical of the authorities 0
Post Views: 8 Ali Ben Salem, 78, has been continually harassed and intimidated by the Tunisian authorities © Amnesty International The Tunisian authorities should end their subversion of human rights organizations and dissenting groups by infiltrating them and provoking turmoil,
Read MoreDomesticar las finanzas en un momento de austeridad 0
Post Views: 3 NUEVA YORK – No fue hace tanto tiempo cuando podíamos decir: “Ahora somos todos keynesianos”. El sector financiero y su ideología de libre mercado habían llevado al mundo al borde de la ruina. Los mercados claramente no
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Domestic violence increases at weekends
Post Views: 14 According to a report prepared by a subcommittee of the Parliamentary Commission on Equal Opportunity for Women and Men said women should receive shelter and help during the weekends, as they are exposed to domestic violence more
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Illegal Workers Swept From Jobs in ‘Silent Raids’
Post Views: 7 By JULIA PRESTONBREWSTER, Wash. — The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers.While the sweeps of the past
Read MoreIran suspended stoning of woman 0
Post Views: 11 Iran has announced that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be executed by stoning. The Times newspaper of London published the statement of the Iranian embassy on Friday which declares: “According to the information achieved from competent authorities,
Read MoreUS: Fix Dysfunctional Immigration System 0
Post Views: 4 Immigrant laborers from Mexico and Honduras work to rebuild a home damaged by Hurricane Katrina on April 27, 2006, in New Orleans. © 2006 Mario Tama/Getty Images New Legal Framework Needed for Reform Washington, DC) – Congress
Read MoreThe Great Marginalization. Life in the Low to Mid-Teens 0
Post Views: 13 Even on the streets of Harlem, where residents are all too aware of the very low priority to which they have been consigned, the news that 5,000 echocardiograms went unread registered palpable alarm. From an initial review
Read MoreLas políticas fiscales neoliberales 0
Post Views: 28 Ilustración de Mikel Jaso Una de las políticas fiscales que han caracterizado el pensamiento neoliberal reproducido en la mayoría de partidos gobernantes en la Unión Europea, tanto de derecha como de centro izquierda, ha sido la reducción
Read MoreAnti-terror stop and search powers to be scrapped 0
Post Views: 4 The police’s use of controversial counterterrorism stop and search powers against individuals is to be scrapped immediately, the home secretary announced today. Under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, officers can stop and search anyone in
Read MoreEast Afghanistan Sees Taliban as ‘Morally Superior’ to Karzai 0
Post Views: 2 The looming security operations — er, “rising tide” — in southern Afghanistan are getting all the attention. But the American-led coalition may be in serious trouble in eastern Afghanistan as well. According to a just-departed U.S. commander
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