(C) 2010 Golden Gate Xpress.  Entire article retrieved from: http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/015944.html A group of LGBT supporters and activists gathered at the United Nations Plaza in downtown San Francisco Dec. 11 to condemn the international organization's mid-November vote to exclude gays from executions and unjustified killings while also calling for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people worldwide. "The UN has an ethical and moral duty in its declaration of human rights to protect the rights of all, including LGBT people," said author and activist Davina Kotulski,...


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http://www.teamthemovement.com Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe began selling a fifth of a $1.7 billion stockpile of diamonds extracted from a deposit where Human Rights Watch said security forces killed 200 illegal miners in 2008. Today’s sale of 900,000 carats from the Marange fields in the east of the country comes after the Kimberley Process approved the auction of a portion of the 4.5 million carats of gems in stock. The Kimberley Process was formed in 2002 by governments and the diamond industry to halt the sale of so- called blood diamonds, or gems used to finance conflict. After as many...


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Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company Entire Article Taken From: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/23nation.html?_r=1 UNITED NATIONS — On the face of it, a commitment by all United Nations member states to reach an understanding on how the world body should intervene to stop genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing would not seem like a major stretch. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Jean-Marc Bouju/Associated Press Rwandan children pleaded with soldiers from Zaire, now Congo, to let them follow their mothers into that country during the 1994 conflict...


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Copyright ©2010 CBS Interactive Inc Entire Article Taken From: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/08/opinion/main2547060.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;4 Less than ten miles from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's mansion in Harare — the largest private residence on the African continent — Cleophus Masxigora digs for mice. On a good day, he told me, he can find 100 to 200. To capture the vermin, he burns brush to immobilize them, then kills them with several thumps of a shovel. This practice has become so widespread in Zimbabwe that, as a Zimbabwean journalist informed me, state-run television...


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(C) 2010 retrieved from CNN: Here VBS: Original video and story Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- The first time I heard anything about people living in the sewers in Colombia was back at the beginning of the '90s. The sewage system running under Bogota's streets was filled with packs of kids living waist-deep in human waste and taking in copious amounts of glue and crack in order to cope. This was at the height of Colombia's Dirty War, and the whole reason street kids had moved into the sewers in the first place was to get away from the violence above ground. But then the paramilitary death...


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(C) 2010 VOA News.  Entire Article retrieved from: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-somalia-hrw-19apr10-91511669.html A new report says civilians in Somalia are being subjected to indiscriminate killings, cruel punishments and repression. The Human Rights Watch report is called Harsh War, Harsh Peace: Abuses by Al-Shabaab, the Transitional Federal Government and AMISOM.The more than 60 page report is based on interviews with over 70 “victims and witnesses.” Tom Porteous, HRW’s London Director, says, “Essentially the situation in Somalia presents a very stark choice...


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The Proposed Bill Could Punish Homosexuals Who Marry With Life In Prison By DAN HARRIS, KATIE HINMAN and ALMIN KARAMEHMEDOVIC, ABC News March 10, 2010— Standing onstage in black velvet robes, despite the stifling heat in the open-air church, Pastor Martin Ssempa's face is a mask of disgust. Anal licking!," he shouts, directing the crowd's attention to the images of hardcore gay pornography that he's projecting via his laptop. "That is what they are doing in the privacy of their bedrooms." "Everything having to do with eating of poop&heterosexuals do not eat poop," Ssempa said. "And if they...


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