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Man Pleads Guilty in Ohio Gunpoint Abortion Case

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law with trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, weapons and abduction counts. Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on girlfriend Yolanda Burgess, who was three months pregnant, and...

Army Opens Prison of Suspected WikiLeaks Private for Media Review

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Army officials are opening the doors to the military prison in Kansas where they are holding an Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website. Pfc. Bradley Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional...

US Envoy Says Human Rights Talks With China Yield Little

BEIJING -- An American human rights envoy said Thursday that China provided no useful information when probed about specific cases of individuals who have been detained or who disappeared in a major crackdown on dissent in recent months. Hundreds of lawyers, activists, and other intellectuals have been questioned,...

WikiLeaks: 9/11 Mastermind Says He Killed Daniel Pearl Against al-Qaida Warnings

A senior al-Qaida military commander instructed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and said that Pearl should "be returned back to one of the previous groups who held him, or freed." But Mohammed, the supposed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, says he killed Pearl...

Leaked Files Show Gitmo Inmate Released After Informing on 123 Others

LONDON -- Leaked U.S. military documents reveal that a Guantanamo Bay detainee was freed after informing on 123 other prisoners, despite concerns about the reliability of his evidence, a British newspaper reported Tuesday. The Guardian, The New York Times and El Pais are publishing details of more than 750 leaked U.S....

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Twitter's 'Freedom of Expression' Is a Privilege; Not a Right

Reports of hatred, racism, and threats directed at public figures through Twitter continue to grow (If you're unfamiliar with this trend, then simply google "Twitter Haters,""Twitter Trolls," or "Twitter Threats" and read a few of the related articles).

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Is there really a war against women or are men just being stupid?

When House Republicans stall on reauthorizing and expanding the Violence Against Women Act, they are blinding themselves to the everyday experiences of women's lives.

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Women Violated in War Denied Memorials

Japanese officials are trying to remove a small monument to Korean "comfort women" in New Jersey.

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What PRENDA Would Mean to Women

Known as "PRENDA," the latest version of the bill (there have been at least three) would ban abortions performed on the basis of sex.

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Latinas At The Intersections: Immigration, Health Care, And The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will soon issue decisions on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act health care reform law and the harsh Arizona anti-immigration law SB 1070--two laws that have already had far-reaching consequences for Latinas and could continue to shape our lives for years to come.

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05/29/12 Quiet Guatemalan prosecutor takes on dictator, drug... Source: The Daily Herald GUATEMALA CITY--For nearly 30 years, Efrain Rios Montt evaded trial for massacres carried out during his military rule in Guatemala's civil war--until a diminutive, soft-spoken woman entered his life.
05/29/12 Sen. Rubio Visits Guantanamo Bay Source: Newsmax.com Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is spending the day at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. The trip marks the first time Rubio has been in Cuba, a country his parents left in 1956.
05/29/12 Legal options for Assange after British verdict Source: Expatica Britain's Supreme Court will rule Wednesday on an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes.
05/29/12 Strip search bill criticised Source: New Zealand City A new bill to reduce red tape around strip searches is "unnecessary" and will dehumanise prisoners, the Law Society says.
05/29/12 South American bishops pledge to fight human... Source: La Verne Community Newspaper - La Verne CA Dozens of Roman Catholic bishops in South America say human trafficking has seen "alarming growth" in the region.

Background on Human rights

Human rights are commonly understood as "inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being."

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