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Mobs Leave Charred Corpses, Fear in North Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria -- The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in...

UPDATE: Missing Connecticut Teen Found Safe

BREAKING: Police announced moments ago that Isabella Oleschuk, the Conn. 13-year-old who went missing Sunday, has been found and is safe. "We are thrilled to announce that she has been found and is safe," said Orange Police Chief Robert Gagne. "She did leave home. She was with a friend and is OK," Gagne said. The news...

Israel Fears Another 'Anti-Semitic' UN Conference on Racism

Nearly every nation in the world agrees that racism, in general, is a bad thing. What keeps the world from joining forces to tackle the problem is a bitter disagreement over definitions of racism, specifically when talking about Israel, and that doesn't look likely to change anytime soon. Israel said over the weekend...

Clinton Urges Human Rights Progress in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Oct. 31) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to improve its human rights record and ensure the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s. Clinton was in the capital, Phnom Penh, where she visited the main Khmer Rouge prison and...

Embattled Court Indicts 4 Khmer Rouge Leaders

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Sept. 16) -- A United Nations-backed tribunal today indicted four senior Khmer Rouge officials, setting up the most important legal reckoning yet with the radical communist movement whose utopian agricultural policies led to the deaths of as much as one-quarter of Cambodia's population in the late...

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School District Bans 'Oaxaquita,' 'Indio' Epithets to Combat Bullying

"Oaxaquita" is Spanish for "Little Oaxacan", and along with the word "indio" (Indian), they make up two popular epithets among Mexicans in the United States to humiliate fellow countrymen, who happen to be darker- skinned, especially those hailing from Oaxaca â a region of Mexico with a large indigenous population.

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Ben Cohen: Noam Chomsky Embarrassed by George Monbiot

I was extremely saddened to see a bad tempered back and forth between two important intellectual figures, Noam Chomsky and George Monbiot, over an article written by Monbiot on the definition of genocide.

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Jody Huckaby: Cultivating Respect: Safe Schools for All

This month kicks off PFLAG's 40th anniversary year.

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Major Airline Accused Of Workplace Discrimination

Two dozen black pilots alleged in a lawsuit on Tuesday that United Continental Holdings, the parent of United Airlines, passed them over for management promotions because of race.

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Even on the Last Day

After spending all year trying to get 18-year-olds to care about Anglo-Saxon poetic devices, 12th-grade English teachers secretly, in the depths of their hearts of darkness, look forward to the Senior Prank.

Persecution News From the Web

05/31/12 Police deny claims pastor is receiving death threats... Source: FOX/CW - FOX 59/CW 4 - Indianapolis IN Decatur County authorities are refuting claims that the pastor of a Greensburg church has received death threats.
05/31/12 Mom files police report after her Oak Grove Middle... Source: Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek CA A sixth grade boy was attacked by three other students, one who choked him and threatened to crack his neck, during a PE class last Friday at Oak Grove Middle School in Concord, according to his mother.
05/31/12 New Book Examines Roots of Jewish Anti-Genocide Lobby Source: Asbarez The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2012).
05/31/12 Book ban at Erie Elementary leads to other bans Source: CBS - WHBF TV - Rock Island IL And now the district is banning everything furnished by "GLISEN" including learning materials and various programs aimed at preventing bullying.
05/31/12 School bus video shows bullying before student's... Source: TBO.com - Tampa Bay FL Resolving a complaint about bullying often comes down to whom you believe.

Background on Persecution

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms.

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