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Maldives rape victim spared the lash after global anger
A 15-year-old girl who faced 100 lashes in the Maldives after she was raped by her step-father has had the sentence overturned following an international campaign.
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Nigerian Islamists accused of cutting throats of 44 villagers
Official says attackers gouged out eyes of some survivors of raid on Dumba village
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Fifty years on: 'King's dream continues to inspire us'
On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 Americans joined a march on Washington demanding equal justice for all citizens under the law.
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What Obama Didn’t Say in His March on Washington Speech
To be fair, in his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the president did address economic fairness. But he missed a point on racial justice, says Jamelle Bouie.
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Inside Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Girl’s Abduction
At age 15, Soraya was kidnapped to become Libyan dictator Gaddafi’s sex slave. This is her story, in an exclusive excerpt from a new book by French reporter Annick Cojean that details the brutal horrors of Gaddafi’s sex obsession with teens.
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Dunkin' Donuts apologises for blackface ad
Dunkin' Donuts has apologised for the "insensitivity" of an advertising campaign in Thailand featuring a woman in blackface makeup to promote a new chocolate flavoured doughnut.
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North Korea says called off envoy visit because of U.S. military drills
North Korea said late on Saturday it withdrew an invitation for a U.S. envoy to visit the country to discuss the fate of a jailed American citizen because U.S. military drills on the peninsula made humanitarian dialogue impossible.
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Texas Guard refuses to process same-sex benefits
The Texas National Guard refused to process requests from same-sex couples for benefits on Tuesday, citing the state constitution's ban on gay marriage, despite a Pentagon directive to do so.
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South African gold miners on strike
Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay, but their union has significantly scaled down its demands.
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Up to 20,000 North Korean prison camp inmates have 'disappeared'
Thousands of North Korean inmates of Camp No 22, one of Kim Jong-un's most brutal labour camps, have disappeared according to a human rights group.
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Fight to the Death
In 1972 an awful backroom compromise kept the Supreme Court from abolishing the death penalty.
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Nearly quarter of men in Asia-Pacific admit to committing rape
Survey shows extent of sexual violence in region where 70% of men report facing no legal consequences
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Are Blacks Names ‘Weird,’ or Are You Just Racist?
A Reddit thread has ignited a new debate over unconventional black names. But white people do it too, writes Jamelle Bouie—and the double standard says something about racial inequality
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Domenico Quirico: My 150-day ordeal as a hostage of Syria's rebels
The Italian journalist was taken prisoner by an anti-Assad revolutionary brigade. The horror that followed led him to rename the country 'the land of evil'
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Fugitive Snowden in running for European rights prize
Fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden is in the running for a European human rights prize whose past winners include Nelson Mandela and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Fun Is A Fundamental Human Right
To be clear, I actually believe the Mark Zuckerbergs and other people who are focused on these kinds of initiatives are thinking is that it is important for poor people to have fun, pleasure, and entertainment.
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Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'
Dozens of Nepalese migrant labourers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and thousands more are enduring appalling labour abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising serious questions about Qatar's preparations to host the 2022 World Cup.
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Snowden Is A Finalist For European Human Rights Award
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contract worker who leaked documents detailing America's secret and broad surveillance activities, is on the short list of nominees for Europe's Sakharov Prize, which recognizes those who fight for human rights.
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North Korea calls Switzerland’s refusal to sell it ski lifts a ‘serious human rights abuse’
An important lesson on what sorts of sanctions work against Pyongyang.
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Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony’s PS4
If reports in the Chinese press are to be believed, Sony’s next-gen games console may be being assembled using some very outdated labor practices. According to Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily, thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant assembling the Sony Playstation 4.
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