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How do you get a job in North Korea?
What are the differences in jobs in North Korea, how frequently can you change jobs, and what about pay? Are you able to quit your job if you work in North Korea?
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Rosa Parks’s official arrest report: She refused to give bus seat to white man 58 years ago today
Here’s a piece of history: the arrest report from Montgomery, Ala., police for Rosa Parks on Dec. 1, 1955, the day she rode a Montgomery city bus
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Forced C-section was ‘the stuff of nightmares’: Social Services condemned for forcibly removing unborn child from woman
The case of a woman whose baby daughter was forcibly removed from her womb by social services was described by human-rights groups on Sunday night as “the stuff of nightmares”. The Italian woman was sedated and her baby delivered against her will, after Essex social services obtained a court order in August 2012 for the birth “to be enforced by way of caesarean section”.
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Jonathan Kay: Sketching North Korea’s sadism
Earlier this month, North Korea publicly executed as many as 80 citizens for such “crimes” as owning a Bible and watching Western movies. According to the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, the executioners covered many of the victims’ heads with bags, and then machine-gunned them to death in front of a stadium crowd.
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Watching the Watch List: Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism "No-Fly" Database
With hundreds of thousands of people now on the government’s terrorist watch lists, a closely watched trial begins today in San Francisco. Stanford University Ph.D. student Rahinah Ibrahim is suing the U.S. government after she was barred from flying from Malaysia back to the United States in 2005 to complete her studies at Stanford after her name was placed on the list.
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Thailand secretly supplies Myanmar refugees to trafficking rings
One afternoon in October, in the watery no-man's land between Thailand and Myanmar, Muhammad Ismail vanished.Thai immigration officials said he was being deported to Myanmar.
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Photos show scale of North Korea's repressive prison camps
North Korea is showing no signs of scaling back its fearsome labor camp system, with torture, starvation, rape and death a fact of life for tens of thousand of inmates, according to human rights group Amnesty International.
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German President Boycotting Sochi Olympics
German President Joachim Gauck is boycotting the Winter Olympics and will not travel to Sochi, Russia next year. Der Spiegel reports that Gauck took the decision in protest against human rights violations and the harassment of Russian opposition political figures.
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Two Visions of Mandela
There has been no one like Nelson Mandela on the world stage in my lifetime. I was a child of five years old when he went into prison and a young man of thirty-three when he got out; during all of that time, he was the central figure of South Africa’s epic ordeal of apartheid—a man wrongfully imprisoned by a hateful racist regime, a man rendered forever young, in those prison years, by the government’s ban on pictures of him...
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Atheist billboard ads rejected in Vancouver
An atheist group is considering a human rights complaint after it says a billboard company refused to run its advertisements in Vancouver.
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Atheists face death in 13 Muslim countries
In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law, according to a detailed study issued on Tuesday. And beyond the Islamic nations, even some of the West's apparently most democratic governments at best discriminate against citizens who have no belief in a god and at worst can jail them for offences dubbed blasphemy, it said.
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Woman who miscarried in private prison 'made to clean up after herself,' court told
A woman who had a miscarriage at a private prison was left to clean up after herself while the foetus remained in her cell, it has been alleged. Although a nurse was present when remand prisoner Nadine Wright, 37, lost her baby, she says the foetus was left with her afterwards and that she had to clean up the blood.
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Death penalty statistics, country by country
After the execution of Kim Jong-un's uncle, the brutality of North Korea's regime has once again come under the international spotlight. In a broader context, is the attention warranted? Find out who uses the death penalty today - and see how it compares to 2007
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Japan Keeps Executing Prisoners Without Giving Them Any Warning
Two death row inmates in Japan were killed today, following a controversial procedure where inmates are given a just a few hours notice before they are hanged, and relatives are not notified until the prisoners are already dead. Ryoji Kagayama and Mitsuo Fujishima were the latest condemned inmates to be put to death as part of this controversial "secret execution" program that has been condemned by human rights activists in Japan and abroad.
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Civil unions challenge 'Jewish state'
A proposal to allow civil unions in Israel has drawn attention to the country's strict religious controls on marriage and divorce, and gets to the heart of what Israel's self-definition as a "Jewish state" really means for its citizens.
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Ethiopia Workers Return From Saudi Arabia Telling of Abuse
Teklai Hagos says he watched in horror as Saudi Arabian police beat Ethiopian migrants protesting against the alleged kidnapping and rapes of Ethiopian women by young Saudi men.
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Women’s rights lobbyist ‘pays nanny $3 a hour’
A top diplomat at India’s consulate in Manhattan who lobbies for women’s rights has been busted by the feds — after allegedly mistreating her female nanny. Devyani , India’s 39-year-old deputy consul general for political, economic, commercial and women’s affairs, was busted Thursday for allegedly helping to submit fake documents to the US State Department saying she was paying the woman $4,500 per month — when, in reality, the caregiver received only $573 monthly, or a measly $3.31 an hour.
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Pussy Riot members freed from prison
Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alekhina, 25, were released from prison, three months before their scheduled release.
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UN official praises Canada's fight against forced marriage
A top United Nations official is praising the Harper government's foreign policy initiative to end forced marriage of young girls, even if Canada won't fund projects that would allow victims access to an abortion. The Conservative government's practice of not allowing aid dollars to go toward organizations that offer abortions to victimized girls or war-rape victims has sparked heated criticism in some quarters.
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‘Children in cages’: Human rights group accuses Israel of torture
An Israeli human rights organization has accused the country of torturing Palestinian minors, with reported cases of public caging as well as threats and acts of sexual violence.
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