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US: Policy Recommendations on Counterterrorism
Human Rights Watch - 4 hours 54 min ago
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email On May 23, 2013, US President Barack Obama will give a speech at the National Defense University on counterterrorism policy....
FIDH 2012 Annual Report
FIDH - Human Rights for All - 8 hours 40 min ago
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Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013 Begins In Brazil
WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - 9 hours 28 min ago
Over 240 delegates from 37 countries are coming together in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil, to exchange experiences and debate options for developing sustainable national school feeding programmes in the...
Fears for safety of human rights lawyer abducted in Syria
Amnesty International - 10 hours 5 min ago
Headline Title: Fears for safety of human rights lawyer in Syria 21 May 2013...
Afghanistan - Radio station technician and host murdered in Kapisa Valley
Reporters without border - 10 hours 11 min ago
Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, a 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab in the northeastern Kapisa Valley, was found near his home...
Uganda - Police raids on two Kampala newspapers
Reporters without border - 10 hours 22 min ago
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by raids, on Monday (May 20), by police on two Kampala-based newspapers, the forced closure of their printing presses and the closure of two radio stations....
Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ amid ‘disturbing’ rise in executions
Amnesty International - 10 hours 23 min ago
Headline Title: Saudi Arabia: Five beheaded and ‘crucified’ 21 May 2013...
Haïti - Motive not yet known in radio journalist's fatal shooting
Reporters without border - 10 hours 58 min ago
Reporters Without Borders hopes that the reason will soon be known for radio journalist Pierre-Richard Alexandre's fatal shooting by an individual identified as Baudelaire Augustin in Saint-Marc,...
Solvable Problem
WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - 11 hours 9 min ago
Whenever I have the privilege of spending time among the people that the World Food Programme (WFP) serves, I come away enriched with precious extra knowledge and inspired by the new ways in which...