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UN expert group urges new Icelandic authorities to sustain gender empowerment efforts
24 May 2013 150 As the world's top performer on gender equality, Iceland needs to sustain its achievements and bridge remaining gaps on employment and gender based violence, a group of independent United Nations experts today urged as the country's newly formed Government took office. "There is no room for complacency regarding the gains achieved by Iceland, as equality guarantees in the ...
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UN human rights office urges trial to be decided on merits after Guatemalan court overturns Roos Montt conviction
24 May 2013 150 The United Nations human rights office today said it was "concerned" about the legal rights of Guatemalans after a high court overturned the 80 year prison sentence against former military leader, Efrain R237;os Montt. "Amid continued legal uncertainty about what the ruling of the Constitutional Court annulling the verdict on the R237;os Montt case means in practice, we are ...
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UN report highlights benefits of school meal programmes in crisis settings
24 May 2013 150 A United Nations report released today stresses the importance of providing meals for schoolchildren, particularly in times of crisis, and notes that this is still lacking in many developing countries. "School feeding assures that where quality education is available, children are able to take advantage of the opportunity to learn," said the Executive Director of the World ...
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Politics has too much sway over culture education in Bosnia and Herzegovina - UN expert
24 May 2013 150 An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern at the extent to which political bodies have influence over cultural institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and urged the Government to ensure that people have opportunities to engage freely in cultural life. "Culture and education seem to have been held hostage to political debates," Farida Shaheed, the ...
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UN rights experts call for stronger protection of victims of caste-based discrimination
24 May 2013 150 More than 260 million people across the world are still victims of human rights abuses due to caste-based discrimination, United Nations independent experts warned today, urging South Asian countries to strengthen legislation to protect them. "Caste-based discrimination remains widespread and deeply rooted, its victims face structural discrimination, marginalization and ...
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Disgraced ex-IMF chief spotted on red carpet at Cannes
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Saturday sent French media into a frenzy when he appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Jim Jarmusch's vampire tale "Only Lovers Left ...
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Trio arrested over London soldier murder
Three men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier who was hacked to death in a London street by two ...
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Divided Europe imperils Syrian arms embargo
A raft of sanctions aimed at hobbling the Syrian regime is at risk of collapse, according to diplomats, unless deeply divided European foreign ministers can reach a consensus tomorrow on amending a ban on arming the ...
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Conquering Everest 60 facts about the worlds tallest mountain
Sixty years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the peak of the highest mountain on Earth, Kathryn Bromwich offers 60 facts about the top of the ...
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Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis Civil war looms in Iraq
As Iraq edges closer to all-out sectarian civil war, with 400 people killed so far this month, Najmaldin Karim, governor of one of the country's most violent provinces, is pessimistic about the ability of the government in Baghdad to prevent greater turmoil. "This government is incapable," he says. "It likes to live from crisis to crisis, without managing any one of them. You ...
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British police arrest three over soldiers killing
A worker adds flowers to other floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 24, ...
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UK PM to muzzle hate clerics
BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron is planning new powers to muzzle Islamic hate preachers accused of provoking terrorist outrages such as the killing of soldier Lee ...
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How wealth of Silicon Valleys tech elite created a world apart
San Francisco 's rush hour. From the pavement you can see your reflection in the windows, but you can't see in. The buses have no markings or logos, no advertised destinations or stops.It doesn't matter. Everyone knows what they are. "Transport for a breed apart. For a community that is separate but not equal," said Diamond Dave Whitaker, a self-professed beat poet and ...
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Tony Blair is asked to help secure release of mining employees in Guinea
French human rights lawyer Rachel Lindon has asked Tony Blair, pictured, to assist in securing the release of two mining company employees in Guinea. Photograph: Maxa/Landov/Barcroft ...
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Kerry stresses respect for human rights with Nigerian president
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry, who last week expressed concern about allegations of gross human rights violations by Nigerian forces fighting the Boko Haram Islamist sect, raised the issue with the country's president directly on Saturday, a U.S. official ...
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AP PHOTOS Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in final
Bayern Munich defeated German rival Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the Champions League final Saturday night, ending four years of frustration for Bayern in Europe's biggest soccer tournament. Arjen Robben ran onto Franck Ribery's backheeled flick in the penalty area and put the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller in the 89th minute to send Bayern to its first Champions League victory ...
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Soldier stabbed on patrol in Paris no link at this stage to London murder
A French soldier on anti-terrorist duties was stabbed in the neck Saturday in an attack that President Francois Hollande said could not "at this stage" be linked to the brutal murder this week of a military man in ...
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Protesters to March Against Monsanto across US around globe in collective anti-GMO rally
FILE - This Aug. 31, 2011 file photo shows the Monsanto corporate logo at their exhibit booth during the Farm Progress Show, in Decatur, Ill. Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the U.S. and in dozens of foreign countries Saturday, May 25, 2013. ';March Against Monsanto'; protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by ...
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Huge crowd cheers Argentine leaders 10-year rule
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has rallied a huge crowd celebrating 10 years in power by her government and that of her late ...
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Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
By SYLVIA HUIAssociated Press LONDON (AP) - Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation. Metropolitan Police investigating the killing of Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old soldier who was run over by attackers then ...
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More arrests over Woolwich attack
Metropolitan Police said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London over the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby. His alleged attackers Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo are being held under armed guard in hiospital recovering from gunshot ...
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Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform says aid depends on it
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the U.S. Congress, an American official ...
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London brutal attack probe nets additional arrests
LONDON British police on Saturday arrested three more suspects in connection with the savage killing of an off-duty soldier that has raised fresh concerns about terrorism. Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London. A third man, 21, was arrested separately on a London street at the same time. Police said they used ...
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After Coming Out Rogers Returns to Pro Soccer
(Image Credit: Barry King/WireImage/Getty Images) Soccer player Robbie Rogers came out of a short-lived retirement today to join the Los Angeles Galaxy, becoming the first openly gay player in Major League Soccer. The 26-year-old midfielder, who briefly walked away from the sport in February after coming out in ...
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Late Robben goal sees Bayern rule Europe
Borussia Dortmund on Saturday after a thrilling UEFA Champions League final at Wembley Stadium. With extra time beckoning, Robben collected a back-heel ...
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Trinidad rearranges infastructure spending
Trinidad and Tobago, although a small island nation less than ten times the size of the city state of Singapore, is a regional economic powerhouse and the national capital Port of Spain, is a centre of commerce in the West Indies, but with the robust development that our island has experienced comes a number of infrastructure projects all with different supporters and different objectives.
The controversial nature of the nationwide highways expansion program was seen as a reflection of the competing needs of the local population and the need to balance government spending against sustainable development. Read more
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