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Iraqi Children For Sale

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UNICEF:
– An estimated 2 million children in Iraq continue to face threats including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education.
- Many of the 220,000 displaced children of primary school age had their education interrupted.
- An estimated 760,000 children (17 per cent) did not go to primary schools in 2006.
- An average 25,000 [...]

Immigration Paperwork Meltdown Impacts Election

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Naturalization paperwork jam hits Texas hard
Backlog may keep some from casting votes for president
WASHINGTON — Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in [...]

Historical Revisionism – United States Genocide vs Ottomans

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Why does the US think that disrespecting Turkey’s historical image related to the Ottoman/Armenian era, then ordering it to lay off the Kurds, is acceptable? Turkey’s military chief has said US-Turkish ties will never be the same again if US lawmakers brand the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians a genocide
How does that help [...]

Who is Taslima Nasreen, Why Should We Care

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Taslima Nasreen should leave or die: Muslim clerics
MLA vows to ‘behead’ Taslima Nasreen

Aug 17: Muslim clerics in West Bengal Friday issued a “death warrant” against Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen if she did not pack her bags and leave India.
“Anybody eliminating her would be given Rs 100,000 and unlimited [...]

Fundamentalist Social Destruction Is Everywere

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Egypt forbids female circumcision   By Magdi Abdelhadi  [...]

Slavery Is Shameful – Corrupt World Legacy Continues

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Reports of Forced Labor Unsettle China
Cheated out of their money when they sought to buy a ticket for the final leg of the journey home, their father, Su Jianjun, said in an interview, they were taken in by a woman who provided them with warm shelter and a meal on a cold winter [...]

US blacklists allies for ’slavery’

Posted by bosskitty

FUNNY, THEY DON’T SAY HOW LONG WE HAVE IGNORED THIS
 

The United States has blacklisted several Middle East allies for not doing enough to fight what it calls “modern day slavery”.
 
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar were put in the worst category in the state department’s annual Trafficking In Persons report, along with Algeria, Equatorial Guinea and [...]

US Picks Unscrupulous Buddies – Hypocracy Again

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Allies Cited for Human Trafficking
State Dept. Adds Arab Nations to List of Worst Offenders
By Nora Boustany
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, June 13, 2007; Page A14
The State Department yesterday added seven countries, including four Arab allies, to its list of worst offenders in failing to suppress human trafficking and forced labor, which it called “a modern [...]

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