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In Draft Resolution, United Nations Rebukes Iran for Rights Violations Since Election
Tehrān :: Iran | about 8 hours ago
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The United Nations criticized Iran on Friday for numerous human rights abuses in the wake of the disputed presidential election in June, including the arrests, intimidation and mass trials of members of the political opposition. A draft resolution detailing...
Tags: United Nations Rebukes Iran, draft resolution, The United Nations, Iran, Tehrān, Protests, Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian election protests, Basij, Military of Iran, Iranian presidential election, Politics
New National Museum exhibition showcases fascinating audio and video material from communist era
Prague :: Czech Republic | about 15 hours ago
Credibility English – is the title of an exhibition the Czech National Museum opened on Tuesday’s anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution. It is located in the institution’s new building, the former home of Czechoslovakia’s Federal Assembly, and is co-curated...
Tags: national museum, Czech Republic, Prague, Protests, Revolutions, Velvet Revolution
Burma blogger faces 15-year sentence
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility A young blogger, Win Zaw Naing, is facing a possibly 15-year jail sentence just for posting pictures and reports about the September 2007 protests, known as the Saffron Revolution. Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for his...
Tags: Burma Media Association, Win Zaw Naing, Myanmar, Yangon, Protests, U Thant, Burma, Burmese anti-government protests, Massacres
UC Regents Raise Tuition 32%
The California Highway Patrol and UCLA university police surrounded a few Regents at a time, in a wedge formation, to protect them from angry protesters after they announced a 32% increase in University of California tuition. One excessively enthusiastic...
The beauty of the quiet revolution in Czechoslovakia
Prague :: Czech Republic | 1 day ago
Credibility Václav Havel had been released from jail only days before, yet he was full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Thousands of his countrymen had written letters petitioning for his release, at a time when declaring solidarity with Czechoslovakia's...
Tags: Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, Czech Republic, Prague, Civic Forum, Hrad, Czechs, Milouￅﾡ Jakeￅﾡ, Theatre of the Absurd, Vￃﾡclav Havel, Velvet Revolution, Wenceslas Square, Alexander Dubￄﾍek, Prague Spring, Protests
Irrawaddy: Myint Swe: The Tatmadaw’s next top dog? – Min Lwin
Yangon :: Myanmar | 1 day ago
Credibility Lt-Gen Myint Swe is being widely tipped to succeed Snr-Gen Than Shwe as the Burmese army’s next commander in chief, according to several dissidents in exile and Burma observers. Rumors have circulated that Myint Swe is junta strongman Than Shwe’s favored...
Tags: Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, United Nations General Assembly, North Korea, Burmese, United States, Barack Obama, hopes suu, quarterly meeting, Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Yangon, Military intelligence of Burma, Myanmar Army, Myint Swe, Myanmar Armed Forces, Military of Burma, Defence Services Academy, Than Shwe, War Conflict, Politics, Thein Sein, Aung San, Outline of Burma, International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, Politics of Burma, Year of birth missing, Burmese anti-government protests, Burmese general election, Massacres, Protests
For Youth: A Disciplinary Discourse Only
Athens :: Greece | 1 day ago
Credibility In Athens, Tehran or the French suburbs, popular anger continues to erupt. Anthropologist Alain Bertho follows the tracks of these episodes on the Net, establishing a global map of a symptom of the times. Jean-Marie Durand for lesinrocks.com: "The present...
Tags: Athens, Greece, Student riot, Globalization, Protests, Civil disobedience, Riot
Amid protests, UC OKs 32% fee hike
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state...At the University of California, Davis, authorities arrested dozens of protesters Thursday night...
Tags: UC Davis, UCD, UCLA, UC Regents, University of California, fees hike, students fees, regents approve, percent increase, fees increase, Los Angeles, Merced County California, University of California Merced, Mark Yudof, Student fee, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Central Valley of California, Education, Political riots, Protests, War Conflict, Tuition, Social Issues, Berkeley California, Public university, UC Davis Graduate Studies, University of California Berkeley, Clark Kerr, University of California Riverside, Regents Examinations
18 November
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 days ago
Credibility Copenhagen: Where do we go from here? Casino crash Critical radical thinking on the financial crisis ‘ Red Pepper is a vital antidote to our soundbite culture. It deserves our support; we deserve it. ’ Julie Christie, actress Latest Issue Don’t miss...
Tags: Alastair Crooke, Palestinian, Red Pepper, Denmark, Copenhagen, Year of birth missing, Iranian Revolution, Protests, Islamism, Azar Majedi, Islamic history, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Media network demands free and fair reporting on 2010 polls
Chiang Mai :: Thailand | 2 days ago
Credibility Burma News International (BNI), a network of 11 independent news organizations in exile, yesterday urged the country’s ruling military junta to ensure freedom of information gathering and reporting in the general elections slated for next year. “Otherwise,...
Tags: Thailand, Chiang Mai, Burmese anti-government protests, Massacres, Protests, Kenji Nagai, Journalist, Politics, Military dictatorship, Politics of Burma, Burma, Kengtung, Shan Women's Action Network, War Conflict, Shan, Tachileik
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