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Honduran vote to face legitimacy test

CNN - 2 hours 2 minutes ago

Hondurans will answer two questions Sunday when the troubled Central American nation holds elections: Who will win the presidency, and will voters heed calls for a boycott?

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Stem cell opponents bring debate back to Legislature
Scottsbluff Star-Herald - Wed Nov 25, 5:29 am ET
LINCOLN — Some opponents of human embryonic stem cell research, foiled in their attempts to change University of Nebraska policy on such research, are looking again to the Nebraska Legislature.
Emmy-Award Winning Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo to Receive the Women's International Film & Television Showcase ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 10:00 am ET
TheWIFTS Foundation to Honor Emmy Award-Winning Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo With Humanitarian Award for Contribution to Women's Rights Movement
EU curbs Spain on Internet piracy laws
UPI - Tue Nov 24, 11:20 am ET
BRUSSELS, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The European Union warned Spain it may not cut off Internet access to suspected content pirates without EU-determined due process of law.
China activist who spoke out on quake gets 3 years
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 9:34 pm ET
A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year — an apparent government attempt to squelch such information.
Obama awards Zimbabwe group, blasts Mugabe
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 9:32 pm ET
US President Barack Obama has given an award to a leading women's rights activist in Zimbabwe, labeling Robert Mugabe a "dictator" in the process.
Briefs
The Conroe Courier - Wed Nov 25, 2:14 am ET
Endorsement: Texas Right to Life is endorsing Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, in his bid for re-election to Texas Senate District 3. Texas Right to Life is the oldest, largest and only statewide pro-life organization in the state.
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Human Rights Watch - Tue Nov 24, 4:14 pm ET
The government’s promise to release displaced civilians from camps is welcome, though long overdue. The government has been holding many Tamils for alleged involvement in the LTTE without providing them basic rights due under Sri Lankan and international law.
Amnesty International Wishes to Become Active Again
Massachusetts Daily Collegian - Wed Nov 25, 12:51 am ET
Amnesty International is seeking to reestablish an active chapter at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Since going non-active this year, Amnesty has been looking to regain student support and enrollment.
Save a Nobel Peace Laureate
Old Gold & Black - Wed Nov 25, 12:27 am ET
Amnesty International has started up a write-a-thon to help save Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi who has been imprisoned in Myanmar for voicing dissenting views. The write-a-thon is looking for 250,000 letters written to the Myanmar embassy in Washington DC on behalf of concerned individuals...
United States charged in secret evidence shenanigans
The Vanguard - Wed Nov 25, 12:26 am ET
It sounds like typical Soviet bureaucracy, pulled right from a Solzenitsyn novel. A man is detained based on secret evidence and given a secret charge he can neither challenge nor confess to. In supposed justification of the ridiculous ruse, the authorities call him a threat to national security.
Tajikistan fails to curb abuse of women: Amnesty
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 7:14 pm ET
The government of the Central Asian state of Tajikistan is failing to protect women from violence and abuse, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
Do Video Games Allow Virtual War Crimes?
PC World - Tue Nov 24, 9:34 am ET
Swiss groups examine nearly two dozen war-related video games and conclude they entice players to 'violate international law'.
Olivia Wilde and Hank Azaria to Accept Artivist Awards at 6th Artivist Film Festival Awards, December 5 in Hollywood
PRWeb - Wed Nov 25, 3:20 am ET
The 6th Annual Artivist Film Festival Honors top Advocate Artists at their Awards event. This year the honorees are Olivia Wilde, Hank Azaria and producer Stephen Nemeth. The Awards take place on December 5th at 8pm at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Numerous notables are scheduled to present awards or attend including host Kevin Dunn, Maria Bello, Frances Fisher, Kathleen “Bird” York ...
China sentences activist to 3 years
Los Angeles Times - Tue Nov 24, 3:26 am ET
Huang Qi was investigating the role shoddy school construction may have played in the deaths of thousands of children in the Sichuan quake last year. An activist who was investigating the role shoddy school construction played in the deaths of more than 5,000 children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was given a three-year prison sentence Monday on charges of possessing state secrets.
Adam Shapiro: Selling Out in Congress
The Huffington Post - Tue Nov 24, 4:25 pm ET
One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil...