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Saudi Arabia: Group Condemns Sentence of 40 Lashes

New York Times - Mon Dec 14, 9:19 pm ET

Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to stay a sentence of 40 lashes against a 75-year-old woman for breaching a sex segregation law.

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Women of the year
Summit Daily News - Fri Dec 11, 2:18 am ET
Time magazine has several contenders for its annual Person of the Year issue, including Timothy Geithner, Stanley McChrystal, Usain Bolt and Ben Bernanke. More forward-thinking publications, however, have all but declared 2009 as the Year of the Woman. "Never has there been a time in which more remarkable women have distinguished themselves," said famed women's rights activist and Ms. magazine ...
CENTRAL JERSEY: Soldiers From Our Streets
The Messenger-Press - Fri Dec 11, 1:58 am ET
Editorâs note: This is the first in a series of stories on local veterans of the Afghanistan invasion or the war in Iraq.
Oona Hathaway Is Named the Latrobe Smith Professor
Yale University Office of Public Affairs - Fri Dec 11, 12:14 am ET
Oona A. Hathaway, newly designated as the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, focuses her current research on the intersection of domestic and international law.
U.N. Declaration Honored
FOX 40 Binghamton - Thu Dec 10, 10:48 pm ET
"Article 3--everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person," said Peace Action members. "Sometimes, we, Americans, tend to forget what human rights mean to people in other countries. When we bomb a village in Afghanistan, the Afghanis or the Pakistanis are saying, what about our human rights?" said Jim Clune of Peace Action. About 10 people came out to Confluence Park to ...
Solidarity prayer called for women praying at Western Wall
JTA - Thu Dec 10, 9:13 pm ET
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Activists are organizing a "day of solitary" in support of women's right to pray at the Western Wall in "dignity, in safety and in shared community."
Joe Peyronnin: Peace and War
The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 10, 5:43 pm ET
President Barack Obama said he was grateful and humbled to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and acknowledged his accomplishments are slight when compared to past...
Popcorn & Candy: Keep it Like a Secret
DCist - Thu Dec 10, 5:21 pm ET
DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Secret Policeman's Film Festival In 1979, John Cleese and producer Martin Lewis helped put together a benefit for Amnesty International that featured half the members of Monty Python, a number of UK stand-ups and sketch comedy performers, and an acoustic set from ...
U.S. State Dept. blames Goldstone for stalled peace talks
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Thu Dec 10, 4:28 pm ET
The Goldstone report drove the Israelis and Palestinians apart, a U.S. State Department official said.
UK Issues New Guidance on Labelling of Food from Illegal Israeli Settlements
CommonDreams.org - Thu Dec 10, 3:42 pm ET
by Ian Black, Middle East editor, and Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem The British government has for the first time called on all supermarkets to inform customers clearly when they are buying food produced by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The new guidance on food labelling significantly increases UK pressure on Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, and ...
Solidarity prayer called for women who wear tallit
JTA - Thu Dec 10, 2:58 pm ET
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Activists will hold a special prayer at the Western Wall in support of women's right to wear a tallit.
Portishead 'Chase The Tear' For Amnesty International
CMJ - Thu Dec 10, 2:24 pm ET
British trip-hop legends Portishead, who released their first album since their 90s ...
Palestinian leader speaks from prison
CNN - Thu Dec 10, 2:22 pm ET
One of the key players in Palestinian politics and therefore in any future peace talks with Israel has spoken to CNN from his Israeli prison cell. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences following his conviction in an Israeli court on murder and other charges related to his role in planning attacks on Israelis during the second Intifada.
LimeWire Store Releases Exclusive Live at Lime with Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman to Benefit Amnesty International
Marketwire - Thu Dec 10, 2:12 pm ET
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - December 10, 2009) - To coincide with International Human Rights Day on December 10, LimeWire Store releases Live at Lime with Tom Morello, available only at LimeWire Store. The Grammy Award-winning Morello performs two outstanding covers: "Human," originally released by The Killers in 2008, and "Joe Hill," a classic folk song based on a poem written by Alfred Hayes ...
Kristen Breitweiser: President Obama, Find Peace Through Truth
The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 10, 1:43 pm ET
Let me state this at the outset: I do not think President Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize. I believe that awards and honors should...
SEC Charges Attorney in Insider Trading Scheme
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Thu Dec 10, 1:42 pm ET
Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an additional attorney who worked at international law firm Ropes & Gray LLP in the agency's ongoing investigation into a $20 million insider trading ring involving Wall Street traders, lawyers, and hedge fund managers.