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# UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is “a crime against humanity” because of its impact on global food prices.
# EU Environment Commissioner has rejected...
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# The US highest court has set arguments on whether death penalty for the crime of raping a child represents unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
# The sexual violation of immature young children by predatory adults is extremely great due...
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Seize of more than 400 children, most of them girls, in raid on the compound of a polygamist sect - The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), has again fueled the debate around religious sects and the role they’re playing...
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# Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.
# The Olympic Charter bans any kind of “demonstration or political,...
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# With the world food prices rising over 45% in the last nine months, world is heading towards commodity crises never heard of before.
# Among the major factors - record fuel prices, ethanol production, unprecedented demand, the effects of climate...
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# The percentage of the world’s population living on less than $1 per day has halved in twenty years. However, most of this improvement has occurred in East and South Asia.
# The world is on course to halve extreme poverty by 2015, but Africa...
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# The next UN investigator into Israel conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.
# The treatment of Palestinians resembles the Nazi record of collective atrocity - the massive...
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International Olympic Committee head Jacques Rogge said he was “very concerned” about unrest in Tibet, but downplayed talk of a boycott of the Beijing Games.
# A suicide bomber killed a government minister including a former Olympic athlete and 11 other people in Sri Lanka.
# Since the ending of a six-year cease-fire in January, fighting has increased in Sri Lanka killing about 5,000 people.
# LTTE...
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# A UN report shockingly indicates that the disparity between women and men’s rights is all too common and prevalent in almost every country around the world.
# Many countries still have different ages of marriage for young women then they have...
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