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Children sexually abused on Pakistan's streets; more than 170,000 children live on the streets

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2011 11:03 PM | Add Comment

Syrian gunmen break artist Ali Farzat's hands as 'warning'

Posted by kluciole at 8/25/2011 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Bare-breast protest by Femen group at Ukraine trial

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 1:14 PM | Add Comment

World Bank: Global food prices near 3-year highs, piling pressure on world's poor

Posted by kluciole at 8/15/2011 9:07 PM | Add Comment

Interesting article: "One-child policy a surprising boon for China's girls"

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Appeal launched to help millions left starving after East Africa's worst drought in decades

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2011 3:19 AM | Add Comment

UN backs gay rights for first time ever

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2011 7:44 PM | Add Comment

Gold rush another blight to ailing Amazon jungle

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 8:30 PM | Add Comment

Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2011 3:56 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Despite economic growth, India lets many of its girls die

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2011 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Census spotlights India's 'missing girls'

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2011 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Chilling testimony from the Gulags' forgotten victims

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:11 AM | Add Comment

Vote ban angers Saudi women in era of change

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:24 PM | Add Comment

Touching article filled with kindness: "With aid slow to come Japanese fend for themselves"

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2011 7:09 PM | Add Comment

Angry mother says people unkind to her blind toddler, assuming his white cane is a toy

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2011 9:52 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2011 2:52 PM | Add Comment

All best wishes to CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who revealed she was victim of sex attack while covering Egypt protests

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2011 2:42 PM | Add Comment

Australians giving up on Aboriginals, according to poll

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2011 4:35 PM | Add Comment

A look inside America's poorest county

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2011 4:20 PM | Add Comment

Katrina's ruins home to thousands of homeless

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2011 9:42 PM | Add Comment

UN says female circumcision should end

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Female Genital Mutilation Banned by Islamic Leaders in Mauritania

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:36 PM | Add Comment

I’m so proud of my ‘Princess Boy’ says Cheryl Kilodavis

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2011 4:42 PM | Add Comment

Saudi women sue male guardians who stop marriage

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2010 12:54 AM | Add Comment

California approves use of pesticide linked to cancer

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:28 AM | Add Comment

The story of Sumiati, the Indonesian maid who suffered the plight of many immigrant maids: lips cut off, burns all over her body and broken bones

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2010 7:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Please support the beautiful and talented Native American actress Irene Bedard

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 10:32 PM | Add Comment

Senate approves $4.6B for black farmers, Indians

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2010 9:01 PM | Add Comment

Amazon no longer selling guide for pedophiles

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2010 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei under house arrest

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:21 AM | Add Comment

Russian reporter in coma after beating in Moscow

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:16 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Parents told to leave disabled kids at homeless shelters

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2010 7:43 PM | Add Comment

Toughest job in the world: Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, becomes police chief in one of Mexico's most violent border towns... because no one else will do it

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 9:02 PM | Add Comment

Special Report: The problem with phthalates

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

The curse of the blood rubies: Inside Burma's brutal gem trade

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

U.S. vows help in fight against Congo sexual violence

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Indiana ruling halts caregiver choices based on race

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2010 9:38 AM | Add Comment

Some 200 women (and at least four male babies, one only a month old) gang-raped near Congo UN base

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2010 9:35 AM | Add Comment

Very thought-provoking article: "Cloning, cruelty and how science sold out to greed"

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:55 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Promises, Promises: US fails to punish Sudan

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:51 AM | Add Comment

Two articles: "Iran to review woman's stoning verdict" and "How can a nation that could soon be a nuclear power still legally stone women to death for adultery?"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:06 AM | Add Comment

'Help us save our mother': Pleas from children of Iranian woman convicted of adultery, who faces death by stoning

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a amiling refugee Afghan boy looks through a window in Kabul

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:45 PM | Add Comment

International Energy Agency director general Nobuo Tanaka says BP oil spill was avoidable

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing Nazi firing squad shown for first time

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:18 AM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:18 AM | Add Comment

More than 12 million are modern slaves — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:39 AM | Add Comment

Seven people convicted over Bhopal (India) gas tragedy that killed 15,000 people 25 years ago

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:40 AM | Add Comment

Head of large Congo human rights group found dead. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was head of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the Voiceless

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Computer models show Gulf oil could wind up on East Coast by July, and be carried on currents across Atlantic Ocean by Bermuda and toward Europe

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 3:54 PM | Add Comment

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cyclone survivor takes part in a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:14 PM | Add Comment

In Photos: Haunting images of the gulf oil disaster

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:23 PM | Add Comment

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 4:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2010 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Brothel owners transported women around British suburbs in a cage

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:48 AM | Add Comment

An essay from Luciole friend/contributor Christine McClintock: "Child Abuse - The Fight to Protect"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Obama seeks court nominee who backs women's rights

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:41 PM | Add Comment

Mexico rejects church criticism of sex education

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Iranian cleric: "women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes"

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:07 AM | Add Comment

13-year-old Yemeni bride dies of internal bleeding, "injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage"

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:26 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Russian protesters say factory to pollute world's oldest lake -- Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake and contains 20 percent of the globe's total unfrozen freshwater reserves

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2010 12:21 AM | Add Comment

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2010 3:40 AM | Add Comment

Congress approves historic health care legislation

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2010 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Late Mass. monk Ly Van Aggadipo's poems recall Khmer Rouge horrors; one Cambodian refugee says "I think my own children don't believe what we went through to get here"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Stop this insanity -- Tea party protesters shout racial and gay slurs at Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Barney Frank

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Women and girls (as young as 2 years old) are often rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:13 AM | Add Comment

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a local resident desperately tries to fill a container with water at a dried-up reservoir in Zhulin Town, China

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Scientists discover giant plastic rubbish patch in North Atlantic

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 3:52 PM | Add Comment

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:17 AM | Add Comment

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 2:50 PM | Add Comment

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:33 AM | Add Comment

US decision to freeze spending on HIV program sparks concern in Africa

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins

Posted by kluciole at 1/17/2010 8:47 PM | Add Comment

Haiti earthquake: Machete-wielding gangs roam streets as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/16/2010 3:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows

Posted by kluciole at 1/15/2010 8:52 PM | Add Comment

Rush, Robertson take heat for comments about earthquake in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:21 PM | Add Comment
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