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Haiti earthquake: Number of dead could be more than 100,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 11:55 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 5:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

225,000 Haiti children work as slaves, sold for as little as $128 to work as laborers or prostitutes

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Newsweek article: How to Live Happily on 75 Percent Less ... (and photos of the homeless who need our help -- this winter is already very harsh)

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (photos: Monterey Bay, CA)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:14 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:54 PM | Add Comment

Photo: polluted water released into the Sabarmati river in India for farmers to use in the absence of monsoon rains

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 5:47 PM | Add Comment

The Robin Hood Food Bank for New York City -- (4 million NYC residents experience difficulty affording food)

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:34 PM | Add Comment

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 4:47 PM | Add Comment

Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:45 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi reunited with mother 20 years after Halabja gas attack massacre

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:20 PM | Add Comment

Iran bans foreign media cover as student rally nears

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Project C.U.R.E.: Delivering Health & Hope to the World (sending donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries)

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Homeless S. Africans complain ahead of World Cup that they are being forced from the streets to make way for "glamorous events"

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:14 PM | Add Comment

Iran whistleblower, 26-year-old Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, died from drug-laced salad

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:05 AM | Add Comment

Latin America's first gay marriage blocked by judge

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:38 PM | Add Comment

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:06 PM | Add Comment

Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

10,000 East African albinos in hiding after killings; folk belief holds that "albino body parts have magical powers"

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:13 PM | Add Comment

Recession sends older Americans to food pantries

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 11:54 AM | Add Comment

Iranian authorities confiscate Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal; clerics start taking control of schools

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 6:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Palestinian girls release balloons with messages attached, during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 10:15 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:11 PM | Add Comment

USDA: Number of Americans going hungry increases to 49 million

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 3:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Official apology from Britain for 150,000 poor British children who were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, taken from their families to be used as workers (and often severely abused)

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Mystery of Bangladesh's mass arsenic poisoning of two million people is solved: man-made ponds excavated to provide soil for flood protection

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:38 PM | Add Comment

Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:15 AM | Add Comment

Report: Chinese who complain to government risk being kidnapped

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:32 PM | Add Comment

International human rights group says Iran covered up rape of detainees

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2009 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2009 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

"Which hand do you want to lose first?" The inspiring story of Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's war

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall -- how Germany has healed the scars

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 10:44 AM | Add Comment

Ethel Smyth – a wrecker with a cause. "Jailed for her activities in the Suffragette movement, composer Ethel Smyth had no problem putting her beliefs into action"

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2009 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2009 8:39 AM | Add Comment

100,000 women sign petition saying they're offended by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's sexist behavior

Posted by kluciole at 10/22/2009 1:14 PM | Add Comment

Kuwait grants women passports without spousal nod

Posted by kluciole at 10/21/2009 4:28 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Start planning for Pacific warming refugees: scientist

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2009 2:52 AM | Add Comment

Churches denounce African children as "witches" -- one child pleads, "Please stop the pastors who hurt us... I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch"

Posted by kluciole at 10/18/2009 1:54 AM | Add Comment

U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza

Posted by kluciole at 10/15/2009 9:09 AM | Add Comment

Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:17 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Nobel Peace Prize may return to activist roots. UPDATE: In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Israeli foreign minister: "No chance for peace deal anytime soon"

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Iran closes three newspapers

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 1:41 AM | Add Comment

One of my favorite articles ever: Love between German and Pole survives Iron Curtain -- for five decades, Elvira Profe kept Fortunat Mackiewicz's picture in her wallet

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Happy 140th birthday (belated) to Gandhi. Photo: school children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a cultural programme in Bhopal

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:48 AM | Add Comment

Buckingham University vice-chancellor Terence Kealey calls female students "a perk of the job" and "encourages lecturers to enjoy gazing at, even fantasising about, attractive female students"

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:13 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Videos: Luciole Press friend and contributor Graywolf interviewed by Roberta Weighill for AIM TV (American Indian Movement Santa Barbara)

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Israel rejects independent inquiry into Gaza war

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 8:18 AM | Add Comment

Group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive want the Supreme Court to take up the matter

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 1:12 AM | Add Comment

Child-bride, 12, dies in Yemen after struggling to give birth for three days

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 9:09 AM | Add Comment

The terrifying tale of John Dawson Dewhirst, a British tourist who blundered into the horror of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and died in Cambodia's killing fields (where 2 million people were murdered)

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Found 'guilty' but spared the lash: Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein is fined for wearing trousers (but swears she'd rather go to jail than pay it)

Posted by kluciole at 9/7/2009 7:23 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

TIME article: The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms

Posted by kluciole at 8/30/2009 12:36 AM | Add Comment

France faces reality of toxic beaches after a horse and rider were sucked into noxious black sludge on a beach in Brittany (the horse died)

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:06 PM | Add Comment

China moves to cut use of executed inmates' organs

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2009 10:39 AM | Add Comment

"His Name Might Be Tommy" -- a message from NativeProgress.org. Please donate what you can for the children at the General Beadle Community School!

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 7:19 PM | Add Comment

History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" at the Seneca Falls Convention

Posted by kluciole at 8/23/2009 2:15 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights: Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual demands

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:43 AM | View Comments (18) | Add Comment

Clinton off to Congo to target epidemic of sexual assault in violence-torn nation, after wrapping up trip to Angola where she pushed democratic reform and trade

Posted by kluciole at 8/10/2009 12:46 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

No politics or sex: Art feels Myanmar junta's grip

Posted by kluciole at 8/8/2009 11:32 PM | Add Comment

MY opinion, as Palin ups the rhetoric, saying Obama's health care plan is 'evil' and will make "death panels" that deny care (DESPITE the fact that insurance companies already effectively decide who gets transplants or not)

Posted by kluciole at 8/7/2009 9:45 PM | View Comments (26) | Add Comment

2 articles: "Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial" and "Police fire tear gas at women supporting Lubna Hussein, who is facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers"

Posted by kluciole at 8/4/2009 2:30 PM | Add Comment

The high price one island is paying because of movie-obsessed tourists: "Mamma Mia! How the feelgood movie has ruined the Greek paradise island of Skopelos"

Posted by kluciole at 7/31/2009 2:35 PM | Add Comment

Poem: Julie Hill Alger, "Pictures of Home"

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 11:11 PM | Add Comment

(3 articles) Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers; ten other women were lashed 10 times

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 10:48 PM | Add Comment

Agent Orange linked to heart disease, Parkinson's

Posted by kluciole at 7/24/2009 9:45 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Powerful Iranian cleric Rafsanjani says country in crisis

Posted by kluciole at 7/17/2009 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Chechnyan human rights activist Natalia Estemirova's murder sparks international outrage

Posted by kluciole at 7/16/2009 1:58 PM | Add Comment

"Everyone is your enemy" -- Israeli soldiers describe "Moral Twilight Zone" in which Palestinian civilians in Gaza were used as human shields, and more

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Muslim women lead protests in restive west China

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2009 3:19 PM | Add Comment

Still image from animated movie "Fatenah," which tells the story of a Gazan woman who battles against breast cancer, with inept Palestinian doctors and indifferent Israeli soldiers

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 7:09 PM | Add Comment

Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Strife shows ethnic tension China hopes to ignore; one expert says, "the government's attitude is that Tibetans... and Uighurs simply have to become Chinese"

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 2:54 AM | Add Comment

Face of homelessness in the U.S. changing to include more families, more people who live in the suburbs and rural communities

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 2:40 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of police prepare show of force as ethnic violence tears Urumqi (in China's Xinjiang province) apart

Posted by kluciole at 7/8/2009 1:23 AM | Add Comment

Inexplicable leukemias rock small German rural region (within two kilometres of the region lie the Kruemmel nuclear power station and the GKSS scientific research centre)

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2009 1:06 AM | Add Comment

Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:57 PM | Add Comment

Iran to put detained British Embassy staff on trial after they 'confess' to role in post-election unrest

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2009 3:49 AM | Add Comment

Family of Neda 'forced to flee home' by Iranian officials; uncomfirmed reports claim Zahra Rahnavard, wife of Mousavi, has been arrested

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2009 6:07 PM | Add Comment

Iranian women at forefront of the country's opposition movement

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2009 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Alarm at rising rate of female canings in Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:40 PM | Add Comment

US docs save white phosphorus burn victim Razia, 8, a victim of the Afghan war (when taken to the medical facility, her oxygen mask melted on her face and flames lept out when doctors scraped away dead tissue)

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 9:24 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Articles on Iran: "Obama condemns violence against Iran protesters" -- "How the west built Iran's 'lawful intercept functionality'" -- TIME article about Neda

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2009 6:08 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Articles: "Iran opposition leader vows to stand by protesters" and "Iran on the brink: Leadership begins to split in wake of bloody riots"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Update (previously covered topic on Luciole): Important video of hope, plus articles: "An apathetic, greedy west has abandoned war-torn Congo" -- "UN urges DR Congo to empower women in fight against rape" and "The War on Women"

Posted by kluciole at 6/21/2009 8:11 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

New articles on Iran: "Iran warns opposition against staging street rally" -- TIME article: "Could Khameini's Ominous Sermon Be a Turning Point?" -- and articles about the Basij militia

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2009 2:00 AM | Add Comment

Articles about Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei's speech, and "US has limited inroads to understanding Iran"

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2009 2:16 AM | Add Comment
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