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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 | 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

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

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 11:55 AM | 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
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