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Left Takes to Streets over Rights Breach

The State General Secretary also opined that CPM, would join the chorus of Western Countries moving a resolution against Sri Lanka for its failure on reconciliation, at Geneva.

(CHENNAI, India) - The CPM staged a demonstration in front of the Lankan embassy here, urging the Centre to pressurise the neighbouring country to bring about a political solution, on Monday.

Speaking to reporters, G Ramakrishnan said that the Lankan forces used heavy artillery in the last phase of the war with the LTTE. Lankan Tamils who raised their voice were deported in white vans, lodged in prison and tortured.

APN, J Street and NIF Condemn Attack on Obama for Meeting with Supporters of the Three Groups

This campaign to drive a partisan political wedge through the heart of Jewish communal support for Israel should stop...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Americans for Peace Now, J Street and the New Israel Fund today issued their first-ever joint statement condemning the unseemly attack on President Obama by the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens. Stephens focuses on the President's association with our organizations and some of our key supporters.

This is simply the latest in a litany of partisan attacks on the President for standing for and with the values that are actually at the very heart of the Jewish community.

Shot, Abducted, and then Handed Over to the Police

Is this the new game of POSCO bribed police and judiciary and the state government of Odisha?

(CHENNAI, India) - Since 1977, I have documented many cases of forcible acquisition of lands all over India and personally conducted four in-depth studies but I have never seen this sort of organized criminality of a state government as in the POSCO case.

The collusion between the police and the judiciary has no precedence either.

Can the President Have you Assassinated?

Who else is on the list of “dead men walking”?

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Attorney General Eric Holder spoke recently at Northwestern University attempting to legally justify the assassination of US citizens, but constitutional scholars suggest he was selling snake oil.

Last year the President gave the death order for New Mexico born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki for a reason we will most likely never know.

Perception is Reality in the Eyes of the Beholder!

While our leaders tell a good story about defending the defenseless, they support those who practice evil against the very same defenseless.

(HARRISVILLE, NH) - As one of what I believe is the vast majority of United States citizens who view all of the citizens of the world as brothers and sisters, it bothers me that we are perceived as a war mongering country.

What bothers me even more are our actions or lack of actions that spawn this perception.

Wyden Challenges Obama`s Death Squads

These questions [about the program] should not be a matter of 'secret law' settled behind closed doors by a small number of government lawyers - Oregon's Ron Wyden

(PORTLAND, OR) - Oregon senator Ron Wyden has led the congressional challenge to the assassination program by demanding what he calls the "secret law" be made public.

After AG Eric Holder failed to mention the OLC document in a speech yesterday (and refused to answer questions about it).

UK Tells Lanka to Move Quickly

“We encourage the Sri Lankan Government to move quickly to implement the LLRC report’s recommendations” - Britain's Alistair Burt

(GENEVA The Sunday Leader) - Britain has urged the Sri Lanka government to move quickly on implementing the recommendations of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission.

In a written statement to the British House of Commons, Alistair Burt Britain sees a political settlement, respect for human rights and accountability for alleged war crimes as being essential elements in post-conflict reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

Bahrain: Release Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - Bahrain should immediately and unconditionally release Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja from prison.

Mr. Al-Khawaja has been in a Hunger Strike for four weeks, he is now suffering deteriorated health, entering his fourth week without nourishment. In an open letter, Al-Khawaja pledged to stay on hunger strike until “freedom or death.”

PAKISTAN: Housewife Prevented from Leaving Country to Meet Her Husband

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - The illegal and uncalled misuse of the Exit Control List in Pakistan, is being used to stop ordinary citizens, even housewives, from travelling abroad for family unification.

Ms. Zaibul Nigar was stopped by officials at Islamabad Airport and banned from flight without any justifiable reason, because her husband chairs the Balawaristan National Front.

Another Newborn Dies from Orthodox Circumcision Ritual

It’s common sense that placing your mouth on a fresh, opened wound is unhealthy for any baby, on any body part, let alone a newborn’s penis...?

(BROOKLYN, NY Babble) - In a truly horrifying story, a two-week old baby boy died in Brooklyn after contracting herpes through an Orthodox religious circumcision ritual.

The official cause of death recently released from the boy’s death last year has been ruled as “disseminated herpes simplex virus Type 1, complicating ritual circumcision with oral suction.”