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A Cri de Coeur: Stop the Empire from Blowing Up the World!

We need to do something to stem this tide of lunacy emanating from Washington, DC. Obama is hopeless – a feckless Uncle Tom, a sock-puppet easily manipulated by the Sanhedrin.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Madness reigns as the Atlantic Empire, riding its imposing, armed-to-teeth sinking ship, tries to maintain their imaginary control of the world while neglecting to repair the leaks in the hull - not to mention their heads and hearts.

A $5+ billion dollar effort to further destabilize an already unstable Ukraine and add it to the Imperial holdings...

India Needs to Eliminate Gender Inequality: Zed

Continuing indifference to the maltreatment of women is not acceptable in the 21st century world. India needed to focus on urgent upliftment of women, forgetting her political battles.

(RENO) - India needed to take urgent steps to make women as equal partners in the society and eliminate gender inequality, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed stated in Nevada (USA) in his International Women's Day message.

Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that lesser gender gaps would also bring prosperity and economic competitiveness to the country besides fairness. Men and women were equal in the eyes of God, Zed noted.

Sri Lanka: New Video Evidence of Grotesque Violations

The video was independently authenticated by a respected digital image analyst who often works for the British courts.

(LONDON) - There has been no shortage of distressing images emerging from the final two or three years of Sri Lanka's awful civil war. But this footage is amongst the worst I have seen, writes Callum Macrae.

Warning: viewers may find footage in the below report extremely disturbing. Not because of the scale of the deaths it depicts – five deaths is a small incident in a war which saw upwards of 40,000 civilians massacred in the last few months alone, mostly by government shelling.

Sri Lanka: Remedial Justice for Tamils - Justice Delayed; Justice Denied International Investigation Now: TGTE`s Booklet

UN Human Rights Council 2014: Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam's (TGTE) Publication

(LONDON) - This Booklet“Remedial Justice for Tamils: Justice Delayed; Justice Denied - International Investigation Now”is issued by the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) to coincide with the opening of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Session in Geneva this month.

This Booklet was produced by the TGTE’s Center for the Prosecution and Prevention of Genocide. It is a transnational collaborative work of academics and activists.

High-Handed Leadership

The Islamists are prevailing in the battle of ideas. Secular voices have been either physically eliminated or removed from the mainstream by judicial means.

(ISLAMABAD) - Religious minorities are widely viewed as beleaguered or under attack since Z. A. Bhutto’s regime. Even then, Pakistani Christians followed his ideology.

At the time of partition in 1947, around 23 percent of the population was comprised of non-Muslims citizens. Today, the proportion of non-Muslims has declined to approximately 3-4 percent. Religious minorities such as Christians, Hindus, and Ahmadis, have been the targets of suicide bomb attacks; several incidents of violence and intimidation were reported including abduction and subsequent forced conversion of girls.

Israel: A Significant Shift in U.S. Public Opinion...? And What if the Answer is ``Yes``?

If AIPAC wanted to show true friendship for Israel, it would have stopped cheering long ago and started whispering.

(LONDON) - A recent public opinion poll asked Americans which of two options they would favour if a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict was no longer on the table. (It is in the rhetoric of leaders and diplomats but not in reality). The two options were:

“The continuation of Israel’s Jewish majority (presumably this assumes permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank and continuing ethnic cleansing of it by stealth) even if it means that Palestinians will not have citizenship and full rights.”

Sri Lanka Government is Shaking in its Boots

Using genocide to eradicate terrorism was nothing less than a fiasco for the violent Buddhist government of Sri Lanka.

(SALEM) - Sri Lanka is one of the most dangerous countries on the fact of the earth.

Ethnic minorities on this island nation are slaughtered en masse, even tourists are raped and murdered in this place that tends to place a nationalist, twisted form of violent Buddhism in front of any other human rights.

Historic European Circumcision Debate Draws Nearly 300

Previous Resolution Called Circumcision a Violation of Physical Integrity

(BOSTON) - The growing European debate about circumcision led to the first international interdisciplinary dialogue on the subject recently at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France (video). This major meeting discussed an October non-binding resolution overwhelmingly passed by the Council of Europe, an organization of 47 member States.

The resolution called circumcision, among other procedures, a violation of the physical integrity of children according to established human rights standards.

``Women International Day`` and VIOLATION OF WOMEN`S RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN

Abuses are compounded: poor girls and women are trafficked and subject to forced marriage, forced conversion, rape, forced prostitution or exploitative work situations such as bonded labor.

(LAHORE) - Mrs. Imran is a Women Human Rights Defender and Co-ordinator of LEAD (Legal Evangelical Association Development), focusing on "The Project of Women Empowerment" in Pakistan. She is very energetic and active in the field of women rights, she had to face many hardships during her campaign for women rights.

"We have many challenges about the violation of women rights in our country and our day to day challenges as being a minority in Pakistan", said Mrs. Imran. International women’s Day 2014 is being celebrated globally including Pakistan today on 7th March 2014 with the theme and object “Equality for women is progress for all”.

Muslims Vandalize Church Under Construction

Christians of the Okara district dared to construct a new Church building along with a Christian school.

(ISLAMABAD) - Religious freedom is guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution, but discriminatory legislation punishes those who choose to actively follow the Christian faith and places restriction on the Church.

Restrictions on spreading the gospel publicly are reportedly banned and the same holds true with construction of new Churches, and honestly speaking I am being beaten up by the radical Muslims in Mansrah district for selling religious books when I voluntarily worked with Operation Mobilization - OM team in Pakistan.