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(New York) – Thailand should immediately stop pressuring ethnic Karen refugees to return to Burma, Human Rights Watch said today. Repatriation to the designated "return zone" in Burma would place returnees at serious risk of human rights abuses and landmines. Businessman Tom Cox of North Little Rock said Friday that he’s dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. TOPEKA, Kan. – A Democratic legislator called Friday for Kansas’ Republican House speaker to step down because he is representing businesses, trade groups and insurance funds in a lawsuit against the state. Phillip Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was remembered Friday as a visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses. Hello Saturday. Make sure you check out President Obama’s address to the Democratic Party. Video is streaming live now. In the middle of a record snowstorm — with more than 30-inches predicted for Washington, D.C. — members of the Democratic National Committee are beginning their third and last day of the DNC 2010 Winter Meeting. This evening, the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee was presented with the final report of the Change Commission, the panel created to reexamine and recommend changes to the Presidential nomination and delegate selection process. The 34-member panel, co-chaired by Senator Claire McCaskill (MO) and Congressman James Clyburn (SC), met throughout the past year in order [...] Amnesty International USA today applauded the introduction of legislation to combat the global crisis of violence against women and girls. The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) would for the first time make the epidemic of violence against women worldwide a priority of the United States government and integrate prevention strategies across foreign policy [...] Activist Ana María Pizarro, tells Amnesty International how pregnant women are at risk of losing their lives because of Nicaragua’s abortion ban. Ten years after the killing of scores of civilians in a suburb of the Chechen capital Grozny, the relatives of those murdered are still denied justice by the Russian authorities. |
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