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Indonesia: Guarantee Domestic Workers’ Rights in 2010

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Zimbabwe: One Year On, Reform a Failure

(Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government has made no real progress in implementing political reforms and ending human rights abuses after a year in office, Human Rights Watch said today. The government has demonstrated little political will or capacity to enact meaningful changes to improve the lives of Zimbabweans.
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Uzbekistan: Slander Conviction a Dangerous Assault on Artists

Update: On February 10, 2010 photographer and videographer Umida Ahmedova was convicted by the Mirobad District Criminal Court on charges of slander and insulting the Uzbek people.
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Battered by voter frustration, Sen. John McCain faces toughest re-election challenge of career

Defeated just two years ago as the Republican presidential candidate and with his bonafides as a true conservative again being challenged, John McCain finds himself in a struggle to get even his party’s nomination for another term in the Senate.

Dan Quayle’s son to run for US House seat in AZ

A son of former Vice President Dan Quayle is running for Congress in Arizona. Thirty-three year-old Ben Quayle says in a statement his generation is going to have to “clean up the mess made by the politicians in Washington.” Quayle hopes to replace retiring Republican Rep.

Obama strategy widens assault on terrorists

In the early months of his presidency, President Barack Obama’s national security team singled out one man from its list of most-wanted terrorists, Baitullah Mehsud, the ruthless leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

An Unrequited (and maybe a little pathetic) Valentine

As we approach Valentine’s day, we thought it was interesting to see that there’s a terribly compelling story of unrequited love playing out right in front of us.
This morning Politico posted a story emphatically declaring the media’s adoration of Sarah Palin. “We love Palin,” they gushed. And indeed they do. As Politico reported every major [...]

Friday Open Thread

Happy Friday.

President Barack Obama confers with Rep. Barney Frank (D – Mass.) after making remarks on financial reform in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Jan. 21, 2010. House Photo by Pete Souza.

Indigenous Mexican women framed over kidnapping are prisoners of conscience

Chinese authorities urged to free activist Liu Xiaobo

A Beijing court has rejected the well-known scholar’s appeal against his 11 year prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state power".

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