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(New York) – The Irish government should implement the will of the Irish population by liberalizing the country’s restrictive abortions laws, Human Rights Watch said today, on International Women’s Day. (Beirut) – Iran should stop infringing on women’s rights and take immediate steps to meet Iranian women’s demands for full equality, Human Rights Watch said today. Iranian women’s rights activists have issued a call for freedom and gender equality in Iran in connection with International Women’s Rights Day on March 8. (New York) – The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release six women arrested in January and early February 2010, apparently in connection with their peaceful activities on behalf of the Mourning Mothers, Human Rights Watch said today. Jim Bunning ’s one-man filibuster this week – which halted the Senate on voting for a health care bill that would extend unemployment benefits – certainly hit a nerve with both the left and right. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he would help the White House convince his fellow Republicans to support closing Guantanamo Bay if President Obama reverses course and sends the alleged Sept. Missouri Democrats are bracing for a tough election season in 2010. But they are hopeful that an anti-Washington frustration is aimed more at individual politicians than the party in charge of the nation’s Capitol. Forty five years ago today, 600 peaceful civil rights marchers attempted to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. They didn’t get far before they were beaten, gassed, and whipped. Their courage changed the perception of the civil rights movement permanently, and lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act to put a stop to efforts [...] |
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