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New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans | Opinion
The Wired magazine came up with 30 rules of manner for the digital world. Some are a bit bizarre, but some are perfectly true. Check them out and get your etiquette polished.
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FEMEN | Women Protest Movement
The nationwide women’s movement FEMEN, formed of Kiew's high education establishment's woman students and representatives of Ukrainian showbiz, have risen against the prevalence of sexual journeys in the region. The women members have condemned the entire tourism management of Ukraine, for making it one of the crudest sex destinations in the world.
They have held a rally entitled "Ukraine is not a Brothel!". The participants called on the authorities and competent bodies to ban foreigners, who had been noticed in sex-tours, from visiting Ukraine and also to enhance punishment for trading in prostitution and pandering.
This is the real scenario behind the glitz and glamour of one of the celebrated European countries. The huge bevy of splendid beauties and the variety in sexual extravagance is what that pulls in the maximum of the crowd to the destination. Named and renamed as sex destination, Ukraine abounds in opportunities ready to be explored sexually at any hour. This has eventually led to the formation of a dark criminal den of corruption and exploitation.
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Sentencing Project | Opinion
The Sentencing Project is a US nation wide organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration. The Project was founded in 1986 to provide defense lawyers with sentencing advocacy training and to reduce the reliance on incarceration.
As a result of the Sentencing Project's research, publications and advocacy, many people know that this country is the world's leader in incarceration, that one in three young black men is under control of the criminal justice system, that five million Americans can't vote because of felony convictions, and that thousands of women and children have lost welfare, education and housing benefits as the result of convictions for minor drug offenses.
The Sentencing Project is dedicated to changing the way Americans think about crime and punishment.
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Sexual Warfare | Topicality
Sexual violence is a devastating weapon in the war-torn North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese army and rebel groups systematically use brutal gang rape against their enemies, causing crippling injuries and spreading HIV.
The numbers speak for themselves. Aid groups estimate one in three women in North Kivu have been raped. Over 30 per cent of these have been infected with HIV. All across this devastated region – in every village, every camp and almost every home – a man-made plague is stealing and destroying the lives of women. In a scale never seen before around the world.
The Sydney Morning Herald has featured a superbly produced multimedia project titled Sexual Warfare: The Democratic Republic of Congo. Check it out to get more information.
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Worst Countries to be a Blogger | Opinion
With a military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for years for posting critical material, Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger, the Committee to Protect Journalists says in a new report. The Committee to Protect Journalists (JPC) named the 10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger, which identifies a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia where Internet penetration has blossomed and government repression has grown in response. Listen to the JPC's audio report.
10 Worst Countries To Be A Blogger
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Press Freedom | Opinion
The global press freedom declines for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study. The rollback was not confined to traditionally authoritarian states, with Israel, Italy and Hong Kong slipping from the study's Free category to Partly Free status. Out of the 195 countries and territories covered in the study, 70 (36 percent) are rated Free, 61 (31 percent) are rated Partly Free and 64 (33 percent) are rated Not Free. The survey found that only 17 percent of the world's population lives in countries that enjoy a Free press. The world’s worst-rated countries continue to include Burma, Cuba, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea and Turkmenistan.
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Israel's Barrier | Topicality
Most everything about Israel's West Bank barrier is disputed; Israelis and Palestinians disagree on its name, its route and its impact. Israelis call it the "security barrier" or "the good fence." Many Palestinians call it "the apartheid wall" or the "racist fence." A NPR series captures the realities of life along the barrier, including the struggles of the people who find good and bad in it everyday. Read about here.
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