Tag: activism
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Kamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday memorial as marchers’ voices ring out for voting rights
Vice President Kamala Harris led marchers in Selma, Alabama, on the 59 anniversary of Bloody Sunday, saying the fight for voting rights goes on even today
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Activists build treehouses to protest Tesla’s plans to expand its plant near Berlin
Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks
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Western officials and Kremlin critics blame Putin and his government for Navalny’s death in prison
World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time in blaming the reported death of Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government
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Alexey Navalny, jailed activist who defied Putin, dies at 47
Alexey Navalny, the Russian lawyer and anti-corruption activist who became the most potent voice in opposition to President Vladimir Putin, a calling that landed him in a maximum-security prison camp, has died, according to the prison service. He was 47. Navalny fell sick during a walk and medical staff were unable to revive him, the…
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How will Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general who’s never held elective office, lead Indonesia?
Foreign leaders have congratulated Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto on his apparent victory in Indonesia’s presidential election, while rights activists called him a threat
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Families of Indonesian activists tortured by soldiers 25 years ago shocked at general’s election win
Families of Indonesian activists who were kidnapped and tortured by the military 25 years ago have expressed shock over the apparent presidential victory of Prabowo Subianto, whom they blame for the atrocities
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Who is Prabowo Subianto, the former general who’s Indonesia’s next president?
A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia’s popular outgoing president and its dictatorial past looks set to be its next leader
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Human rights groups in Venezuela demand release of prominent detained attorney and activist
Representatives of several human rights organizations have held a press conference demanding the immediate release of a prominent attorney and activist detained last week
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Australia to ban doxxing after pro-Palestinian activists publish information about hundreds of Jews
The Australian government says will outlaw doxxing – the malicious release online of personal or identifying information without the subject’s permission – after pro-Palestinian activists published personal details about hundreds of Jewish people in Australia
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Madagascar law allowing castration of child rapists prompts criticism from rights groups
Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and in some cases surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor