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http://www.sampsoniaway.org/fearless-ink/2012/08/21/its-not-honor-killing-its-murder/ YOU ARE HERE:  HOME  /  FEARLESS INK  /  BINA SHAH  /  IT’S NOT HONOR KILLING, IT’S MURDER It’s Not Honor Killing, It’s Murder by  Bina Shah   /  August 21, 2012  /  No comments A British-Pakistani girl is killed to save her family’s “honor.” Shafilea Ahmed. Photo: AslanMedia. Creative Commons Licensed Delighted is the wrong word, but I’m very satisfied to hear about  the conviction of 17 year-old Shafilea Ahmed’s parents , who murdered their daughter in Warrington, UK and dumped her body by the side of the River Kent. Shafilea’s crime? She refused to agree to an arranged marriage with her cousin in the Pakistani village of Uttam, Punjab. Pakistan is a country of contradictions – full of promise for growth, modernity and pr...

  http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/5403 Bahrain Center for Human Rights Defending and promoting human rights in Bahrain Open Letter to the President of The Arab Republic of Egypt, Dr. Mohamed Morsi Isa El-Ayyat Johannesburg, August 27, 2012 Dear Mr. President:  I write you in my capacity of The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Acting President, to express my deep disappointment and to protest the unlawful and hostile treatment I was subjected to at Cairo’s International Airport on Sunday, August 26, 2012 by the Egyptian security forces.  I had a 7-hour layover in Cairo and was going to enter the country to see Egyptian friends before boarding my connecting flight to South Africa scheduled on the same day. I was granted an entry approval at the airport. Shortly thereafter, I was called back and asked to wait. Then, my passport and travel documents were taken by the police. I was informed afterwards that I will not be allowed into the...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-medical-marijuana-probation-20120820,0,4562387,full.story By  Robert Nolin , Sun Sentinel Pot promoter: Feds have me in their sights  4:07 a.m. EDT, August 27, 2012 From notorious smuggler to ex-con to author and lecturer, Robert Platshorn has assumed several personas over his 69 years. But now the West Palm Beach man's latest incarnation — pitchman for pot use by seniors — has drawn unwelcome attention from the government, which, he says, is singling him out because of his advocacy. "They want to stop me from advocating and would like me to be poor and quiet," the parolee said. "They want to put the Tuna back in the can." VIDEO: Marijuana rally held in Broward The U.S. Parole Commission has thrown the full weight of its power upon him, he says, demanding spot  urine tests , making unannounced visits and restricting his travel — and source of income. Federal officials ...

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2012/08/revictimizing-native-women-for.html Revictimizing Native women for political purposes   Tribal police should be able to go off reservation to hunt and arrest non-Indian rapists of Native American women on Indian land. Early this week, two U.S. House Representatives members and the Tacoma News Tribune took clear stands against protecting women from sexual assault. Representatives Todd Akin, R-Missouri, and Steve King, R-Iowa, did so by promoting the concept of “legitimate rape.” The News Tribune did so by attacking the only real hope for combating the national pandemic of violence against Native women. As originally passed by the U.S. Senate, the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization legislation would allow tribes to exercise limited criminal jurisdiction over certain non-Indians who violate Native American women on Indian reservations. Tribes would be required to provide all rights accorded to defendants i...

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151050134498300.441539.7297163299&type=1 Senegal’s fishermen are starting to smile! By  Greenpeace International  ( Albums ) · Updated  40 minutes ago Ever since Senegal banned foreign super trawlers from its waters, local fisherman have seen a major increase in the quality and quantity of fish. With such clear evidence that banning giant commercial fishing vessels really DOES benefit local people, why doesn’t the Australian government follow suit? Tell Australia to stop the Margiris super trawler:  http://act.gp/RgtLJ0  or  http://bit.ly/no-supertrawlers

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/trail-ink-tracking-rare-tattoo-related-infection/story?id=17060757#.UDYejZPwF8E   A Trail of Ink: Tracking a Rare Tattoo-Related Infection An uncommon skin infection led to a doctor's investigation into tainted tattoo ink. (Monroe County Health Department) Share Email Comment Print Single Page Text Size - / +   By DR. KITTU JINDAL GARG, ABC News Medical Unit Aug. 23, 2012   The reddish-purple rash, seemingly woven into the tattoo on a 20-year-old New Yorker's forearm, was strange enough to have doctors scratching their heads. This trail began when the man received a tattoo in Rochester, N.Y. in October 2011. A short while later, he noticed the raised, bumpy rash. He called his primary care physician. Doctors initially treated the man's arm with topical steroids, thinking that the rash was allergic-contact dermatitis. But that only m...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/22/reggie-clemons-case-examining-the-evidence Reggie Clemons: 21 discrepancies that cast doubt on his conviction Was Reggie Clemons' confession beaten out of him? We look at the discrepancies thrown up during the course of the prosecution Ed Pilkington  and  Laurence Topham guardian.co.uk , Wednesday 22 August 2012 18.47 BST The trial of Reggie Clemons Articles and video Bios Timeline Filmmaker Laurence Topham  and Ed Pilkington report from Missouri on the case of Reggie Clemons  Link to this video • Reggie Clemons was not accused of pushing the Kerry sisters into the Mississippi. The main witness against him, Thomas Cummins, testified that he saw a "black hand"  push his cousins into the river  but failed to specify whose hand that was . Yet in the separate trial of co-defendant Antonio Richardson,  Cummins said that it was Ri...

http://nandosigona.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/operation-mayapple-another-name-shame-campaign-from-the-uk-government/ AUGUST 22, 2012 · 4:03 PM Operation Mayapple: Another name & shame campaign from the UK government A few years ago the Labour government launched a name & shame campaign against employers who employed undocumented migrants and fined them with up to £10,000 for each worker. More recently the coalition government has employed a similar strategy to tackle  tax avoidance  . Following what must be deemed a successful model, in a similar fashion today the Home Office Border Agency is advertising the results of its latest law & order campaign named  Mayapple  started in May this year. The campaign is mostly a PR operation that comes after a series of fiascos in  migration  and  border management (some self-inflicted as in the case of the ‘net migration’ policy) that have seriously affected the r...

JUSTICE FOR JENNY COOPER   https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/431492_474493065908706_432427167_n.jpg     On 30th June 2010 Jennifer Cooper was forcibly kicked to the ground so that she had injuries said to resemble a car accident. More than by luck than judgement she didn't die. While the police took her to the police station and then because of her injuries to hospital, they have not recorded the incident as a crime against her. It appears that the police were tipped off, b y someone they know to be totally unreliable, that she was dangerous. If you know Jenny that is laughable. The police will merely say that they are continuing investigations into allegations against her. Not a word of concern has been expressed about her injuries. No crime number has been issued to her so anyone trying to investigate what happened gets nowhere with the police. She cannot apply for compensation from Criminal Injuries. She appears to have no rights. ...

Campaign Against Bride Trafficking (INDIA) http://traffickinginindia.blogspot.in/2011/01/55-little-known-facts-about-human.html   55 Little Known Facts About . . . Human Trafficking Approximately 75-80% of human trafficking is for sex. a A large majority of children and women who are trafficked for sex become HIV positive. b There are more human slaves in the world today than ever before in history. l There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world who are victims of human trafficking. l Human trafficking not only involves sex and labor, but people are also trafficked for organ harvesting. k Human traffickers often use a Sudanese phrase “use a slave to catch slaves,” meaning traffickers send “broken-in girls” to recruit younger girls into the sex trade. Sex traffickers often train girls themselves, raping them and teaching them sex acts. l Eighty percent of North Koreans who escape into...