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Mass killings, forced evictions threaten indigenous, minority groups to point of 'eradication' - rights group
2016-07-11 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday. From Ethiopia, China and Iraq, the combination of armed conflicts and land dispossession has led to the persecution of minority groups and the erosion of cultural heritage, according to a report by the Minority Rights Group (MRG). Carl Soderbergh, MRG director of policy and communications, said while discrimination...
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NY court: Targeted killings memos can be kept secret
2015-11-25 02:38:53| Biotech - Topix.net
Five people have been shot near the site of an ongoing protest over the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer, a Minneapolis Police Department spokesman said. A judge on Monday exonerated a man convicted of three rapes after DNA evidence linked the crimes to a serial rapist wanted for assaults dating back two decades.
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Nick Fish with PPB at Portland club killings
2015-10-06 01:58:09| PortlandOnline
Kohr Harlan and KOIN 6 News Staff, October 5, 2015
Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year
2015-04-20 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The assassination, murder, and extrajudicial killing of environmental activists rose by 20 percent last year, according to a new grim report by Global Witness. The organization documented 116 killings in 2014 across 17 countries with the highest number in Brazil, which saw 29 environmental and land defenders killed. Still, the report is a major understatement of the problem as data across much of Africa, China, the Middle East, and Central Asia remains scarce to non-existent. "Across the world...
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Defense lawyers march to protest police killings
2014-12-17 22:25:53| Beverages - Topix.net
A group including lawyers Michael Coard, center face down, Lloyd Long III, center with sign, and others stage a 4:30 minute "die-in" protest Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, at the criminal justice center in Philadelphia. A number of protests have been staged around the country following recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in New York and Ferguson, Mo., over the deaths of unarmed black men.
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