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A lifeline for activists
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22.5.2013 |
Livewire - Amnesty International blogging for human rights |
| Amnesty’s mobile alert system for activists among 10 finalists nominated for Google’s Global Impact Award. VOTE NOW – before 31 May – and make this big idea a reality. Nighat Dad of the Digital Rights Foundation on Amnesty’s Panic Button … Continue reading → |
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First Hurdle Cleared in Immigration, but Bigger Ones Remain
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22.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Politics |
| The first step in passing major immigration legislation went pretty smoothly, all things considered. The Senate Judiciary Committee late Tuesday approved a bill that would give 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship and require employers to electronically verify all new hires. |
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Family of California woman killed by U.S. Border Patrol files suit
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22.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on the woman as she tried to flee in a car. Valeria Munique Tachiquin Alvarado, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen and a mother of five, was shot to death in September outside the Chula Vista apartment of a friend who agents had come to arrest, the lawsuit against the agent said. ... |
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Used car prices fall - but not enough
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22.5.2013 |
azcentral.com | business |
| After rising since the recession and hitting record highs, used car prices are easing, and the trend will continue, experts say.
Overall, used-car prices fell 4.5% on average in April at the wholesale level, compared with the same month last year, reports Adesa Consulting. After shooting to peaks each spring over the last three years, "They had almost no where else to go but down," says Adesa analyst Tom Kontos. |
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
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22.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| GULFPORT, Miss.—Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited |
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Brazil Commission Says Abusers Could Be Tried
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22.5.2013 |
International Herald Tribune: Americas |
| Brazil Commission Says Abusers Could Be Tried |
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Brazil commission says abusers could be tried
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under Brazil's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial. |
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina. |
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
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22.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina. |
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Brazil's Truth Commission says human rights abuses could be brought to trial
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22.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: World |
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Brazil commission says abusers could be tried
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22.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Brazil commission says abusers could be tried |
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Indian guest workers sue company in Miss., Texas
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22.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina. |
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[demo :: All News]
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Woman killed at Yakima house known as squatter
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21.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Local |
| Police say a woman found shot to death in an abandoned Yakima house had a history of run-ins with police and was known to belong to a group of squatters. |
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Jared Bernstein: Immigration Reform: Stand Down IT, Lobbyists!
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21.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| For all the numbers bouncing around the immigration reform debate, the most relevant number is 27 percent. That's the share of Gov Romney's Latino vote and that's the reason this much needed advance in public policy might just make it over the legislative goal line. |
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Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
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20.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border. |
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Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
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20.5.2013 |
AP National |
| MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) -- Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border.... |
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Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
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20.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border. |
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Tech industry working to rid immigration bill of some provisions
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20.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Technology |
| Tech industry working to rid immigration bill of some provisions |
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Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
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20.5.2013 |
World |
| MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border. |
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Cartel-controlled border towns present big challenge in Congress' quest for immigration reform
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20.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: World |
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