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People of the Year: A.T. Ariyaratne (OneWorld.net via Yahoo! News)
for over 50 years leading and embodying a mass movement rooted in peace, mutual respect, and village development, and for promoting reconciliation and recovery in the face of this year's ferocious end to Sri Lanka's nearly-30-year-long violent conflict ...
Islam is the new religion in rebellious Mexican state Chiapas
Mexican-Islam-650.jpg More and more Mayan and Tzotzil people ... . Not everyone came today, some people have to work," Imam Salvador Lopez Lopez smiles. & ... exploitation by corrupt governments and racism by white and mestizo Mexicans (people with mixed European ...
Verdonk's movement becomes a party
RitaverdonkANP-7307049.jpg “Proud of the Netherlands”, the political movement ... -members can also have an influence the party's policies. Ms Verdonk has long resisted turning her movement into a regular political party, the reason why she is allowing membership now is because she says people ...
China earthquake activist jailed
of the earthquake deaths were the result of substandard building work. 80,000 people died in the disaster, including ... previously published critical internet articles about the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China ...
Who's to blame for Togo football team deaths?
two people over the shootout in the northern province of Cabinda that killed three officials ... Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change, but he has never taken up his position in parliament. He ... . Because the athletes who spread messages of peace and love between people of science, and Malk deserve ...
Somali Islamists declare jihad against Kenya
Somalia's Islamist movement, Al-Shabab, has declared the jihad against neighbouring country Kenya. Sheikh ... insurgent movements try to overthrow Somalia's interim government leaded by the moderate Islamist Sheikh ... fights between government troops and Islamic rebels killed almost 260 people. More than 80 000 civilians ...
The right to be fat
before the fall of the USSR. Proud to be fat: The leader of the fat pride movement ... to the institutionalised discrimination and social ostracism inflicted on large people. Marilyn claims she has a right to be fat and argues strongly that fat people can be just as healthy as anyone else. Views ...
Strong reactions to Swiss minaret ban
that people in Europe have stood up to a form of Islamisation." Right-wingers rejoicing ... Party. The Danish populist People's Party led by Pia Kjaersgaard welcomed the vote and demanded ... in other countries, when they themselves do not allow people of other religions to make their religious ...
Riot police arrest dozens at Russia rights rally
, which drew 200 to 300 people. They broke up the rally in half an hour, as the crowd yelled & ... of the Memorial rights organisation, Oleg Orlov, and of the Movement for Human Rights, Lev Ponomarev. Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov told the Interfax news agency that around 100 people were detained ...
Video journalists shed light on forgotten stories
VJ-Movement-650.jpg Radio Netherlands Worldwide is the first Dutch broadcaster to collaborate with the new internet platform VJ Movement. The platform is home to short documentaries by video journalists from across the globe. One of the people behind the initiative is former ...
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