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Document - Indonesia: Failure to Deliver Full Justice for the Killing of Human Rights Defender Munir

On 7 September 2004, Munir was found dead on a flight from Jakarta to the Netherlands. An autopsy carried out by the Dutch authorities showed that he had been poisoned with arsenic.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Nine years after the killing of human rights defender Munir Said Thalib, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must take decisive and concrete action to ensure those responsible – including those at the highest levels – are brought to justice.

The president must ensure that all defenders of human rights are better protected.

The 20-year Odyssey of Kevin Annett... International Justice and A `National Malaise`

This is the Happy Warrior, this is he
That every man in arms should seek to be. - William Wordsworth

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Last year, when a UN committee gave Canada a slap on the wrist for its treatment of indigenous people, a stalwart response followed from Justice Murray Sinclair...

The Chairman of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the form of a photo-op and an "interim report" at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Honduras: Killing of Indigenous Environmental Rights Defenders

Two men opened fire on Ms María Enriqueta Matute, Mr Armando Fúnez Medina, and Mr Ricardo Soto Fúnez.

(YORK, UK) - On 25 August 2013, around 5pm, human rights defenders Ms María Enriqueta Matute, Mr Armando Fúnez Medina and Mr Ricardo Soto Fúnez were killed in an attack.

The three belonged to various tribes of the Tolupán indigenous people, from Locomapa, in the Yoro zone, and had been involved in a peaceful protest against a local antimony mining operation and the construction of a hydroelectric dam in their indigenous zone.

Chicago Teachers Union To March On Washington In Support Of Travon?

The Chicago Teachers Union is urging union members to attend the march to protest foreclosures, the Second City’s recent rash of school closings and, of course, the verdict in favor of George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot a black teenager during an altercation.

(CLEVELAND) - The celebrities and unions are coming out of the woodwork over the death of Trayvon Martin, but they stay silent when other similar crimes take place, Luke Easter highlights the problem in this poem.

In one case a white child was brutally assaulted by three Black youth, where were Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton then?

Black July - An Eyewitness Account of the Welikade Prison Massacre by S.A. David

'83 July 25: An eye witness account of the Welikade Prison Massacre in Sri Lanka.

(MELBOURNE) - S.A.David was one of those prisoners in Welikade Prison and he was one of the survivors.

After the massacre all the surviving prisoners, including David, were sent to Batticaloa Prison.

Las Vegas Premiere Set to Expose BLM Mismanagement

Secretaries of Interior and Energy invited to showing of “Who Are My People?”

(LAS VEGAS) - It is no coincidence that the Las Vegas premiere of “Who Are My People?” is on August 13. National Clean Energy Summit 6.0 takes place the same day.

The Secretary of the Interior (Sally Jewell), Secretary of Energy (Dr. Ernest Moniz), Chairman Jon Wellinghoff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be there...

Hindus Seek Apology from Italian President Over Racism Faced by its 1st Black Minister

Rajan Zed says Pope Francis, being the acclaimed representative of God on earth and based just next door in Vatican, should also raise his voice on this issue as we were all equal in the eyes of God.

(RENO) - Hindus are critical of Italy for reportedly continuous racial abuse suffered by country’s first black minister Cecile Kyenge.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed pointed out that country of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Puccini, Verdi and Federico Fellini; should show some maturity and civility.

Detroit`s Bankruptcy Should Focus Attention on Unfunded Public Pensions

Opportunistic politicians and greedy unions are responsible for Detroit's total collapse, and the dire straits of other cities and states.

(DETROIT) - The causes of Detroit's financial collapse are largely the result of its own unfortunate history of corruption and financial excess, and only partly caused by global economic trends and their impact upon the auto industry.

Detroit has been a one-party city for many years, never a good thing.

Ted Nugent, the Ranting Rocker, Takes his Racist Musical Show Across America

Nugent's Obama-hating, racist shtick pulled him out of a deep career dive.

(CHICAGO) - Ted Nugent is known as a ranting, rocker with extreme right-wing political views, in which he embeds Obama-bashing and racism into his musical act. Ted Nugent has taken his racist act on the road across America.

Last year in the thick of the 2012 presidential election, Ted Nugent the racist rocker, said in a cryptic pronouncement that “If Barack Obama becomes the next president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." Ted Nugent is neither dead nor in jail.

Why Bill O`Reilly Cheers the Death of Trayvon Martin

O’Reilly connects the president’s inability to help the black community to the proliferation of “gangsta culture” that glorifies violence and irresponsible behavior.

(SYRACUSE, NY YourBlackWorld) - Bill O’Reilly recently added himself to the list of commentators who made remarks about President Obama’s speech on the Trayvon Martin case and George Zimmerman acquittal.

O’Reilly gave Obama credit for “addressing the race issue,” but then proceeded to lecture the president about how he is incapable of correcting the real problems in the African American community.