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Tehran: Student march against government
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After the opposition to the regime in Iran --PMOI, appealed for a vast commemoration of the Students day in Iran, thousands of Students march in Iranian Unis to commemorate Students day in Iran.Students March to denounce captivity and torture of their friends who have been imprisoned for beliefs. They chant ' Political student must be released' , ' imprisoned student must be released', University is not a Garrison' , ' Death to dictator'. These courageous students have lash...
Egyptian protesters are not just Facebook revolutionaries
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The internet has galvanised dissidents, but the key events that fuelled the uprising happened offline Middle-class, urban, web-savvy – the archetypal media image of the young protesters who have shaken Egypt's dictatorship this week captures only part of the reality.This generation of dissidents, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the three-decade rule of President Hosni Mubarak, have rejected the moribund landscape of formal politics that has ensnared many of their liberal elders ...
Albania Opposition Protests Election Result
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Tens of thousands of opposition supporters held a major rally on Friday evening in Tirana, seeking a partial recount of the ballots cast during the 28 June parliamentary elections.The rally, which was organised by the Socialists headed by Tirana's mayor Edi Rama was also supported by smaller opposition parties from the left and right, which accuse the government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha of electoral fraud.The rally. which was extended into a three day marathon by a few hundred opposition s...
Chinese Police Open Fire on Tibet Protestors
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Chinese riot police opened fire on protestors in Tibet on Friday, killing at least two, according to reports by Radio Free Asia. Peaceful street marches by Tibetan Buddhist monks over the past few days have given way to the biggest and angriest demonstrations the region has seen in nearly two decades, with armed anti-riot police patrolling the streets just months before the Beijing Olympics.The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy says that after a small, peaceful protest by monks on Fr...
Big Protest in Chisinau -organized by Liberal-Democrat Party
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30 000 people protested in Chisinau (Moldova) asking all Moldavian citizens to vote with no fear in parliamentary elections on 5th april 2009. This action was organized by Liberal-Democrat Party of Moldova, led by Vlad Filat.
Peaceful protest at the US Embassy 2008
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A peaceful protest held outside the US Embassy on the 7th Anniversary of the attacks on September 11th in NYC.
Thousands of South Koreans stage anti-government protest
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SEOUL: More than 10,000 South Koreans demanding President Lee Myung-Bak resign held an anti-government rally on Wednesday on the 22nd anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising. The rally was led by opposition parties, who accuse Lee of ordering a politically motivated probe into former president Roh Moo-Hyun, who leapt to his death on May 23 after being investigated in a corruption scandal. The suicide of the liberal leader, who held office from 2003 to 2008, sparked a mass outpouring of grief ...
Malawi: Protests At Proposed Law Backing Sweet 16 Marriages
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Lilongwe — Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, has come under severe pressure from civil society groups who are demanding he scrap a newly-passed bill allowing 16 year olds to marry with the consent of their parents.Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to which the country is a party defines a child as "every human being below the age of 18".
Tibet Foundation Day 2006
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Tibet Foundation Day 2006 Helping educate Tibetans in Tibet and India "gives hope".The UK based charity Tibet Foundation recently celebrated its annual day at the SOAS's Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, University of London. Mrs Rinchen Khando Choegyal, a former minister for the Dalai Lama's Exiled Tibetan Government (Central Tibetan Administration) was the guest speaker on the occasion and spoke on Education and Healthcare: Tibetan Refugee Communities in India & Nepal, highlighting the imp...
Honduras and Iran: Essay Requirement for the School of Authentic Journalism
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Today we announced the availability of 24 scholarships to attend an intensive ten-day session of this newspaper's School of Authentic Journalism, February 3 to 13 of 2010 on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The application for scholarships is ten pages long and includes an essay requirement.The video above appeared on CNN last summer but was not filmed by the network. A citizen who had been on a bus to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to attend a protest against the military coup d'etat there took out his cell...