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• US rights activist wins Seoul Peace Prize

  - 2008-09-03

  SEOUL AFP — A US activist has won the Seoul Peace Prize for her campaigns to improve the human rights of North Koreans and of Sahrawi refugees from Western Sahara, the award's committee announced Wednesday. Suzanne Scholte, president of the Defense Forum Foundation, was selected as the ninth winner...

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• Greenpeace gives Lula fireman outfit to fight Amazon blazes

  - 2008-09-03

  BRASILIA AFP — A group of Greenpeace activists gave Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a fireman's outfit Wednesday in a symbolic request asking him to do more to combat forest fires in the Amazon. The members of the environmental organization had to leave the suit with security...

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• Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US

  - 2008-09-03

  WASHINGTON AFP — Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year. Animal welfare activists accuse Japan of brutally slaughtering some 20,000 dolphins and small whales every...

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• Russian police break up demo over Kremlin critic's death

  - 2008-09-02

  NAZRAN, Russia AFP — Russian security forces on Tuesday broke up a rare protest in the turbulent Caucasus province of Ingushetia called in response to the death of a Kremlin critic who had been in police custody. Police and special forces arrived in two trucks to disperse the demonstration,...

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• Activists seek fresh ban on Sierra Leone timber exports

  - 2008-09-01

  FREETOWN AFP — The Environmental Forum for Action, one of the most influential activist groups in Sierra Leone, called Monday on the government to reimpose the ban on timber exports that was lifted in July. "With less than five percent of forested areas left in the country, the decision...

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• Gaza blockade protesters arrive in Cyprus with Palestinians

  - 2008-08-29

  LARNACA, Cyprus AFP — Activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in two fishing boats in symbolic defiance of an Israeli blockade arrived back in Cyprus Friday with seven residents of the besieged territory on board, among them a teenager who needs an artificial leg. "I am very happy...

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• US condemns arrests of Syrian activists

  - 2008-08-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States on Friday denounced Syria's arrest of a Syrian Kurdish activist and other "prisoners of conscience" and called for their immediate release. "We are concerned over the fate of Syrian Kurdish activist Mashaal Tammo, whose disturbing arrest is the most recent of a string...

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• Gaza blockade protesters set sail back to Cyprus

  - 2008-08-28

  GAZA CITY AFP — Pro-Palestinian activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in symbolic defiance of an Israeli blockade headed back to Cyprus on Thursday with a few residents of the besieged territory on board their two boats. The wooden fishing boats "Free Gaza" and "SS Liberty", which arrived...

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• Iconic Palestinian headscarf outgrows Mideast conflict

  - 2008-08-28

  HEBRON, West Bank AFP — Anti-war activists and fashionistas have carried the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh across the globe, but in the West Bank producers of the headscarf are struggling to compete with Chinese imports. The black-and-white checkered scarf -- which became an international symbol of the Palestinian struggle when...

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• Israeli activist detained on return from Gaza protest

  - 2008-08-27

  ASHKELON, Israel AFP — An Israeli who sailed to the Gaza Strip with a group of pro-Palestinian activists was in police custody on Wednesday after returning to Israel overland from the besieged enclave. US-born Jeff Halper was being held in a cell in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon...

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