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- US rights activist wins Seoul Peace Prize
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Greenpeace gives Lula fireman outfit to fight Amazon blazes
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Russian police break up demo over Kremlin critic's death
- 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,...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- Activists seek fresh ban on Sierra Leone timber exports
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Gaza blockade protesters arrive in Cyprus with Palestinians
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- US condemns arrests of Syrian activists
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- Gaza blockade protesters set sail back to Cyprus
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Iconic Palestinian headscarf outgrows Mideast conflict
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Israeli activist detained on return from Gaza protest
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Bianca Jagger loses 200,000-euro ring in Austria: report
- VIENNA AFP — Human rights activist Bianca Jagger lost a 200,000-euro (295,000-dollar) ring over the weekend in Salzburg while attending an annual music festival, Austrian media reported Wednesday. The former wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said she had noticed the ring was missing as she left a...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Israeli released from arrest after Gaza Strip protest
- ASHKELON, Israel AFP — Police on Wednesday released an Israeli they held overnight for joining international activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory. US-born Jeff Halper, who was detained when he walked across the Erez border crossing between Gaza and...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- UC Berkeley police, FBI raid activist cooperative
- BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley police with the help of the FBI and Alameda County Sheriff's deputies raided a cooperative in Berkeley on Wednesday, seizing 14 computers. "We were investigating threatening e-mails we tracked to computers there," said UC Berkeley spokesman Robert Sanders. "The details of...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Siege protest at India's Nano car plant
- SINGUR, India AFP — About 40,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded the Indian factory slated to produce the world's cheapest car, alleging land for the site was forcibly taken from local farmers, police said. Demonstrators blocked main roads near the plant at Singur, 35 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Arab League chief hails 'daring' Gaza blockade-runners
- CAIRO AFP — Arab League chief Amr Mussa on Sunday hailed the "daring step" taken by pro-Palestinian activists whose boats docked in the Gaza Strip despite a tight Israeli blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory. "The act of protest against the Gaza blockade and the solidarity shown by these pro-Palestinian...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Security net drops on Denver for Democrat jamboree
- DENVER AFP — A tight security net enveloped Denver as the city braced Sunday for the arrival of tens of thousands of supporters and protestors for the Democratic Party's political extravaganza. Some 45,000 people are expected in the city, nestled on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, with an...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Activists sail from Cyprus determined to break Gaza blockade
- LARNACA, Cyprus AFP — Two converted fishing boats set sail from Cyprus on Friday carrying 44 pro-Palestinian activists determined to break the Israeli blockade of the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip. The activists, some of whom have received death threats, flashed peace signs and gave victory salutes before hugging each other...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Activists determined to break Gaza blockade despite threats
- LARNACA, Cyprus AFP — Activists said Wednesday they were determined to break the Israeli blockade of the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip by boat despite receiving death threats. "I've been called personally 17 times and asked how and when I would like to die," Palestinian activist Osama Qashoo told AFP. ...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Four foreigners detained after Olympic Tibet protest: activist group
- BEIJING AFP — China detained four more foreign pro-Tibet campaigners after a protest early Thursday near Beijing's main Olympic venue amid a "dramatic" increase in police surveillance, an activist group said. The four were taken away in a police vehicle after three of them unfurled a Tibetan flag and...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Israel warns activists against breaking Gaza blockade
- ATHENS AFP — Israel has warned a group of pro-Palestinian activists sailing for the Gaza Strip to break a year-long blockade to steer clear of the territory, the Israeli embassy in Athens said on Tuesday. "The area to which you are planning to sail is the subject of an...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
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