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		<title>Palestinian women testify about ill-treatment and torture during their arrest and interrogation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) has submitted two group complaints to the Israeli authorities on behalf of nine Palestinian women detainees and former prisoners. The complaints address gender-specific types of ill treatment and torture. The evidence was collected last year by PCATI’s legal team in meetings with 29 women. The first complaint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. to probe cross-border money laundering with Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During his meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Mexico City on Monday, President Felipe Calderon told Biden that the only way to win Mexico&#8217;s &#8220;war with the drug cartels&#8221; combat organized crime gangs as well as arms trafficking along the border. He also included in his list of priorities the ceasing of rampant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reassuring Guarantee For The People Of India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MNREGA 2005) enacted by the Government of India in 34 Indian States and Union Territories aimed at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing 100 days of wage-employment annually to an adult member of a rural household to do unskilled manual work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Hokum From the Folks who Bring us the “Global War on Drugs”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House has been floating a new concept in its war on drugs—Colombia as an “exporter of security.” The phrase has popped up in government statements several times just over the past week. Actually, this isn’t the first time. Then Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised Colombia as an “exporter of security” back in April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan High Court set to make landmark decision on access to generic medicines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Constitutional Division of the High Court will on Friday March 9, 2012 make a landmark judgment on the suspended Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008. The outcome of this decision will directly affect access to affordable generic medicines in Kenya. In 2009, three people living with HIV filed a law suit seeking a determination that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/kenyan-high-court-set-to-make-landmark-decision-on-access-to-generic-medicines/</link>
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		<title>Preparing to Mourn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago South Africans and people the world over waited anxiously for news about Nelson Mandela. The 93 -year-old Madiba had been admitted to the hospital, and while he was released after a weekend of testing, spokesmen assured the media that there was nothing “seriously wrong” and that Mandela was in good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/preparing-to-mourn/</link>
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		<title>Drug gangs terrorizing Central America alarms United Nations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drug-gang violence poses a security threat to Central American nations with violence increasing at an alarming rate, according to the United Nations narcotics group&#8217;s report released this week. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) also said Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua had become major transit countries for traffickers. According to the INCB report: &#8220;The region of Central [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/latin-america/drug-gangs-terrorizing-central-america-alarms-united-nations/</link>
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		<title>Drug War and Human Rights: One million 600 thousand people displaced in Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[La Jornada: &#8220;While the government of Mexico continues not to recognize the existence of forced internal displacement caused by its war strategy against organized crime, it is increasingly difficult to determine the real dimension of the phenomenon and assist victims. So scholars and specialists in the field warned during the last day of activities for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/latin-america/drug-war-and-human-rights-one-million-600-thousand-people-displaced-in-mexico/</link>
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		<title>PAKISTAN: Hindu girl forcibly converted to Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Rehman Malik, Minister for Interior, PAKISTAN, ministry.interior@gmail.com or interior.complaintcell@gmail.com Re: PAKISTAN: Hindu girl  forcibly converted to Islam Dear Minister for Interior , Name of victim: Rinkle Kumari daughter of Nand Lal resident of Mirpur Mathelo, Sindh, Pakistan Names of alleged perpetrators: 1. Naveed Shah, resident of Mirpur Mathelo, Ghotki district, Sindh province, 2. Mian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nl-aid.org/domain/human-rights/pakistan-hindu-girl-forcibly-converted-to-islam/</link>
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		<title>Human Rights. In four years, 61 human rights defenders were killed in Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[La Jornada: &#8221;The InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced today its Second Report on the Situation of the Defenders of Human Rights, it which it reported&#8211;using information provided by local organizatios&#8211;that 61 activists were killed in Mexico between 2006 and 2010. It also noted that four activists from independent organization were disappeared in the same period, and [...]]]></description>
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