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<title>EIN News: Central &amp; Eastern Europe Human Rights News</title>
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<title>Austrian leader Joerg Haider dies in car crash</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192696779</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 08:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  European Union goals of opening membership to Eastern European countries. Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer described the longtime  ...  the country&apos;s resources and should be expelled. Human rights experts expressed concern about the holding facility.  ...
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<title>On Being Subversive</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192693935</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 08:16 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  writer, was a political prisoner under the Czech Communists who ran his country as part  ...  Havel wrote and organized in defense of human rights. The totalitarian regime was intolerant of academics  ...  Communism in what then was known as Czechoslovakia. Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia in  ...
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<title>1968 Mexico City Olympic games heralded change</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192693044</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 07:51 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  University. The Soviet Union crushed reform in Czechoslovakia. Demonstrators clashed with riot police at the  ...  Smith and Carlos were celebrated, just as Czech gymnast Vera Caslavska was celebrated for bowing  ...  echoes of 1968 in 2008, when China&apos;s human rights record was a major issue before and  ...
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<title>Despot Watch</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192682162</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 06:17 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  the Soviet-backed Communist governments across Eastern and Central Europe. In the 1990s, many authoritarian governments in  ...  almost 30 countries, from South Korea to Poland. The Clinton administration, freed from cold war  ...  democracy. Still, encouraged by democratic movements in Ukraine and Lebanon, Bush called for the end  ...
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<title>&apos;The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did),&apos; by James Traub: Despot Watch</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192668186</link>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2008 02:31 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  the Soviet-backed Communist governments across Eastern and Central Europe. In the 1990s, many authoritarian governments in  ...  almost 30 countries, from South Korea to Poland. The Clinton administration, freed from cold war  ...  democracy. Still, encouraged by democratic movements in Ukraine and Lebanon, Bush called for the end  ...
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<title>Saturday Soapbox, Oct. 11, 2008</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192653852</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 22:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  women. Recently, news reports state that in Ukraine, there is a thriving system of medical  ...  it is not surprising that these horrific human rights abuses against women and their unborn children  ...  rights abuses under the Communist regime in Romania to legitimize abortion in this country because,  ...
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<title>Hamid Slimi- On Financial Crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192643101</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 20:02 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  Russia , they start to dominate the Eastern Europe, the Balkan states, and the Baltic states.  ...  by the need for protecting minorities and human rights, the conflict is above all a geo-strategic  ...
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<title>Austrian Rightist Leader Killed In Crash</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192628096</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 15:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  European Union goals of opening membership to Eastern European countries. Though Haider denied accusations he was  ...  the country&apos;s resources and should be expelled. Human rights experts expressed concern about the holding facility.  ...
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<title>Veep attends 12th Summit of La Francophonie in Canada</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192627336</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 15:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  11th Summit of La Francophonie in Bucharest, Romania, which was attended by President John Agyekum  ...  rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights, worldwide. In order to boost the study  ...
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<title>Austrian right leader Haider killed in car crash</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192623933</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 14:52 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  European Union goals of opening membership to Eastern European countries. Though Haider denied accusations he was  ...  the country&apos;s resources and should be expelled. Human rights experts expressed concern about the holding facility.  ...
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<title>Austrian right leader Joerg Haider killed in car crash</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192623635</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 14:52 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  European Union goals of opening membership to Eastern European countries. Though Haider denied accusations he was  ...  the country&apos;s resources and should be expelled. Human rights experts expressed concern about the holding facility.  ...
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<title>Joerg Haider, Far-Right Austrian Leader, Dies In Car Accident At 58</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192619693</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 13:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  European Union goals of opening membership to Eastern European countries. Though Haider denied accusations he was  ...  the country&apos;s resources and should be expelled. Human rights experts expressed concern about the holding facility.  ...
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<title>Landmark EU-Cuba talks likely next week</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192618639</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg and EU Development Commissioner  ...  annual review of relations, &quot;improvement of the human rights situation&quot; and the &quot;release of political prisoners,  ...
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<title>The US vs. Russia: A New World Order?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192612207</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 11:32 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  Russia , they start to dominate the Eastern Europe, the Balkan states, and the Baltic states.  ...  by the need for protecting minorities and human rights, the conflict is above all a geo-strategic  ...
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<title>PACE delegation to observe presidential election in Azerbaijan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192602604</link>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2008 09:19 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  of Europe (PACE), led by Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), will be visiting Azerbaijan from 12  ...  the OSCE&apos;s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). ...
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