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  • Mousavi supporters say Iran ordered murder of his nephew 28 Dec 2009 23:03 GMT
    ... says Djavad Salehi-Esfahani, a professor of economics at Virginia Tech and Brookings Institution scholar who just returned from ... state news agency IRNA, including high-profile journalists, human rights and women’s activists, relatives of those killed ...

  • 10 Great moments in African-American history 2009 (special series): Countdown part 2 28 Dec 2009 22:11 GMT
    ... Amnesty International French poster of Troy Anthony Davis. (AP ... the Virgian Tech massacres of 2007 . (Virginia Tech file photo) Like Maya Angelou (another presidential inauguration ... poem eulogizes and elegizes the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, where Giovanni is the University Distinguished Professor ...

  • After Sunday Clashes in Iran, "Green Movement" Supporters Take Stock 28 Dec 2009 21:50 GMT
    ... said Djavad Salehi-Esfahani, a professor of Economics at Virginia Tech and a Brookings scholar who visited Iran last ... and overlapping causes and social groups -- human rights advocates, discontented clerics, women’s groups, students, and ...

  • After Sunday clashes in Iran, 'Green Movement' supporters take stock 28 Dec 2009 16:12 GMT
    ... said Djavad Salehi-Esfahani, a professor of Economics at Virginia Tech and a Brookings scholar who visited Iran last ... and overlapping causes and social groups -- human rights advocates, discontented clerics, women’s groups, students, and ...

  • Joining the Gaza Freedom March 26 Dec 2009 00:35 GMT
    ... There's no possible way to be consistently "pro-human rights," and to simply be against the killing ... me forever. He was working with NASA at Virginia Tech when he found out his eleven-year-old son Ibrahim ...

  • 2009: The Year in Review 24 Dec 2009 09:13 GMT
    ... Dyana Mason, formerly executive director of Equality Virginia. Activists in nearby West Virginia solidified their ... The mood was only enhanced by the Human Rights Campaign's 2009 National Dinner Oct. 10, including ... Ken "homosexual acts are wrong" Cuccinelli, won the Virginia attorney general race. Margaret Murray stepped down ...

  • Local Holocaust Museums Grow Amid Worries About Future 24 Dec 2009 00:11 GMT
    ... States, from Albuquerque, N.M., to Houston, to Richmond, Va. And these are just the biggest ... and then relatively small ones. In Richmond, the Virginia Holocaust Museum was started in 1997 by ...

  • US Congressmen Call on Ugandan President to Reject Anti-Homosexual Legislation 23 Dec 2009 19:52 GMT
    ... saying the legislation is a violation of human rights and is inconsistent with a “Christian spirit ... Republican Congressman Frank Wolf of the state of Virginia. “We think the legislation is wrong and inappropriate. ...

  • U.S. Congressmen Call on Ugandan President to Reject Anti-Homosexual Legislation 23 Dec 2009 15:13 GMT
    ... saying the legislation is a violation of human rights and is inconsistent with a “Christian spirit ... Republican Congressman Frank Wolf of the state of Virginia. “We think the legislation is wrong and inappropriate. ...

  • Alexandria Honors Its Living Legends 23 Dec 2009 05:23 GMT
    ... * David Speck served one term in the Virginia House of Delegates and two terms on ... a stint as president of the board of Virginia High Speed Rail. * Over 30 years ...

  • Supreme job for Belfast man 22 Dec 2009 16:20 GMT
    ... recent hearing of the European Court of Human Rights where three Irish woman are challenging the ... at University College Dublin and the University of Virginia. He was called to the Bar of Ireland ...

  • Supreme Court job for Belfast man 22 Dec 2009 09:30 GMT
    ... recent hearing of the European Court of Human Rights where three Irish woman are challenging the ... at University College Dublin and the University of Virginia. He was called to the Bar of Ireland ...

  • Donal O'Donnell nominated to Supreme Court 22 Dec 2009 04:35 GMT
    ... the case before the European Court of Human Rights where three Irish women are challenging the ... as doing an LLM in the University of Virginia. He was called to the Bar of Ireland ...

  • ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, NEO-NAZI CONVICTED FOR THREATS, WITNESS INTIMIDATION 22 Dec 2009 00:17 GMT
    ... ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, NEO-NAZI CONVICTED FOR THREATS, WITNESS INTIMIDATION Dec ... Attorney Timothy Heaphy for the Western District of Virginia said. "William White did just that, using ... Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Richmond Division. "However, when that speech crosses the line ...

  • Building Bridge to Freedom 21 Dec 2009 22:11 GMT
    ... treated as little more than property. Northern Virginia is no exception, and Cassandra Clifford is ... other organizations. “Slavery is everywhere — it’s in Virginia, it’s in D.C. There’s no way to ... GROUP that will work with Clifford is the Virginia chapter of Stop Modern Slavery, which was ...


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