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6 hours ago by haut_rian

I haven't really been updating this as much as I was during the stress of my visa journey up to my approval, but I think I can manage a short bit before I run off for various 4th festivities. I keep looking at my visa, it's still sinking in a bit. I never thought in a million years I'd get to this p ...

White Noise - haut-rian.livejournal.com

American Apparel a lot less American  

7 hours ago by Kirk Sigmon

American Apparel, run by the absolutely insane Dov Charney, is in some hot water. The brand, which often uses its popularity to launch progressive political ad campaigns, is infamously “ sweatshop free” and, as the label denotes, not outsourced at all. As you can imagine, it has become something of ...

Kirk Sigmon - kirksigmon.com

Sexist jokes encourage violence against women  

8 hours ago by Ians

LONDON - Sexist jokes induce an attitude that equates violence against women with a macho image, according to a recent study. Scientists at the University of Granada in Spain sent questionnaires to a group of 109 students aged between 18 and 26. They showed them two series of jokes, one of them sexi ...

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Give Us Your Huddled Masses – But Battered Women Need Not Apply!  

8 hours ago by cnphilison

Reporting to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden , she will have the ears of the two guys at the top of the tree. Read the original here: Give Us Your Huddled Masses – But Battered Women Need Not Apply! Related Articles: Give Us Your Huddled Masses – But Battered Women Need Not Apply! DownWithTyranny ...

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Victim categorically said she was raped by Shiney: NCW  

8 hours ago by Ians

NEW DELHI - Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja’s 18-year-old domestic help has categorically stated she was raped by him, the National Commission for Women (NCW) chief said here Saturday. “When we had talked to the girl in Mumbai, she had categorically stated that she was raped,” Girija Vyas told reporter ...

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Clear rehab scheme for rape victims, women’s panel asks PM  

8 hours ago by Ians

NEW DELHI J - The National Commission for Women (NCW) has urged the prime minister to implement a rehabilitation scheme for rape victims that would help rebuild their lives. The commission has sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in this regard requesting him to clear the scheme as soon as ...

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Supreme Court urged to review gay ruling  

8 hours ago by Ians

LUCKNOW - Students and teachers of Lucknow’s City Montessori School (CMS) - the world’s largest school in terms of enrolment - have appealed to the chief justice of India to review the Delhi High Court’s judgement on decriminalising homosexuality. “On behalf of our 37,000 students and hundreds of te ...

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20 hanged in Iran for drug trafficking  

8 hours ago by DPA

TEHRAN - Twenty convicted drug traffickers were hanged Saturday in a prison in Karaj, a suburb west of this Iranian capital, the Fars news agency reported. Fars said that 700 kg of drugs were confiscated from these people, who were arrested between 2004 and 2008. Murder, rape, armed robbery and drug ...

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IPS officer named in illegal child adoption case  

8 hours ago by Ians

LUCKNOW - An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer has been named in an allegedly illegal child adoption case in Uttar Pradesh following National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directions, a police official said Saturday. Eight others, including a police inspector and a constable, also face the charge ...

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Lalu against legalising gay sex, Sharad Yadav has no issues  

8 hours ago by Ians

NEW DELHI - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Saturday said the Delhi High Court had done a “very dangerous thing” by decriminalising gay sex, though Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Sharad Yadav believed “homosexuality is not an issue in India”. “It is a very dangerous thing the Delhi High ...

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