Wronging Rights

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• WTF Friday, 11/20

  From the desk of Intern Chris:WTF @ Nicholas Kristof: "When you hear that foreign-aid groups just squander money or build dependency, remember that by all odds Tererai should be an illiterate, battered cattle-herd in Zimbabwe...She…

• "A selfish desire for equality": Israeli Police Arrest Woman For Wearing a Tallit and Reading From the Torah at the Western Wall

  This shit makes me glad to have Birthright Virginia, not just Birthright Israel. From Haaretz:"Police on Wednesday arrested a woman who was praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, due to the fact that she…

• Creepy Christian Evangelicals, Godless Liberal Hippies Agree: Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill Is Bad News

  Well, it's official. Absolutely nobody thinks Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill is a good idea.The bill, which would double-plus-criminalize (yes, that's the technical term for criminalizing something that's already criminal) homosexuality, criminalize failure on the part…

• Dear Repressed People of Sudan: Time to Get Some of Those Arm Things

  Michael Kevane, on the prospects for a Sudanese peace deal:" At some point in the next year, the Sudanese public and the world community will be presented with a "deal", and every person concerned will…

• WTF Friday, 11/13

  From the desk of Intern Chris:Charles Taylor claims former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo tricked him into getting arrested. Not cool. Simon Mann seeks revenge, a book deal (mostly a book deal). (Via All Africa) Cuban…

• Update: Dadaab Jobs Program & Give Work App Still Seems Legit

  After I put up yesterday's post about the program that Samasource is running in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, reader (and intrepid boy reporter) Nick commented, expressing doubt about whether the project had actually gotten off…

• So This Seems Pretty Cool: iPhone App to Train Refugees to Do Outsourced Tech Jobs

  WTF Friday, 11/6

  From the desk of Intern Chris:Status on Putin and other Russian politicians: BALLIN'Islamic countries try to ban blasphemy.Guinean coup leader is "totes sorry" about massacre (hat tip to Kate's sister Emily!).ICC to begin inquiry into…

• Breaking News: Simon Mann Released

  The Associated Press is reporting this morning that Simon Mann and four of the other mercenaries convicted of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea were freed today. Mann was sentenced last year to 34 years…

• Now That's a Good Use of Video Cameras

  Lawyers With Cameras = just awesome. Layda Negrete and Roberto Hernández, two Mexican lawyers who are now Berkeley PhD students, used a brilliant combination of lawyering and videro cameras to save an innocent man from…