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Hugo Chavez on the U.N. Human Rights Council? Say No!

Urge Hillary Clinton and the EU’s Catherine Ashton to stop Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chavez from replacing Col. Qaddafi's seat on the UN's top human rights body.


Release Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo from Chinese jail

Urge UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to call on China to release political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.


Convene UN Special Session on Iranian Human Rights Violations

Urge UN rights chief Navi Pillay to call for a special session of the Human Rights Council on the worsening human rights situation and gross abuses in Iran.



With Syria and Mideast Aflame, UN Maintains Permanent Focus on Israel
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Issue 362 • May 5, 2012

  • As much of the world starves, a UN hunger expert investigates Canada

    "There is no food and no clean water, nothing,” Mahmoud, a 12-year-old boy from Homs, Syria, told Reuters Thursday. “There is no shop open and we only have one meal a day. How can we live like that and survive?”
    According to the World Food Program, half a million people don’t have enough to eat in Syria. Fears are growing that the regime is using hunger as a weapon.

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