(Vancouver) Directors of Asia CIPFG, representing the member countries of Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, simultaneously unveiled today their plan to hold a global “Human Rights Torch Relay.” The torch relay is set to cover major cities in dozens of countries on five continents.

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Remembering the bloodshed at Tiananmen on the dark night of June 4, 1989 still sends shivers down my spine.

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Most Americans believe the world started turning on 9/11 and very few realise why it happened. In 1991 the UN imposed sanctions on Iraq, sanctions which by 2001 had caused the premature deaths of around 1.5 million Iraqis according to UNICEF which also estimated that the of excess deaths in Iraq among children under age 5 alone was 343,900 to 525,400. This of course prompted Madeline Albright to declare in 1996 that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were “worth it”.

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 – re: organ trade

Human Rights Watch advocates expressed their concerns last month about China’s new rules on organ trade and they’re not the only ones. Earlier this year two Canadian lawyers reported that Chinese doctors and the military are heavily involved in illicit organ harvesting and transplant tourism in China.

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Press release
20th February 2007

A British Geological Survey (BGS) project funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) addresses the need to alleviate poverty in Afghanistan by encouraging inward investment, commercial and infrastructure development and provides an alternative source of income to poppy cultivation.

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Re= Is the US a nation of laws, of conscience

Dear MWC;

This may seem strange coming from somebody born in the USA, but America is nothing more than a nation of sheeple governed by a capitalistic and exploitive regime/mindset. The Americans who try and counter this vile entity and corrupt culture are always labeled as crazies, lunatics, or never given much thought or support by the blinded masses of US democracy $$$$!

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Sir,

in the article: "IRAN CALLS FOR HOLOCAUST PROOF" (feruary 6) is said that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president,has called for Israel to be "wiped from the map". this is not correct.

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