February 2012
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January 2012
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"The Sketchbook from Auschwitz" →
Found hidden away in a bottle, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum has published sketches drawn by a prisoner at the Birkenau extermination camp. They provide a rare first-hand glimpse of life and death inside. The book is part of the museum’s plans to launch a catalogue of 6,000 artworks in its archives.
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New Film Sheds Light on Plight of Gays, 'Honor... →
In colloquial Turkish, the word zenne means male belly dancer. It is also the title of a new film that explores sexual identity while also highlighting a deadly case of homophobia in modern-day Turkey.
“The starting point was a dear friend of ours who was murdered in 2008 for being gay by his own father,” said Mehmet Binay, producer and co-director of “Zenne,” which...
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Smear in Russia Backfires, and Online Tributes... →
Doctored photographs have a long history in Russia as political tools, but two or more parties can play the game in the Internet age.
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Iran Rights Official Calls Homosexuality 'Disease'... →
from Radio Free Europe The secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights has been quoted as telling a visiting German lawmaker that homosexuality is a disease. “The West says that the marriage of homosexuals should be allowed under the human rights charter, however, we think it is sexual immorality and a disease,” Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency quoted...
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Life sentences for children are unconscionable -... →
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December 2011
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Northern Cyprus to decriminalise homosexuality →
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells... →
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