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Myanmar Forces Kill, Rape Rohingya Muslims

Rohingya Muslims have been denied citizenship rights since an amendment to the citizenship laws in 1982 and are treated as illegal immigrants in their own home.

(CAIRO IINA) - Human rights activists have accused the Burmese police forces of killing at least 16 Rohingya Muslims and kidnapping 100 more in a village located in an isolated corner of Burma to cover-up a recent discovery of a mass grave, International Business Times UK reported.

“The villagers were shocked because a worker had found the bodies of eight Rohingyas in a dump,” Tun Khin, human rights activist and president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the UK, said.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Week after bloody week, the chart of killings lengthens. And in Afghanistan, while war rages, a million children are estimated to suffer from acute malnourishment as the country faces a worsening hunger crisis.

(KABUL) - This month, from Atlanta, GA, the King Center announced its "Choose Nonviolence" campaign.

It is a call on people to incorporate the symbolism of bell-ringing into their Martin Luther King Holiday observance, as a means of showing their commitment to Dr. King's value of nonviolence in resolving terrible issues of inequality, discrimination and poverty here at home. The call was heard in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Pope Praises the Fundamental Value of the Natural Family in Society

According to the French Statistical Institute, lone parents with a high percentage of single mothers, are already 19%, and its poverty rate rises to 46.2 %.

(MADRID) - The TV networks have broadcast live the "Family Day" in London, Nazareth, Barcelona and Madrid.

Pope Francis in his message to the families present in Madrid, Barcelona , London and Nazareth Pope said the family is an inviolable right. The family is the solution. He was also concerned about the elderly and children living as " exiles within their homes."

SRI LANKA: Government Census Inadequate or Fallacy?

Ruling autocracy that comprises the hypocrites of politics, military and the overjoyed wider proponents who oxygenate the misdemeanors of this pathetic regime is making Sri Lanka a mockery and projecting it worse than a banana republic.

(LONDON Sri Lanka Guardian) - The census of human and property damages undertaken by the Government of Sri Lanka has been a downright sham from its birth.

The government is determinedly trying to downplay a fair assessment and stubbornly endeavouring to falsify the full extent of the three decades old war through a facade of official process.

Marijuana: Universal Medical Use of an Ancient/Modern Panacea

It is well known that medical marijuana permits have lowered the use and costs of medical treatment for the indigent on welfare, etc. The increased legal use of medical marijuana in Colorado and Washington will definitely decrease medical costs.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The search for a medical panacea has been going on for more than a couple of thousand years. It comes from the Greek language Panakeia who actually was the Greek Goddess of Universal Healing.

In other words, not a real person. She was said to have a poultice or potion, which would heal all diseases. This sounds like marijuana/cannabis to me.

WA County Oregon`s Abuse to An Innocent Woman

Another victim of Oregon's "justice system" being targeted by state officials and police, needs your help.

(SALEM) - In January 2010 Salem-News.com carried an article about Kimberly Petitt, an African-American woman in Oregon who was suffering extremely objectionable treatment by Oregon officials and a care home that caused the woman to lose almost all of her worldly belongings.

I produced video reports about this but our account with YouTube was politically targeted and closed down with more than 500 important videos and news reports. Sadly, to this day, I have been unable to recover the original files. Now there is a new chance to learn the story of one of Oregon's most unfortunate women...

Sri Lanka and UNHRC Resolution March 2014

The following is an open letter to the Consulate of the Cuban Embassy in Sri Lanka...

(MELBOURNE) - Human rights activists are consistently appalled that countries with rich revolutionary histories fail to support modern, similar movements.

Case at hand, Cuba's decision to join countries like Israel in embracing the bloody state terrorism government of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of President Majinda Rajapaksa and his three brothers.

BBC News: Afghanistan Taliban `Confident of Victory` Over NATO

Earlier, the US National Intelligence Estimate predicted Afghanistan would descend into chaos if Kabul failed to sign a Bilateral Security Agreement with Washington, which would keep a contingent of US troops in the country after 2014.

(LONDON) - A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban has said it is "confident of victory" over NATO-led forces and already controls large areas of the country.

Interviewed by the BBC's John Simpson, Zabiullah Mujahed said in remote parts it was "everywhere", and foreign troops were scared to leave their bases.

Lifetime & Legend Winners and the Golden Mike Awards

Dick Enberg, Giselle Fernandez, and John Brooks to Be Honored By Southern California Broadcast Journalists

(UNIVERSAL CITY, CA) - Nationally prominent sportscaster Dick Enberg, journalist and entrepreneur Giselle Fernandez, and award-winning radio newsman John Brooks will receive top honors at the 64th annual Golden Mike Awards(r) show in Universal City, the Radio & Television News Assn. announced.

Enberg will receive the RTNA's Broadcast Legend Award at the gala dinner on Jan. 25. The versatile sportscaster is recognized nationally for his signature cry of "Oh, my!"

Foreskin Advocate Speaks at UBC`s Buchanan Building

“There’s a 2,000-year body of Jewish writing, a 200 year body of medical writing illustrating that the purpose of circumcision is permanently damaging an innocent boy so that, when puberty comes, he will not be able to fully enjoy sex” - children’s rights activist Glen Callender

(VANCOUVER, BC) - It’s a rare thing to meet an activist who manages to remain persuasive and credible when naked from the waist down.

Judging by the audience’s reaction to children’s rights activist Glen Callender’s presentation at UBC on Friday, he pulled it off.