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``Women International Day`` and VIOLATION OF WOMEN`S RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN

Abuses are compounded: poor girls and women are trafficked and subject to forced marriage, forced conversion, rape, forced prostitution or exploitative work situations such as bonded labor.

(LAHORE) - Mrs. Imran is a Women Human Rights Defender and Co-ordinator of LEAD (Legal Evangelical Association Development), focusing on "The Project of Women Empowerment" in Pakistan. She is very energetic and active in the field of women rights, she had to face many hardships during her campaign for women rights.

"We have many challenges about the violation of women rights in our country and our day to day challenges as being a minority in Pakistan", said Mrs. Imran. International women’s Day 2014 is being celebrated globally including Pakistan today on 7th March 2014 with the theme and object “Equality for women is progress for all”.

Muslims Vandalize Church Under Construction

Christians of the Okara district dared to construct a new Church building along with a Christian school.

(ISLAMABAD) - Religious freedom is guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution, but discriminatory legislation punishes those who choose to actively follow the Christian faith and places restriction on the Church.

Restrictions on spreading the gospel publicly are reportedly banned and the same holds true with construction of new Churches, and honestly speaking I am being beaten up by the radical Muslims in Mansrah district for selling religious books when I voluntarily worked with Operation Mobilization - OM team in Pakistan.

Ukraine, Syria, Solidarity and More ...

Russia's strong influence in the mostly Russian Speaking Crimean peninsula of the Ukraine threatens to ignite another Crimean war.

(BETHLEHEM) - It is sometimes instructive to learn a bit of history to reflect on current events because if we do not learn from history, we are bound to repeat the tragic history of useless wars.

This came to me as I read about the escalating situation in Ukraine, where the US and western countries invested heavily to dislodge the Ukraine (strategically located on the Black Sea) from Russian influence.

Channel 4 Refutes Sri Lanka`s Propaganda Offensive

To counter this misleading attack on its journalism, Channel 4 had taken the unusual step of publishing a detailed 20,000 word rebuttal titled 'The Uncorrupted Truth'.

(MELBOURNE) - This civil war in SL was supposed to be a war without witness, so that the world wouldn't know what crimes the Sinhalese army had committed against the the Tamils, who were led by Prabhakaran and LTTE.

The Tamils' only crime was that they were fighting for liberation from servitude.

Focusing Attention on the Real Impediment to Black Progress

Some black critics have argued that the problems faced by young African Americans is primarily a result of racism in American society.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - In February, President Obama launched an initiative for black young men.

As he announced a $200 million, five-year initiative, My Brother's Keeper, he declared: "I didn't have a dad in the house. And I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time. I made bad choices..."

Wounded Knee Massacre by Christians Crusaders

Please don’t be confused with Wounded Knee Incident.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29,1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars.

Daryl Hall and Amos Lee Share `Brotherly Love` on 66th Episode

Live from Daryl's House on Palladia is "In a Philly Mood".

(LOS ANGELES) - Live from Daryl's House celebrates it's Philadelphia roots in its new Pawling, N.Y., location as fellow City of Brotherly Love native Amos Lee joins Daryl Hall for the show's 66th and latest installment.

The episode premieres on Viacom's high-definition music channel Palladia...

Ultranationalist Neo-Nazi Parties on the March in Ukraine

Threat of anti-Semitic violence should cause international alarm

(NEW YORK al Jazeera) - President Viktor Yanukovich’s sudden, surprise departure from Kiev is the beginning of a long ordeal for Ukrainians. It’s also the start of a major threat to the several hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews.

Anti-Semitic violence in Ukraine may come as a surprise to an American audience accustomed to optimistic portrayals of the swiftly changing events in U.S. media.

The White Rose Lives! (in Oak Ridge, Tennessee): February 18, 1943 and February 18, 2014

The Nazis thought that the influence of the White Rose ended with their arrest, trial and immediate beheadings.

(DULUTH, MN) - 71 years ago last week, three idealist anti-fascist whistleblowing students at the University of Munich were arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo.

Their crime? Protesting their war-mongering German government by the publication and distribution of a series of anti-Hitler leaflets in Munich and other German cities...

Twenty Years After the Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs

What would we have known without the media?

(HUGUENOT, NY) - Wherever you happened to be on February 25, 1994, if you were old enough to read a newspaper you’ll likely recognize the name Baruch Goldstein.

You may recall that he was a brilliant, exceedingly gifted physician; president of his class, who graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 index.