With tens of thousands of secret Afghan war documents posted online by a whistle-blower website, WikiLeaks is raising blood pressure once again. This isn't an information leak, folk. It's a gush of battle details from the frontlines - from a reported

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(七)月

Human rights abuses in Russia continued to be a serious problem in 2017, according to the State Department's Human Rights Report issued in late April. The Russian Government continues to quash dissent and civil society, even while it invades its neig

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(五月)

Today, the United States of America celebrates its birthday. It is a commemoration of the day in 1776 when representatives of the 13 British colonies signed the Declaration of Independence, a separation from Great Britain. There were many complex rea

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Iraqis Hope Kerry Visit Revitalizes Ties Iraqis reacted positively to the visit Sunday by Secretary of State John Kerry. In Baghdad's Karada district, coffee-shop owner Raid Fahmi said stronger ties with the Americans would help Iraqis deal with thei

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 05 April 2006 Around 300 students from Indonesia's Papua Province have held a peaceful demonstration in the nation's capital, demanding an investigation into human righ

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Hi, Kyra. Yes, and it's not only victims of the church actually wants to call its hotline, it also believes that some priests might call the hotline themselves. It is of course anonymous, to basically report themselves and say that they have things l

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AS IT IS 2014-08-09 Amnesty International: Videos Show Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria 国际特赦组织称尼日利亚视频节目侵犯人权 Amnesty International says the conflict in northern Nigeria continues to worsen. The rights group says mor

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AS IT IS 2014-06-16 UN Human Rights Chief Criticizes Inaction on Atrocities 联合国人权首席谴责对暴行无所作为 The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights recently criticized the international community for failing to stop widespread ab

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AS IT IS 2016-02-17 UN: Kim Jong Un Could Be Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity A United Nations expert on human rights in North Korea has warned that the countrys dictator, Kim Jong Un, could be responsible for crimes against humanity. Marzuki Darusm

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AS IT IS 2015-01-26 Labor Groups Criticize Abuses in Thai Fishing Industry 国际劳工组织批评泰国渔业奴役劳工的行为 Labor and anti-trafficking groups are calling for more action to reduce rights abuses in Thailands profitable fishing

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2007 The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights is urging the Government of Sudan to take immediate action to protect thousands of civilians in the village of Bir Dagig, located about 30 kilometers north of El Geneina

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A study by human rights groups in southern Africa say torture and other abuses in Zimbabwe have been so widespread and systematic that they could be considered crimes against humanity. And it says these abuses continue, causing a major blemish on th

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Amnesty warns of M23 Rebel Abuses Amnesty international says the displacement of thousands of people in the eastern DRC has created both a humanitarian and a human rights crisis. Amnesty International researcher Theo Boutruche says the M23 rebels hav

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Recording Rights Abuses in Northern Mali The French-led military intervention in northern Mali has enabled a rights group to gather evidence of alleged abuses, killings and disappearances in the region. Human Rights Watch has been interviewing victim

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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Todd: So Katia you were saying that you were working in Argentina as an internship. What type of internship was it? Katia: It was called legal internship. You help lawyers to deal with cases or anything that they need you to do regarding the legal fi

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IN THE NEWS - Investigative Reports on Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, August 28, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. This week, there were

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By Catherine Maddux Washingtion 12 December 2006 In the latest edition of its magazine, the human rights group Amnesty International focuses attention on the status of human rights in three countries: Iran, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and S

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模仿文本: Moscow October 7th, 2006. A journalist well known for exposing human rights abuses by a Russian troops in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, has been found shot dead in a block of flats in Moscow. It's only two years since Anna Polit

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今天我们要学的词是 pursue. Pursue 动词,追求,寻求。Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey might hold a referendum to decide whether to pursue European Union membership. 土耳其总统埃尔多安表示,土耳其可能

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