IN THE NEWS - As U.N. Opens New Human Rights Council, Annan Speaks of 'Great New Chance'By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special Engl

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影片对白 Bridget: Who cares about the odd professional hiccup? The fact is I've been in a functional relationship with an adult male for six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days and seven precious hours, or to put it another way , 71 ecstatic shags .

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On May 17, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Stuart Jones said, the U.S. is determined to hold Iran accountable for its human rights abuses with new actions. He pointed to the newly released report to Congress detailing U.S

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AS IT IS 2015-07-29 Western Values Inspire Gay Rights Debate in S. Korea 在韩国西方价值观鼓励同性恋权利的辩论 The struggle for gay rights in South Korea is not one that can be seen as a conflict between Eastern and Western cultural

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US Urges Vietnam to Release Political Prisoners 美国敦促越南释放政治犯 The United States government is urging Vietnam to release all political prisoners and end its poor treatment of civil society activists. US officials made the appeals b

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air conditioner 空调机 air raid 空龚 alarm clock 闹钟 arms race 军备竞赛 assembly line 装配线 baby-sitter 看孩子的人 bank account 银行帐户 birth control 节制生育 blood donor 献血者 blood pressure 血压 book case 书柜

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Hello to you, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com newsroom in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. CNN affiliate KGO reports police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case. Media reports say police are pl

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A Vietnamese court recently sentenced blogger and human rights activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh to 10 years in prison. We are deeply concerned, said State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, about the conviction of. . .peaceful blogger, Nguyen Ngoc

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As has been the case in previous years, human rights conditions in Zimbabwe remain deeply troubling, according to the recently-issued State Department Country Reports On Human Rights Practices. In 2016, the government of President Robert Mugabe conti

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AS IT IS 2015-07-08 Obama Meets with Vietnams Communist Party Chief 奥巴马会见越南领导人 The head of Vietnams Communist Party visited with President Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday. Nguyen Phu Trong met with the president and spoke

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AS IT IS 2016-06-12 Philippines Duterte Urges Citizens to Shoot Drug Dealers 菲律宾杜特尔特敦促市民枪击毒贩 The Philippine president-elect has a new program to fight crime. President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said people should go after dr

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And they are really complex and they can seem really far off, that the temptation may be to do this: 这些问题确实相当复杂,又似乎离我们很遥远,这就诱使我们这样做: bury our heads in the sand and not think about it. 把头

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联合国纪念国际人权日 On this years International Human Rights Day, on December 10, the United Nations will mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Vienna Declaration, committing states to the promotion and protection of human rights

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Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Plenary Session 希拉里1995年在联合国第四届妇女大会上的演讲:妇女的权利也是人权。该演讲至今仍是世界妇

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Human-rights abuses 人权问题 Nothing new under the sun 日光之下无新事 Some dictators may have fallen, but human-rights abuses continue 也许有些独裁者已然倒下,但侵犯人权之事依旧存续 May 12th 2011 | OSLO | from the pr

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Today, Snowden met with human rights activists and Russian politicians at the airport. A Russian news Web site showed video of the first time he had been seen since arriving from Hong Kong on June 23. Tatiana Lokshina of Human Rights Watch was at the

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MOSCOW, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Russia on Monday criticized the U. S. 2012 report on human rights and accused it of applying double standards, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Russia believed the 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which wa

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken out against the British government whom he says are in violation of international law for not allowing him the status of a political refugee. Assange is currently taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy to

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The U.S. isn't the only country struggling with migrants from Central America. Mexico's president recently announced plans to crack down on the illegal flow of people into his country. He wants to strengthen security along Mexico's

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Human rights and Europe 人权和欧洲 Playing to the right 为权利上演的宫心计 The Conservatives'plans to reform human-rights laws are a muddle 保守党针对人权法案的改革计划如今还是一团糟 UNWORKABLE, contradictory and in

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