By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 31 August 2006 watch American Census report Census data collection was partially done door-to-door New census figures indicate that average household incomes in the United States are rising. But the country's poverty

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 September 2006 The European Union is providing nearly $700,000 to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to look for cases of avian influenza in Nigeria. The surveillance program aims to help eradicate the disease

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By Kari Barber Dakar 09 January 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has called for the Guinea-Bissau government to take control of a recent burst of violence in a country historically rocked by coups. The murder of a former navy chief last week

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 March 2006 At least three aid agencies received letters from the Eritrean government this week directing the agencies to terminate their work in the country. The letters c

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By Efam Dovi Accra 09 February 2007 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has called for urgent action to eradicate guinea worm disease in Ghana. Guinea worm is a water-born worm infection that is contracted when people drink water containing the worm's

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910: Anti-Slavery Activist Wrote 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' RAY FREEMAN: I'm Ray Freeman. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And I'm Shirley Griffith with the Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington, DC 27 February 2007 watch Genealogy report Strom Thurmond and Al Sharpton A new genealogical study shows that a prominent African-American civil rights activist is descended from a slave owned in the mid-nineteenth c

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By Jim Malone Washington 23 June 2006 Political activists, frustrated by the polarized nature of American politics, have decided to do something about it in time for the next U.S. presidential election in 2008. --------------- Unity08.com screenshot

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A Burmese human rights activist says Burma's military government continues to use rape as a weapon to subdue ethnic minorities. She urges Burma's neighbors to put pressure on the military to stop sexual violence against women. Claudia Blume reports

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 17 June 2008 Human rights activists are urging the U.N. Security Council to turn up the pressure on the Sudanese government and quickly complete the deployment of 26,000 U.N. peacekeepers to Sudan's war-torn Darfur

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Class Action Lawsuit Targets Indonesian Government, Tobacco Companies Eight-year-old Aldi Ilham from Sukabumi, West Java, first started smoking when he was four years old. Instead of going to school he would help park cars to earn change for cigarett

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 15 June 2006 Human rights activists are giving mixed reviews to a decision by Britain to jail Charles Taylor if Liberia's former president is convicted for his role during Sierra Leone's civil war. The decision paves the wa

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By Nico Colombant Abidjan 05 May 2006 Members of Sudan Liberation Army, SLA, walk out of meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday A top civil rights activist for Sudan's Darfur region is dubious about the ne

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