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    United Sikhs Protecting Our Right To Kakaars: UNITED SIKHS Works Across The Country To Address Civil Rights Viola

    Protecting Our Right to Kakaars: UNITED SIKHS Works Across the Country to Address Civil Rights Violations http://www.unitedsikhs.org/PressReleases/PRSRLS-12-10-2010-00.html Protecting Our Right to Kakaars: UNITED SIKHS Works Across the Country to Address Civil Rights Violations...
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    Legal Defending Religious Students' Civil Rights

    In hopes of protecting students from religious discrimination, two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include religion to Title VI, which already prohibits discrimination based on "race, color, or national origin." Several...
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    SALDEF SALDEF Honors Civil Rights Leader And Oregon State Representative

    SALDEF Honors Civil Rights Leader and Oregon State Representative SALDEF is pleased to announce the first two awardees to be recognized at the 2010 SALDEF National Gala to be held in Washington D.C. on October 16, 2010. We will honor Mr. Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil...
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    Legal Police Must Protect Human Rights: Justice Balakrishnan

    The Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Justice K. G. Balakrishnan on Thursday asked the country’s top police officials to understand that a misplaced protective approach, towards the acts of omission and commission by their subordinates, breeds an attitude of impunity...
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    SOPW SOPW Denounces Illegal Detention Of Sikh Civil Rights Campaigner Pal Singh In Punjab

    PARIS: The Sikh Organisation for Prisoner Welfare (SOPW)denounces the illegal abduction and detention of Sikh Civil Rights campaigner Pal Singh in Punjab, India. Balbir Singh Bains Chairman of the Sikh Organisation for Prisoner Welfare said the 54 year old French National, who has...
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    Sikh Coalition Avaaz: Summer Work To Promote Civil Rights (Summer Updates)

    Important Updates from Sikh Coalition (forwarded by email) *Sikh Coalition Publishes Federal Policy Priorities and Recommendations** * To supplement its expanded federal advocacy efforts, the Sikh Coalition has published a document for the U.S. Congress and federal policymakers entitled...
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    Islam Human Rights Activist Tries To Stop Death By Stoning For Iranian Woman

    A veteran Iranian human rights activist has warned that Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities. Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can...
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    Legal Corporal Punishment---Child Rights

    The National Commission for Child Rights ( NCPCR ) which at present giving guidelines only no deterrent against corporal punishments , but now the proposed for the new law to prevent children`s in house as well as in society the Women and child development ( WCD) are now come forward in a...
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    Human Rights Watch Seeks Law Against Honour Killings

    Human Rights Watch seeks law against honour killings IANS, Jul 19, 2010, 03.47pm IST <!-- google_ad_section_start -->NEW DELHI: A global human rights organisation on Monday appealed to the central government to enact strict laws to check honour killings and ensure prosecution of those...
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    Controversial Mothers To Have Same Rights Over Child As Fathers

    Nagender Sharma, Hindustan Times New Delhi, July 12, 2010 Mothers to have same rights over child as fathers For the first time, women will be given the same rights as men to guardianship and adoption of children, even if they are single. A new law to make this effective appears set to...
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    India Tribal Rights In The Red Corridor. Why You Must Read This Censored Chapter (Tehelka)

    Why you must read this censored chapter When the truth about the flouting of tribal rights in the Red Corridor struck home, the government dropped a whole chunk of damning material from a report it had itself commissioned. RAMAN KIRPAL reports ARESEARCHER WORKING on the State of Panchayats...
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    India NRIs May Get Voting Rights Soon

    NEW DELHI: NRIs may be able to vote in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, with a group of ministers (GoM) clearing a draft bill giving them right to franchise. A long-pending demand of NRIs, the proposal is now ready for the Union Cabinet’s nod. The bill...
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    Canada Human Rights Group Recognizes The Hon. Jack Layton’s Fearless Advocacy

    Human Rights group recognizes the Hon. Jack Layton’s fearless advocacy Human Rights group recognizes the Hon. Jack Layton?s fearless advocacy | World Sikh Organization of Canada Ottawa – On June 3, The World Sikh Organization of Canada recognized NDP leader Jack Layton for his work to...
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    Opinion World Sikh Organization Of Canada Hosts Indian Human Rights Advocate

    World Sikh Organization of Canada Hosts Indian Human Rights Advocate World Sikh Organization of Canada Hosts Indian Human Rights Advocate OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 31, 2010) - The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) welcomes Indian journalist, author...
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    Legal Sikh-Americans And Civil Rights

    Sikh-Americans and Civil Rights =116414408392302&p[]=120558447978444"]Share On May 5, 2010, Les Jin visited the Silver Spring Sikh Gurdwara as part of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders outreach to the community during AAPI Heritage Month. The event was...
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    Protecting Students' Rights To Religious Expression

    In the midst of the Iraq War, a 12-year-old girl attending a middle school in the Schenectady, New York Central School District began wearing a red-white-and-blue beaded necklace. She wore the necklace to display her support for soldiers in Iraq and, more specifically, her family members serving...
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    Opinion Basic Rights Of A Human Being (Water)

    Water Scarcity in Lehra Gaga Shariq Majeed Tribune News Service Lehra Gaga (Sangrur), May 16 With mercury continuing to rise every passing day, residents of Lehra Gaga in Sangrur district are grappling with water shortage.Locals say not only are they face water shortage every 2-3 months...
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    Controversial Non-Muslim Minorities Seek Rights

    Non-Muslim minorities seek rights Non-Muslim minorities seek rights - Patna - City - The Times of India PATNA: Non-Muslim minorities aired their grievances at a meeting convened by the Bihar State Minority Commission. Minority Welfare minister Shahid Ali Khan assured the gathering that the...
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    Legal US Lawmakers To Work With Global Sikh Civil Rights Report

    US Lawmakers To Work With Global Sikh Civil Rights Report Read more: US Lawmakers To Work With Global Sikh Civil Rights Report | AHN Tejinder Singh - AHN News Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) - Federal lawmakers recently welcomed a report that combines insights from...
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    Middle Schoolers Taking Action On (Sikh) Civil Rights

    Middle Schoolers taking action on (Sikh) civil rights Last Friday, I was invited by the organization Teaching Matters to participate as an “expert” community activist in their annual Civil Rights Student Summit in downtown Manhattan. I was looking forward to the opportunity to work...
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