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Friday Digest: Oil Spill, Israeli Raid, Zimbabwe, Burma…


This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive.

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The list goes from oldest to newest news.  See you on Sunday, for our weekly Twitter Sunday!

The Forgotten Prisoners – The 1961 Observer article which launched Amnesty
Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. There are several million such people in prison – by no means all of them behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains – and their numbers are growing. The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence.
..http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2001/may/27/life1.lifemagazine5

Australia to ask international court to ban Japan whaling in Southern Ocean
Japan’s whaling programme faces a potentially decisive legal challenge next week, after Australia said today it would turn to the international court of justice to end Tokyo’s annual whale culls in the Southern Ocean. Australia’s environment minister, Peter Garrett, said the decision proved his country’s commitment to “bring to an end Japan’s programme of so-called scientific whaling”…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/28/australia-court-ban
-whaling-japan

Rwanda: A revolution in rights for women
What is happening for women in Rwanda is little short of revolutionary. Women occupy some of the most important government ministries and make up 56% of the country’s parliamentarians, including the speaker. Rwanda’s women express astonishment at Britain’s low female representation. By law in their country they must have at least 30% of the seats in government, including local government…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/28/womens-rights-rwanda

‘Top kill’ fails, BP moves on ‘to next option’
Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to “move on to the next option.” That option: Place a custom-built cap to fit over the “lower marine riser package,” BP chief operation officer Doug Suttles said. BP crews were already at work Saturday to ready…
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/05/29/us.gulf.oil.spill/index.html

18 Reasons Why the Homeless Stay Homeless
Keeping people out of homelessness — and thereby preventing the ailments that only going unhoused can cause — is far preferable to asking people to pull themselves out of it. Once people become homeless, the transition back to housing, and sometimes work and society in general, is almost impossibly difficult. Here’s why it would be so hard if it happened to you…
http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/18_reasons_why_the_homeless
_stay_homeless

Child Brides Escape Marriage, but Not Lashes
The two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in. Disguised in boys’ clothes, the girls, ages 13 and 14, had been fleeing for two days along rutted roads and over mountain passes to escape their illegal, forced marriages to much older men, and now they had made it to relatively liberal Herat Province…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/world/asia/31flogging.html

Emma Thompson Rape Scene Says “Trafficking Is Torture”
Every now and then, I miss some great little gem of public education or awareness. This is one of those gems, a powerful, disturbing public awareness message created a couple years ago by actress and anti-trafficking activist Emma Thompson. Here’s the video, with more analysis after the jump. Warning: While the video below doesn’t show any actual body parts, it’s a clear depiction of rape…
http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/emma_thompson_rape_scene
_says_trafficking_is_torture

Israeli Raid Complicates U.S. Ties and Push for Peace
Israel’s deadly commando raid on Monday on a flotilla trying to break a blockade of Gaza complicated President Obama’s efforts to move ahead on Middle East peace negotiations and introduced a new strain into an already tense relationship between the United States and Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel canceled plans to come to Washington on Tuesday to meet with Mr. Obama…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/world/middleeast/01policy.html

KENYA: HIV carries moral stigma
Many Kenyans see HIV as a punishment for immoral behaviour, which tends to perpetuate stigma against people infected with the virus, according to a report by ActionAid International, an anti-poverty agency, and Women fighting AIDS in Kenya, a local NGO. The study, Extent and Impact of Stigma and Discrimination on Women and Children Infected and Affected by HIV and AIDS…
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=89316

Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says
The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well? Decades ago, the Soviet Union reportedly used nuclear blasts to successfully seal off runaway gas wells, inserting a bomb deep underground and letting its fiery heat melt the surrounding rock to shut off the flow. Why not try it here? …
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/us/03nuke.html

Zimbabwe: End Persecution of Activist Group
Civil Society organizations, including Global Witness, Human Rights Watch, and Partnership Africa Canada, today condemned the state-sponsored harassment and intimidation of a Zimbabwean nongovernmental organization, the Centre for Research and Development (CRD). The group has been instrumental in exposing ongoing human rights abuses in Zimbabwe’s notorious Marange diamond fields…
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/06/02/zimbabwe-end-persecution-
activist-group

Burmese junta ‘is developing a nuclear threat’
Burma is trying to develop nuclear weapons, according to exiled journalists who claim to have uncovered evidence of a nascent missile programme. Reporters working for the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a respected dissident radio station that broadcasts into South-east Asia out of Oslo, say they have collected files and photographs which suggest that the country’s ruling junta is mining and experimenting with…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmese-junta-is-developing-
a-nuclear-threat-1991009.html




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