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Woman, 99, Denied Citizenship Despite Living In Canada Since 1933

Citizenship and Immigration doesn’t know or understand its own rules, says critic

CBC News
By CBC News

A 99-year-old woman is going public after she was denied Canadian citizenship and a health card despite living in Canada for more than 80 years. Joan Stirling's application was rejected by Citizenship and Immigration Canada because she  couldn't produce a specific piece of identification — her birth certificate from almost a century ago. Her

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Drug War’s End: Oregon Is Expunging Pot Records

Anyone with any low-level felony or misdemeanor on their record that’s at least ten years old can wipe their record clean, if they have not re-offended.

East Bay Express
By East Bay Express
EU Rethinking Pot Netherlands

Oregon has taken the lead in righting some of the wrongs of the War on Weed. On Monday, The New York Times reported on Oregon’s leadership in expunging marijuana violations from citizens’ records.  Even simple pot tickets can haunt someone for the rest of his or her life, sabotaging job hiring and other milestones. So Portland’s Metropolitan

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Iraq’s Yazidis Take Claims Of Genocide By ISIS To International Criminal Court

The claims of genocide against the Yazidi minority include summary execution of hundreds of men, the rape of thousands of women, and the abduction of children who are forced to convert to Salafist Islam.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
In this Tuesday, April 15, 2015 photo, Yazidis gather to light flames, some capturing the scene with their mobile phones, at the holy shrine of Lalish, 57 kilometers (35 miles) north of militant-held Mosul, Iraq, as thousands celebrate the New Year, their first since Islamic State militants swept through the area last summer. Yazidis, a centuries-old religion derived from Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Islam, believe that the occasion marks the creation of the earth, also the day that God created the holy shrine in Lalish. (AP Photo/Seivan M.Salim)

THE HAGUE --- The Yazidi people of Iraq have an ancient heritage and follow a faith believed to pre-date Islam or Christianity. But that heritage and their continued existence is threatened by ISIS, which has targeted the Yazidis for genocide. Representatives of the Yazidi minority brought their accusations of genocide before the International

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Anonymous Hacktivists Target Saudi Arabia To Prevent Brutal Execution Of 21 Year Old

Critics say Saudi Arabia sentenced Ali Mohammed al-Nimr to death because he is the nephew of Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, a political dissident who also faces the death penalty.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia --- The Anonymous hacktivist collective is joining an array of international voices in demanding a halt to the impending execution of a 21-year-old man sentenced to death by crucifixion by the Saudi Arabian government. Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was condemned to be crucified, which under Saudi law means he will first be beheaded,

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Israel Escalates ‘Water-Apartheid’ As Illegal Settlers Contaminate Palestinian Water

Israel’s discriminatory allocation of water, along with its theft, destruction and pollution of Palestinian water resources, sparks accusations of racism and apartheid.

Joe Catron
By Joe Catron
Palestinians displaced by Israeli strikes wait to get water from portable tanks near a makeshift encampment behind Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (Joe Catron)

UNITED NATIONS --- Israeli restrictions on Palestinian water use, as well as damage to water supplies and infrastructure by both Israeli forces and Jewish settlers, continue to deplete the already limited water supplies available to millions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. “Water is used by the Israelis to achieve

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Saudi Arabia Plans To Crucify Teen As It Ascends To UN Human Rights Council Chair

As a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Saudi Arabia is forbidden to execute anyone arrested under the age of 18.

Jerusalem Post
By Jerusalem Post
Protester Ali Al-Nimr, condemned to execution by Saudi Arabia (Photo: Facebook)

In a move that has drawn severe criticism from numerous organizations and activist groups from around the world, Saudi Arabia, which was tapped last week to head the Human Rights Council at the UN, is preparing to crucify and behead a protester who was still a minor at the time of his arrest, the BBC reported Wednesday. Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr,

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