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A woman wrapped in a blanket stares shell-shocked at the damages in Ishimaki City

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365569/ Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Aftershocks-10k-missing-Minami-Sanrik.html

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JAPAN - SEVERE EARTHQUAKE AFTERSHOCK - CONTINUED CRISES - WOMEN

April 8, 2011

 

SENDAI, Japan — A strong aftershock ripped through northeastern Japan, killing at least two people, injuring more than 100 and piling misery on a region still buried under the rubble of last month's devastating tsunami.

The aftershock late Thursday was the strongest tremor since the March 11 monster quake and did some damage, but it did not generate a tsunami.

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1 February, 2011

We, civil society organizations from across the world, strongly urge all governments, as well as regional and international organizations, to clearly and unequivocally denounce the ongoing violent crackdown against the public protests and demands for democratic reform and government accountability that have been occurring across Egypt since the 25th of January.

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During ILGA’s XXV World Conference  a one-day women’s pre-conference was held on 5 December 2010 with the following theme: “Self-definition for visibility: Tommy boys, Lesbian men, Trans, Female Masculinities, femininity and feminist expression”.

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NEW DELHI, 21 January 2011 – From 10 to 21 January 2011, I carried out a fact-finding mission to assess the situation of human rights defenders in India, and traveled to New Delhi, Bhubaneshwar (Orissa), Kolkata (West Bengal), Guwahati (Assam), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Jammu and Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir).

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by Sheryl Ho

What was to have been the 4th Regional Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Intersex Association (ILGA) conference scheduled to run from 26-29 March, 2010 in Surabaya, the East Java capital in Indonesia, ended before it could start, due to a combination of inaccurate media reports and participants safety being threatened by Islamic fundamentatists.

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By Nina Somera, Isis International

With the failure of the 15th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to reach a responsive deal, civil society organisations are now preparing to strategise for COP 16 that will take place in Mexico this year.