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Casting the First Stone

Almost four months ago, a Kampala, Uganda-based tabloid called Rolling Stone (no relation to the American magazine) published 100 photographs of gay Ugandans, along with where to find them, and warned against “recruitment.” The headline said “Hang Them.”

Molly O'TooleJanuary 31, 2011

NewsHealth

Are Foster Kids Overmedicated? Tonight on PBS

Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent — and children in foster care are among the most likely to be medicated…

Mar CabraJanuary 7, 2011

NewsJustice

Bradley Manning’s “cruel and inhumane” imprisonment

After spending nine days in solitary confinement in a jail in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released on bail. Meanwhile, Bradley Manning, the whistleblower behind WikiLeaks, sits in solitary confinement for the seventh month.

Kate MurphyDecember 16, 2010

NewsBusiness, Environment

Fiji Water Relents

Fiji Water announced today that it will re-open its factory at 8 a.m. Wednesday, less than 48 hours after brusquely dismissing its Fijian workforce…

Anna LenzerNovember 30, 2010

NewsBusiness, Environment

Fiji Water Threatens to Shut Down Operations

Fiji Water announced today that it will close its operations in Fiji in response to a water extraction tax hike proposed by the Fijian government…

Anna LenzerNovember 29, 2010

NewsJustice, World

Iranian Official Questions Whether US Hikers Are Spies

In an interview with NBC’s Ann Curry this week, a top Iranian human rights official cast doubt on the charge that Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, the two Americans detained in Iran, are spies…

Esther KaplanNovember 21, 2010

NewsWorld

Wikileaks Confirms: US Hikers, Detained by Iran, Were Arrested in Iraq

Wikileaks today made public a classified American military report that confirms that the American hikers detained by Iran were arrested in Iraq

Esther KaplanOctober 22, 2010

NewsJustice, World

Bauer, Fattal to Face Trial in Iran

Cindy Hickey, the mother of Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, told the AP today that Bauer and Josh Fattal, his hiking companion, will stand trial in Tehran on November 6…

Esther KaplanOctober 19, 2010

NewsWorld

Cost of Dissent for Iranian Journalists

Though we are all too familiar with the repression reporters increasingly face in Iran, we were extremely troubled this week to hear that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian blogger, has been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison for his…

Marissa Colon-MargoliesSeptember 30, 2010

NewsJustice

Sexual Abuse of Juvenile Inmates in Texas

Check out Laura Burke’s probing cover story in The Texas Observer, “A Woman’s Touch,” about the prevalence of women staffers abusing juvenile inmates in Texan facilities.

Jayati VoraSeptember 22, 2010

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