Amnesty International said Monday that a newspaper editor whose decapitated body was found over the weekend in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo appears to have been targeted by a drug gang carrying out a reprisal for her work on social networks.
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Mex. decapitation linked to social media
A Brazilian judge, Patricia Acioli, renowned for her work against organised crime, is shot dead in Rio de Janeiro State.
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Gang-fighting judge gunned down
A doctor working to determine rates of post-traumatic stress disorder in Libyan children came across, in her work, another startling statistic: at least 259 women who say they were raped by Muammar Gaddafi’s militiamen. The women who came forward were…
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Hundreds of Libyan Women Report Rape
Ugandan gay activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is given the prestigious Martin Ennals award for her work in Uganda, where homosexual acts are illegal.
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Ugandan gay activist wins award
Time doesn’t heal all wounds: Anita Hill is refusing to offer a mea culpa after receiving a message on her work voicemail from the wife of Clarence Thomas, whom she accused of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Virginia…
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Clarence Thomas’ Wife Calls Anita Hill
