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  • Female Genital Mutilation in the UK

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Medics Offered Genital Mutilation, Report Says As many as 100,000 women in Britain may have been mutilated in the name of culture and religion, a report claims. Refuges from other countries, particularly from Africa, perpetuate this “procedure” illegally, while practitioners charge more than $1000 to have the clitoris cut…

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  • Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack Conservative radicals are suspects in the recent poisoning of about 150 Afghan high school girls who drank contaminated water at their high school, and other similar attacks on female students, teachers, and their buildings. It may be hard to believe that anyone would…

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  • Anti-gay adverts pulled from bus campaign in London

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Anti-gay adverts pulled from bus campaign by Boris Johnson Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has stopped a Christian advertising campaign by the “christian” group Core Issues Trust that promotes the idea that gay people can be converted to heterosexuality and whose leader, Mike Davidson, said “homoerotic behavior is sinful” and…

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  • Maryland Legislature to Employers: Hands Off Facebook Passwords

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Maryland Legislature to Employers: Hands Off Facebook Passwords The state of Maryland just passed the first bill in the nation that bans employers from asking for the social media passwords of job applicants and employees. Maryland should be congratulated for not only standing up for online privacy, but privacy…

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  • Facebook privacy protection law shot down by Congress

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Facebook privacy protection law shot down by Congress The US House of Representatives has shot down proposals which would have prevented businesses from collecting Facebook log on credentials as part of their employee vetting procedures. The law had been proposed by Colorado representative Daniel Perlmutter. Perimutter suggested that the…

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  • Censorship in Egypt: From online porn to hugging on television

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Intimate scenes to be banned from Egyptian public TV (AGI) Cairo – A group of Islamic supervisors of the Egyptian Public Broadcaster will be in charge of removing ‘immoral ‘ footage from films the network has in its archives. The ban will apply to scenes featuring hugging, kissing and…

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  • Christian Groups Take Issue With Anti-Bullying Laws

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Christian Groups Take Issue With Anti-Bullying Laws Focus on the Family is planning to counter the “Day of Silence,” an annual event to protest LGBT bullying set for April 20, with its own “Day of Dialogue”. The evangelical organization’s aim is to muffle an effort that “crosses the line…

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  • Arizona bill declares women pregnant two weeks before conception

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Arizona bill declares women pregnant two weeks before conception A new bill up for vote in the state of Arizona would ban abortions for some expectant mothers, but that’s only the start of what lawmakers have in store. If the legislation passes, the state will consider a child to…

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  • Anonymous hacks Chinese websites

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    (También en Español) News of Note: Anonymous hacks Chinese websites Messages by the international hacking group Anonymous went up on a number of Chinese government websites on Thursday to protest internet restrictions. On a Twitter account established in late March, Anonymous China listed the websites it said it had hacked over the last several days.…

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  • UK Surveillance: New powers to record every phone call and email

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    (También en Español) News of Note: New powers to record every phone call and email makes surveillance ’60m times worse’ The proposals, to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech, will see a huge expansion in the amount of data communication providers are required to keep for at least a year. It will allow the police…

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