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		<title>news: Jimmy Carter tells Nobel meeting to oppose unnecessary wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former President Jimmy Carter opened the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Chicago Monday with a challenge to young people to stand up against unnecessary wars and hold the U.S. government accountable for making preemptive strikes. “For the last 60 years, our country has been almost constantly at war. Now we are contemplating going<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/2412/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>causes: A United Voice for Human Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TheCommunity.com is launching a three year campaign to raise awareness on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights &#8212; the UDHR. Drafted in 1948 and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, the UDHR outlines 30 fundamental human rights. It says that these rights form the very foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/a-united-voice-for-human-rights-new/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/a-united-voice-for-human-rights-new/</link>
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		<title>photos: The Dalai Lama PSA shoot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 18 thecommunity.com met up with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for a video shoot for thecommunity.com&#8217;s upcoming human rights campaign. The video will be released in late fall at the campaign&#8217;s launch.]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/photo-gallery-the-dalai-lama-human-rights-shoot/</link>
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		<title>video: The Killers meets human rights.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English filmmaker and Amnesty supporter Jay Rodan brought his camera to one of the photo shoots for thecommunity.com&#8217;s campaign to raise awareness on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This shoot, done with campaign partner Aid Still Required, included Joel Madden (Good Charlotte), Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction, Clear and Present Danger), CCH Pounder (Avatar), Keith<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/the-human-rights-mash/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/the-human-rights-mash/</link>
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		<title>news: Burma&#8217;s Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burma&#8217;s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is planning to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years, officials say. The Norwegian foreign ministry said she was expected to visit Norway in June. A spokesman from Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s party also told the BBC that she would visit the UK &#8211; but this<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/burmas-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-visit-europe/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/burmas-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-visit-europe/</link>
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		<title>photos: Desmond Tutu photo shoot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 12, Archbishop Desmond Tutu shot a video spot for thecommunity.com&#8217;s upcoming human rights campaign. The video will be released in late fall. Come with us to Kalamazoo, Michigan to spend an hour with a human rights legend:]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/photo-gallery-desmond-tutu-photo-shoot/</link>
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		<title>greatest hits: Desmond Tutu: Arizona: The Wrong Answer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In April, 2010, the State of Arizona passed a law requiring that local police determine the immigration status of individuals they suspect of being in the country illegally, a mandate that people carry documents that prove they have a legal right to be in the United States, and a provision making it a crime for<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/desmond-tutu-arizona-the-wrong-answer-2/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/desmond-tutu-arizona-the-wrong-answer-2/</link>
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		<title>news: Shirin Ebadi on Iran and sanctions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost a decade ago, Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human-rights lawyer, became the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But the government in Tehran has never taken kindly to her criticism of the regime, especially in regard to women’s rights. In the aftermath of the Islamic Republic’s highly contested 2009 presidential elections, as<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/shirin-ebadi-on-iran-and-sanctions/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2012/04/shirin-ebadi-on-iran-and-sanctions/</link>
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		<title>Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 25, 2011, the world received the sad news that Wangari Maathai had passed away, &#8220;after a prolonged and bravely borne struggle with cancer&#8221;. We join her family, her countrymen, and the millions she inspired in mourning her loss. Her spirit will live on in all of us. The movement she inspired: The Greenbelt<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2011/09/wangari-maathai-1940-2011/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2011/09/wangari-maathai-1940-2011/</link>
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		<title>Journey home for Nelson Mandela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former president Nelson Mandela, accompanied by his wife Graca Machel, traveled home to Qunu in the Eastern Cape in an unscheduled visit with his extensive medical team. Sources close to the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon said he had told his family: “I want to go home.” Staff at Mthatha Airport in the Transkei—usually warned days in<br/><br/><span class="more"><a href="http://thecommunity.com/2011/06/journey-home-for-nelson-mandela/">Read More</a></span>]]></description>
		<link>http://thecommunity.com/2011/06/journey-home-for-nelson-mandela/</link>
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