Telegraph UK: Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'

Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for "crimes against humanity".

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys.  more...

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Saubere Kleidung Pressemeldung: Lidl betreibt Schönfärberei – Klage gegen die Täuschung von Verbraucher/innen

Die Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg hat eine Klage beim Landgericht Heilbronn gegen Lidl wegen unlauteren Wettbewerbs eingereicht. Sie wird dabei von der Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung (CCC) und dem European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) unterstützt. Das Bündnis fordert Lidl auf, Verbraucher nicht mit „Social Washing“ über die unmenschlichen Arbeitsbedingungen bei ihren Zulieferern zu täuschen. Eine von der Kampagne für Saubere
Kleidung und ECCHR in Auftrag gegebene Untersuchung belegt schwerwiegende Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen bei vier Lidl
Zulieferbetrieben in Bangladesch. mehr auf pdf-datei...

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WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff

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WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com




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Toll Mounts From Quake in Mexico-U.S. Border Region - Erdbeben Mexico und US-Grenze

NYTIMES:
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: April 5, 2010

LOS ANGELES — A powerful earthquake southeast of Tijuana shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in northern Mexico and border cities in California and Arizona and rattling a seismically sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute. more....

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