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...immigration, but not on inheritance and adoption. Civil Marriage In April 2001, the Netherlands became the first to offer full civil marriage rights to gay couples. It imposed a three-year moratorium on adoptions, but recently dropped it, along with a ban on foreign adoptions, according to gay-rights activist Henk Krol. In January 2003, Belgium adopted a similar model, but without the adoption rights...
Kennedy School of Government graduate and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli has refused to appeal a five-year Chinese prison sentence for espionage, citing illegal misconduct by China’s judicial system...
Berg wasn't released until April 6, a day after his parents filed a federal lawsuit against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claiming that their son had been transferred to U.S. military custody and was being detained without probable cause. Berg's father Michael, a staunch antiwar activist, now blames the Administration for his son's death while the U.S. military continues to deny it ever had custody of Berg. After he was released, the U.S. consulate offered to arrange for him to fly out of Baghdad, but he refused. Instead, he told friends and family that he planned to drive...
...Goddard Space Flight Center was leaked to the New York Times; it stated, "No one from NASA is to do interviews or otherwise comment on anything having to do with" the movie. (The gag order has since been rescinded.) At a press conference organized last week by the activist group MoveOn.org Gore poked holes in the movie's science but urged people to see it anyway. "The Bush Administration is in some ways even more fictional than the movie in trying to convince people that there is no real problem, no degree of certainty from scientists about the issue." MoveOn.org...
...Mahogany is a red wood; it's red like blood, it's red like shame." PAULO ADARIO, activist for the environmental organization Greenpeace, which the U.S. government is prosecuting for boarding a ship carrying endangered trees that were illegally felled. It is highly unusual for the U.S. government to press criminal charges against an advocacy group for civil disobedience...