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...prospect of an enlarged cabinet angered many Kenyan civil society groups, who argued that the tens of millions of dollars it would cost would be better spent on helping the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the violence. But adding new ministries is not a move to make government more efficient; it's a mechanism aimed at satisfying the demands of the competing ethnic-political factions. Yet Odinga himself is pleading for calm, and neither side has given up hope. Upon hearing about the protests, Odinga told the Associated Press that the demonstrators should "hold their horses." He said...
After flying into Memphis and visiting the Civil Rights Museum, the group stationed itself in Jackson, Mississippi. There, students spent their mornings listening to speakers and their afternoons volunteering with the after-school program at Stewpot Community Services...
Both Majumdar and Seegars noted that civil rights in the area still have a long way to go, citing the continued inequality and poverty within the region...
Despite the continued poverty and effectual segregation, Marshall L. Ganz ’64-’92, an alumnus who dropped out of Harvard to participate in the civil rights movement as part of the Mississippi Summer Project, said the state has come a long...
...conditions in China took root only following the brutal suppression of unrest in Tibet last month. Images of that violence prepared the ground for groups like Reporters Without Frontiers, which have called on the French government to use the Beijing Games as a lever to pressure China to increase civil liberties and press freedom. It was in the wake of that spreading disquiet in France that President Nicolas Sarkozy became the first Western leader to suggest he might consider a boycott of the opening ceremonies to protest China's stance on human rights and Tibet...