A Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist
NEW YORK -- Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in ...
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Sri Lanka’s Dockyard plans Rs12.9bn rights issue on Mazagon take-over todayheadline
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard said it will offer 323 million shares at 40 rupees to existing shareholders, and ...
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Daughter of assassinated civil rights leader sees painful echoes of political violence in America
Jackson, Miss. — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still ...
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Daughter of slain civil rights leader sees echoes of US political violence
Jackson, Miss. -- More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still ...
Read moreDetailsUN rights chief insists on international mechanism for past rights abuses todayheadline
ECONOMYNEXT – Despite Sri Lanka government’s assertion of local mechanism to address the past human rights abuses, the visiting United ...
Read moreDetailsUN rights chief calls for probe into Sri Lanka mass graves todayheadline
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka extended sovereign bond maturities through restructure, sharply reducing the near-term roll-over or repayments as part of ...
Read moreDetailsUN High Commissioner for Human Rights meets Sri Lanka officials todayheadline
ECONOMYNEXT – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has met Sri Lanka’s prime minister and foreign minister. ...
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Photos: Human Rights Unity Ride supports immigrants amid L.A. area ICE raids
After the weeks-long Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and protests, a peaceful show of unity was led by people on ...
Read moreDetailsLankem Ceylon to raise Rs1.2bn from rights issue todayheadline
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Lankem Ceylon plans a one for three rights issue of 17.15 million ordinary shares at 70 ...
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S.F.’s Pink Triangle, symbol of LGBTQ+ rights, is vandalized
San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that ...
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