Posts Tagged Human rights and civil liberties

AP source: FIFA task force seeks 5-game racism ban

In this May 12, 2013, file photo AC Milan players Mario Balotelli, left, Kevin Prince Boateng (10) stand on the pitch during a stoppage in play in a Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and AS Roma, at Milan's San Siro Stadium.  The game was stopped for almost two minutes because of racial abuse by Roma fans towards Balotelli and Boateng.  (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

LONDON (AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation says FIFA’s new anti-racism task force will ask soccer’s governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found guilty of racist abuse.

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College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds

SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) — In a story May 22, The Associated Press reported 72 percent of Harvard University’s student body voted in favor of the school’s endowment divesting from fossil fuel companies. The story should have made clear that the vote was held only among undergraduates and that of the ballots cast, 72 percent were in favor of divestment.

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys as Scouts, but controversy likely to persist

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Text of President Obama speech on terrorism

Text of President Barack Obama’s speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House:

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Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  A challenge to the federal health care law faces its most prominent test yet in a full 10th Circuit hearing in Denver on Thursday. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morining-after birth control pill.  The Oklahoma based arts and crafts chain says the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

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