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Human rights day.


People commemorated December 10, International Human Rights Day, in various ways. In Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , demonstrators dressed as prisoners at Guantanamo to protest U.S. government-sanctioned torture. In New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Muslim religious leaders joined with Rabbis for Human Rights Rabbis for Human Rights describes itself as "the rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel, giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights".[1] Their membership includes Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and students.  to launch Imams for Human Rights and Dialogue, a new organization.

For more information go to www.worldcantwait.org. To contact Rabbis for Human Rights, go to www.rhr-na.org.
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Title Annotation:On the Line
Publication:The Progressive
Date:Feb 1, 2007
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