May'08
17
Action to Ban Cluster Bombs
Cluster bombs scatter hundreds of small-but-lethal bomblets over a wide area, many of which don’t explode on impact and so remain deadly to the civilian population, even years after the war has finished. Children can pick up unexploded bomblets thinking that they are toys and then are severely injured or even killed as a result.
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May'08
08
The price of a coffee? 150 lashes.
Dr Muhammad ‘Ali Abu Raziza, professor at a Saudi university had a call from a woman he thought was one of his psychology students, asking to meet him in a coffee shop in Mecca. As Saudi law prohibits a man from being alone in the company of a woman who is not a relative, he […]