Anita was a true activist
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Comment is free: Simon Fanshawe: Forget pop concerts and nimbyism. Today, we celebrate Roddick's legacy of lasting change.
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Arben Bitri, brother of Albanian singer Anita Bitri, who died Tuesday in her home in the Staten Island borough of New York, is consoled by Aurela Gaqe, left, during a memorial service in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004.
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TEHRAN -- Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said yesterday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and 10 lashes.
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Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was praised by the awarding committee as &quot;a source
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Wangari Maathai started an movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and also has campaigned for women's rights.
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An Indian identity that means more than being gay or lesbian.
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Rescued from political free-fall, Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has finally found her voice.
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She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a death match made in heaven -- but they found common ground. By Hilary Rosen and Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai - this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize winner - has been called many things during her decades of activism.
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Former Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu does not mince his words. Known as a straight talker, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a thorn in the flesh of successive apartheid regimes in South Africa until the demise of white rule in 1994.
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Comment is free: Isabel Hilton: Increasing numbers are speaking up against local tyrannies and corruption, and no longer can the state silence them.
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LOS ANGELES  - Anita O'Day, the last of the great jazz singers spawned by the swing era, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. She was 87.
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Even if activists don't fully embrace Sen. Clinton, polls show her gaining among liberals and women.
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Environmental activist and deputy minister of Kenya, Wangri Maathai, won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first African lady to obtain this rare honour.
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Known as JoÃªnia Batista de Carvalho, Brazil's first Indian woman to become a lawyer has emerged as one of the most effective advocates of the indigenous cause.
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Bonnie Bleskachek knows what discrimination feels like.