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Actor George Clooney, center, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va, back, and Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, right, are arrested during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2012. The demonstrators are protesting the escalating humanitarian emergency in Sudan that threatens the lives of 500,000 people. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

George Clooney arrested protesting at the Sudan Embassy

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 12:12pm

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Woman who fought to integrate lunch counters dies at 72

Elinor J. Brecher McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 12:31am

MIAMI — Patricia Stephens Due, a lifelong Florida civil rights crusader who led 1960s-era demonstrations and voter-registration drives, went to jail for trying to integrate a lunch counter, and suffered permanent eye damage from a police assault, died Tuesday. She was 72.

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(ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS/The Associated Press) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during her speech on human rights issues in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011. Making an unusually strong statement in defense of gay rights, Clinton says they are equal to women’s rights and racial equality and should be universal human rights. She criticized nations that criminalize gay behavior or tolerate abuse of gay, bisexual or transgendered people, though she did not identify those nations by name.

Obama, Clinton to world: Stop gay discrimination

Anne Gearan, Lisa Leff The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 8:30am

SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration’s declaration that it plans to use foreign assistance, international diplomacy and political asylum to promote gay rights abroad is a momentous step that could dangerously backfire if not pursued with delicacy and an appreciation of how the challenges faced by gays and lesbians vary by nation, human rights activists said.

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A man walks next to traces of the battles in Tripoli Street, the center of fighting between forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and rebels in downtown Misrata, Libya. Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, "disappearances" and other war crimes that they said they found. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Libyan rebels accuse pro-Gadhafi forces of holding ‘human shields’

Roy Gutman McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 7:34pm

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan rebels have broken off their assault on a key city south of Tripoli after discovering that forces loyal to ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi there had placed Russian-made Grad rockets and mortars on the roofs of houses filled with civilians, the rebels’ military spokesman said Sunday.

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Human Rights Campaign tour to start in SLC; most states likely to spurn gay-marriage bandwagon

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 25, 2011 - 11:22pm

As hundreds of jubilant gay couples became newlyweds in New York over the weekend, their well-wishers included many far-flung gays wistfully aware that their own states may never willingly allow same-sex marriage.

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NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner
Samantha Highsmith poses for a portrait in front of Ogden High School.

Ogden film student answers the question 'What does freedom mean to me?' with "Even Handed"

Brad Gillman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, May 15, 2011 - 5:05am

"Why do you care?"

The question was asked of Ogden High School senior Samantha Highsmith at school one day. She had a sticker on her notebook for the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that fights for gay and transgender rights.

A classmate asked Highsmith what the sticker was, and she told him about the campaign.

"His reaction really caught me off-guard," Highsmith said. "Basically, he asked me why I care if I am not gay. Why do I care personally?

"I thought, well, that's a good question. I just couldn't verbalize why.

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