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Human rights in Tunisia

While the immediate months after the revolution were characterized by significant improvements in the status of human rights, some of those advances have since been reversed. The situation remains in a state of flux, with different observers providing virtually irreconcilable accounts of the current status of human rights in that country.

LGBT rights 

One group that has not benefited noticeably from the Tunisian revolution is LGBT people. "While the fall of Ben Ali has afforded a greater space to free expression, not all Tunisian homosexuals are convinced things are headed in the right direction," reported the Tunisia Live website in January 2012. "Homosexuals in Tunisia celebrated the ouster of dictator Ben Ali, hoping it would improve their situation," noted Deutsche Welle in November 2012, "But in nearly two years, little has changed for the country's gay and lesbian community." Under Article 230 of the penal code, anal intercourse can still be punished by up to three years in prison. In June 2012, Tunisia's Minister for Human Rights vehemently rejected a call by the United Nations Human Rights Committee to decriminalize same-sex acts, dismissing sexual orientation as a Western concept and insisting on its incompatibility with Islam. A large amount of anecdotal evidence suggests that harassment and assaults by police officers and others on LGBT persons continue to be widespread.

There is still no official LGBT rights organizations in Tunisia, although an online magazine for gays was established in March 2011.

References

Tunisia
Tunisia
Flag of East Turkestan

The flag of East Turkestan (), also known as the Kökbayraq ("sky flag"), was the national flag of the First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934). The East Turkestan Flag has a white crescent (young waning moon) with a five pointed star on blue background, it was adopted on 12 November 1933 as the national flag of East Turkestan during Declaration of the Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan. With the exception of the blue background, the flag is identical to the Flag of Turkey.

Usage
In modern times it is popularly used as a symbol of the East Turkestan independence movement and used by the East Turkistan Government in Exile as the national flag of East Turkestan. It is actively used by Uyghur / East Turkistani activists in protests against China's genocide of Uyghurs and the re-education camp system in Xinjiang.

The light blue colour (background) is taken from the colour of the sky and is a predominant colour in Turkic culture that represents the sky, essentially the blue represents Turkic peoples. The crescent represents the notion of being victorious (un-defeatable) and is not necessarily an Islamic symbol, in-fact it was the Turks that introduced the crescent into the Islamic world. The star represents the Turkic nation, it is also found on the flag of the White Hun (Hephthalite) Empire and various other Turkic empires and states.

Related pages 
 East Turkestan independence movement
 Flag of Pakistan
 Flag of Afghanistan
 Flag of Turkey

References 

East Turkestan
East Turkestan independence movement
East
Turkestan
Ross Darcy

Ross Darcy (born 21 March 1978 in the Republic of Ireland) is an Irish retired footballer.

References

Other websites 

 Ross Darcy at Soccer Base

Irish footballers
Living people
Association football defenders
1978 births
The Buccaneers (TV series)

The Buccaneers is a British adventure drama television series. It aired on ITV in the United Kingdom, CBS in the United States. There were 39 episodes that ran from 19 September, 1956 to 12 June, 1957. It starred Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Brain Rawlinson, Paul Hansard, Edwin Richfield, Neil Hallett, Willoughby Gray, Alec Mango.

Other websites
 Screen Online
 CTA information
 

ITV shows
CBS network shows
1950s television series
1956 television series debuts
1957 television series endings
English-language television programs
Bruce Dinsmore

Bruce Dinsmore (born November 22, 1965) is a Canadian actor. He voices David Read, Binky Barnes and Bailey the Butlers in the long-running PBS Emmy Award-winning series Arthur, and has contributed mocap/voice performances in numerous video games, notably as Paul Revere in Assassin's Creed III, Maximilien de Robespierre in Assassin's Creed: Unity and Bill Taggart in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He currently appears on air in Greypower commercials and has voiced thousands of radio sports.

Other websites

1965 births
Living people
Actors from Vancouver
Canadian actors
Canadian voice actors
Aha bhojanambu

Aha Bhojanambu is an Indian Telugu-language web television talk show hosted by Lakshmi Manchu.The show premiered on 23 July 2021 on the streaming platform aha.

Indian television series
Dragnet (1951 TV series)

Dragnet is an American police drama television series based on radio series of the same name. It aired on NBC for 8 seasons and 276 episodes. It ran between 16 December, 1951 and 23 August, 1959. It starred Jack Webb portraying the Sgt Joe Friday and Ben Alexander co-starred as Joe Friday's co-worker.

Other websites
 

1951 television series debuts
1959 television series endings
American crime drama series
1950s television series
NBC network shows
English-language television programs
The Roy Rogers Show

The Roy Rogers Show is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 30 December, 1951 to 9 June, 1957. It run for 6 seasons and 100 episodes. It stars Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady.

Other websites

The Roy Rogers Show at the Iverson Movie Ranch

Western television series
NBC network shows
1950s television series
1951 television series debuts
1957 television series endings
English-language television programs
My Sister Eileen (TV series)

My Sister Eileen is an American sitcom that aired CBS from 5 October, 1960 to 12 April, 1961 for one season and 26 episodes. It stars Elaine Stritch, Shirley Bonne, Jack Weston, Rose Marie, Raymond Bailey, Stubby Kaye, Agnes Moorehead and was based on the autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney.

Other websites
 

1960 television series debuts
1961 television series endings
1960s American comedy television series
CBS network shows
English-language television programs
Richmond, New Hampshire

Richmond is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, 1,197 people lived there.

Other websites
 
 The Richmond Rooster

Towns in New Hampshire
Itziar Ituño

Itziar Ituño Martínez (born June 18, 1974) is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her role as Inspector Raquel Murillo in the Spanish television series Money Heist (La casa de papel).

Early life 
Ituño was born in Basauri, on June 18, 1974. She  graduated in urban-industrial and political sociology from the University of the Basque Country and studied acting at the Basauri Theater School.

Career 
Ituño's first appearance was in the Basque film Agur Olentzero, agur (Goodbye Olentzero, Goodbye). It was was released in 1997.

She got a role in the soap opera Goenkale in 2001. She played Nekane Beitia, a bisexual policewoman from the fictional village of Arralde in this television series. She played the role until 2015, when the show was canceled. This role increased her visibility in the Basque Country.

She was starring in the films Loreak (Spanish submission for the Academy Awards) and Igelak, released in 2015 and 2016 respectively. 

She starred in the television series La casa de papel (broadcast on Antena 3 and then acquired by Netflix) in the role of Raquel Murillo, a police inspector in 2017.

She is also a singer in three bands: Dangiliske, EZ3, and INGOT.

She was a presenter of the Basque Film Gala and the EITB Gala for the 65th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival on 26 September 2017.

It was announced in May 2020 that Ituño will make her English language debut in the British animated short film Salvation Has No Name, due for release in 2020.

References

Living people
1974 births
Spanish movie actors
Spanish television actors
Holderness, New Hampshire

Holderness is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, 2,108 people lived there.

Other websites
 Town of Holderness official website
 Holderness Free Library 
 Holderness Historical Society

Towns in New Hampshire
1761 establishments in North America
Pedro Alonso

Pedro Ochoro González Alonso Lopez (born 21 June 1971), is a Spanish actor, writer and artist. He is best known for his role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the Spanish heist series Money Heist (La casa de papel) and for the role of Diego Murquía in the historical drama series Gran Hotel. He is also a writer and uses the pen name Pedro Alonso.

Alonso is ambidextrous and speaks Spanish, Galician, Catalan and English. He is also a writer and artist, publishing his work under the name Pedro Alonso O'choro.

Career 
He became famous at a local level in Galicia for his performances on television in Rías Baixas (2003–2005), Maridos e mulleres (2006–2008), Padre Casares (2008–2015) and Gondar (2009), and nationally for playing characters such as Diego Murquía/Adrián Vera Celande in historical drama Gran Hotel. Alonso played the role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the crime drama series Money Heist (La casa de papel).

In 2018, he was chosen as "International Star of the Year" by GQ Turkey magazine. He co-starred in Diablo Guardián, Amazon Prime Video’s first drama series in Latin America. It was released in May, 2018. In 2019, Alonso played the leading role in the mystery thriller The Silence of the Marsh.

Personal life 
Alonso has a daughter, Uriel (b. 1998) from his first relationship. He is in a relationship with Parisian hypnotherapist and artist Tatiana Djordjevic.

References

Living people
1971 births
Spanish movie actors
Spanish television actors
Spanish writers
Spanish artists
Farmington, New Hampshire

Farmington is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, 6,786 people lived there.

Other websites
 
 Farmington Historical Society
  Museum of Farmington History
 Puddledock Press of Farmington New Hampshire

Towns in New Hampshire
1798 establishments in North America
North Hampton, New Hampshire

North Hampton is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, 4,301 people lived there.

Other websites
 Town of North Hampton official website
 North Hampton Public Library

Towns in New Hampshire
1639 establishments in North America
As You Desire Me (movie)

As You Desire Me is a 1932 American drama movie directed by George Fitzmaurice and was based on the 1929 play by Luigi Pirandello. It stars Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore, Hedda Hopper, Rafaela Ottiano, Albert Conti and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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1932 movies
1930s drama movies
American drama movies
Movies based on plays
MGM movies
Movies directed by George Fitzmaurice
Movies about alcoholism‏‎
The Right Stuff (album)

The Right Stuff is the debut studio album by American singer and actress Vanessa Williams, released on June 6, 1988, by Wing Records. It includes the singles "The Right Stuff", "(He's Got) The Look", "Dreamin'" and "Darlin' I". The album and its singles managed to cross over from an urban market to also a pop market. It was eventually certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales in excess of 500,000 and earned Williams three Grammy Award nominations.

Track listings

Production
Produced by Amir-Salaam Bayyan, David Paul Bryant, Lewis A. Martineé, Donald Robinson, Larry Robinson, Darryl Ross, Rex Salas
Additional [background] vocals: Chuckii Booker, Johnny Gill (track 1), Niki Haris (tracks 2, 7, 10), Rachelle Ferrell (track 3), Kipper Jones (tracks 1, 2, 8) 
Engineers: Mike Bona, David Bianco, Gerry Brown, Craig Burbridge, Peter Dlugokencky, Michael Frenke, Lewis A. Martinee, Allen Scott Plotkin, Paul Scott, Steve Shepherd, Mike Tarsia, Steve Van Arden, Erik Zobler, Jared Held
Assistant engineers: Sabrina Burchanek, Cliff Jones, Bob Loftus, Gill Morales, Adam Silverman, Dennis Stefani, John VanNest
Mixing: Rick Alonso, David Bianco, Lewis A. Martinee, Donald Robinson, Mike Tarsia, Erik Zobler, Jared Held
Remixing: Rod Hui
Mix assistant: Steve Holroyd
Editing and post-production: Ed Eckstine, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Christopher Shaw, Hank Shocklee, Bill Stephney

Charts

References 

1988 albums
Debut albums
Soul albums
New jack swing albums
R&B albums
Human rights in the Maldives

Human rights in the Maldives, an archipelagic nation of 417,000 people off the coast of the Indian Subcontinent, is a contentious issue. In its 2011 Freedom in the World report, Freedom House declared the Maldives "Partly Free", claiming a reform process which had made headway in 2009 and 2010 had stalled.

Minority and women's rights

Parliament contains five female members, and women have a 98% literacy rate.

In 2011 four police officers were discharged from the force, but not formally charged, for driving a woman around Malé, forcing her to strip her clothes, sexually and physically abusing her, and throwing her on the street.

As the state partially practices Sharia law in some matters, Homosexuality not legal. The punishment for men is nine months to one year imprisonment, or 10 to 30 lashes. The punishment for women is nine months to one year of house arrest.

References

Maldives
Maldives
The List of Adrian Messenger

The List of Adrian Messenger is a 1963 American mystery movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1959 novel by Philip MacDonald. It stars George C. Scott, Tony Curtis, John Merivale, Tony Huston, Herbert Marshall, Clive Brook, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas, Gladys Cooper, Ronald Long, Bernard Arnold and was distributed by Universal Pictures.

Other websites

1963 movies
1960s mystery movies
American mystery movies
American serial killer movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by John Huston
Human rights in Kyrgyzstan

Human rights in Kyrgyzstan improved after the ouster of President Askar Akayev in the 2005 Tulip Revolution and the installment of a more democratic government under Roza Otunbayeva. While the country is performing well compared to other states in Central Asia, many human rights violations still take place. Especially LGBT rights have been getting worse in recent years, freedom of press on the contrary has been improving.

LGBT rights 

Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Kyrgyzstan, but same-sex marriage is not recognised and even explicitly banned in the constitution since 2016. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people continue to face ill-treatment, extortion, and discrimination by state and non-state actors.

Domestic violence against LGBT minors is a major issue and victims have limited access to government support. LGBT people are often unable to seek protection because of violence and other abuses by law enforcement agencies. Ill-treatment against LGBT people by law enforcement authorities is a systemic phenomenon in Kyrgyzstan according to Kyrgyz Indigo, a local LGBT advocacy group.

Various nationalist groups threatened LGBT interest groups during demonstrations in 2019, several parliament members responded by expressing their aversion to same sex couples, where one member said LGBT people should be “not just cursed, but beaten.” 

Transgender people are allowed to change legal gender in Kyrgyzstan, but require undergoing sex reassignment surgery. The first such surgery was performed in Bishkek in January 2014.

References 

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Human rights in Kazakhstan

Human rights in Kazakhstan are uniformly described as poor by independent observers. Human Rights Watch says that "Kazakhstan heavily restricts freedom of assembly, speech, and religion.

LGBT rights 

According to a 2018 survey, conducted by the Republican Centre for AIDS Prevention and Control and the Kazakh Ministry of Health, there were about 620,000 men who have sex with men in Kazakhstan; about 6,000 in Almaty, 3,300 in Nur-Sultan, and 4,900 in Karaganda Region. This number, however, is expected to be much higher, due to societal homophobia which may prevent individuals from coming out.

References

Kazakhstan
Politics of Kazakhstan
Human rights in Tajikistan

Human rights in Tajikistan, a country in Central Asia, have become an issue of international concern. The access to basic human rights remains limited, with corruption in the government and the systematic abuse of the human rights of its citizens slowing down the progress of democratic and social reform in the country.

LGBT rights 

LGBT people tend to face frequent discrimination, harassment and violence from the authorities and the Muslim-majority public.

Transgender people "face a lot of stigma and discrimination" in Tajikistan.

References

Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Sarcohyla toyota

Toyota's tree frog (Sarcohyla toyota) is a frog that lives in Mexico.  Scientists have seen it in cloud forests in the Sierra Madre mountains between 1975 and 2185 meters above sea level.

Scientists say this frog is related to Sarchohyla thorectes.

References

Frogs
Animals of North America
Human rights in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan's human rights record has been heavily criticized by various countries and scholars worldwide.

LGBT rights 

Homosexuality is institutionally perceived as a form of mental disorder.

Male homosexuality is explicitly illegal and sodomy — defined as sexual intercourse between men — is punishable for a maximum term of five years under the Turkmen Legal code (Chapter 18; Section 35); prior to the 2019 amendment, the limit was two years under the 1997 code. No penal provisions exist for female homosexuality, who along with transsexuals are an invisible category in Turkmen law.

References

Turkmenistan
Politics of Turkmenistan
Human rights in Uzbekistan

Human rights in Uzbekistan have been described as "abysmal" by Human Rights Watch, and the country has received heavy criticism from the UK and the US for alleged arbitrary arrests, religious persecution and torture employed by the government on a regional and national level.

LGBT rights 

Uzbekistan is one of just two post-Soviet states in which male homosexual activity remains criminalised, along with Turkmenistan.

References

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Human rights in Mauritania

With a July 2012 estimated population of 3.4 million, Mauritania is a highly centralized Islamic republic with no legal provisions for freedom of religion.

LGBT rights of sexual orientation and gender identity 

Under Shari'a, as applied in Mauritania, consensual same-sex sexual activity between men is punishable by death if witnessed by four individuals, and such activity between women is punishable by three months to two years in prison and a 5,000 to 60,000 ouguiya (US$17 to $207) fine. There were no criminal prosecutions during the year. There was no evidence of societal violence, societal discrimination, or systematic government discrimination based on sexual orientation. There were no organizations advocating for sexual orientation or gender-identity rights, but there were no legal impediments to the operation of such groups.

References

Mauritania
Mauritania
Tercera División

The Tercera División was the fourth division of football in Spain. It was originally founded in 1929, as the 3rd division of Spanish football (below La Liga and the Segunda División)

Other websites
Official RFEF
Group for Spanish Football Statistics Compilation (in Spanish)

Football in Spain
1929 establishments
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remastered is a remaster of the 2009 game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It released on March 31st, 2020 on PlayStation 4, and April 30th, 2020 on Xbox One and PC. The game was given a 71 by Metacritic.

PlayStation 4 games
Xbox One games
Call of Duty series
Marvi Sirmed

Marvi Sirmed is a Pakistani political commentator, journalist, and human rights activist. She is a social democrat.

References 

Pakistani people
Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst.

Biography 
Mary Meeker was born September 1959, in Portland, Indiana.

Meeker Learned at a DePauw University in and at a Cornell University. She has a B.A. in psychology and an MBA in finance. She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 2000.

She worked in Merrill Lynch as a stockbroker. She was a partner at Kleiner Perkins.

She is the founder and partner at BOND, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm.

In 2014, she was listed as the 77th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Meeker's Internet Trends Report became one of the most highly expected annual reports for tech investors.

Meeker was one of the informants in the Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit.

References

Other websites 
 Mary Meeker on Linkedin

1959 births
Living people
Cornell University alumni
People from Indiana
Stockbrokers
Human rights in Tatarstan

The member organisations of the House work on a range of issues including prison conditions; police abuse; access to medical treatment; violence in the army; domestic violence and the conditions for children in institutional care. The House members have a thematic focus on the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. With member organisations that have worked together since 2009, Human Rights House Kazan was already a well-established human rights centre in Czarist Russia when it joined the network of Human Rights Houses in 2019.

Tatar history 
Perestroika helped in the rebirth of Tatar nationalism, which had first flourished during the October Revolution. From the late 1980s, Tatarstan was at the forefront of the movement for regional autonomy. Tatarstan declared sovereignty on 30 August 1990. A Referendum held on 21 March 1992 on the transformation of Tatarstan into an independent republic won wide support. The Tatarstan authorities refused to sign the Federation Treaty (March 1992). Particular efforts have been made to build links with the Tatar diaspora. The Constitution of 1992 allowed for dual citizenship and for two state languages. In 1992-3 a number of organizations, including the Tatar Public Opinion Centre, demanded outright independence for the republic. The main nationalist drive was not, however, for full independence but rather for associative membership of the Russian Federation. The wide dispersal of Tatars – in 1989 only 32 per cent of Russia’s 5.5 million Tatars lived in Tatarstan – prevented Kazan’s campaign for power from turning into a struggle for ethno-national liberation. The Tatarstan authorities signed a historic power-sharing agreement with Moscow on 15 February 1994 that granted the republic important rights of self-government, the right to retain a substantial share of federal taxes collected in Tatarstan and for republican legislation to supersede federal law in some cases. The treaty nonetheless fell short of recognizing Tatarstan as an independent entity in international law.

Following the Soviet collapse Tatars have consolidated their demographic position within the Republic of Tatarstan, forming an absolute majority for the first time in the 2002 census. Ethnic Tatars have generally been over-represented in Tatarstan’s political institutions in the post-Soviet period. Contact with the Tatar diaspora abroad also increased.

LGBT rights 

Russian imperialists is notorious for its laws against "gay propaganda," which have resulted in a spate of show trials against LGBT activists. The researcher at Human Rights Watch, said that Tatar authorities have made derogatory and aggressive statements against LGBT groups. The LGBT community in Tatarstan, however, keeps a low profile and has always opposed the continued unjust annexation of their country, since the late 1980's.

Tatarstan
Tatarstan
The Story of Chinese Gods

The Story of Chinese Gods or Dragon Suikoden in Japanese title, Tarzerix is a 1976 Taiwanese-Japanese-American animated action-comedy fantasy martial arts film directed by Chang Chih Hui, the recurring character resemblance was Bruce Lee called, Er-Lang Shen.

Synopsis
Er-Lang Shen who helps a group of good gods to defeat some bad evil demons.

Cast
 Edward Mannix - Er-Lang Shen
 Jessica Harper - Prince Nehza, Princess, Queen Fox
 Barry Haigh - King, Additional voices	
 Ted Thomas - Chung-Xi Ah

References 

1976 comedy movies
1970s animated movies
1970s fantasy movies  
Martial arts movies
Taiwanese movies
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American action comedy movies
American animated movies
Majid Kharatha

Majid Kharatha (born October 28, 1985 in Tehran) is an Iranian singer, composer, and pop musician.

References 

Living people
1985 births
Iranian singers
Iranian musicians
Kensington, New Hampshire

Kensington is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, 2,124 people lived there.

Other websites
 Town of Kensington official website

Towns in New Hampshire
1737 establishments in North America
Islam in Tatarstan

Islam in Tatarstan existed prior to the tenth century, but it began major growth in 922, when Bulgar ruler Almış converted to Islam.  This was followed by an increase in missionary activity in Volga Bulgaria. Islam remained the dominant religion through the Mongol invasion and subsequent Khanate of Kazan. 

Today, Islam is a major faith in Tatarstan, adhered to by to 53 percent of the estimated 3.8 million population, making it the largest religion.

References

Tatarstan
 
Tatarstan
Ghurid dynasty

The Ghurids, or Ghorids (; self-designation: , Shansabānī), were a dynasty of Iranian origin from the Ghor region of present-day central Afghanistan, but the exact ethnic origin is uncertain. The dynasty converted to Sunni Islam from Buddhism after the conquest of Ghor by the Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud of Ghazni in 1011. The dynasty overthrew the Ghaznavid Empire in 1186 when Sultan Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad of Ghor conquered the last Ghaznavid capital of Lahore.

References 

History of Afghanistan
History of Pakistan
Swedish alphabet

The swedish alphabet consists of nearly the same letters as the English alphabet except for the three extra letters in the end being Å å, Ä ä, Ö ö.

These letters can be found on words such as:

Ål (meaning eel)
Äpplen (meaning apples)
Öppna (meaning open)

Alphabets
The Adventures of Timmy The Tooth

The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth is a direct-to-video musical puppet series made in the early 1990s produced by Bomp Productions and MCA/Universal Home Video.

References

Other websites
IMDB

1990s television series
Children's television series
Ecorse, Michigan

Ecorse is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.

Cities in Michigan
Joanna Bruzdowicz

Joanna Bruzdowicz (17 May 1943 – 3 November 2021) was a Polish composer. She composed the movie scores of  Sans Toit Ni Loi and Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse. She also composed the score for the television series Stahlkammer Zürich.

Bruzdowicz died on 3 November 2021, aged 78.

References

Other websites
Interview with Joanna Bruzdowicz, 7 May 1991
 Joanna Bruzdowicz's biography on Cdmc website
 
 

1943 births
2021 deaths
Polish composers
Writers from Warsaw
Human rights in the Caucasus Emirate

Human Rights Watch has been documenting human rights abuses in Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus region for close to two decades. In recent years, our work in the region has been largely focused on the situations in Chechnya and Dagestan.

In conclusion, please allow me to suggest a few steps that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe could carry out with regard to the deeply problematic human rights situation in the North Caucasus region.

The Parliamentary Assembly should put the human rights crisis in Dagestan and Chechnya on its agenda with a view to adopting a resolution that:

 Acknowledges the deteriorating situation
 Reiterates the recommendations it made to the Russian Federation in Resolution 1738 (2010).
 Calls on Russia to ensure that human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists can carry out their work unhindered in the North Caucasus, and to bring to justice those responsible for attacks on and killings of human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists in the North Caucasus who were targeted in retaliation for their work.
 Calls on Russia to ensure that the laws and constitution of the Russian Federation are fully upheld in the North Caucasus, particularly in Chechnya, and particularly in relation to the rights of women and girls
 Encourages the Human Rights Commissioner to keep the situation of the North Caucasus high among his priorities.
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights should continue its important work monitoring closely developments in the North Caucasus and should continue to request access; the situation in the North Caucasus should remain a priority for the Monitoring Committee’s assessment of Russia.

Discover Civil Rights Defenders regional work in North Caucasus and the developments in the region. Supporting human rights defenders as well as defending people’s civil and political rights.

LGBT rights 

The following report presents the findings of a qualitative study conducted by activists of the Queer Women of North Caucasus Support Group Initiative. The findings describe survival strategies for homosexual, bisexual women and transgender persons in a sexually repressive culture. The study required the observance of safety rules and confidentiality for both respondents and some of the. This study can be applied to the work of psychologists, social workers, and lawyers providing assistance and support to non-heterosexual women from the Republics of the North Caucasus. Moreover, the study is an attempt to document the current situation regarding the rights and the status of homosexual, bisexual women and transgender persons.

Caucasus Emirate
Caucasus
Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy or biological therapy is the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. Immunotherapies designed to increase the immune response to certain diseases. This can be an alternate treatment for cancer because chemotherapy can have negative effects on the body.

References

Cancer treatment
Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Gurabo () is a town and municipality in eastern Puerto Rico.

References

Cities in Puerto Rico
Municipalities of Puerto Rico
Jean Pierson

Jean Pierson (17 November 1940 – 3 November 2021) was a Tunisian-born French engineer. He was known for working in the Concorde program and the creation of Airbus.

Biography
Pierson was born on 17 November 1940 in Bizerte in the French protectorate of Tunisia. He studied at the Prytanée national militaire and the military academy in La Flèche, France, and graduated from the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in 1963. His started his career in 1963 at Sud Aviation, the predecessor of Airbus Industrie, where he worked as a production engineer. He joined French aerospace manufacturer Aérospatiale in 1972, going on to head their commercial aircraft business. From 1972 to 1976, Pierson served as director of SOCATA, the light aircraft division of Aérospatiale, and then as director of the Toulouse office of Aérospatiale from 1976 to 1983.

Pierson succeeded Bernard Lathière as managing director of Airbus in March 1985. Lathière had lost his job due to a conflict between the German and French shareholders of the company. At the time, Airbus was not a significant competitor to the then market leader, Boeing, which held a more than seventy percent market share in the commercial jetliner market. Airbus was often dismissed by market leader Boeing as a "minor nuisance" whose primary charter was to drive European jobs. Pierson's actions as leader included broadening the company's range of commercial jets and establishing a brand that could compete on quality. In a move to break into the U.S. commercial aviation market, Pierson recruited native-English talent and had a former US Transportation Secretary, Alan S. Boyd, take position as the North American leader. He also set up a pilot training centre in Florida as a finishing school for pilots of Airbus jets. In one of Airbus's first big wins, Northwest Airlines, which would later merge with Delta Air Lines, ordered 100 Airbus A320 jets. In another big win, US Airways, which later merged with American Airlines, placed an order for 400 jets in 1997. Pierson is famously known to have unbuckled his belt and dropped his trousers when at the last minute, a discount was demanded by the airline's CEO Stephen Wolf. Wolf is said to have ended the negotiation at that point, and signed the contract for 400 jets.

Pierson died on 3 November 2021, two weeks before his 81st birthday.

References

1940 births
2021 deaths
Tunisian people
French engineers
French inventors
O Yeong-su (actor)

O Yeong-su (; born October 19, 1944), is a South Korean actor. He began acting in theatre in 1967. He is known for playing Oh Il-nam in the Netflix survival drama Squid Game. In January 2022, he won the Golden Globe Award for this role.

References

1944 births
Living people
South Korean movie actors
South Korean television actors
Stage actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Bob Baker (scriptwriter)

Robert John Baker (26 July 1939 – November 2021) was a British screenwriter. He was known for writing the Wallace and Gromit movies The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and A Matter of Loaf and Death. Baker was born in Bristol, England. His career began in 1971 and he retired in 2010.

Baker died in Stroud, Gloucestershire in November 2021, at the age of 82.

References

1939 births
2021 deaths
British television writers
British screenwriters
People from Bristol
Russell Ebert

Russell Frank Ebert  (22 June 1949 – 5 November 2021) was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He was called the greatest players in the history of Australian rules football in South Australia. Ebert was the only player to have won four Magarey Medals. He was born in Berri, South Australia.

Ebert was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in late December 2020. He died from the disease on 5 November 2021 in Adelaide, South Australia at the age of 72.

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1949 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from acute myeloid leukemia
Australian rules footballers
Sportspeople from South Australia
Marília Mendonça

Marília Dias Mendonça (Portuguese pronunciation: /maˈɾiljɐ mẽˈdõsɐ/, July 22, 1995 – November 5, 2021) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist. She was born in Cristianópolis, Goiás. Her career began in 2011. She released her first live album in 2016. 

Her second album Realidade, was released in 2017 and received a Latin Grammy nomination. In 2019, she released the album Todos os Cantos. This album won her a Latin Grammy Award.

On November 5, 2021, Mendonça was killed in an airplane crash in Piedade de Caratinga, Minas Gerais at the age of 26.

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1995 births
2021 deaths
Brazilian singers
Brazilian writers
Songwriters
Brazilian musicians
Guitarists
Aviation deaths
Human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina

International non-government organisation Human Rights Watch identified in its Annual Report for 2020 that discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities remains a significant human rights issue in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bosnian constitution prohibits ethnic minorities such as the Jewish people and the Roma people, which are the two largest minority groups in the country, from running for presidency.

LGBT rights 

Same-sexual activity is legal in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Same sex marriage and relationships are not legally recognised under Bosnian law. Transgender persons are allowed to change their legal gender. In the United Nations Human Rights Council's 2019 report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Human Rights Committee and the Committee Against Torture expressed concern at the lack of investigation by authorities of hate crimes committed towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Homophobia and violence and hate crimes against members of the LGBT community is widespread in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In September 2008, seven civilians and a police officer were injured by anti-LGBT protestors at the Queer Festival Sarajevo. The organisers of the festival received anonymous death threats leading up to the festival. Six people were hospitalised with head injuries and one of the attackers was detained by police.  In September 2019 Bosnia's first LGBT pride parade was held in Sarajevo, the country's capital city. One thousand police officers were present to protect the protestors from violence and hate crimes. Counter-protests were held in Sarajevo by anti-LGBT groups at the same time as the Pride parade.

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Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Human rights in Albania

Current issues concerning human rights in Albania include domestic violence, isolated cases of torture, and police brutality, the general condition of prisons, human and sex trafficking and LGBT rights.

LGBT rights 

Studies on religion in the Western Balkans show that Homosexuality is perceived to be a unifying enemy promoted by Western values. The more that sexual diversity is defended by the West, the more resistance may emerge against LGBTI people's human rights. There are no faith-based groups providing support to LGBTI people.

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Albania
Politics of Albania
Human rights in Sudan

Sudan's human rights record has been widely condemned. Some human rights organizations have documented a variety of abuses and atrocities carried out by the Sudanese government over the past several years under the rule of Omar al-Bashir.

LGBT rights 

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Sudan face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been illegal in Sudan, with sentences including but not limited to capital punishment. However, in July 2020, the sodomy law that previously punished gay men with up to 100 lashes for the first offence, five years in jail for the second and the death penalty the third time around was abolished, with new legislation reducing the penalty to prison terms ranging from five years to life. Sudanese LGBT+ activists hailed the reform as a 'great first step', but said it was not enough yet, and the end goal should be the decriminalisation of gay sexual activity altogether.

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Sudan
Sudan
Human rights in Kosovo

The aftermath of the 1998–1999 armed conflict in Kosovo continues to bring with it enormous human rights challenges, and transitional justice efforts must be approached with a human rights lens, the report advises.

LGBT rights 

Following its publication, the report’s findings and recommendations were officially presented to the Assembly of Kosovo Committee for Human Rights, Gender Equality, Victims of Sexual Violence of War, Missing Persons, and Petitions (Committee) during a dedicated session in June 2021. The Committee welcomed its publication and congratulated the contributing NGOs on their commitment and work to advance human rights in Kosovo.

Kosovo
Kosovo
Human rights in Armenia

Human rights in Armenia tend to be better than those in most former Soviet Republics and have drawn closer to acceptable standards, especially economically. Still, there are several considerable problems.

LGBT rights in Armenia 

Homosexuality has been legal in Armenia since 2003. However, even though it has been decriminalized, the situation of local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens has not changed substantially.  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Armenia have yet to be claimed and acquired. Homosexuality remains a taboo topic in parts of Armenian society as the nation trails other European nations in promoting LGBT rights. There is, moreover, no legal protection for LGBT persons whose human rights are violated regularly.

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Armenia
Politics of Armenia
LGBT rights in Armenia

Homosexuality has been legal in Armenia since 2003. However, even though it has been decriminalized, the situation of local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens has not changed substantially. Many LGBT Armenians fear being socially outcast by their friends and families, causing them to keep their sexual orientation or gender identity secret, except to a few family members and friends.

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Armenia
Politics of Armenia
Marlborough, New Hampshire

Marlborough is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2020 census, 2,096 people lived there.

Other websites
 
 Frost Free Library
 New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile

Towns in New Hampshire
Pittsfield, New Hampshire

Pittsfield is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. As of the 2010 census, 4,106 people lived there.

Other websites

 New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile

Towns in New Hampshire
Sarcohyla labedactyla

The grasping tree frog (Sarcohyla labedactyla) is a frog that lives in Mexico.  Scientists have seen it in only one place: a pine and oak forest 2000 meters above sea level.

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Frogs
Animals of North America
The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. It ran between 16 September, 1972 and 1 April, 1978. It starred Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace, Larry Gelman, Teri Garr.

Other websites

 The Bob Newhart Show at TVGuide.com

1970s television series
1972 television series debuts
1978 television series endings
American sitcoms
CBS network shows
English-language television programs
Behzad Abdi

Behzad Abdi (born 1973, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian composer of opera, film, and television music.

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1973 births
Living people
Ghader Abdollahzadeh

Qadir Abdullahzada (23 October 1925 – 21 May 2009) was an Kurdish traditional musicians.

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1925 births
2009 deaths
Iranian musicians
Afshin (singer)

Afshin Jafari (born 6 May 1978) is an Iranian singer based in Germany.

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1978 births
Living people
Iranian singers
Human rights in Nigeria

Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the  current constitution of 1999. While Nigeria has made major improvements in human rights under this constitution. The Restrictions of LGBTIQ rights and government corruption continue to undermine the status of human rights in Nigeria.

LGBT rights 

In May 2013, Nigeria's House of Representatives voted to pass the Same-Sex Marriage Bill, which prohibits gay marriage and public displays of affection between same-sex couples and allots fourteen years in prison to those engaged in same-sex relationships. This bill also allows punishment for those knowingly associating with those identifying as members of the LGBT community or aiding these individuals in becoming married or pursuing that lifestyle.

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Nigeria
Nigeria
Ribeirão das Neves

Ribeirão das Neves is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais Its population, in 2021, was 341,415 inhabitants and its area is 155.4 km². Its name means Snow's Creek in Portuguese. 

The city has some factories, many bars, pizzerias, beauty salons, supermarkets, department stores, several banks as CEF, the Bank of Brazil, Bradesco, Itau, which still houses a small part of the economically active population.

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Cities in Minas Gerais
Bombardier Q200

The Bombardier Q200 is a passenger plane with propellers and part of the Bombardier Q series. Introduced by De Havilland Canada in 1992 and was available in 1995.

There is space for 39 passangers and has a length of 22.25 meters, a high of 7.49 meters, a wingspan of 25.89 meters. In 1998 the Q200 got a new interior.

Aircraft
Nevern Bridge

Nevern Bridge (Welsh: Pont Nanhyfer) is a bridge across the River Nevern (). It is in the centre of Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

This Grade II listed bridge was built in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is  south of the church. It was constructed of rubblestone and ashlar. This humpback bridge has two unequal arches.

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Bridges in Wales
Pembrokeshire
La Bala (singer)

María Isabella de La Torre Echenique (Mexico City, Mexico; 19 July 2004) better known as "La Bala" is a Mexican singer. She started as a YouTuber when she was 11 years old, when she had the idea to shoot a video and her parents gave her support. On her channel, she mainly did sketches and parodies, although in the following years she began to do vlogs, musical parodies, challenges, jesting, etc. In 2019 she was chosen as a Nickelodeon ambassador in Latin America, and appeared in the Club 57 series. She has collaborated with other YouTubers such as Luisito Comunica, Berth Oh!, La Diversión de Martina among others. and amassed over four million subscribers on YouTube.

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TV shows

Movies 

Nominations and awards

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Mexican singers
2004 births
Living people
Singers from Mexico City
YouTubers
Freetown fuel tanker explosion

On 5 November 2021, a fuel tanker crashed with another truck in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This caused an explosion that killed at least 144 people. It also injured over 100 people.

Reports state that a bus full of people were "completely" burnt and nearby shops and markets caught fire after fuel spilled over the streets.

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2021 disasters in Africa
2020s fires
Explosions in 2021
2020s explosions in Africa

November 2021 events
Sierra Leone
Robert S. Kiss

Robert S. Kiss (November 27, 1957 – November 5, 2021) was an American Democratic politician. He was the 54th Speaker of the House for the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1997 until 2007. He was born in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

Kiss died of cancer in Huntington, West Virginia, at age 63, on November 5, 2021.

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1957 births
2021 deaths
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from West Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Siluyan (Kilin)

Archbishop Siluyan (Kilin) (, secular name Simon Afinogenovich Kilin, ; 15 May 1939 – 5 November 2021), was a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (RORC). He was the Old Believer archbishop of Novosibirsk, beginning in 2015.

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1939 births
2021 deaths
Russian Orthodox Christians
Archbishops
Angelo Mosca

Angelo Mosca (February 13, 1937 – November 6, 2021) was an American Canadian Football League player and professional wrestler. He was also known by the wrestling nicknames King Kong Mosca and The Mighty Hercules. He was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1987, the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. Mosca's career lasted from 1958 until 1972. He played for Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes.

Mosca died on November 6, 2021 from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.

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1937 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
American professional wrestlers
Canadian professional wrestlers
American football players
Sportspeople from Massachusetts
Raúl Rivero

Raúl Rivero Castañeda (23 November 1945 – 6 November 2021) was a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident. Rivero was born in Morón, Camagüey, Cuba. He was supporter Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution

From 1973 to 1976 he worked for the official Cuban press in Moscow. He also was chairman of the National Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC). 

Rivero died of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by emphysema in Miami, Florida on 6 November 2021, three weeks before his 76th birthday.

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1945 births
2021 deaths
Cuban writers
Journalists
Poets
Cancer deaths in Florida
Deaths from emphysema
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Marinko Rokvić

Marinko Rokvić (; 27 January 1954 – 6 November 2021) was a Bosnian Serb folk singer.

His debut album, titled Ruža, was released in 1981 under PGP-RTB. Over the years he became one of the most popular Serbian folk singers. His 1983 release, Da volim drugu ne mogu, was sold in around 600,000 copies.

Rokvić died from pancreatic cancer in Belgrade, Serbia on 6 November 2021, aged 67.

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1954 births
Living people
Bosnia and Herzegovina entertainers
Serbian singers
Folk singers
Deaths from pancreatic cancer