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CHINA: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER UNFAIRLY IMPRISONED

Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is serving a prison sentence for 'damaging property' and 'disrupting traffic' after a grossly unfair trial. He first fell foul of the Shandong province authorities after drawing attention to an illegal campaign of forced abortion and sterilisation which affected thousands of women. A self-trained legal adviser, Chen Guangcheng had been helping villagers prepare a lawsuit against the local authority responsible.

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Romani children segregated in a Roma-only class at the kindergarten of the Krivany school, Slovakia, April 2010. SLOVAKIA: Thousands of Romani pupils are segregrated from non-Roma pupils at school and get a substandard education, sentencing them to a lifetime of poverty and marginalisation. Act now

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