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Friday, June 1, 2012 'There Needs To Be Justice' GENEVA -- The U.N.'s top human rights official warned Friday that all-out civil war could engulf Syria unless countries that have backed international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan rally around calls for an independent probe into the killing of more than 100 civilians last week. Sudan Sentences Woman To Death By Stoning 40 Years Later 'Napalm Girl' Tells Her Story Photos Allegedly Show Tibetan Ablaze Highest Performance Ever? Activists: 11 Syrian State Workers Executed BLOG POSTS Michelle Brané: Getting Away With Murder at the Border It's been two years since Sergio Hernandez-Gueraca was killed by Customs and Border Protection agents. It is problematic that firing into Mexican territory at children throwing rocks could ever be considered an appropriate use of force consistent with U.S. policy. Cecilia Attias: Ending Infant Mortality Earlier this month, Africa gave the world some very good news. The Economist magazine reported that the continent as a whole had experienced some of the steepest drops in child mortality ever seen anywhere. Dr. Adam Lankford: Review: 'Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad' This superbly researched account of the United States' decade-long effort to track and kill bin Laden provides the intimate details on virtually every critical decision along the way. Nick Turse: A Drone-Eat-Drone World When the first Terminator movie was released in 1984, its HKs seemed as futuristic as its time-traveling cyborg title-character. Nearly three decades later, we're living in an age in which armed robots do regularly surveil, track, and kill people. Elisabeth Braw: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee: "Sex Strikes Help Good Men" Who said sex and politics don't mix? Led by Leymah Gbowee, a young mother, Liberian women went on a sex strike to end the country's brutal civil war. They were successful: in 2003 warlords agreed to end the violence.

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