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Muslim bodies support AIMPLB's decision to boycott UCC questionnaire

Edit The Times of India 18 Oct 2016
HYDERABAD. The Subai Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadees (SJAH), a Salafi organisation, on Monday said that despite its stand against oral triple talaq in one sitting, it supports the All India Muslim Personal Law Board's decision to boycott the Law Commission of India's questionnaire on Uniform Civil Code ... The panel stated that India is a democratic and secular country where its citizens are given the right to follow and propagate religion ... RELATED....

Today’s genital warts came from trysts between Neanderthals and early humans [US]

Edit Ars Technica 18 Oct 2016
Genital warts, or human papillomavirus (HPV), isn't just a disease of the modern world and its newfangled sexual mores ... The early humans who remained in Africa had their own variants of HPV, too ... wart viruses evolved with them–until that fateful moment when human and Neanderthal came together, as it were....

Progress in poverty reduction and human rights

Edit China Daily 18 Oct 2016
China's State Council Information Office on Monday issued a white paper on China's progress in poverty reduction and human rights ... I.China's Poverty Reduction Program Has Promoted the Development of Human Rights ... China's poverty reduction actions, both solid and effective, have made a great contribution to the cause of international poverty reduction, and achieved remarkable results in world human rights development....

Odisha rights panel seeks report on Maoist threat

Edit The Hindu 18 Oct 2016
The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Monday sought an action taken report from district authorities in Malkangiri over a petition seeking protection for people living in the area under Maoist threat ... Human rights activist Sangita Swain had moved the NHRC, “seeking justice” for the people of Andrapalli and Panaspat in Malkangiri district....

Today you don’t feel like doing anything? It’s normal to be physically lazy, Harvard professor says

Edit The Miami Herald 18 Oct 2016
But you may just be giving in to humans’ evolutionary instinct to be lazy ... Daniel Lieberman, an expert in human evolutionary biology, posed in a 2015 paper, “Is Exercise Really Medicine? An Evolutionary Perspective,” that it’s not our natural inclination to exercise for health alone ... Most modern humans who do exercise don’t need to worry about whether after a hard workout they will be able to make up for the calorie deficit....

New manned mission big step for the nation

Edit China Daily 18 Oct 2016
And as the world's second-largest economy, China wants to make its due contribution to the development of human civilization. Conducting space exploration not only has the potential to expand human knowledge of the universe in which we live, it also extends the cooperation of major powers in the peaceful utilization of space....

Who you gonna call? State has only 2 mosquito-busters

Edit The Times of India 18 Oct 2016
"The relation of the malaria parasite, the dengue virus, mosquitoes, and humans and their social habits are interwoven." He said in the case of malaria, four species of human plasmodia, with very different biology, come into play."To understand this complex nature of the disease and the vector, you need a qualified entomologist," he said....

Human rights, rule-of-law conditions deteriorating in Armenia

Edit Topix 18 Oct 2016
The panelists of the Policy Forum Armenia held October 13, 2016 in Washington, US, highlighted the deteriorating human rights and rule-of-law conditions in Armenia in recent years, said the report published on the forum's website....

Comment on Much ado about poo: Feces fuels Hawaii feral feline debate by aomohoa

Edit Star Advertiser 18 Oct 2016
It is the nasty heartless attitude of the humans that have caused this problem. They get a cute kitten, then they grow up, no so cute. They don’t spayed and neuter them and they just dump them or leave them behind when they move. Probably people like the cat hater in the article!!!!Humanes have to stop be so irresponsible and inhumane!!!I don’t consider my cat just an animal. It is a member of the family ... ....

Food and Agriculture Organization Calls Indigenous Peoples ‘True Custodians of Biodiversity’ as Third Committee Holds Day-long Debate on Their Rights (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
Tuesday, 18 October, to consider its agenda item on human rights ... It had before it two notes of the Secretary-General, the first transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples (document A/71/228), and the second transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples (A/71/229)....

Food and Agriculture Organization Calls Indigenous Peoples ‘True Custodians of Biodiversity’ as Third Committee Holds Day-long Debate on Their Rights (United Nations General Assembly)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
Tuesday, 18 October, to consider its agenda item on human rights ... It had before it two notes of the Secretary-General, the first transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples (document A/71/228), and the second transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples (A/71/229)....

Steps to check human trafficking

Edit The Hindu 18 Oct 2016
The government will take stern action to check human trafficking and exploitation of women recruited by clandestine agents for overseas employment, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the Assembly on Monday....

Trump's Twitter debate lead was 'swelled by bots'

Edit BBC News 18 Oct 2016
One machine learning expert cautions that the criteria used to identify the bots might have been too imprecise to have sifted out all the human-based activity ... "They show behaviour that is not human and often don't have comments [about other issues apart from] the particular topic in question." ... Also watch out for accounts that reply to your messages in less time than was humanly possible to read what you wrote....
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