by Susan | Oct 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 14, 2009 During US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit, dozens of Russian lawmakers from minority parties staged a rare walkout from the Duma (parliament) to protest what they and independent monitors describe as rigged local elections across...
by Susan | Oct 13, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 13, 1908 Some 60 thousand British suffragists led by Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), gathered in Parliament Square the rush the House of Commons. 24 women and 13 men were...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 12, 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a UN General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe when a speaker criticized his...
by Susan | Oct 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 11, 2010 The rights group EG Justice said in a statement that a letter signed by 125 African scholars and human rights defenders has denounced the UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Prize for Research in the Life Sciences, a prize named for the president of...
by Susan | Oct 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 10, 2015 About 250,000 people showed up in Berlin to protest against the free trade agreements between the European Union and the U.S. and Canada, calling for fair trade instead. The demonstrators said the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)...
by Susan | Oct 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
October 8, 1873 The first women’s prison run by women, started by Quaker reformers shocked by allegations of sexual abuse of female prisoners at the state prison, opened at Indiana Reformatory...
