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Uncovering the truth about deaths in East Timor

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Uncovering the truth about deaths in East Timor One of Benetech's biggest Human Rights projects has been our work for Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR). However, some of the results we helped create are starting to be released. The report has been completed, but not released publicly.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

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I hope you can take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children.

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Zen Under Fire: Big Vision Podcast Interview with Marianne Elliott

Have Fun - Do Good

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007).

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

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Both SIGACTS and the press and other data published by the IBC are convenience samples , i.e. they are not generated with the help of a random selection process. This method has been used for estimating large-scale killings in Guatemala , Kosovo , PerĂº , Srebrenica , East Timor , and Colombia , among others.

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Zen Peacekeeper, Marianne Elliott, Shares How She Has Fun, Does Good

Have Fun - Do Good

One of the reasons I keep this blog is to help me figure out how to have fun, and do good, and o ne of the ways I learn is by example, so I've asked a handful of bloggers from my Have Fun, Do Good blogroll to share how they have fun and do good. We write and teach what we want to learn, at least, I do.

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