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  • The UN will send a team to Tunisia to begin a week-long assessment of the human rights situation in the wake of recent political unrest [UN]
  • A Winnipeg man has filed a human rights complaint against a hotel after they allegedly initiated a policy of opening the mail of tenants on social assistance [CJOB]
  • A Ugandan gay activist was beaten to death in his home. His picture had recently appeared in an anti-gay newspaper under the headline “Hang Them” [NYT]
  • Tree planters in BC are to receive $228,000 in back wages and have filed a human rights complaint, alleging that in addition to not being paid they were denied clean water, edible food, and toilets. [CP]
  • Human Rights Watch says that authorities in the Middle East have been increasing harassment of political activists in the past year. [CP]