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In the US, the historic struggle for quality education continues to unfold as America’s public schools have become the center of an intense debate. Much of that has focused on deciding what to do with schools that are struggling.  Should they be privatized? Should there be greater accountability? More funding or more local involvement?

• As US cites human rights violations abroad, some question American support of repressive regimes
• In Honduras, witnesses describe US role in deadly raid
• Northern California tribe challenges Forest Service on access to sacred site
• More than 100,000 lack medical access in Sudan after vital supplies blocked
• Azerbaijan’s record on rights criticized as country readies for cultural contest

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• Obama makes quick nomination to head NRC
• Inmates in Virginia on hunger strike demanding better conditions
• Occupy the PGA calls for community reparations in Benton Harbor
• Coal activists continue pressure against mountaintop removal mining

The US State Department’s annual human rights report calls attention to ethnic and gender violence, media censorship, extrajudicial killings and political unrest on several continents. The report, released this week, draws special attention to continued violations in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Sudan and other nations.

The State Department’s report on human rights also details the situation in Honduras, where unlawful killings, torture and arrests of civilians continue. Meanwhile, questions about the US role in a deadly raid on the Honduran coast continue. In the early morning of May 11 government forces in helicopters fired on villagers in the Ahuan region, killing four people. US DEA agents took part in the raid, which allegedly targeted drug traffickers, and witnesses describe English-speaking men leading interrogations and arrests.

A small tribe in Northern California is holding a war dance against the federal government for the next three days near the Shasta Dam. On FSRN, we’ve been following the story of the Winnemem Wintu who say the US Forest Service has refused to grant them private access to the tribe's ancestral land. Tribal members say it’s an act of cultural genocide. FSRN's Christina Aanestad is at the war dance and files this report.

In western Sudan, more than 100,000 people face a lack of basic health care as vital medical supplies and personnel are blocked from reaching North Darfur. Doctors Without Borders said restrictions imposed by Sudanese authorities have forced them to suspend nearly all of their services in the area. Government authorities cite insecurity. As the rainy season approaches, medical teams say the suspension puts people at risk for the spread of disease and prenatal and maternal deaths. For more, we’re joined by Alberto Cristina, program manager for Doctors Without Borders in Sudan.

This weekend the Republic of Azerbaijan hosts the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s a flashy, colorful pageant in which more than 40 countries compete in front of an international television audience of around 125 million people. The oil-rich former Soviet republic of nine million is using the event to show off its wealth, but the limelight has also brought scrutiny to a country plagued by endemic corruption and rampant human rights violations. FSRN's Jacob Resneck reports from the capital city, Baku.

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