Human Right

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• Housing is a Human Right Project Highlights Picture the Homeless’ Campaign Targeting Chase

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 533
  Last week, I reported on Picture the Homeless’ ongoing campaign against JPMorgan Chase.  The homeless-led organization is pressuring Chase bank to utilize the vacant property they own around the city to create affordable, low-income housing.  Picture the Homeless members rallied outside JPMorgan Chase’s ...
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• Government Must Curb Rights Abuse: Advocate

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 144
  By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer Washington 04 December 2009 If the government doesn’t move to curb persecution of human rights defenders, it can be implicated in rights abuses, a Cambodian advocate said Thursday. Rights groups in the country have faced a high number of threats this year, said Ou Virak, executive ...
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• We all must punish Christoph Darbellay, the next Hitler of Europe from Swiss People’s Party

  
  San Oo Aung's Weblog — Authority: 486
  We all must punish  Christoph Darbellay, the next Hitler of Europe from Swiss People’s Party“We don’t have a situation of the extreme right in Europe attacking Jews because they are content to attack Muslims,” Philip Carmel, the international relations director for the Conference of European Rabbis, told ...
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• KKF participate in the Universal Periodic Review on Cambodia

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 144
  The Universal Periodic Review for Cambodia yields disappointing results as no attention is dedicated to indigenous or minority rights. On 1st December, Cambodia faced examination of their human rights situation under the sixth session of the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR). A delegation from UNPO Member the ...
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• Eco Gift Guide: For the Style Maven

  
  ecofabulous — Authority: 492
  Getting new clothes and jewelry for Christmas or Hanukkah doesn’t have to mean another dreaded hand-knit Grandma sweater. Make sure any potential gift-givers you know have had a look at our stylish list – the only problem you’ll have to worry about is whether or not you can hold off buying some of them for ...
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• Brooklyn Exhibits Tackle Foreclosure, Gentrification and Dirty Laundry

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 533
  Housing is a Human Right, Photo Booth Without Borders and The Dirty Laundry Line Superfront Oct. 17-Dec. 12 “I came back and every single thing in my apartment was destroyed. Many people moved away…I would not.” Thus begins one of the eleven stories that make up Housing is a Human Right , an audiovisual ...
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• Cambodia: UN Review Should Insist on Respect for Rights

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 144
  Crackdown on Dissent, Lack of Accountability, Forced Evictions Marr Country’s Record (Geneva) - United Nations member states should express concerns about the dramatic deterioration of freedom of expression, assembly, and association in Cambodia at todays review of the nations human rights record, Human Rights ...
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• Home Secretary says McKinnon must face US trial

  
  Darknet - The Darkside — Authority: 458
  Since the last update almost a year ago when Gary won the right to appeal against extradition, the latest news in the Gary Mckinnon saga is that his extradition to the US for trial will be going ahead.Even with his apparent medical condition of Ass Burgers Asperger’s it seems he will be extradited anyway according ...
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• A Widows Woe

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 151
  Isidoro V. da Costa, JRS-Timor Leste – Project Director; JRS- Asia Pacific Issue 75, PO Box 49, Sanampao Post Office, Bangkok 10406, Thailand 28/11/09Mrs. Elisa is an old widowed woman. Her husband was a Timorese soldier during the Portuguese colonial time. When Indonesian troops invaded Timor Leste (after ...
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• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

  
  Fustat — Authority: 387
  Today is the U.N International Day for the Elimination of violence against Women. Held annualy since 1981 in commemoration of the murder of the three Mirabel sisters in the Dominican Republic in 1960, on orders of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. There will be a seminar/festival held by the Cairo Institute for Human ...
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• The Democrats don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  “For the Democrats, with the exception of John Conyers and a few others, they simply don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists and believe in the capitalist system that makes health care a commodity to be bought and sold. For them, health care is not a human right. … One minute ...
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• THE MODERN SLAVERY - SEX AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING

  
  The New Politickler — Authority: 128
  nuffnang_bid = "e991040aa3f34ccab62e4d0385ec1b2a";Indonesian sex slave breaks silence“People see me as a strong woman,” Sunarsih says, “but I was broken inside. I was always crying but I don’t want other migpeople to see my cry.”Sunarsih is not this woman’s real name. She doesn’t want her identity ...
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• An “impossible” win that inspires

  
  Outsports — Authority: 566
  This past weekend at Santa Anita, when Zenyatta looked for the “impossible” win, most of my local LGBT horse-fan friends were in that crowd, screaming their heads off for this popular favorite. And the ones I know who couldn’t make it to the track were glued to their TVs. Everything went wrong for Zenyatta in ...
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• European ministers approve watered-down ‘neutral net’ language

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews The question before the European Council — made up of heads of state and key ministers from the EU’s 27 member nations — was whether Internet access should be interpreted as a fundamental human right, and whether obstructing access could be construed as a rights violation. ...
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• Why Democrats Are Winning the Health Care Battle—But Losing the War

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 420
  On the House floor this evening, the health care debate wears on toward a vote. Nancy Pelosi says she has the numbers she needs in her own party to pass the legislation, and we’ll know soon enough whether she’s right. But while Republicans may have lost this battle, they continue to take shots in what’s ...
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• Watch: Human Rights Abuses by Pakistan Army: No Better than Taliban Terrorists

  
  Ekawaaz - One Voice - Many Issues : News Views and Reviews — Authority: 417
  Disgusting and Inhumane Act by Pakistan Army. I report you Decide….
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• Is access to the internet now a human right?

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 141
  Can checking your e-mail really be a human right? Carphone Warehouse hopes so. After the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, announced his plans to disconnect persistent internet pirates last week, the owner of Britain’s largest internet service provider, TalkTalk, threatened him with legal action under human rights ...
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• Arrested for Tweeting: US citizens were arrested and charged by the FBI for allegedly directing protests at the G20 Summit in September (Video)

  
  Ekawaaz - One Voice - Many Issues : News Views and Reviews — Authority: 417
  So in USA there is no Online Freedom Thing in Obama’s age? Brilliant..Via Russia TodayThe FBI has accused a US citizen of using the Internet to organize protests at the September G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, setting a precedent of a social networking arrest.In this day and age, you are either a user yourself, or you ...
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• Congo: a concept ‘by vultures in search of legitimization of their plunders’ (or does ‘mineral rich and war torn’ Congo really exist?)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 579
  The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is touted to be a ‘vast, mineral rich and war torn country.’ Some experts do not buy the image. One thing is certain, though. The country is a failure, especially in its attempts at conflict reconstruction. For starters, Congo seems to have the world’s largest franchise ...
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• International Religious Freedom Report 2009: Iran

  
  Inside Of Iran — Authority:
  The Constitution states that Islam is the official state religion, and the doctrine followed is that of Jaafari (Twelver) Shiism. The Constitution provides that "other Islamic denominations are to be accorded full respect," while the countrys pre-Islamic religious groups--Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews--are ...
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