Human Rights

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• Sign the Manhattan Declaration

  
  causa nostrae laetitiae — Authority: 132
  Here is the text of the declaration: Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family. We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians ...
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• Investigative Journalism

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 169
  I have deep respect for the work of investigative journalists. They often work under very difficult circumstances – risking persecution, law suits and harassment. But investigative journalism is indispensable Read More......( read more )
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• Soldiers Rejoicing Over House Demolition

  
  MarcGopin.com — Authority: 119
  By Aziz Abu Sarah Israel’s approval of hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem is currently generating uproar in the international community, as it should. However, as the media has clamored to cover the government decision, many missed yesterday’s demolition of two Arab houses in the Jerusalem ...
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• Zhang Zuhua and Jiang Qisheng: For Blue Skies, First Clear the Air on Human Rights

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 635
  Zhang Zuhua and Jiang Qisheng , two of the original drafters of Charter 08 , have written a response to what they think is the approach of the U.S. to China relations. The current administration is treading carefully on the subject of human rights , emphasizing first environmental issues. But Zhang and Jiang argue ...
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• The Child Labour: The neglection goes on and on ……

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 446
  I was rather depressed to read at dawn.com the editorial this morning (see below) the fate of young kids who must be going to schools and enjoying their childhood by indulging in sports and healthy activities, are spending their child hood in making bricks, working at auto work shops, working at carpet factories , ...
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• Fair Trial

  
  Carsons Post — Authority: 517
  From Times Cartoons of the Week . Posted in Human Rights, Humour
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• Obama Responds to Cuban Dissident

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 425
  Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, recently beaten by state security , submitted seven questions to US President Barack Obama through her blog. Now, she has posted his responses . I am, of course, pleased to see the President aligning with Cubas burgeoning civil society which is pressing domestically for democracy and ...
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• Refugees would like to have the same problems you have

  
  Osocio Weblog — Authority: 554
  Three ads from UNHCR / ACNUR . Would you like to have the same problems refugees have?  Author: Marc
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• Obama backs Yoani Sanchez

  
  Harry's Place — Authority: 642
  At her blog Generation Y, the brave Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez has posted President Obama’s responses to seven questions she submitted to him. Obama prefaced his answers as follows: Thank you for this opportunity to exchange views with you and your readers in Cuba and around the world and congratulations on ...
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• The Annual Protest at the School of the Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 574
  Erwin reminds us that today is the day of the annual protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas. The name-change happened back in 2001, when the Bush administration realized the Schools name had been associated with some of the worst ...
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• Spains two top parties remove Cuba issue from nations agenda for its EU presidency

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 132
  Spains ruling Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the leading opposition group, the Popular Party (PP), on Friday signed a pact defining Spains official stance as it assumes the presidency of the European Union in January. The topics agreed upon include the economy, jobs, illegal immigration and protection from pirates ...
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• What They Said

  
  Ten Percent — Authority: 521
  From  Mondoweiss - The situation, in a nutshell Anna Baltzer, Author , And Haithem El-Zabri, Founder Of The Palestine Online Store . Austin, Tx, November 2008
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• Time to Wake Up

  
  Saudi Jeans — Authority: 115
  In my previous post I mentioned Dr. Fawzia al-Bakr as one of the people who told their stories to Robert Lacey in his new book. Al-Bakr is one of the 47 women who defied the ban on women’s driving and drove their cars in the middle of Riyadh’s busiest streets in a rare demonstration to demand their rights. That ...
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• 9th circuit tells neocon homophobes to take a hike.

  
  The Sirens Chronicles — Authority: 429
  From Jurist : A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a lower court’s denial of a conservative advocacy group’s motion to intervene in a challenge to Proposition 8, California’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The appeals court held ...
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• Women’s rights across Africa

  
  Black Looks — Authority: 461
  This weeks Pambazuka News has a special Women’s issues focusing on the last 15 years since Beijing Platform for Action and the future for women’s rights on the continent. The essays cover securing women’s rights, gender and conflict, what has been achieved to date and a programme for action for the 16 [...]
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• Support for blogger is sought in Spain

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 132
  The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Congress next Wednesday will debate a motion of support for Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez and other oppositionists, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Saturday. The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Carlos Salvador , a deputy from the Navarran Peoples Union, asks ...
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• ACFDA Publication SeikGyi

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
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• phyu-sayadawgyi by Niknayman

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 157
  ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ရွင္ နိဳင္ငံေက်ာ္ဓမၼကထိက ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပသာသနာျပဳ ျဖဴးဆရာေတာ္ဘုရားၾကီး ဘဒၵႏၱနရပတိ သည္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ၊ ...
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• Bihar’s junior doctors call off strike

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Patna, Nov 21 (IANS) Bihar’s junior doctors called off their 12-day strike Saturday evening following an assurance that the state government will pay the increased stipend promised to them in August, officials said.The assurance was given by the Indian Medical Association.Officials said that 500 junior doctors of ...
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• A look at men’s groups vs. feminism at Forbes

  
  Dean's World — Authority: 524
  Cathy Young addresses the issues of men’s groups, domestic violence, and feminism at Forbes: Earlier this month DoubleX, Slate’s short-lived female-oriented publication (launched six months ago and about to be folded back into the parent site as a women’s section), ran an article ringing the alarm about the ...
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