Human Rights Commission

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• Montefiore Hospital (NY) Whistleblower Robert Frank Suspended, He Applies For Food Stamps Monday

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 440
  Robert Frank calls me Thursday afternoon. Here and here and here and here and here my previous posts on him. Robert: “They called me in to a meeting with Human Resources on Monday. The union rep stood by and let them cream me. She didn’t open her mouth in my defense one bit. They started accusing me of ...
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• Amnesty International denounces abuses by Mexican army

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Mexico City, Dec 10 (EFE) Amnesty International (AI) says that in the past two years there has been an increase in human rights abuses by Mexican military personnel assigned to law enforcement activities, including torture and extrajudicial executions.AI spokesman Alberto Herrera presented here a report containing ...
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• Today is Human Rights Day

  
  movies, news, photos, gossip, videos - Searchandhra.com — Authority: 157
  The world observes Human Rights Day Today and our own Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights
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• Juvenile justice to mental healthcare - a lot under NHRC scanner (Dec 10 is International Human Rights Day) (Repeating for all needing)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Mental healthcare, prison and hospital conditions, bonded labour and juvenile justice are some of the “priority areas” for India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as it observes International Human Rights Day Thursday. Saying the NHRC was “not a toothless ...
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• Wedding bells make Nepal Maoists call off strike (Lead)

  
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  Kathmandu, Dec 8 (IANS) Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas have withdrawn their trade and transport strike scheduled Wednesday — traditionally an auspicious day for marriages — after party leaders were flooded with calls from families of brides and grooms, saying the protests would throw the weddings out of ...
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• We are not a toothless body: NHRC (Dec 10 is Human Rights Day)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is “not a toothless body” as is often alleged and 99 percent of its recommendations on key issues are accepted, says its member P.C. Sharma. “NHRC is a recommendatory body. The parliament has enacted it that way. But at the ...
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• Communist Magazine Scribbler Trevor Phillips Faces New Rebellion in ECHR

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 605
  Communist Party of Great Britain magazine contributor Trevor Phillips faces a new rebellion within the ranks of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission after it emerged he tried to incite staff members to entrap the British National Party. Mr Phillips, who first came to prominence in September 1984 when he penned ...
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• Stephen Boissoin’s legal counsel notes key points from court decision

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  The decision of Justice Earl Wilson of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Boissoin v Lund will have a significant long term positive impact on religious freedom in Canada: 1. The decision established a very high threshold for the conclusion that a publication is in violation of the “hate” provisions of Alberta’s ...
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• PRESS RELEASE: “Decision-makers need to ‘think hard’ about what needs to be done on Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination”

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 120
  In a year when the British National Party (BNP) won two seats in the European parliament, the English Defence League have marched in protest against the ‘Islamification’ of Britain in various towns and cities, and more recently, there has been a referendum in Switzerland to ban minarets, the University of ...
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• The only ‘apie’ is Terre’blanche

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 509
  Eugene Terre’blanche is in trouble once again. A comment he made in Pretoria over the weekend has been reported to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) which has confirmed that it is currently with their legal services department.Terre’blanche, leader of the fringe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), ...
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• Litigant in Godhra case gets apex court rebuke

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday rebuked a rights body for using objectionable language in its plea for reconstitution of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed last year to probe and prosecute nine crucial cases related to the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat.A bench of Justice D.K. Jain, ...
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• 20 hurt as police quell Telangana protests

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hyderabad, Dec 7 (IANS) The movement for a separate state of Telangana took a serious turn Monday as police and paramilitary forces used force to quell student protests at Osmania University and also beat up journalists.Rapid Action Force (RAF) and police personnel caned students on the campus to foil their plans to ...
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• When A Fascist Crooks Wallet Starts To Lighten...

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 138
  . ... you start making your fellow "patriots" pay to become a member of the highly critically acclaimed "Trafalgar Club" of course for a whopping £249 per year that is... This year the BNP were rocked by a rather large blow from the EHRC basically telling them that their whites-only membership rule was ...
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• ECP Centre celebrates victory for Stephen Boisson and Canadian liberty

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  December 4, 2009 ECP Centre celebrates victory for Stephen Boisson and Canadian liberty By Tim Bloedow The ECP Centre (Equipping Christians for the Public-square Centre) is very encouraged to see that sanity prevailed in Alberta’s court system with the decision Thursday to overturn the abusive ...
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• What Was Missing in Obama’s Speech: The Black Jail of Afghanistan

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 599
  Even though this article by Alissa Rubin appeared in The New York Times last Sunday, I don’t think it got much attention amidst the speculation what President Obama would say on Tuesday. And it certainly wasn’t part of the President’s only reference to the “Afghan people” in his address : “We will seek ...
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• Political will needed to erase bonded labour

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) Enacting one law after the other will not eradicate bonded labour if there is no political will for it, National Human Rights Commission member Justice B.C. Patel said.Pointing out that there are no vigilance committees to check bonded labour in many places, Patel said the district ...
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• Partial victory for free speech in Boissoin court judgment

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  Canadian Constitution Foundation – December 3, 2009 Partial victory for free speech in Boissoin court judgment The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) responded to today’s release of the Judgment of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in Boissoin v. Lund , a case which pits freedom of expression ...
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• TRS chief continues fast, government moves to tackle protests (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hyderabad, Dec 3 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Thursday continued his fast unto death demanding a separate state of Telangana as the Andhra Pradesh government geared up to tackle the violent protests in the region.Rao, who is in judicial custody till Dec 12, was shifted from Khammam ...
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• Fasting TRS chief shifted to Hyderabad’s NIMS Hospital

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Hyderabad, Dec 3 (ANI): Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) President K Chandrasekhar Rao has been shifted from the Khammam Government Hospital to the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad here, following his daughter Kavita’s appeal to the State Human Rights Commission.K T Rama Rao, the son of Chandrasekhar ...
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• Bihar government may be hard put to explain ’starvation deaths’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Patna, Dec 3 (IANS) The Bihar government is likely to face trouble over a lawsuit alleging at least 100 people have died of hunger in the state in the last three years, as the Patna High Court has directed the petitioner to take it up with the state human rights commission.Social activist Ramashray Singh, who [...]
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