Human Rights violations

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• Getting Ready for Action in San Francisco

  
  LA CAN — Authority: 103
  Lets get ready to rumble! Join LA CAN and our West Coast allies as we converge on the Federal Building in San Francisco, CA. Our demand, making housing and not the criminalization of poverty the national priority. To get involved contact LA CAN at (213) 228-0024 and ask for Pete White, or simply go to wraphome.org to ...
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• “Gestapo-like reign of terror” prevailing in country: Pak Supreme Court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Islamabad, Jan 7(ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court has said “Gestapo-like situation” was prevailing in the country, emphasizing that top military officials and other influential people were involved in several cases of human rights violations.This was observed by a three-member bench of the apex court, consisting ...
  10 hours ago

• Boomerang Human Rights Violations

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 442
  ( source ) We usually see human rights violations are zero-sum : a rights violation is a harm inflicted by one person on another, for the benefit of the former. I mentioned before that this isn’t always the correct way of viewing rights violations, but it’s adequate in most cases. One case in which it’s only ...
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• Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (37): Muslim Prisoners in a Serbian Detention Camp

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 442
  Read the whole story here , as well as the general story of the war in ex-Yugoslavia . Other posts on this topic are here . More iconic images of human rights violations are here . Posted in culture, horror, iconic images of human rights violations, intervention, war Tagged: Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, ...
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• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (24): Cuba Jailing the Unemployed for “Dangerousness”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 442
  A report released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch on the human rights situation in Cuba takes the government of President Raúl Castro to task for, among other things, jailing those without jobs. The report cited the cases of dozens of people charged with “dangerousness” for being unemployed. “A person is ...
  3 days ago

• STATE REPRESSION CONTINUES IN NORTH KURDISTAN

  
  Rast — Authority: 421
  "We have to stand together now and stand behind all the victims of political repression." ~ Bernadette Devlin. While US and western media have been busy promoting the cause of "democracy" in Iran, they have remained suspiciously silent over the ongoing crackdown against democratically elected Kurdish politicians ...
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• Alberto Fujimoris Sentence Upheld

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 442
  This is great news : Perus Supreme Court has upheld a 25-year jail sentence imposed on former President Alberto Fujimori. The term was handed down last April for ordering the security forces to carry out killings and kidnappings. [...] It was the first time a democratically elected Latin American leader was ...
  4 days ago

• Gilgit-Baltistan is part of Kashmir, asserts India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Asserting that Pakistan controlled Gilgit-Baltistan was part of Jammu and Kashmir, India Friday said it was opposed to any move that changes the status of the disputed region.“Any action to alter the status of any part of the territory under the illegal occupation of Pakistan has no legal ...
  6 days ago

• An Ode to my Fellow Warriors of the Word

  
  Pinoy Observer — Authority: 135
  One of the painful reminders of Life is simply, death. When you are born, that starts your long road to this singularity. A singularity that marks you an exact time when your entire body exits this realm and if there is another Consciousness, that one enters an alternate State. Last year marked the painful departure ...
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• J-K police foils separatist protest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Srinagar, Dec 31 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday foiled a sit-in protest by a separatist group against the human rights violations in Srinagar.The protest was organised by separatist Jammu Kashmir salvation movement.Activists along with their chairman Zaffar Akbar Bhat were staging protest at the Lal ...
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• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
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• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (23): Banning Marriage in Texas

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 442
  The geniuses who wrote Texas’ gay marriage ban may have accidentally banned all marriage in the state, according to one Houston lawyer. Subsection B of the ban, a constitutional amendment ratified in 2005, states, “This state … may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage”. The ...
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• Nepal Army in fresh row

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Sudeshna SarkarKathmandu, Dec 28 (IANS) Nepal’s controversial army, which tarnished its image by siding with deposed king Gyanendra during his bloodless coup four years ago, finds itself in a fresh row with three torture victims filing a case against a general, accusing him of gross human rights ...
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• UN concern at tainted Nepal general’s promotion

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Kathmandu, Dec 25 (IANS) The UN has expressed concern at the Nepal government’s decision to promote an army officer whose brigade ran a secret torture camp and who is alleged to be responsible for the disappearance of 49 prisoners, saying he and others should not be promoted until a transparent and unbiased enquiry ...
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• Sass Rogando Sasot

  
  The Not SO Talented Delfin 'DJ' Justiniano Ocampo Montano II — Authority: 125
  Fight against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity Christmas is not merry for everyone.... Watching this clip moved me deeply and I hope you guys will watch it too. Be PROUD of Sass Rogando Sasot Another REAL Filipina HERO She is MY HERO!
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• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (22): Losing Your Job Over a Vulgar Comment Online

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 442
  From the Huffington Post : A school employee lost his job after he posted a one-word vulgarity in the comments section of an online article at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article asking readers what was the “craziest thing you’ve ever eaten” and invited them to submit the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Peru forensic team finds bodies of 25 children killed in Ayacucho during internal war

  
  Peruvian Times — Authority: 421
  A forensic team last week in Ayacucho unearthed the bodies of 25 schoolchildren and five adults, buried 26 years ago in three mass graves in the village of Umasi , nine hours south of the city of Huamanga, Ayacucho. The exhumation was ordered by the Ayacucho sub-provincial criminal court, acting on testimonies from ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the Time of Cholera

  
  (Mis)readings — Authority: 114
  Red and green are invading houses, malls, streets, churches, and stores. Along with the proliferation of Santa Claus outfits on TV ads, Christmas lights and decors adorning the campus, holiday greetings, and the chilly mornings, all these announce the start of the Yuletide season. Perhaps most of us are already busy ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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