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Original Technorati articles tagged “human rights”

• in Politics
  Mitt Romney: The Anti-Cupid?
  An Australian's viewpoint on Romney's intent to prevent same-sex marriages.
  by kimmybabe74 / on Nov 22, 2012
• in Film
  Big Oil and the Greedy Lying Bastards That They Are
  Greedy Lying Bastards exposes big oil-- the filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh chats with Bryan Cain-Jackson about the film
  by makingsense / on Mar 27, 2012
• in Film
  Death With Dignity: How to Die in Oregon (2011; now on DVD)
  Would you want the right to choose when it’s your time?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 6, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “human rights”

 

• Thein Sein becomes first Burmese president to visit US since 1966

  
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  Former generals trip sparks human rights protests as President Obama uses controversial name Myanmar for country Former general Thein Sein became the first Burmese president to visit the White House in almost 50 years on Monday – a visit human rights groups protested was premature, citing alleged ethnic cleansing ...
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• Ex-Arg. dictator Videla died after shower fall

  
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  Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a hemorrhage suffered in a fall in the shower while he was serving a life sentence for human rights violations. The 87-year-old was found dead Friday in his prison cell, five days after he fell. The ...
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• Do Americans Really Care How Their Clothes Are Made?

  
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  Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good. Making shirts in this packed metropolis of 12 million people, Sheuli Akhter, 20, made decent money — about $140 a month — by the impoverished standards of rural Bangladesh. But she missed the family benefiting from ...
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• ‘Operation Total Eradication’? Russia NGO crackdown threatens leading pollster

  
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      Russia’s NGO law branding overseas-funded groups as foreign agents is impeding the country’s civil society development, says a former Finance Minister. “The law on NGOs as foreign agents that the Duma has passed is a clear restriction of …
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• My memories of a dictator

  
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  Buenos Aires, Argentina­ By Marcos Brindicci Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died on May 17 at the age of 87 inside his cell in a prison near Buenos Aires, where he was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was the first President and most emblematic figure of the military junta ...
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• IRAN: National conservative clerics move to sanction women from presidential bids

  
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  WNN Justice – Iran (WNN/AI) Tehran, IRAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Iran’s ban on female presidential candidates contradicts several articles of the country’s Constitution as well as international law and should be removed, says human rights advocates Amnesty International. Thirty women have registered to stand as ...
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• Murong Xuecun: Open Letter to the “Nameless Censor”

  
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  Writer Murong Xuecun has spoken out against government censorship since his various weibo accounts were deleted by authorities. In a recent piece published in the Guardian , he condemned the “new censorship campaign.” In another strongly-worded piece, he now writes an open letter to the “Nameless ...
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• A Tale of Two Factory Disasters: What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh

  
  The Middle East Blog — Authority: 154
  As the final death toll of the Bangladesh factory collapse reached 1,126 last week, a small section of the second floor of a shoe factory in Cambodia gave way. Two people died, but witnesses said it was a stroke of luck that the number wasn’t much higher. Then, on Monday, ten more workers in Cambodia, including a ...
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• State Dept. Spokeswoman Refuses to Criticize Iran for Excluding Women Candidates from Election

  
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  State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to criticize Iran for excluding women candidates from the upcoming "election" there. The remarkable exchange, which  concludes with Psaki saying this  (“We want this [election] to be free and fair. There’s a lot of ways to, of course, define that.”) happened at ...
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• Setback for Afghan women’s rights, but ‘civil society blossoms’

  
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  Afghanistan’s parliament has rejected a law banning violence against women in “a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago,” Reuters reports : President Hamid …
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• EVAW Law to protect women & girls in Afghanistan stalled in Parliament

  
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  WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Going in what numerous human rights organizations say is a ‘giant step backwards’, the Lower Afghan Parliament, known as the Wolesi Jirga, has been debating the reversal of a protective law called the EVAW – Elimination Against Violence Women Law. This Law was ...
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• The Catholic Church and Extension of Human Rights to LGBT Persons: When Good News Becomes Bad News

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 146
  Time spent by the bedside of someone recuperating from illness is musing time. Its the kind of space in which thought reaches deeper inside toward the heart. Musing time opens the door to thinking coupled with reverie, prayer, dreaming. As a result, it can lead to deeper recognitions, ones that see patterns in our ...
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• Videla: Argentine Asesino Dead

  
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  The author would like to thank COHA Director Larry Birns and recently appointed COHA trustee, Henry Raymont (formerly with The New York Times and the International Press Service), for their cooperation and sharing their extensive, first-hand expertise of Argentina’s Dirty War. COHA Senior Research Fellow Frederick ...
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• Anti-Asian Prejudice, A Collection of Images

  
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  anti-japanese war propaganda, with a mixed message Indiscriminate targeting of the Japanese during WWII was apparently OK , but well-meaning people thought there was a risk that some of the Chinese in the US would be mistaken for Japanese. Hence this: 1941 Time Magazine infoblurb showing how to tell the ...
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• J-School in the Land of the Junta - By Dustin Roasa

  
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  Can Burma build a free media or will the government’s new soft-sell propaganda win out?
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• In crackdown on NGOs’ foreign funding, India follows the ‘sicks among the BRICs’

  
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  “Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world’s largest democracy,” The Washington Post’s Rama Lakshmi , reports from New Delhi : India …
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• White House playing a name game on Burma

  
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  Whats in a name? For the Obama administration, a lot, when it comes to the repressive, long-isolated nation of Burma. Seven months after the presidents historic trip to the Southeast Asian country , Obama will welcome President Thein Sein to the White House on Monday. But the administration has been working through ...
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• 20 May 2013

  
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  good morning. I want people to ponder on this thought. By your silence over what is happening with Obama and the current Government you have become part of the evil crime. Here is a news article for you to read: ...
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• Human Rights Watch urges Zambia to drop charges in sodomy case

  
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  The Human Rights Watch has urged authorities in Zambia to release two men who were arrested and charged on allegations of sodomy earlier in May. Zambian police arrested and charged a gay couple after the family of one of the men reported the relationship to authorities.  AFP reported that James Mwape, 20, and ...
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• Chinese SOEs in Latin America--CSR and Culture

  
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