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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”

 

• 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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• Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture

  
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  image source Stephen Lendman Activist Post Guantanamo detention constitutes torture, abuse and ill-treatment. Long-term detention compounds it. Force-feeding increases unconscionable pain and suffering. Doing so violates core rule of law principles. Around 130 of 166 Guantanamo detainees refuse food. Theyre ...
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• Steady successes of BDS against Israel due to morality of cause

  
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  Omar Barghouti writes in The National : Rooted in a decades-long tradition of Palestinian Arab popular resistance against settler colonialism, and inspired by the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the BDS movement for Palestinian rights takes to heart the words of Archbishop Tutu: “We do not want our ...
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• Guest Post: The Human Rights Impact of Drone Strikes

  
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  by Jonathan Horowitz [ Jonathan Horowitz is writing in his personal capacity. He is the Associate Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative’s National Security and Counterterrorism Program.] When assessing the legality of drone strikes, attention is often focused on the State that carries out the ...
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• Hospital Parking Fees: An Issue Of Health Inequity

  
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  As is well-documented in this space , I adopted two children with special needs. Both are followed by 2+ departments at local hospitals and adding in physiotherapy and occupational therapy, I would say that on average, we have five appointments a month year round. This does not include speech therapy which at some ...
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• Scientists finally clone human embryos

  
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  For some time, scientists have been able to craft precise genetic copies of many creatures. Whether they are animals, or single cells, they are similarly refereed to as clones. For various technical and perceived ethical reasons, the procedures involved have been difficult to replicate for humans. A new paper ...
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• Nicaraguans Defend Law Against Violence Towards Women

  
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  In April, a campaign called “I Support Law 779″ was launched on social networks to demand that a law protecting the physical, psychological and moral integrity of women be respected. The campaign consisted of writing a supportive phrase, taking a photo with the phrase, and uploading it with the tag ...
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• Israel Law Center: ‘Criminal Charges Should be Filed’ Over Al-Dura Case

  
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  Mohamed al Dura moments before his staged "death." Photo: Wikipedia. “Criminal charges should be filed, and Charles Enderlin should never be allowed to practice journalism in Israel again,” Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Center), said Monday following the release of a report by ...
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• Why companies should care about the human right to water

  
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  Water pricing, the business value of water and the human right to water are all issues that businesses face, especially in developing nations.
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• Guest Post: The Impact of Human Rights Law on Drone Strikes

  
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  by Jonathan Horowitz [ Jonathan Horowitz is writing in his personal capacity. He is the Associate Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative’s National Security and Counterterrorism Program.] When assessing the legality of drone strikes, attention is often focused on the State that carries out the ...
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• Brutal Torture in the Men’s Division of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp (Photo)

  
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  May 20, 2013 | By a Minghui correspondent from Liaoning Province, China ( Minghui.org ) After the Mainland Chinese magazine  Lens  published the article “Walking Out of Masanjia,” it received a lot attention both inside China and abroad. The  New York Times  and  Deutsche Welle  published follow-up ...
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• Toxic Drugs Given to Falun Gong Practitioners in Anhui Province Forced Labor Camp

  
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  May 20, 2013 | By a Minghui correspondent in Anhui Province, China ( Minghui.org ) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Anhui Province Forced Labor Camp tortured Falun Gong practitioners physically and spiritually using very cruel means. In order to “ transform ” practitioners, they injected them ...
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• China suspects presumed guilty until proven innocent

  
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  Spate of wrongful convictions reveal shortcomings of judicial system with prosecutors putting pressure on judges over verdicts It was a short drive that would cost them a decade. In May 2003, Zhang Gaoping and his nephew, Zhang Hui, picked up a hitchhiker en route to Shanghai and dropped her off in the coastal ...
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• Drones and the Human Agency of War

  
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  . This commentary previously appeared in the Algemeiner on May 17, 2013. Joshua Foust has written at Foreign Policy a misleadingly essay titled  ” A Liberal Case for Drone s.” I think there is such a case, but this it not it and a case for drones is not even truly the subject of the piece. The actual ...
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• Rights group criticizes Sri Lankas rights record

  
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  An international human rights group said Monday that respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated separatist Tamil rebels to end a civil war. Human Rights Watch said the Sri Lankan government has yet to follow through on its assurances ...
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• Ukraine rally after journalists are beaten

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Dozens of Ukrainian journalists have been staging a rally today outside the interior ministry in Kiev after the police initially refused to investigate the beating of two journalists. Olha Snitsarchuk, a journalist with the Channel 5 television channel and her husband Vladislav Sodel, a photographer with the ...
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• Saudi Arabia: Two Asian maids get 10 years, 1,000 lashes for sorcery

  
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  Asians were accused of practicing witchcraft on their employers A Saudi court sentenced two Asian housemaids to 10 years in jail and ordered their lashed 1,000 times each after they were found guilty of indulging in sorcery at their employers’ houses in the Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper reported on Monday. ...
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• Must-Reads from Around the World

  
  The Middle East Blog — Authority: 154
  Russia‘s Human Rights — The European Union has said it is increasingly worried about Russia’s human rights violations against activists and dissidents, according to Reuters. In a statement, the 27-country bloc cited Moscow‘s new law requiring charities with overseas funding to register as “foreign agents” ...
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• Grassroots Peacebuilding: Palestinian, Israeli Youth Turn To Sports

  
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  Skate4Life, a new international outreach initiative recently brought skateboarding to Gaza, allowing youth to learn a new activity while engaging with outsiders from the international community. (Photo/frame grab via YouTube) Since the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations have remained at ...
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• The Weeks before June 4: Deng Xiaoping’s remarks and the April-26 Editorial

  
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  « Previous translation/rendition: Struggling for the Ideological Switch Stands For all previous instalments, see this table. Most or all of the party-insider information used by Wu Renhua seems to be based on “Li Peng’s diary”. There seems to be wide-spread agreement that the diary – becoming known in 2010 ...
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