human rights

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Original Technorati articles tagged “human-rights”

• in Politics
  Gay Adoption Bill Without Friends
  The young bill has not yet won over supporters.
  by killfive / on Nov 4, 2009
• in Politics
  The Moral Bankruptcy of the UN Human Rights Commission
  The UN's obsession with Israel hatred continues.
  by raypcook / on Oct 14, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “human rights”

• Gates Bars Torture Photos’ Release

  
  themcglynn.com/theliberal.net — Authority: 143
  Gates’ new authority comes from a law, signed by President Barack Obama last month. — By Nick Baumann | Fri November 13, 2009 9:17 PM PST —A sketch by Thomas V. Curtis, a former Reserve M.P. sergeant, showing how a detainee in Afghanistan was allegedly chained to the ceiling of his cell. ( Wikimedia ...
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• Rights Group Fires Back at Israel

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 729
  Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel and its backers of waging a campaign of misinformation in an effort to discredit the group. HRW has been a leading voice in condemning alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. The Guardian: America’s leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its ...
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• Something For The State Department To Take Note Of

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 143
  I recognize that the Sino-American relationship is affected by a whole host of complicating factors. Realpolitik plays a tremendously important role in influencing the nature of the relationship, and as a consequence, the issue of human rights will be but one factor affecting the relationship. But there is no reason ...
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• What’s the Point of Those Military Commissions Again?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 777
  Yesterday’s announcement that the Obama administration will try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 suspects in federal court has been hailed as everything from “an important step forward for justice” by Human Rights Watch) to “a step backwards for the security of our country [that] puts Americans ...
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• Iraq & Afghanistan U.S. Occupation Casualties & Other Events

  
  themcglynn.com/theliberal.net — Authority: 143
  *************************************************** 11/14/09 Reuters: Gunmen kill policeman and his brother in northern Baghdad Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a policeman and his brother in northern Baghdad’s Shaab District on Friday night, police said…Gunmen in a speeding car shot and wounded the ...
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• Black folks protesting: "Obama is nothing but White power in Black face."

  
  THE INTERSECTION OF MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 553
  Last year Black folks represented and came out in record numbers to vote for Barack Obama in the presidential elections. This was a good thing I suppose; even in casting a shadow of blind support in the eyes of many and used as ammunition by the Nay Sayers - you know who Im talking about, right? I guess this is why ...
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• BNP conference backs membership vote

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  BNP delegates vote overwhelmingly in favour of party-wide ballot on whether to allow non-white people to join The British National partys senior members have voted "overwhelmingly" in favour of holding a party-wide ballot on whether to allow non-white people to join. The party agreed to a court order last month to ...
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• British torture in Iraq, again

  
  Dear Kitty. Some blog — Authority: 445
  From British daily The Independent : Ministry of Defense investigating fresh Iraq abuse claims By Paisley Dodds, AP Saturday, 14 November 2009 Some 33 allegations of abuse involving British soldiers who served in Iraq are being investigated, the Ministry of Defense said today. The rape, torture and ...
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• Creationist: Murdering Jews may be preferable to lying to prevent the murder

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  I’m cutting the monster a lot of slack with the headline. P. Z. Myers publicized the e-mail exchange involving Bodie Hodge, a minor deity at the anti-science, creationist organization Answers in Genesis (AiG).  Myers was nice to the guy, contrary to the usual creationist cartoon of Myers as somehow immoral for ...
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• Students take out awareness rally on child rights on Children’s Day in Assam

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Jorhat (Assam), Nov.14 (ANI): On the occasion of Children’s Day (Nov.14), students here took out a public awareness rally on child rights.The country marks Children’s Day on the birthday of first prime minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru known for this affection towards children. The nation celebrated Nehru’s 120th ...
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• EU Court Orders De-Christianisation of Europe

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 643
  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered all crucifixes removed from state schools in Italy. This decision will now be used as a precedent to clear away all Christian symbols in schools and other public offices across Europe. The ECHR in Strasbourg ruled last week that the presence of crucifixes ...
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• ‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’

  
  duckrabbit - we produce beautifully crafted multimedia — Authority: 466
  If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably by the photographer Stephano de Luigi on the VII website. I’m wracking my brains to imagine how he (or someone else) could have got it so wrong, and how no-one else has spotted it? Of course ...
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• Salt Lake City Enacts Gay Rights Ordinance with LDS Support: Reflections

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 427
  I haven’t yet commented on one of the big stories this week—the decision of the Salt Lake city council to enact a gay rights bill with the support of the LDS church. I haven’t written about this decision because I’ve been thinking it through. Steve and I had actually just returned from a week and a half ...
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• Elements of a Nuclear Weapons Program Threat Assessment for Burma

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
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• US-Burma meet: The ball is now squarely in junta’s court

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  SATURDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2009 10:25 BY: SAI WANSAI During US President Obama’s Asian tour from 13th to 19th of November most attention will be given on issues regarding North Korea, Iran, the economy, climate change, energy, human rights, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Jeffrey Bader, senior director for ...
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• Kaowao News-ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ေျမျမွဳပ္မုိင္းအႏၲရာယ္႐ွိေနဆဲျဖစ္ၿပီး ကမၻာတတိယေနရာတြင္႐ွိ

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္း႐ွိေနသည့္ေဒသမ်ား ေကာင္းဝါ(ႏုိဝင္ဘာ-၁၃)။ ။ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္အေျခစုိက္ ...
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• National Auditor Refuses to Sign off EHRC Race Police’s Accounts

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 643
  The National Audit Office has refused to sign off the Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s £70 million accounts at the same time that Trevor Phillips has been formally accused of making money on the side from the taxpayer-funded organisation. The EHRC, famous for its tally of anti-white legal actions (which ...
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• Monks ‘too scared to protest’ NO!!!!!-Monks boycott junta chief in Sri Lanka

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 453
  Nov 13, 2009 (DVB)–Burmese monks living in Sri Lanka have said they will enact a boycott of religious services for the visiting Burmese junta chief in protest against mistreatment of monks in Burma. Senior General Than Shwe, who has presided over the ruling military government since 1992, this week made a rare ...
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• 9/11 Trials - Fear of justice or fear of truth?

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 613
  A group of men commit a horrible mass murder. Still others helped in the planning of the murder. Law enforcement apprehends the surviving individuals allegedly involved in this horrible crime. A... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
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• Obama video in Singapore omits human rights

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 473
  Singapores leading newspaper, The Straits Times, is showing a slightly different version of this Reuters video of President Barack Obamas speech in Tokyo earlier today. The Reuters video shown by the Straits Times leaves out what Obama says about human rights. Obama said "the United States does not seek to contain ...
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