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• Government admits the ineffectiveness of censorship

  
  Mahmood's Den — Authority: 100
  With six international human rights organizations releasing stinging reports on the freedom of expression in the Arab world, Bahrain was not spared any of that wrath. And deservedly so for the thousands of websites which have been blocked over the past ten years, a campaign which has intensified especially over the ...
  1 week ago

• The worlds most ethical tourism destinations

  
  Gadling — Authority: 597
  Filed under: Activism , Mauritius , Latvia , Serbia , Bahamas , Costa Rica , Dominica , Palau , Argentina , Chile , Uruguay , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism Each year, non-profit organization Ethical Traveler conducts a survey of the worlds developing nations, analyzing their progress toward ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britain Overruled on Abu Qatada, a Terrorism Suspect

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  The European Court of Human Rights said that Abu Qatada cannot be deported from Britain to his native Jordan because his trial there would be tainted by evidence obtained by torture.
  2 weeks ago

• Pressure for Military Intervention in Syria Grows

  
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  Pressure for a military intervention in Syria is growing as President Bashar al-Assad sent out mixed messages on his intentions. One member of the Arab League, Qatar, has called for troops to be sent in to stop the regime’s killing of Syrians opposed to Assad. Qatar played a leading role in support of ousting the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Have You Heard from Johannesburg Continues with Two Installments January 29

  
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  As the five-part Independent Lens presentation, Have You Heard from Johannesburg , continues, one may be inspired to ask “What was the basis of Ronald Reagan’s intransigence?,” for the former president was a formidable opponent of imposing sanctions on South Africa because of the human rights violation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Have You Heard from Johannesburg Continues with Two Installments January 19

  
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  As the five-part Independent Lens presentation, Have You Heard from Johannesburg , continues, one may be inspired to ask “What was the basis of Ronald Reagan’s intransigence?,” for the former president was a formidable opponent of imposing sanctions on South Africa because of the human rights violation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guantanamo: An Oral History

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 724
  Guantanamo: An Oral History
  3 weeks ago

• Galvanizing Canadians

  
  CitizenReporter.org — Authority: 97
  Galvanize 1.  b :  to stimulate or excite as if by an electric shock -(merriam-webster) Photo by palindrome6996 News out of Canada today still lacks in-depth information and examination, but so far what is coming out is that a same sex couple who got married back in 2005, while trying to get a divorce, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Civil society human rights organisation reports 90 cases of criminal acts by police

  
  East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin — Authority: 95
  East Timor Legal News Source: Timor Post 19/12/ 2011 - The  Executive Director for the Timorese Human Rights Defender (HAK) Rogerio Viegas Vicente said that based on of HAKs report some members of the Timorese National Police (PNTL) have been involved in 90 criminal cases in the country but the legal process for ...
  3 weeks ago

• FCC to Explore Helping Low-Income Americans Afford Internet Access

  
  SEO Consultant — Authority: 140
  FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Monday that he will be ordering sweeping changes to the Lifeline low-income telecommunications connectivity program. The Lifeline program was formed to help low-income Americans pay for telephone connectivity Originally posted here: FCC to Explore Helping Low-Income ...
  3 weeks ago

• Notes From Guantánamo

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 724
  My Guantánamo Nightmare. Lakhdar Boumediene was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for seven years without explanation or charge until his case made it to the Supreme Court, leading to a decision which bears his name and his release ordered by a federal judge. The NYTimes has his and another account from another former ...
  3 weeks ago

• Have You Heard from Johannesburg? Premieres on PBS, January 12, 2012

  
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  Can you imagine having a non-identity, legally defined by what you are not? Consider if women were the favored group and anyone who is not a woman is identified as a non-female. Or if we divided the world into adults and non-adults (or children and non-children). Since “nons” are clearly inferior and, therefore, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kuwaitis Denied Justice in Guantanamo Bay

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 591
  Jenifer Fenton reports from Kuwait. This month marks the third year that President Barack Obamas campaign promise to "close Guantanamo" (modified soon after his inauguration to close the detention facility by January 2010) will have gone unfulfilled. A chronology of the Obama administrations postponment of the closure ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cambridge rights activist denied entry into Bahrain

  
  Boston Blog — Authority: 116
  Bahraini border authorities refused entry to Cambridge human rights activist Richard Sollom, who was scheduled to visit the country to witness the appellate court trials of medics who helped protesters during last spring’s uprising. Sollom, the deputy director at Physicians for Human Rights in Cambridge, said that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brockton man killed in Freetown car accident

  
  Boston Blog — Authority: 116
  A 24-year-old Brockton man was killed tonight in a single-car crash on Route 24 South near exit 9 in Freetown. The man was a passenger in the car. His name is being withheld pending notificaiton of his family. The accident happened at around 4:20 pm, according to state police. The driver, a 27-year-old Fall River man, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amnesty: the Arab world one year later

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 591
  Amnesty International has released a new report on the state of human rights in the Middle East a year after the uprisings began. Below are a few excerpts on Egypt and Tunisia. It is pretty scathing on SCAF’s handling of the transition in Egypt: On the negative side too, the SCAF maintained the state of emergency ...
  3 weeks ago

• US seems intent on making gulf a bigger hastag.#BigOil -#iran iraq iranelection humanrights...

  
  Michael L. Love/proclus/GNU-Darwin tumblr blog — Authority: 143
  US seems intent on making gulf a bigger hastag. #BigOil - #iran iraq iranelection humanrights bahrain
  3 weeks ago

• US Wants Investigation: Bahraini Activist Beaten, Hospitalized

  
  Care2 Causes: Human Rights — Authority: 114
  The US State Department has expressed concern about the assault on rights activist Rajab and called on Bahrain to undertake a full investigation/
  3 weeks ago

• Sophie’s Bahrain gift criticised

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  The Countess of Wessexs acceptance of jewels from Bahrains royal family has been criticised amid reports of human rights abuses under the regime.
  3 weeks ago

• Voina burns Prisoner-Van for Art

  
  Nerdcore — Authority: 132
  Die russische Künstlertruppe Voina hat an Silvester einen Brandanschlag auf einen Polizei-Van verübt, in dem Gefangene auf Protesten abtransportiert werden. Man kann nun über den künstlerischen Anspruch dieser Aktion trefflich streiten, ich selbst bin Voina-Fan und der künstlerische Wert ihrer Aktionen ergeben ...
  4 weeks ago

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