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• What is persecution?

  
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  It is generally accepted that to be an asylum seeker and then accepted as a refugee, one must be fleeing persecution. With all the discussion of exactly what constitutes an asylum seeker/refugee of late, it is appropriate to look at the definition of persecution. In 1951, persecution for the purposes of being granted ...
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• Raphael Lemkin: No Honour In His House

  
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  Human RightsRaphael Lemkin: The Chronicle of Higher Education writes: “Raphael Lemkin’s single-minded dedication led to the adoption of the Genocide Convention, in 1948. Most of his family had been killed in the Holocaust.”Photo Credit: U.N.Source: ChronicleAn article, by Jay Winter, in The Chronicle of ...
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• House Keeping - As the lingering foreclosure crisis pushes residents out of their homes, a campaign moves in

  
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  The Anti-Eviction Campaign scouts out abandoned homes and arranges for people to live in them, matching “homeless people with peopleless homes.” "Its not necessarily about what’s right or what ought to happen, but fundamental human dignity.” Read more →
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• Myanmar’s Two Child Policy and the Human Rights Paradoxes By: Dr. Tun Kyaw Nyein

  
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  Myanmar’s Two Child Policy and the Human Rights Paradoxes By: Dr.Tun Kyaw Nyein The local authorities in Rakhine State reaffirmed a 2005 regulation imposing a two child policy for Bengali Muslims in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. This policy evoked thunderous howls of protest from human rights organizations as ...
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• 10th Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona

  
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  The Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival returns to the city once again, and on this occasion with a two-fold premise. Festival Cinema Drets Humans Barcelona from 16 to 26 of may 2013 On the one hand, to promote and discover locations for the dissemination and projection of works by committed filmmakers and, ...
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• Ethiopia: The Corruption Game

  
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    House cleaning or window dressing? Are they playing us like a cheap fiddle again? For a while, it was all about the Meles Dam and how to collect nickels and dimes to build it. That kind of played itself out. (Not to worry. That circus will be back in town. The public has the attention span of a gold fish. So ...
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