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• 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
• in Lifestyle
  Your Role In Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery
  Mark Regier, a faith based investor, discusses the threats of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
  by makingsense / on Jan 26, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “human rights”

 

• YouTube Comes Up With Human Rights Channel

  
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  YouTube launched a Human Rights channel on Thursday. This venture by YouTube is in association with non-profit partner Witness and video playlist creator Storyful. This channel is dedicated to the curation of human rights stories uploaded by people, to shed light on the issues that do not grab media attention. ...
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• The Ethics of Human Rights (60): Absolute Human Rights and Threshold Deontology

  
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  ( source ) There’s this difficult contradiction between two moral intuitions about human rights. On the one hand, we tend to feel very strongly about the extreme importance of a particular subset of human rights. Especially the right to life, the right not to be tortured and the right not to be enslaved are among ...
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• Eurovision does little to help human rights in Azerbaijan

  
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  http://www.guardian.co.uk Eurovision does little to help human rights in Azerbaijan This year’s host city, Baku, has had a makeover but journalists and activists say that under the surface, life is as grim as everElnur Majidli, a shy 22-year-old Azeri, lowered his voice when he talked about the time he ...
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• Fight Continues for Blind Activist’s Family

  
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  As blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng settles into life as a student in New York following a daring escape from home confinement and a six-day stay in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, a highly scrutinized legal battle over the fate of his nephew is heating up.
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• Germany: Wanted Posters Against Delivery of Tanks to Saudi Arabia

  
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  The German activist artist group “Center for Political Beauty” [de] launched a much buzzed-about campaign on May 21, 2012 to prevent the sale of tanks made in Germany to Saudi Arabia. The campaign 25,000 Euro [de] promises to award this amount to people who give tips that lead to the conviction of one or more ...
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• We must defy Strasbourg on prisoner votes – Daily Telegraph

  
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  “The judges in Europe have exceeded their authority by trying to overrule British law – by David Davis and Jack Straw.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2012 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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• Eurovision does little to help human rights in Azerbaijan

  
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  This years host city, Baku, has had a makeover but journalists and activists say that under the surface, life is as grim as ever Elnur Majidli, a shy 22-year-old Azeri, lowered his voice when he talked about the time he spent in prison. He mainly read books to pass the time – 102 in all. "I discovered George ...
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• India Ink: Maharashtra States New Policy of Allowing Forest Guards to Shoot Tiger Poachers is a Necessity, Officials Say

  
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  An Indian states new policy of allowing forest guards to shoot tiger poachers is seen as a necessity.
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• Eurovision glitter must not blind us to human rights abuses in Azerbaijan

  
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  This atricle originally appeared on Huffington Post UK As we head towards one more Eurovision final, will a spotlight also be shone onto the serious human rights abuses in Azerbaijan, this year’s host? Or will the Azerbaijani government succeed in burnishing their image and hiding the reality of violence, ...
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• India Ink: Maharashtra State’s New Policy of Allowing Forest Guards to Shoot Tiger Poachers is a Necessity, Officials Say

  
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  http://www.nytimes.com/ India Ink: Maharashtra State’s New Policy of Allowing Forest Guards to Shoot Tiger Poachers is a Necessity, Officials Say An Indian state’s new policy of allowing forest guards to shoot tiger poachers is seen as a necessity. published date:Fri, 25 May 2012 07:30:31 GMT
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• PCHR Weekly Report: 6 wounded, 30 abducted in 90 Israeli incursions this week

  
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  Friday May 25, 2012 01:59 by IMEMC Staff In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 17– 23 May 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that 4 non-violent protesters were wounded, and 30 Palestinians were abducted, including 12 ...
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• Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family

  
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  In his first major interview the Chinese activist said since his escape the retribution against his family has intensified Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family is a post from: Global Trends Magazine - Celebrities Trends | Sports Trends | Science News
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• Truth Out Today, 24 May 2012

  
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  Thursday 24 May 2012 On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 31 Percent of All American Homeowners Are Underwater on Their Mortgages, and More In today’s On the News segment: Europe is now drawing up plans for the departure of Greece from the euro zone, the housing crisis continues, the pharmaceutical industry ...
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• China: EU Rights Talks Sliding Toward Irrelevance

  
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  Tweet Widget Facebook Like The European Union needs to hold China accountable for its human rights obligations under international law or face the prospect that its human rights dialogue with the world’s second largest economy will become irrelevant. ...
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• Daily Times editorial on CJP’s Strange, ominous, unconstitutional pronouncement on emergency & martial law

  
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  EDITORIAL: Strange pronouncement The Supreme Court (SC) three-member bench hearing the missing persons case in the Quetta Registry headed by Chief Justice (CJ) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has been scathing in its remarks during the proceedings about the seriousness of the situation in Balochistan and the obvious lack ...
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• All Sessions Filled - Spring Inter-Group Dialogue Series

  
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  PDF Document, 40kb Category: Equity and Human Rights
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• Killer of Etan Patz Confesses

  
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  Since this cute little boy disappeared in 1979 the NYC Police have been looking for his killer. I remember how much the City was involved with this case.  CNN just released the following statement: Pedro Hernandez, a former Manhattan store clerk who once lived in the same neighborhood as Etan Patz, was arrested in ...
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• Stop Sexual Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers

  
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  Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently revealed that the number of farmworkers sexually harassed by their supervisors numbers in the hundreds of thousands. These vulnerable women often have no idea of their rights, and most of these crimes go unreported » Take the story of “Patricia.” Patricia was in her early ...
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• An Important Win - City Council unanimously passes Model Employer of People with Disabilities

  
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  PDF Document, 30kb Category: Equity and Human Rights
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• Egypt: Elections and Human Rights

  
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  Human Rights Watchs researcher Heba Morayef Cairo on human rights in Egypt since the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak as Egyptians are going to the polls to elect their new leader.
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