Top Stories for the tag "human rights" voted on by you! RSS feed May 16, 2008

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Secret services 'acting like death squads'

News – Western secret services in Afghanistan are acting like South American "death squads'', a United Nations human rights expert claims. Prof Richard Alston of the UN's Human Rights Council, said the intelligence agencies…

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Charges urged for Kenya 'torture'

News – Kenya's defence minister and army chiefs should face prosecution over the alleged torture of civilians, the state-funded human rights body says.

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Bloggers Unite for Human Rights

Family – I'm writing today about Domestic Violence for "Bloggers Unite for Human Rights", because it is a human right for all of us to live our lives free of fear and free of abuse. Domestic Violence happens in all kinds…

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The Right to Be Human

Do No Evil – A participation in Bloggers Unite for Human Rights, May 15th. The right to simply be human lies at the core of every person and presents a simple answer to complex violations of rights.

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May 15th - Respect for Human Rights Begins at Home

Do No Evil – Bloggers Unite for Human Rights - this talks about fixing the problem rather than relating the problem. Read and see if you agree. Feel free to comment

Hundreds Of Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
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Hundreds Of Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation

Do No Evil – The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical…

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In Burma, a U.N. Promise Not Kept

Politics – When a parent abuses or neglects a child, government steps in to offer protection. But who steps in when government abuses or neglects its people?

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Torture: Straight from the Top?

Do No Evil – After 9/11, our highest government officials sanctioned a culture of cruelty that put our troops, our Constitution, and our own standing in the world at risk. The administration has been fighting to stop a public…

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Atrocities In The Congo at Supercynic's Weblog

Women – Enough about Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton. Let's talk about the women who are being brutalized day in and day out in the Congo.

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Lazy Man's Guide to Changing the World

Do No Evil – Some people are just so lazy. They'd like to change the world, but it's just such hard work! Isn't there an easy option that involves doing absolutely squat?

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CIA Rendition Flights Haunt Romania

Do No Evil – Romania has still not convincingly answered repeated calls from the European Commission and others to clarify allegations that it hosted CIA detention centers and that rendition flights passed through its territory.

Undercover in Tibet
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Undercover in Tibet

Do No Evil – As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the biggest and most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years, Dispatches reports on the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation after spending three…

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Blacks Suffer Persistent Injustice in War on Drugs

Do No Evil – African Americans have suffered much higher rates of arrests and imprisonment than whites in the nearly 30-year-old 'war on drugs', according to 2 new reports. While white citizens constitute the large majority…

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Nandita Das: Taking a social conscience to the screen

Celebrities – With a masters degree in social work, Indian actress Nandita Das is more keen to talk about women's empowerment and human rights than participate in the glamour of Bollywood.

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Teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath

Careers & Jobs – When Wendy Gonaver was offered a job teaching American studies at Cal State Fullerton this academic year, she was pleased to be headed back to the classroom to talk about one of her favorite themes: protecting constitutional…

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My Introduction to the US War on Drugs

Politics – "Today's drug users are so stigmatized by America's failed War on Drugs, and lawmakers are so intent to punish, rather than rehabilitate non-violent drug offenders, that society somehow manages to overlook prisoner…

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Shareholders Reject Bid To Strip Gay Protections At Wells…

Money – A motion by a Wells Fargo shareholder to remove protections for LGBT workers from the company's non-discrimination policy was defeated this week at its annual meeting. Wells Fargo & Co. is the fifth largest U.S.…

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A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers

News – Whether gazing at a computer or into the eyes of a former dictator, numbers cruncher Patrick Ball is on the front lines of justice.

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The Gymnast And the Czar

News – Putin did not announce, eight years ago, his intention to create an autocracy in which all television channels would be under Kremlin control; in which elections would be decided, by him, ahead of time; in which…

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For Chinese, a Shift in Mood, From Hospitable to Hostile

News – But as the country enters the final 100 days before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the mood has changed. Many Chinese have begun to regard foreigners as adversaries interfering in domestic affairs or, at worst, bigots…

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Watchdog group says Chevron complicit in Myanmar

Do No Evil – A human rights watchdog group on Tuesday accused Chevron Corp of complicity in human rights abuses along a natural gas pipeline in Myanmar in which it holds a stake and said Chevron could be sued.

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Groups Wrangle with CIA over "Ghost Prisoners"

Politics – The CIA has refused to release more than 7,000 documents related to its programs of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, and is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Freedom of Information lawsuit by human…

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America Kowtows to China

News – George Bush should go ahead and let the victims and survivors of Chinese labor camps sue, even if China does threaten to quit shipping their tainted blood thinner...

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Amnesty International Lobby Day on Capitol Hill Focused…

News – Some 200 Amnesty International activists -- from across the United States and from Nepal, Tunisia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe -- will hold discussions with members of Congress and their staff…

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United States Should Boycott Olympics: Send Message to China…

Politics – According to...fascism is a system of government marked by 1) centralization of authority under a dictator...The Chinese autocratic regime gleefully fulfills this definition.

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