Tag: human rights
member name: Savo Heleta
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August 16, 2009 02:58 PM EDT --
Appearing on Bill Maher's show, Brad Pitt said that religion doesn't make sense to him but gay marriage does!
"I grew up in a religious family, in a religious community and it just doesn't make sense . . .
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July 01, 2009 07:52 AM EDT --
The Rwandan Parliament is currently discussing a draft law which would "require the sterilization of all individuals with intellectual disabilities."
Human Rights Watch said the proposed law was . . .
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May 12, 2009 02:40 AM EDT --
If a wife is spending too much money, her husband is allowed to slap her, a judge in Saudi Arabia said recently during a seminar on domestic violence.
Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily . . .
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November 13, 2008 05:02 AM EST --
Saudi Arabia is a country that uses special police force , called the "Society for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," to make sure that only "one narrow sect of Islam . . .
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June 24, 2009 07:26 AM EDT --
According to the American National Prison Rape Elimination Commission , about 60,000 inmates are raped and sexually abused each year in the United States.
The commission quotes a 2007 study by the . . .
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August 15, 2009 08:30 AM EDT --
Wasn't Afghanistan supposed to be a better place since the US government replaced the ruthless Taliban regime with the new "pro-democratic" government?
Not really!
Afghanistan has recently "passed . . .
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February 22, 2009 04:01 AM EST --
In a recent interview , US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged (read begged) China to continue investing in American Treasury bonds .
"We are truly going to rise . . .
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March 10, 2009 05:33 AM EDT --
It wasn ' t the right to vote that liberated women in the 20 th century. It wasn ' t the right to work outside home, receive education, or the contraceptive pill.
No.
It was . . .
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July 15, 2009 06:02 AM EDT --
The Israeli human rights organization "Breaking the Silence" has spent months interviewing Israeli soldiers who took part in the Gaza war that took place earlier this year.
German Spiegel writes . . .
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January 12, 2009 05:03 AM EST --
Dear Mr. Wiesel,
First time I read "Night," your memoir that describes your horrific experiences during the Holocaust, was in 2003. In my opinion, two books everyone in the world should . . .
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March 26, 2009 02:19 AM EDT --
The recent conflict between Israel and Hamas has created fury around the globe, especially in the Muslim world. A number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa saw some of the largest demonstrations . . .
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July 02, 2009 08:41 AM EDT --
The High Court in the Indian capital Delhi has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act any more.
This ruling overturns a 148-year-old British colonial law . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:40 AM EST --
I published this article in The Herald (South Africa) on May 17, 2007, but it still current and true; only the suffering of the people in Zimbabwe and the inflation rate have increased.
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January 29, 2009 06:23 AM EST --
France has proposed a debate at the United Nations about the future of humanitarian law during armed conflicts. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, writes in his opinion piece in the . . .
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April 04, 2009 10:54 AM EDT --
One of the reasons George Bush and the United States went to war in Afghanistan was to topple the ruthless Taliban regime with a long record of human rights abuses and bring "freedom and democracy" . . .
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June 26, 2009 09:56 AM EDT --
Germans used to love Barack Obama while he was running for president of the United States. They thought that he would deliver "change" and make the world a better place.
But now that Obama . . .
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April 20, 2009 01:24 PM EDT --
Delegates from about 30 countries walked out of a speech by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the UN anti-racism conference held in in Geneva, Switzerland.
In his speech, Ahmadinejad said . . .
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July 06, 2009 07:20 AM EDT --
I posted the article below last week. However, the article was flagged by the Gather gestapo and Gather editors as "intended for mature audiences."
The same story appeared in every major media and blog . . .
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November 20, 2008 10:05 AM EST --
When Muslims suffer around the world in the hands of Americans, Russians, Serbs, or Israelis, the Arab and Muslim countries are very active in condemning the attacks and violence. Their governments complain . . .
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March 06, 2009 09:46 AM EST --
The African Union has appointed former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, to chair a committee to investigate human rights violations in Darfur and be a liaison between the government of Sudan and . . .
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