BlogHer (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... like to celebrate all the mothers who have birthed social progress and given me the gift of more human rights. Make no mistake about it: many of the bravest, loudest, pushiest social reformers were moms. They thought about their lives and their children's futures, and they knew that to give their kids the best chances for success, barriers had to be broken.
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Will Ferrell, Anjelica Huston, Jennifer Aniston, Ellen Page, Judd Apatow, Mana, Sylvester Stallone, Eric Szmanda, Sarah Silverman part of 30-day call-to-action to free imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient The Human Rights Action Center and the U.S. Campaign for Burma have joined together to create “Burma: It Can't Wait,” a first-of-its-kind, 30-day campaign using influential celebrity...
Who are Americans? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an independent non-governmental nonprofit organization that works to prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. HRW , the largest human rights organization based in the USA (New York), investigates and exposes human rights violations...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kathy Najimy, actress and activist, will keynote this year's Human Rights Campaign annual Gala Dinner in Orem June 14.
Jackfruity (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bloggers Unite is urging bloggers worldwide to focus on human rights issues on May 15: While the words might change from country to country and are sometimes taken for granted, human rights represent one of the universally agreed upon ideas — that all people are born with basic rights and freedoms that include life, liberty, and justice. This year marks the 60th anniversary...
And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) | yesterday
not so very long ago, if a former united states president came out and said something like this , the world would be rocked to its foundations... what the hell has happened to us...? Former President Carter says the U.S. "has abandoned the basic principle of human rights." The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday. Former...
The Black Rod (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The proponents of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights knew they were in trouble in 2004. - Projected construction costs had risen 47 percent in three years. - A cornerstone of the project, an endowment fund to bring tens of thousands of students to the museum in Winnipeg each year, had become prohibitively expensive. - And the amount of money the private sector would have to come up...
Library Boy (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has published an overview of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act that deals with the spreading of hate messages. The section has been in the spotlight recently because of controversy surrounding a number of human rights complaints, including those over the reprinting in Canada of the Danish Mohammed bomb cartoons...
Palestine Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jimmy Carter The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire...
Palestine Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9529.shtml Report: Ethnic cleansing continues in Jaffa Report, Arab Associatoin for Human Rights, 11 May 2008 "The...
Oz Conservative (Free subscription) | yesterday
... progressive thought also holds that if gays are not allowed to marry they suffer a major loss of human rights. If gays can't marry, the argument goes, they are being excluded from a vital human institution - which then makes marriage sound like a good thing. So we end up with a mixed message about marriage. But what would happen if a progressive was forced to confront this...
Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
However, shareholders and rights groups including Amnesty International, who have previously stated that , continue to push Google to improve its policies in countries known for human rights abuses and limits on freedom of speech. One of the shareholder proposals was from the office of the Comptroller of New York City, which oversees the New York City employees retirement system....
Irna (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A German online newspaper on Friday lambasted the release of 2007 human rights report by the European Union Parliament as being selective and biased. The latest study stresses human rights violations in countries like China, Russia and Belarus while explicitly trying to play down the role of human rights breaches in places like the US where thousands of people...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... not letting 40-year-old Clark, as a "homeless" person, jump to the top of the housing queue. His Human Rights would have been impnged. So he was given the priority treatment requested , got what he wanted, and then he raped and killed i4 year old Zuzanna Zommer. I guess her right to life didn't quite trump Clark's human rights. The charity that shilled for him...
Down With Everybody (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Montana’s governor told a top Canadian consular official last year that he was willing to consider commuting the death sentence of Alberta-born killer Ronald Smith - the only Canadian on death row in the U.S. - and transfer him to a Canadian prison if Canada would guarantee he’d be kept behind bars for at least [...]
The 3 the latest comments published by users on Human Rights :
zipdadoda | 04/19/2008
While the UN continues to slap itself on the back for it's stupendous job well done, occasionally the realities do get told. You Tube has removed the video but in this viral environment, we are trying to track it down.
zipdadoda | 04/18/2008
A lawyer for Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia , sentenced in early April to over three years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power, says that his client has been denied an appeal. Hu had 10 days to appeal his conviction, but Hu’s legal team was not allowed to visit Hu in prison to discuss an appeal. Hu was formally charged in February after he made public letters and recordings...
don magherad | 03/20/2008
Stay whit the human rights ,no olimpic games in cina . don't make the same mistake pilato in the bibble don't wash your hand whit blood
