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We Wish You a Merry Human Rights Day

17 hours ago ago from Hate

The holidays are upon us and those neighbors who snub us of a salutation from January to November are greeting us again. Turkeys are in ovens and a crystal ball descends on the Big Apple, thus we get to feel that ephemeral benevolence once more. Since we're already a few miles into our holiday marathon and since we're all jolly and jovial, there's one other holiday worth considering. On December 10 the world will celebrate Human ...

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Global Water Crisis: You’d Think Water Would be a Basic Right

20 hours ago ago from Green Geek

Green Geek Search this site: Green Geek Home BioFuel Environment Gardening Science Tech Affiliates Global Water Crisis: You’d Think Water Would be a Basic Right Tech In the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, about 1 million poor people pay up to 30 times more for water of dubious quality brought to them in old tanker trucks than ...

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Newsweek (December 10, 2009)

23 hours ago ago from Incredible Grace

JUSTICE DELAYED IS NOT JUSTICE DENIED On Human Rights Day, a renewed argument for action in Darfur. By Angelina Jolie Today we observe Human Rights Day, founded more than half a century ago when the international community declared that respect for human rights and dignity is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world, and resolved that the horrors of World War II should never be allowed to recur. But they did. After ...

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On Human Rights Day 2009: A Look at Iran

9 hours ago ago from WorldSecurityNetwork.com

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Statement from CHRI s London Roundtable, 13 Oct 2009

5 hours ago ago from Tracy's space - Windows Live

Dear All: I envelop a civil society statement that is the resultant of a Roundtable convened by CHRI in London on 13th October 2009. The statement is targetted at the Commonwealth caputs of regimes, and the Commission of the Whole ( Moo-cow ) meeting in London following hebdomad where senior functionaries will plan for the Commonwealth Heads of Regime Meeting ( CHOGM ) in Trinidad this November. The Roundtable meeting discourse ...

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BBC News - Azeri bloggers test limits of democracy

9 hours ago ago from BBC

By Tom Esslemont BBC News, Baku Critics say the press is heavily controlled in Azerbaijan To bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, the notion of freedom has gained a new meaning. It was the word their friends chanted in loud support as the two men were ushered into the back of a prison van, destined for jail. That was in November. They had been sentenced to a combined total of four-and-a-half ...

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