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| Human Rights Story (6): Shylock | | 2008-08-27 14:37:41 | | (source)
From Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Shylock’s Speech to Antonio (I’ve added a “translation” into present-day English):
Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances.
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (86): Human Rights and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs | | 2008-08-27 03:52:46 | |
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. Abraham Maslow
Economic theory is or was dominated by the assumption of the homo economicus, the human being [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (85): Prejudice and Allport’s Scale | | 2008-08-25 05:02:27 | | (source)
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. Gordon Allport
Gordon Allport, a psychologist, created Allport’s Scale in 1954. It’s a measure of the manifestation of prejudice in a society. The scale contains 5 stages of prejudice, ranked by the increasing harm they produce.
Stage 1: antilocution
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Antilocution [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Poem (52): The Laws of God, the Laws of Man | | 2008-08-23 05:04:14 | | (source)
The laws of God, the laws of man, A.E. Housman
The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Not I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me;
And if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Jury Rights Day ~ September 5 | | 2008-08-22 15:40:23 | | On September 5 of this year, Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) activists across the nation will once again celebrate the right of jurors to render a verdict based on conscience by handing out literature, writing letters to the editor, appearing on interviews, and speaking to groups. For more information, go to www.fija.org.
September 5th marks the 338th anniversary of the trial of William Penn – a trial that laid the foundation of our First Amendment Constitutional Rights of Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Peaceable Public Assembly. Many Governors have signed Proclamations in recognition of Jury Rights Day.
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| Human Rights Cartoon (98): Overlegislation and the Big State | | 2008-08-21 11:37:24 | | (source, Pavel Constantin)
I agree that a complex contemporary society needs a complex system of law, and I’m the last one to adopt a libertarian philosophy in which the state is evil (necessary evil or not) and should be kept as small as possible. I accept that the state has a role to play in poverty reduction [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Poem (51): Grenadier | | 2008-08-21 01:51:13 | | (source)
Grenadier, A.E Housman
The Queen she sent to look for me,
The sergeant he did say,
`Young man, a soldier will you be
For thirteen pence a day?’
For thirteen pence a day did I
Take off the things I wore,
And I have marched to where I lie,
And I shall march no more.
My mouth is dry, my [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (55): China, Confucianism and Authoritarianism | | 2008-08-20 04:32:04 | | Confucianism, the traditional Chinese ethical and philosophical system based on the teachings of Confucius (551 BCE - 479 BCE), is often blamed for the lack of freedom and the authoritarian and anti-democratic form of government in China. This post examines the merits of this attack.
Confucianism is not a religion, although many believe it is, perhaps because of [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Babies’ Rights & the Definition of Marriage | | 2008-08-19 18:08:31 | | by Jennifer Mesko, Editor, CitizenLink:Values voters should look closely at what the presidential candidates had to say on the issues that matter. Leading up to Saturday’s Civil Forum on the Presidency at Saddleback Church, the Rev. Rick Warren said he would address “issues that are bridging divides in our nation, such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate [...] | | By: Free Shared Mobile | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (54): The Indian Caste System | | 2008-08-19 06:18:24 | | (source)
In India, a caste is a hereditary group in a traditionally and rigidly stratified society. People belong to a caste because they are born into one, because their parents belong to one. Mobility is minimal.
The different castes each have a ranking in a social hierarchy, or a social status, and people from lower ranked castes [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Start Making Money With Resell Rights | | 2008-08-14 01:32:23 | | There are many people all around the world starting a home business or are working from home. There are so many good opportunities when working from home that it can be hard to tell what the best options for a person first starting out with a home business are. Making money with resell rights are a very cost efficient way to make money when working from home. There are a few different ways to make money with resell rights. You can first buy a product with a certain type of resell rights and then turn around and resell that product to other people. You can also create a product and sell the product and its resell rights to customers. Its all a matter of figuring out if you want to buy or sell and then figuring out what type of resell rights you want. Both ways are a very good way to make money when working from home. For people who dont want to focus on creating a product or dont have any idea on how to create a product, buying resell rights to a product is a gre | | By: Easy Online Money 4 U | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (84): Libertarianism | | 2008-08-12 02:45:53 | | (source, source)
Why is avoiding coercion a supreme end that dominates all other ends? What makes noncoercion superior to justice, equality, freedom, security, happiness, and other values? If any of these ends are superior to noncoercion, then would not coercion be justified if it were the sole means in some situations for achieving the superior value? [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (83): What To Do With the Intolerant? | | 2008-08-12 02:45:03 | | (source)
The liberties of the intolerant may persuade them to a belief in freedom. This persuasion works on the psychological principle that those whose liberties are protected by and who benefit from a just constitution will, other things equal, acquire an allegiance to it over a period of time. John Rawls
I’ve written before about the vulnerability [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Beijing’s Olympics and Human Rights | | 2008-08-10 22:13:00 | | There are a couple of reasons as to why I shall not be watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Human RightsSince the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the human rights and China issue has divided many. While some have leapt to China’s defense citing exaggerated claims by an “unfair media” fact is, the sources documenting abuse are many, including the U.S. State Department's annual People's Republic of China human rights report and Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports, which consistently document the PRC's abuses in violation of internationally recognized norms.Only last week we read about Annie Yang’s plight. Her story is one of many describing disturbing details suffered in labour camps that incidentally are located only miles from many Olympic venues. Annie was forced to sit straight for weeks on an uneven surface in a torture method referred to as “sitting on a high chair’.“Every day, one was forced to sit for over 18 hours a day with a strict posture – | | By: American Interests | | |
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| Animal Rights Terrorists Strike Again | | 2008-08-10 21:00:00 | | The animal rights terrorists have struck again. This time, they firebombed the home and car of two researchers at UC-Santa Cruz in California. According to Inside Higher Ed , one researcher (who works with mice) had to help his children climb down a ladder from the second story of their home to escape after the firebomb exploded. And the site notes that back in February, masked animal rights terrorists broke into a professor's home during a birthday party for the teacher's daughter. This is terrorism,...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (53): Good Governance | | 2008-08-10 06:23:59 | | (source)
Bad governance is a cause of underdevelopment, poverty, war and human rights violations. Major donors and international financial institutions are increasingly basing their aid and loans on the condition that the recipient countries reform their systems so that these conform to the requirements of good governance.
Good governance means a good way to take and implement [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Beijing Olympics & China’s Human Rights Record | | 2008-08-08 18:21:55 | | A nation of 1.3 billion people welcomes the world as it hosts the Beijing Olympics which started on 08/08/08. (Photo Credit: AP) Beaming with national pride, China pulls out a rousing 3 ½ -hour...
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| The Steve Cohen Lesson as GOP 1st Amendment Rights Threatened | | 2008-08-08 14:58:35 | | COHEN WINS BIGYesterday Steve Cohen (who lives down the block from my sister) took out Nikki Tinker by something like 75%. If you recall, Tinker reeked of desperation to the point where she resorted to race baiting and anti-Semitism, going down in flames. Is there a lesson here? Is it possible that the American People are finally "Getting it"? If so Cohen's victory has terrifying implications for Barack Obama. If Cohen could defeat the politics of abject racism in Memphis, is it possible the days of playing the race card are over?Granted Barack Obama came out and, as ... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
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| The United States Chide China Over Human Rights | | 2008-08-07 02:55:39 | | Ah yes, the global model of human rights, headed by the angelic and pristine figurehead of G.W Bush. I gather we’re supposed to bob our heads in assent with a healthy bout of self-righteous condescension. We (the western world) have pointed the stick at China over Sudan, frowned (yes frowned, since we haven’t done anything [...]
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| Human Rights Facts (52): The War on Terror | | 2008-08-06 08:12:43 | | The War on Terror, started by the US government as a response to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and later joined by other governments, has had and continues to have grave consequences for the human rights of their citizens and of citizens of other countries. This is a high price for an uncertain gain.
However, [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Bragging Rights :: Makeup Makes Me Happy is Now on Alltop! | | 2008-08-06 06:26:00 | | So of course since this is MY blog, I will use it every chance I get to brag about it's success! What I started back in April 2008, I never thought in a day, that MMMH (Makeup Makes Me Happy) would have made this much progress and I am loving it! In just a few short months my 'blog' has turned into a full website and has been recognized many of the big players in the beauty and blogosphere world. At only two months in we were picked up by the elite Beauty Blog Network (hence, that was a first time record-breaker in its own; usually you have to wait at least three months before even being considered), at three months we were invited to join Total Beauty, and now at barely four months into our existence and we have been selected by Alltop as one of their featured beauty websites!So what exactly is Alltop?Alltop, is known as the go to source on the web for a composition of all the top stories on the internet today, from all of the best sources. They selectively choose the best blogs and w | | By: Makeup Makes Me Happy | | |
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| Diploma in IP Rights, Biosafety and Regulatory Affairs | | 2008-08-05 09:28:17 | | 1 Year Post M.Sc Advanced Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights, Biosafety & Regulatory AffairsEligibility : M.Sc in Microbiology/Biotechnology/Biochemistry/ or an allied area of biological sciences with 50% marks. The total intake is 10. Applications can had from the Biotechnology Centre Office, M.S. University, Baroda up to August 8, 2008, on payment of Rs. 200/- by cash or Rs. 250/- (if the form is needed by post) by DD in favour of 'Coordinator, PG Diploma Course in IPR', payable at Baroda. Entrance Test is scheduled on August 12, 2008 in the Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology Centre from 10:00 AM onwards. For further information contact : The CoordinatorPost M.Sc Diploma CourseDepartment of Microbiology and Biotechnology CentreFaculty of ScienceThe Maharaja Sayajirao University of BarodaVadodara - 390 002Phone : 0265-2794396/2750498Fax : 0265-2792508Email : admin@msubiotech.ac.inClick here for further information.What you need for Biotech Career?MBA Biotech Course | | By: helpBIOTECH India | | |
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| President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vows not to budge an inch on its rights | | 2008-08-04 17:08:49 | | TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his visiting Syrian counterpart on Saturday that although Iran welcomes talks on its controversial nuclear programme and it will not budge an inch on its rights.“We will take part in any negotiations and talk about any issue which consolidates our nuclear rights,” the Iran’s state-run website quoted Ahmadinejad as telling [...] | | By: Free Shared Mobile | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (97): Corruption | | 2008-08-04 09:31:01 | | (source)
Forms of corruption
Corruption can take on many forms:
From limited competition when awarding government contracts to the setting up of wasteful mega-projects designed specifically for the corruption opportunities these can yield.
From small bribes by ordinary citizens “in order to get things done” to larger payments as a means to escape criminal justice.
From the nepotism of a [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (51): Apostasy | | 2008-08-04 04:44:09 | | Apostasy (from the Greek word for defection) is the explicit and formal abandonment or renunciation of one’s religion. The word has a pejorative connotation and is mostly used by the adherents or dignitaries of the former religion of the apostate. It is used as a condemnation. Most if not all religions consider defection a sin, [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Ottawa Welcomes ‘Race for Rights’ Cyclist | | 2008-07-29 14:20:19 | | Jul 28, 2008 By Cindy Chan, Epoch Times Ottawa Staff A former Team Canada member and Pan American medallist arrived in Ottawa today as part of his cross-Canada bike tour to support human rights in China in the run-up to the Beijing Olympic Games. Photo: Former Team Canada member and Pan American Games silver medallist [...] | | By: Pan 2007 | | |
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| CfA: Human Rights School, Prishtina, 1-9.2008 | | 2008-07-28 11:26:00 | | Call for application
Youth Initiative for Human Rights office in Kosovo, is organizing 6th Human Rights
School.
This Human Rights School is part of a large project organized in the Western...
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| The Reader’s Bill of Rights | | 2008-07-28 04:57:37 | | Tips to encourage reading
The Reader’s Bill of Rights
Everyone has the right to read. Here’s The Reader’s Bill of Rights to help you make the most of that right: Readers have:
The right to not read.
The right to skip pages.
The right to not finish.
The right to reread.
The right to read anything.
The right to escapism.
The right to read [...] | | By: Vasai Info | | |
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| My Lesbian Wedding Part One – We’ve Got Rights! | | 2008-07-26 02:54:58 | | Four years ago, I was sitting in a hospital room with my mother, who was about 10 years into her battle with diabetes. The day is vivid and the moment is forever burned into my life – George W. Bush was re-elected. (article) This is a very emotional subject for me because when that happened a deep truth hit me hard… there would be no chance in hell for gay marriage rights for the next four years. I had been holding it together for my mom, keeping a brave face; but the moment the news flashed the story I broke down and cried… it still makes me cry for such a grave injustice to have happened. Now flash forward four years, and my mother has been back in the hospital since January. (Please send prayers!) I happened to be sitting with her overnight on May 14th and I had the TV on with her when the news flashed a story that brought me to my knees; A vote was to occur the next day over whether to overturn the ban on gay marriage in California or not! As luck would have it, CNN reported | | By: Lesbian Mommy | | |
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| Your Debt Repayment Rights | | 2008-07-25 00:00:00 | | Following an era of indulgence and over spending, America is right now embroiled in a credit mess with thousands of people in over their heads in consumer debt. It can be a frightening and stressful situation as more and more mortgages are foreclosed and people are losing their homes and cars and everything else to [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| Migration and Human Rights | | 2008-07-21 06:14:37 | | (source)
This post is kind of a summary of the stuff I’ve written about international migration and how it is relevant to human rights. I’ve tried to put it all in a simple drawing:
The darker the kind of grey, the more precarious is the rights situation of the people involved. Citizens typically enjoy the best human [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (96): Modern Slavery | | 2008-07-18 10:32:46 | | (copyright Monte Wolverton)
Slavery was officially abolished worldwide at the 1927 Slavery Convention. Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”.
Slavery is illegal everywhere and yet it still exists everywhere. Experts estimate that today [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Story (5): 1984 | | 2008-07-18 10:32:30 | | (source)
Excerpt from Orwell’s 1984:
There was an outburst of squeals from the cage. It seemed to reach Winston from far away. The rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition. He heard also a deep groan of despair. That, too, seemed to come from outside himself.
O’Brien picked up the cage, [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Poem (50): The Second Coming | | 2008-07-18 10:30:13 | | The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Poem (49): The Slave’s Lament | | 2008-07-18 10:29:41 | | The Slave’s Lament, Robert Burns
It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthrall
For the lands of Virginia-ginia O;
Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more,
And alas! I am weary, weary O!
Torn from &c.
All on that charming coast is no bitter snow and frost,
Like the lands of Virginia-ginia O;
There streams for [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Poem (48): The White House | | 2008-07-18 10:29:11 | | The White House, Claude McKay
Your door is shut against my tightened face,
And I am sharp as steel with discontent;
But I possess the courage and the grace
To bear my anger proudly and unbent.
The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,
A chafing savage, down the decent street;
And passion rends my vitals as I pass,
Where boldly shines your [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (50): Poverty and Economic Growth | | 2008-07-18 05:13:55 | | (source)
Economic growth is the increase in value of the goods and services produced by an economy or a country. It is the percent rate of increase from one year to the next in gross domestic product or GDP of an economy or a country. In order to correct for the population sizes of different economies [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (82): African Americans | | 2008-07-17 15:33:15 | | (source)
President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage and an insult in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the nomination of an African-American to be [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| San Fransisco Court to Decide Religion’s Rights on Gay Adoption | | 2008-07-16 22:05:37 | | Okay, let me start off by quoting part of the first amendment in the Bill of Rights; “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”
I quote this because a San Fransisco court is in the middle of “prohibiting the free exercise thereof” part of the [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| CfA: New MA in Human Rights and Genocide Studies | | 2008-07-13 11:41:00 | | A consortium of European universities is pleased to announce the start of a new joint post-graduate degree programme in human rights and genocide studies. The programme aims to provide participants...
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| Human Rights Quote (78): Honor Killings | | 2008-07-13 08:23:36 | | The right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions. Hina Jilani, lawyer and human rights activist
An honor killing is a murder, carried out by a family to punish a female family member who has supposedly brought dishonor on the family. The acts which are the cause of [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (77): Civil Disobedience | | 2008-07-13 08:23:14 | | (source: http://www.freewebs.com/phamho/literature.html)
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil disobedience is a dangerous thing. Laws are [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (76): Prerequisites for Democracy | | 2008-07-13 04:15:58 | | (source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/)
There are numerous examples of countries which do not meet a number of supposed cultural “preconditions” for democracy, and which nonetheless have managed to achieve a surprisingly high level of democratic stability. The chief example of this is India, which is neither rich and highly industrialized nor nationally integrated, nor Protestant, and which nonetheless [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (48): Resource Curse | | 2008-07-12 03:27:34 | | (source: http://solitaireinternational.wordpress.com/2007/05/)
Why do countries with lots of natural resources tend to do worse than countries with less resource wealth, both in terms of economic growth and in political, social and human rights terms? We see that countries which own lots of natural resources such as diamonds, oil or other valuables that are found in the [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (75): Real and Normative Universality of Human Rights | | 2008-07-11 03:27:26 | | No doubt the commitment of many countries to human rights is less than authentic and whole-hearted. Yet, the fact of the commitment, that it is enshrined in a constitution, and that it is confirmed in an international instrument are not to be dismissed lightly. Even hypocrisy may sometimes deserve one cheer for it confirms the [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Prices are low and land rights are being addressed but is it safe to buy in Northern Cyprus? | | 2008-07-10 15:52:00 | | Cyprus has long been a favourite for British holiday home owners and now, after decades of uncertainty, the north of the island is becoming as popular as the south.It is 34 years since the Turkish invasion of the northern third of the island. But today, people can easily move between the Turkish north and the Greek south, and there are relatively few signs of conflict – indeed, the line dividing the communities is itself a tourist attraction. Although the north remains less affluent than the south, all areas have seen major infrastructural improvements as their economies have grown in recent years.Northern Cyprus covers 3,300 sq km and is widely regarded as less developed and more naturally beautiful than the south of the island, with a profusion of beaches and mountain tracks. It has a rich history, is well known for its flora and fauna and notably boasts 38 species of orchid.
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| Human Rights Cartoon (95): Waterboarding | | 2008-07-10 03:43:23 | | (copyright http://www.rall.com/)
Waterboarding is an old torture technique from the Spanish Inquisition. It consists of immobilizing the “target” on an inclined board, head down, with cloth covering his or her face. Pouring water over the face simulates drowning. The victim inhales water, and is convinced that he or she is drowning and about to die. As [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| San Francisco Gays declare independence from Human Rights Campaign | | 2008-07-09 08:33:58 | | It looks like San Francisco gay activists are declaring independence from the HRC.
This Saturday, July 12 at noon, gay activists in San Francisco will “celebrate independence” from the Human Rights Campaign by giving out rainbow flag stickers in front of the HRC store in the Castro as a “symbol of LGBT liberation.” They encourage former [...] | | By: SF Blogg | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (46): Religious Liberty | | 2008-07-08 10:41:43 | | (source)
Religious liberty or the freedom of religion and belief is a human right. It is the right to be protected against coercion in matters of religion, to be free to practice and profess a religion of your choice, in private as well as in public, to change your religion, or to practice no religion at [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (74): Democracy or Experts? | | 2008-07-08 05:12:36 | | The proper judge of the expert is not another expert, but the user: The warrior and not the blacksmith for the sword, the horseman and not the saddler for the saddle. And evidently, for all public (common) affairs, the user, and thus the best judge, is the polis. Cornelius Castoriadis
The best method of choice is [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (73): Equality of Opportunity | | 2008-07-07 04:24:40 | | (source: http://www.al3x.net/)
Those who are at the same level of talent and ability, and have the same willingness to use them, should have the same prospects of success regardless of their initial place in the social system. In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (94): Types of Equality | | 2008-07-07 04:21:31 | | (copyright by Bill Mauldin)
Here’s a short overview of different types of equality (I’ll come back to this in future posts):
1. Equality before the law
This concept is linked to the concept of non-discrimination. Laws must be equal for everybody and should not discriminate between people. Everyone should be protected and punished by the law in the [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (72): Gender Discrimination | | 2008-07-07 03:42:13 | | The inequality of the sexes has deprived society of a vast pool of talent. If women had the free use of their faculties along with the same prizes and encouragements as men, there would be a doubling of the mass of mental faculties available for the higher service of humanity. Every restraint on freedom of [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (71): Democratic Peace | | 2008-07-05 05:39:15 | | “In an increasingly interdependent world, Americans have a growing stake in how countries govern, or misgovern, themselves. The larger and more close-knit the community of nations that choose democratic forms of government, the safer and more prosperous Americans will be, since democracies are demonstrably more likely to maintain their international commitments, less likely to engage [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (45): Health | | 2008-07-04 04:49:34 | | This post focuses on health and health care. I already wrote posts on the specific subjects of infant mortality, maternal mortality and life expectancy and will not come back to these in the current post.
Health is a human rights issue in two respects.
First, people have a right to health care and health insurance. Article 25 of [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Poem (47): Refugee | | 2008-07-04 02:10:38 | | Time for one of my own:
Refugee (2), FIlip Spagnoli
I’m a stranger, like hope in a world that doesn’t change
or change in a world that doesn’t hope.
And like all strangers I wash my hands separately,
and I scratch my own back,
and I no longer wonder ’bout the double meaning of “asylum”
‘cos there is none:
you have to be [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (44): Dehumanization | | 2008-07-03 08:34:42 | | Here’s a small catalogue of examples of dehumanization, of the ways in which humans try to exclude others from humanity, to deny them equality, to ridicule them, to render them objects in their plan, instruments for their advancement or pleasure. It ranges from the harmless national stereotypes and political humor, to the incitement of genocide. [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (93): Crimes Against Humanity | | 2008-07-03 05:54:26 | | This is from the infamous Nazi newspaper of Julius Streicher, Der Sturmer, from 1934. The cartoon praises the Nazi Ministry of Culture for removing Jewish teachers from German classrooms. Streicher was convicted at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity and hanged in 1946.
A crime against humanity is a large scale atrocity against a body of people, such [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Three bidders jockey for north-east Indian air rights | | 2008-07-03 04:24:00 | | INDIA: Up to three airlines are bidding for the right to operate a dedicated regional airline for India's north-eastern states, the Press Trust of India reports. One of the bidding airlines is state-run Alliance Air (now renamed Air India Regional after its merger into Air India), the other two are Universal Empire and Ace Airlines . "Three airlines have participated in the tender for the regional airline," Minister for Development for North-Eastern Region Mani Shankar Aiyer told the PTI. The government wants the airline to use Guwahati as its hub and serve 11 regional airports currently operational in the region, including Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Jorhat, Silchar, Dimapur, Imphal, Agartala, Aizawal and Bagdogra. In return, the winning airline will be eligible to receive government subsidies from the North Eastern Council, which wants a regional air service operational by the end of this year. The PTI reports that 25 new airports will be built under a five year plan and a projected 400 month | | By: Tingplik Express | | |
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| France: Guilty-by-Association Prosecutions Violate Rights | | 2008-07-02 15:38:00 | | Improve Criminal Justice Safeguards, Provide Legal Counsel for Terror Suspects (Paris, July 2, 2008) – In its effort to fight terrorism, France routinely arrests and prosecutes people for being associated with possible terror suspects, undermining international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.“Using the criminal justice system is the right way to fight terrorism,” said Judith Sunderland, Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “But prosecuting people because of who they know and what they think sacrifices basic rights, and that is wrong in principle and dangerous in practice.” The 84-page report, “Preempting Justice: Counterterrorism Laws and Procedures in France,” looks at how France uses a vaguely defined ‘terrorism association offense’ to arrest large numbers of people based on minimal evidence. Human Rights Watch documented credible allegations that terrorism suspects are subjected to oppressiv | | By: Tingplik Express | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (43): Genocide | | 2008-07-02 09:21:21 | | (photo showing the excavation of mass graves in Srebrenica)
Genocide is the deliberate, systematic and violent destruction of a group (an ethnic, racial, religious, national or political group). This destruction can take many forms:
the outright murder of (the majority of) the members of the group
inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction
measures intended to prevent births
systematic rape as [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (42): Discrimination | | 2008-07-02 06:06:34 | | I’ve written before on discrimination, especially gender discrimination (also here) and discrimination based on sexual orientation. This post tackles the subject more generally.
Discrimination, in its non-political and non-legal sense, simply means the recognition of differences. In the political and legal sense, it means unjustifiable differences in treatment between groups of people, most often the unjustifiable [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (70): Humanity | | 2008-07-02 01:40:17 | | The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Democrats and the Bill of Rights | | 2008-06-30 22:11:15 | | The reaction by liberals to last week’s Supreme Court ruling that Americans have the right to keep and bear arms has had me thinking about where they stand when it comes to the constitution. To me the Supreme Court ruling was a no-brainer:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (41): Xenophobia | | 2008-06-30 09:04:59 | | (copyright http://www.davidlachapelle.com)
Xenophobia, the contempt or fear of strangers or foreign people, often people of a different race or ethnic group, is not considered to be a disease like other “phobias”. It is part of a political struggle against adversaries, much like racism is. (Whereas racism is certainly xenophobic, xenophibia doesn’t have to be racist; it [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (69): Religious Liberty | | 2008-06-30 03:23:27 | | “False doctrine should be checked on its first appearance; the civil power should unite with the church in punishing those who dared to attack the established religion, and such only were punished by the Inquisition.” Samuel Johnson, aka Dr Johnson.
“Religiously wrong, a motive of legislation which can never be too earnestly protested against. Deorum injuriae [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Citigroup warns of Barclays rights issue deficit | | 2008-06-28 22:58:00 | | By Philip AldrickLast Updated: 12:01am BST 28/06/2008Barclays' £4.5bn fundraising falls about £9bn short of what is necessary to absorb credit-related writedowns and bring the bank's capital in line with European peers, Citigroup claims in a note to clients.The British bank's shares came in for more heavy selling following the note, dropping to 289½p at one stage yesterday before ending the day down 5¾ at 298p.Citi analysts said that simply moving Barclays' core tier one capital in line with its closest peer, Royal Bank of Scotland, would require an extra £2.5bn. If Barclays was to write down its credit-related positions to the same degree as RBS the figure "increases to circa £9bn".Barclays has taken just £1.7bn of writedowns this year, compared with £5.9bn at RBS, leading some to believe that it has not been sufficiently prudent in its assumptions.The bank thought it had allayed some concerns this week by securing backing from several existing shareholders as well as new ones | | By: How to be Rich, Happy and Free from Scams | | |
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| Human Rights Story (3): Sex Strike | | 2008-06-27 04:10:30 | |
Abbreviated excerpt from Lysistrata by the Greek playwright Aristophanes (a comic play on the sex strike led by the women of Greece in a successful attempt to force their husbands to stop making war. The men, suffering from the absence of sex, agree to make peace):
Lysistrata (one of the women): “If all women join together [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Quote (68): Aids Disaster | | 2008-06-27 04:03:43 | | HIV/Aids is the disaster that keeps on killing. Day after day, families are destroyed, economies wiped out and communities crushed. DAVID ANDREWS, chairman of the Irish Red Cross, launching a report to recommend that the international community declare the HIV/Aids epidemic a “global disaster”
Some facts about the AIDS epidemic are here. The number of people [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Clinging To Our Rights | | 2008-06-26 21:00:00 | | Thursday, June 26, 2008, will go down in history ... not as the day that the Supreme Court found a new right, but the day the Court recognized an ancient and unalienable right. The right to keep and bear arms has been with us since before the founding of this great nation. The dedication and perseverance of millions of American gun owners paid off when five justices agreed that not only does the Second Amendment protect our right to own and use firearms, but that we have a basic right of self-defense...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| Lowongan di UNDP (PROGRAMME MANAGER - HUMAN RIGHTS, LEGAL AND JUSTICE SECTOR REFORM (INTERNATIONAL) | | 2008-06-23 19:56:40 | | (lowongan yang berkaitan dengan PBB dan UNDP terbaru bulan ini, silakan lihat posisi lainnya di Klik BLOG INI)
PROGRAMME MANAGER - HUMAN RIGHTS, LEGAL AND JUSTICE SECTOR REFORM (INTERNATIONAL)
Location : Jakarta, INDONESIA
Application Deadline : 07-Jul-08
Type of Contract : ALD International
Post Level : ALD-3
Languages Required :
English
Duration of Initial Contract : 1 year (extendable)
Background
UNDP Indonesia’s mission is [...] | | By: masdhenk | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (92): Public opposition to migration | | 2008-06-23 08:53:52 | | (copyright http://www.claybennett.com/)
The public in most developed countries (or rich countries) is often opposed to immigration:
(source: http://pewresearch.org/)
There are two main reasons for this opposition. Opinions about immigration are closely linked to perceptions about threats to a country’s culture, for example the language. We see a lot of anxiety in the US about English as the first language and the [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Facts (40): Asylum | | 2008-06-23 08:23:53 | | This post on asylum is a follow-up on a previous post on refugees, which was in itself a follow-up on a post about the broader topic of migration.
Asylum is a form of protection that allows individuals to remain in a country, provided that they meet the definition of a refugee. Eventually, they may become permanent [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (91): Corporate democracy | | 2008-06-23 04:12:07 | | Given the importance of work and production in the life of individuals, it is justified to give them some say in the way in which the means of production are used. The owners of the means of production should not be entitled to decide unilaterally on the conditions, organization, purposes, processes and meaning of production. [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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