Convert Journal: Social justice
The Catholic teaching of social justice reflects our obligation to love one another. It guides our conscience and actions with every person made in God's image, regardless of how they may differ from us or even how they treat us. This broad teaching at its core, affirms the dignity of the person. We hold that all human life is sacred, from the moment of conception to natural death. The respect for human dignity is the basis of our social teaching. Simply put, every person is our brother or sister and should be treated accordingly by us individually and by government. We are one community in [more...]
Date: 2010-10-05 10:00:00
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Gender Justice and Development: Local and Global ...
When: June 9-11, 2011 Where: Bryn Mawr, PA, USA Deadline: December 17, 2010 The past several decades have brought world-wide agendas about rights and justice to the forefront of international policy debates. Throughout the 1990s, international United Nations conferences opened space for debate on the environment, human rights, population, and women. While it can be said that the economic and political crises of the new millennium have slowed the pace of commitments to the pursuit of equality for all, debates about how best to promote [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 18:32:39
Human Rights Violation – | Dubai Metblogs
In a daring human right violation move by the local airline, a blind passanger was declined to board his flight. He is an American national of Jordanian origin who travelled all the way from US to Dubai on another airline, and was booked onwards to Jordan., on a local gulf carrier. A blind American Muslim traveller says a Dubai airline refused to allow him to fly because of his disability. Zuhair Mahmoud said he was told by flydubai airline staff members that the carrier’s policies did not allow blind travellers to fly unless accompanied by someone else. No wonder what Govt of UAE, UAE [more...]
Date: 2010-10-06 07:58:35
Spencer defends Geller in...The Guardian! - Jihad Watch
Those who doubt the sincerity of this statement should note that human rights organisations the world over have said and done virtually nothing about the plight of apostates from Islam or the Islamic justifications for honour killing. Who loves those victims more: the self-proclaimed human rights activists, or Pamela Geller?... There is more. Check out also the comments section, which is filled with the expected horde of abusive and fact-challenged Leftists and Islamic supremacists. I left a couple of comments there, at Seaton's invitation, and you may wish to do so also -- although remember [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 16:52:00
When will this conspiracy of silence end?
Members of the International Council of Elders began a 24 hour visit to the Gaza Strip on 16 October; the delegation was led by the former President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary Robinson. In a statement, Mrs. Robinson said that the .... No human rights organization or regime championing human rights and freedom has any credibility as long as eleven thousand Palestinians suffer in the prisons of a hateful criminal occupation while the rest of the world stays silent. [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 10:49:12
"Economic Justice" as "Social Justice", Christian News Commentary
"Economic Justice" as "Social Justice" Dr. Paul Kengor Grove City College July 30, 2010 Editor's Note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Historically, social justice has meant different things to different people, and equally so today, where the term remains as frustratingly elusive as ever. Like the very progressives that champion the term, the definition seems to evolve based on progressives' ever-evolving purposes. Most exasperating is that many who speak the language of social justice really mean "economic justice." Unlike traditional [more...]
Date: 2010-07-30 12:49:00
HUFFINGTON POST: Human Rights Activists Must Work To Halt Iran's ...
Upholding human rights is not “meddling” in another country’s internal affairs. It is a universal responsibility, especially when the Iranian people have been demanding it themselves, sacrificing their freedom and their lives for it. …Human rights must be taken into serious consideration at any negotiating table at which Tehran officials sit, not only for the sake of Iranians, but also for Middle East stability and world [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 12:07:35
Rights Activist Hu Jia's Appeal Denied | Loopholing - Law, Legal ...
For two consecutive days, prominent Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia’s defense lawyers were not allowed see Hu to discuss his appeal. They were stalled by authorities until the appeal period expired. Lawyers and family members aren’t able to confirm whether Hu is still in a detention center or has been transferred to a prison. Here’s more on the situation. On April 3rd, human rights activist Hu Jia was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party. He was charged with subverting state power, an accusation often used to put rights activists in prison. But according [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 14:00:27
Pakistannews24.com » China's human rights condition worsening: Report
“The threat of political imprisonment affects the work of people and organisations who are engaged in human rights advocacy or who are involved in commercial activity in China, including US citizens,” Dorgan and Levin said in a statement. “The chilling effects of political imprisonment result in lost opportunities for the Chinese government to make progress on, and for Chinese citizens to enjoy, the development of human rights and the rule of law,” they said. Recognising China’s achievement in several fronts, including health and education, commission said the Chinese government [more...]
Date: 2010-10-16 15:08:52
BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS -BIHR: URGENT APPEAL:Seeking ...
The Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR), founded in 1992 by Dr. Akram H. Chowdhury, Pioneer of human Rights sector in Bangladesh, is a non-governmental organization working to create awareness among sectoral groups for the protection, promotion of human rights and to ensure respect for and realization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the fundamental provisions of the Constitution of [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 18:06:00
We Hold These Truths…
What about human rights? If, like morality, human rights are part of a mutually agreed upon code of behavior, how can these rights be inalienable? What if everybody does not agree? For example, what gives us the right to tell other nations that their human rights record is dismal? Why should we be so outraged when human rights are not respected? If the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not conferred to us by our Creator, then by whom or by what is it conferred? By majority rule? If so, then these rights are not inalienable at all. What if the majority decides by mutual [more...]
Date: 2010-10-01 01:38:00
ParisPointGriset: Blog Action Day 2010 Water as a Human Right
Access to clean water and sanitation is a human right over objection from the United States. Today, nearly one billion people lack basic access to safe drinking water. Access to clean water is not just a human rights issue, it’s an environmental issue, an animal welfare issue. A sustainability issue. Water is a global issue and it affects all of us. Lagos, Nigeria, tap water for sale It is a simple truth that clean water and having a toilet and washing one’s hands help keep one alive . Bob Dewar, British High Commissoner, [more...]
Date: 2010-10-15 18:29:56
UK: Human Rights Committee report on Identity Documents Bill ...
Browse > Home / Non-U.S. / UK: Human Rights Committee report on Identity Documents Bill The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has today published its Second report and welcomes the Identity Documents Bill. The Committee says the Bill will significantly enhance human rights by addressing concerns that ID cards and the National Identity Register would interfere with the rights to privacy and non-discrimination. Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Identity Documents Bill Bills before Parliament 2010-11: Identity Documents Bill Joint Committee on Human Rights However, the Committee raises several [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 17:52:35
Why Does China Have So Many Human Rights Issues? - Korean - China ...
Why Does China Have So Many Human Rights Issues? Im a Filipino & I witnessed alot of Chinese who belittle us, were all asians why do they think their superior Many of my countrymen are mistreated in China by Chinese, why do chinese people have bad attitudes? Chinese belittle filipinos, japanese belittle chinese & koreans, americans belittle latinos, africans & asians, europeans belittle americans why isn’t there Love? Related Posts I Want To Audition For Sm Entertainment But I Have A Few Problems?( 0 )i want to be an actor auditioning for SM Entertainment i have to brag to tell you [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 15:11:41
1.5 billion working population lacks formal employment, social ...
Marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2010, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon notes that more than half of the world’s working population – totaling some 1.5 billion – is in vulnerable employment and lacks social security. They ‘often earn too little to provide for their families, let alone climb the ladder of economic opportunity, Mr. Ban said in his message on the Day (17 October). More than 60 million people around the world have been pushed into poverty by the global economic crisis, with unemployment up by nearly one third since 2007. Bridging the gap from [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 18:50:16
The New Media Journal | The Islamic Republic Lobby & US Human ...
About Dr. Arash Irandoost Dr. Arash Irandoost is the founder of Pro Democracy Movement of Iran (PDMI) which focuses on human rights and pro-democracy initiatives. He is an Iranian-American activist, who works to inform and educate about the threats posed by Islamic Republic and radical Islam. He believes that Islamic Republic cannot be reformed and regime change is the only viable option. Dr. Irandoost is a researcher, a literary translator, an essayist, and a political analyst. He writes regularly for online publications such as New Media Journal, The American Thinker, [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 14:50:24
AMERICAblog News: China: Awarding Nobel Peace Prize to human ...
China: Awarding Nobel Peace Prize to human rights activist encourages crime A predictable response from one of the most corrupt governments on the planet. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned dissident Liu Xiabo encouraged crime in China, the government said Thursday, while telling his supporters to stop interfering in his case. China has been issuing angry statements and rejecting calls for Liu's release since the Norwegian Nobel Committee honored him Oct. 8 for his more than two decades of advocacy of human rights and peaceful democratic change that started with the demonstrations [more...]
Date: 2010-10-16 01:20:00
Noble Peace Prize and Human RIghts - Human Rights in Ireland
After last year’s announcement of President Obama as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a number of questions raised, including here and here, on the validity of the choice. In contrast, this year there has been wide acclaim for the choice of winner. Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is a worthy winner of the prize. Liu Xiaobo is probably China’s most well known human rights activist. He was involved in the activism that led to the Tiananmen Square student protests after which he was jailed for the first time. He was also detained during the 90s and is currently [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 12:32:24
Speaker: Government is a Human Right - News
Olagbaju has been fighting for human rights for more than 10 years. He is a labor activist and the director of Amnesty International USA's JustEarth! campaign, which handles environmental and human rights issues. " is someone who has the larger perspective of what Amnesty's mission and goals are for college campuses and for student groups in general," said Karen Berry, coordinator for local group 347 of Amnesty International. Olagbaju began the lecture by giving the audience a brief history of human rights. He said the modern conception of human rights developed after World War II [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 13:46:04
Can we apply civility to our relationship with the environment ...
Civility, like politics, philosophy, music, art, and even our locally beloved Chicago Cubs' sport baseball, is a human construct, and it is defined and developed in terms of human relationships. .... “Mosquito-rights” are fundamentally not the same as human rights, either in nature or degree. And while animal-rights activists may be rightfully upset with the treatment of some animals, we are unaware of any such activists who would resist taking antibiotics for the sake of [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 13:46:28
UN Secretary General voices concern over human rights abuses in ...
Baha’i World News Service– The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has once again expressed strong concern over Iran’s ongoing human rights violations, including its persecution of Iranian Baha’is. In a report issued Thursday, Mr. Ban highlighted his continuing concerns over Iran’s use of torture and the death penalty, its poor treatment of women, and repeated violations of due process of law and of freedom of assembly, speech and religion. The report also strongly criticized Iran’s failure to protect the rights of minorities, such as the Baha’i, Sufi, Baluch [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 17:20:28
Little hope for miners in latest China disaster | Newsindi
“All I can say to that is that all members of the United Nations must comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The international community has both the right and the obligation to intervene when human rights are being harmed.” Asked about China’s growing retaliation against Norway, Jagland said: “I am very much in favor of free trade and cultural exchange as tools to bring countries closer [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 05:55:45
CLDH Human Rights Press Review: The Daily Star - Young inmate ...
“I thought that when a human being needs to be rehabilitated … you give them a second chance,” says Christine Assaf, who is the head of the history department and was responsible for Boujouk’s education within the university. After consultations with the Interior Ministry and the Internal Security Forces, AJEM received permission for USJ to send books and study materials into the prison. Boujouk worked largely alone in his cell. When he had trouble, university professors were given permission to visit him for extra tuition. Roumieh, Lebanon’s most notorious prison and well-known [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 12:05:00
Guarantee Women's Access to Health Care - Argentina
By Human Rights Watch Published: 2010-10-17 Last Modified: 2010-10-17Slack Implementation and Lack of Oversight Causes Suffering and Death. * * *Thousands of women and girls in Argentina suffer needlessly every year because of negligent or abusive reproductive health care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 53-page report, "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina," documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary [more...]
Date: 2010-10-17 18:12:14
Can the Philippines ever recover? « CIVICUS Civil Society Index
The private armies remain, justice has not been provided for human rights abuses and military and police impunity has not been addressed. Since Aquino took office on 30 June, human rights organisations have reported the killings of three journalists and 16 leftists’ activists. There have been no convictions in the hundreds of politically motivated killings over the past decade in which security forces were implicated. Just three of the 19 recent killings have a suspect under investigation and there has been only one arrest. Indeed, the poverty rate continues to climb, despite the rise in [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 09:57:47
Boycott “ « Engage – the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism
I agree that if we wished to construct a universal scale of human rights violations, that would indeed be the case. That may be a worthwhile project, but not one I have any interest in. As an Israeli citizen my concern with what ‘my’ government is doing. As a Jew, my concern is with what the state that claims to represent me is doing in my name. That it is not the only or the worst offender violating human rights is irrelevant. Israel has done its share in expelling ethnic groups (80% of the indigenous inhabitants of the territories that became Israel in 1947-48), murdering opposition [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 14:52:03
Cempaka Asean: RI playing significant role in promoting human ...
A meeting was jointly organized by the Human Rights Resources Centre for ASEAN (HRRCA) and The Indonesian Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) here Monday to discuss Indonesia`s role in promoting and advancing human rights in Southeast Asia. The discussion was attended among others of by Komnas Ham Chairman Ifdhal Kasim, Chairman of HRRCA Foundation Marzuki Darusman, Deputy Chairman of LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) Prof Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar, and Rafendi Jamin, Indonesian representative to the ASEAN Inter-Government Commission for Human [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 08:03:00
Sri Lanka: Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty ...
Joint letter from International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International “In a joint letter, the International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have declined the invitation of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to appear before it. The Sri Lankan government is promoting the Commission as an independent mechanism for reconciliation and restorative justice after its decades-long civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), yet the Commission fails to meet basic standards and is fatally flawed in [more...]
Date: 2010-10-15 02:20:18
american* idiot | Iranian.com
i’ve been a keen follower of international affairs since finishing high school. i have not kept a diary nor have i done any detailed research on what i want to write about, but it has to be said: americans are clearly not the brightest people on earth. this issue is important way beyond a light discussion on the status quo. what makes american stupidity important to discuss is american power. to be more precise, it is not abundant american ignorance that is the issue. ignorance in itself is not a real problem. we are all ignorant to varying extents. human knowledge is limited, and as the [more...]
Date: 2010-10-16 13:42:29
Media Law Prof Blog: Protecting Attorney Speech Under the First ...
The plaintiffs, Ralph Fertig and the Humanitarian Law Project, wished to assist two such FTOs invoke international human rights law, petition the United Nations and United States Congress, and peacefully resolve their disputes. The Supreme Court held that the statute clearly prohibited plaintiffs’ proposed activities, but did not violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment because the attorneys could still engage in “independent advocacy” of any message they wished to promote. Allegedly, the plaintiff attorneys’ First Amendment rights were not abridged because the law merely [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 15:32:28
CLDH Human Rights Press Review: The Daily Star - Women's rights in ...
The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 12:07:00
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies » Blog Archive » David ...
Analysts need to go beyond the old blanket dichotomies of globalization as either a force for the repression of human rights or as a panacea for improving their protection. A second theme is how to assign responsibility for human rights. Though there is a largely shared definition of universal human rights, there is ultimately little collective leadership towards incorporating human rights concerns into the global economy. Therefore, any steps towards further developing these linkages have to actively involve governments–though other institutions may influence human rights conditions, the [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 22:41:03
Cambodia Gagged: Democracy at Risk | Mu Sochua: MP & Human Rights ...
5. Human Rights Activists. The space within which human rights activists can express their concerns and voice their opinions is shrinking by the day, and is becoming even more precarious with the proposed enactment of an NGO law. [more...]
Date: 2010-10-12 07:35:18
A Holiday To Celebrate Handwashing? | Human Rights | Change.org
To the developed world, where children are consistently reminded both at home and at school to “wash your hands,” it may provoke a giggle that the health advocates of the world make a fuss of Global Handwashing Day. It’s obvious that washing hands is something we should all do to prevent the spread of germs and disease, isn’t it? We know that everybody should be washing hands especially before eating and after using the bathroom to keep healthy, but in the developing world, where soap or clean water for handwashing is not readily accessible, children succumb to, and die from diseases [more...]
Date: 2010-10-15 14:13:00
Philadelphia Freedom Blog: Lazy rich people
Philadelphia Freedom Blog Raising hell in the fight for democracy, human rights, and social justice -- from here in the cradle of liberty, the City of Brotherly Love Two clean-cut preppy-type young men emerged from the late-model Jaguar that shared a parking lot with my 10-year-old Corolla. There was a homeless person standing nearby, rattling a can and begging for donations. "Get a job," yelled preppy #1 at the homeless man. "Yeah, I'm not gonna give you money for being lazy," said preppy #2. This reminded me of George W. Bush, who allegedly told one of his Harvard Business School [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 10:06:00
Power and Women
She was born in Czech Republic, former Czechoslovakia, but Madeleine became American citizen in the 1950s.She gained international recognition for her efforts on behalf of human rights and democracy. She was one of the few American leaders to balance good relations with North Korea… Did you know that an American woman was Head of State? Janet Jagan became President of Guyana, an ex-British colony and South American country. Mrs. Jagan, a naturalized Guyanan citizen who was born in Chicago, Illinois, came to power from December 1997 to 11 August 1999. REFERENCES: -ENCICLOPEDIA UNIVERSAL [more...]
Date: 2010-10-15 23:25:32
King Saud University, Saudi Human Rights Commission create ...
July 21, 2010 – King Saud University recently signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabian Human Rights Commission (HRC) to develop long- strategic plan and goals aimed at combining the two organizations’ complimentary resources and ideas. The agreement, signed by KSU Rector Abdullah Al-Othman and Saudi HRC President Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Aiban, was attended by HRC Vice President Zaid Hassan and Deputy chairman of the Institute for Consulting and Research Abdulrahman Al-Barrak. Dr. Al-Othman welcomed the new collaboration with the HRC, pointing out that the agreement is an important [more...]
Date: 2010-07-21 09:02:19
“Get Back to Where We Once Belonged…” « Boomer Nation! Radio Show
Information & Inspiration to Live, Work, Play at our Boomer-best! Aaaahhh, those crazy, hazy days of college! You know why they were hazy… which did in fact make us a tad crazy… But one thing that was neither was our determination to make things in our nation better. To right wrongs; equalize inequities; hold “the establishment” accountable for their unethical ways. Our protests, actions, and unwillingness to accept mediocrity brought about: Civil Rights Women’s Rights The first sweeping environmental protections, including the establishment of the EPA Velcro (just seeing if [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 20:02:00
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran – With Trial ...
Massoud Shafiee, lawyer for the three imprisoned Americans told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he does not expect his clients to be acquitted. Shafiee said that he initially thought that Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer would be released on bail in the same manner as Sarah Shourd. But having been informed of the court date, he no longer sees it as a possibility. “Judge Salavati told his office manager to inform me of the court date. The court will convene on 6 November 2010 at 10 a.m. at Branch 15 with Judge Salavati presiding. Starting this moment, I am entitled to see [more...]
Date: 2010-10-05 15:57:53
Opposition GMC Tells President Jammeh To Fix Past Wrongs, Says ...
The Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the African Union and the ECOWAS Protocols all enjoined The Gambia to fulfil its human rights obligations without discrimation. ... In reaffirming this belief, article 1 of the Universal Declaration of human rights provides that „All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood“. [more...]
Date: 2010-10-16 16:33:00
Governments Human Rights Group Respond To Nobel Peace Prize Win
Governments Human Rights Group Respond To Nobel Peace Prize Win. October 8, 2010. By Arshad. Responded to governments and leaders worldwide in the field of human rights to take the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for Liu Xiaobo, ... freedoms and the protection of concrete human rights that are dedicated Liu Xiaobo and other activists in many of China for this award can only make a real difference if you ask for more international pressure on China to release Liu, [more...]
Date: 2010-10-08 12:36:29
Oaxaca: New Aggression In San Juan Copala: 2 Killed And One ...
Is that the Mexican government's response to the interlocutory injunction American Commission on Human Rights. Is that the response of MULT not accept rigged and convenenciero dialogue. What to us is more painful is that today there are still those who dare to see this as a fight ethnic genocide when it is actually finished with a form of government different from the criminal system. It is a genocide to bury our history because they're afraid. This is a slaughter that PRI group against our people do not align meekly as he did the leadership of the MULT with the last two governments of [more...]
Date: 2010-10-17 22:13:43
UTV News - Lawyer's emotion over Bloody Sunday Inquiry
The leading human rights lawyer, who has been involved in some of the most famous cases in recent legal history, represented a number of families during the long-running inquiry.Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in Derry when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration. Fourteen others were wounded, one of whom later died.The Saville Report was heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot.Asked if the 12-year inquiry was worth it, Mr Mansfield said: "If you ask any of the families, they felt, quite rightly, that the [more...]
Date: 2010-10-17 13:23:21
Sri Lanka Guardian: Sri Lankan constitution and democratic rights
Sri Lankan constitution and democratic rights Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian Interview, Politics, S. G. Punchihewa 3:37:00 PM "To be a lover of the country, either you have to be humble or remain silent. This is the worst of times in which greed for power has become the law of the land." "Questioning the law and speaking the truth cause fear of death in our country. There is a large number of institutions of law, and also there are commissions, orders and circulars in abundance. But only justice is scarce. Rather than disappearing corruption, the person who exposes it disappears. Anybody may [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 10:07:00
Nation's Pravit hits a “Home Run Interview” Thai Army man calls it ...
In the long term, I would like to see professional soldiers protecting the country . Why does there seem to be no end to military meddling in Thai politics? It's the Thai context of things. .... 2010; Army man calls it as he sees it October 17, 2010; Shan artists pool talent to expose sham 2010 elections October 17, 2010; At the End of The First International Conference on Human Rights in Southeast Asia: Regional Human Rights - Success or Challenges? [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 03:35:55
UAW Workers Picket The UAW Over Two-Tier « The Rustbelt Radical
Yet the UN Charter on Human Rights clearly states that every human being has a “right to work.” The early builders of our UAW believed unequivocally in the concept—they believed that we own our jobs. So if we own our jobs, then the companies have no right to eliminate them—or hold our jobs hostage to force more and more unjust concessions. Moreover, the concessions demanded of workers at Lake Orion—affecting the non-trades workers with the lowest seniority—are discriminatory in that they will disproportionately hurt workers of color and women. Our Civil and Human Rights are being [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 17:05:00
World Youth Alliance: No EU Funding for Coercive Abortion | Talpa ...
The World Youth Alliance (WYA), a global coalition of young people promoting the dignity of the human person in policy and culture, is asking MEPs to support an amendment to the European Union 2011 annual budget that will be voted on Wednesday, October 20th, at the next European Parliament Plenary Session. This amendment will prevent EU financial support to development programs, NGOs or governments that participate in forced abortions, sterilizations or infanticide. The coalition rightly recalls that the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 15:10:59
President Obama Should Have Gone Farther on Human Rights in His UN ...
After more than 60 years of willful neglect, it is time for the United States to fully and explicitly recommit to the full range of human rights it accepted by approving the UDHR in 1948. As the Declaration recognizes, human rights are indivisible and all must be respected if, as Eleanor Roosevelt put it, human beings are to be lifted to “a higher standard of life and a greater enjoyment of [more...]
Date: 2010-09-24 18:36:34
Kazoo Objectivist: An Excellent Analysis of Why Open Borders Work
Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own.” But what is the right to leave a country if one cannot enter another? Since even international human-rights law does not give people the right to cross borders freely, the United States should lead by example, by passing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing open borders. READ THE REST - Open Borders Work- part 1 Then read Open Borders Work - Part [more...]
Date: 2010-10-15 20:34:00
“The blind leading the blind” – ethical unease when discussing ...
This book is unashamedly postmodernist, deconstructionist, and against the Western way of doing many things, and has as its core case study the idea of education as the worst kind of “human right,” which in turn it describes as the Western secular Gospel of the past 60 years. If one steps back from this initially-surprising idea, it actually kind of makes sense; human rights has a tendency, for example to have states step in and quash local cultures and their method of justice. As one individual quoted in the book mentions, “how is the Western idealized conception of justice as a [more...]
Date: 2010-10-18 20:07:55
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