Rights and Humanity: Archive

South Africa: Declare 'Corrective Rape' a... →

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Dec 30th

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Liberia Expecting 100,000 Ivory Coast Refugees,... →

Liberia is expecting about 100,000 refugees from Ivory Coast because of the political situation in the neighboring country, Liberia’s Internal Affairs Minister Harrison Kanwea said. More than 16,000 refugees crossed the border since November, Kanwea told reporters today in the capital, Monrovia. “The government of Liberia has decided that there will be refugee camps established in Liberia for...

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Clooney, Google, UN team up to watch Sudan border →

A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month. Clooney’s Not On Our Watch is funding the start-up phase Satellite Sentinel Project that...

Dec 29th

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Corrupt Politics: After Imprisonment for Blogging... →

corruptpolitics: Bloggers are powerful people. Don’t believe it? Iranian officials feared the power of a blogger so much, they had 18-year-old Navid Mohebbi arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for the desperate crime of keeping a blog supporting women’s rights. If words on a blog didn’t have great powers of…

Dec 28th

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Corrupt Politics: Hispanics Leaving Connecticut... →

corruptpolitics: Santiago Malave has worked law enforcement jobs in Connecticut for more than four decades, but as a Puerto Rican, he says he cannot drive through his own town without worrying about police harassing him. Malave, a probation officer who works in New Haven, says the racial abuse is so bad that he…

Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Dec 25th

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'Our lives became something we'd never dreamt':... →

dominickbrady: Excerpt via The Independent: The point of this is not just that the soldier’s story is shocking, but that it is so apparently corroborated. Especially given that the conscript’s short account – unlike many others in the book, some every bit as disquieting – is based on hearsay, it is powerfully suggestive of the testimonies’ authenticity as a portrait of a 43-year-old occupation....

Dec 25th

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“‘Shut up you black bitch. I’ll slap you!’ shouted the...”

– The darker side of Indians by Primarashni Gower

Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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UN: End ‘Disappearances’ Worldwide →

The Convention against Enforced Disappearance, which takes effect on December 23, 2010, should strengthen international efforts to end this horrific practice, Human Rights Watch said today. The treaty should advance justice for victims and accountability for those responsible, Human Rights Watch said. The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance...

Dec 24th

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“Deporting anyone to a war zone like Mogadishu is inhumane, but returning...”

– Rona Peligal, Africa director at Human Rights Watch Saudi Arabia: Stop Deporting Somalis to Mogadishu

Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

This man is scheduled to lose his life on Sunday.... →

Dec 24th

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“Briefing ambassadors in Geneva, the UN deputy human rights chief said the UN had...”

– UN demands halt to Côte d’Ivoire killings

Dec 24th

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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace →

“You are not welcome among us.”

Dec 22nd

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“Bradley Manning’s incarceration has been clearly designed to punish, to...”

– Karen Kwiatkowski (via azspot)

Dec 21st

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Nicolas Sarkozy to target Muslim prayers - The... →

something-to-say: dominickbrady: Excerpt via The Australian: almas88: NICOLAS Sarkozy will take another lurch to the Right with a speech on New Year’s Eve calling Muslim prayers in the street “unacceptable”. After his expulsions of gypsies and a crackdown on immigrant crime, the French President will warn that the overflow of Muslim faithful on to the streets at prayer time when...

Dec 21st

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“Across the country, and especially in northern Mexico, the breakdown of the...”

– In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice (via fuckyeahdrugpolicy)

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Oppression of Civil Society in Sudan →

The Government of Sudan continues to oppress political rights and the freedom of speech by arresting human rights activists as well as journalists who criticize Bashir’s regime. Information on the situation in Darfur is becoming increasing difficult to obtain as civil society organizations continually face intimidation and are often shut down or have their leadership arrested. On December 14th,...

Dec 20th

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Sudan's President Bashir 'siphoned off millions' -... →

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been accused of siphoning off up to $9bn (£5.6bn; 7bn euros) of his country’s funds by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Luis Moreno Ocampo told the BBC that President Bashir had hidden the money in personal accounts outside Sudan. Mr Ocampo’s suspicions originally came to light when a diplomatic cable obtained by...

Dec 20th

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“Activists are hoping that the repeal - which will allow gays to serve openly in...”

– Washington Post (via fuckyeahlgbt)

Dec 20th

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The Green State: House Republicans Block Child... →

corruptpolitics: On Thursday, the House took up the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010. The bill would ensure that child marriage is recognized as a human rights violation, and develop comprehensive strategies to prevent such marriages around the world…. You had me today with DADT today, Senate, you really did. But this is a million times worse....

Dec 18th

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Dec 18th

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Dear Government of Sweden ... →

There’s just one thing that bothers me — why has Amnesty International, in a special report, declared that Sweden refuses to deal with the very real tragedy of rape? In fact, they say that all over Scandinavia, including in your country, rapists “enjoy impunity.” And the United Nations, the EU and Swedish human rights groups have come to the same conclusion: Sweden just doesn’t take sexual...

Dec 17th

Prolonged Solitary is Torture →

jonathan-cunningham: Just by itself, the type of prolonged solitary confinement to which Manning has been subjected for many months is widely viewed around the world as highly injurious, inhumane, punitive, and arguably even a form of torture. In his widely praised March, 2009 New Yorker article — entitled “Is Long-Term Solitary Confinement Torture?” — the surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande...

Dec 17th

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Chicago! Support and protect your sex workers!! →

i-am-the-lighthouse: [Submitted by filmme-fatale] From the Facebook event page: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: Join us in remembering sex workers who have been survivors and victims of violence. “Join us in observing the 7th annual International Day to End…

Dec 16th

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Students rise up →

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Hundreds of thousands of students across the world have stood up to raise the demand: “Education is a right for all!” Massive student actions in Ireland, Britain, Italy, Pakistan, France, Greece and…

Dec 16th

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Women have human rights, too: The ICC's failure to... →

Dec 15th

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“From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary...”

– The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Where the fuck are all the celebrity WikiLeaks supporters while the kid who actually put his ass on the line to make the leaks is held in these conditions? (via champagnecandy)

Dec 15th

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The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's... →

redguard: Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months — and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait — under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane...

Dec 15th

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The Social Paradigm Shift: HIV/AIDS: Facts &... →

thesocialparadigmshift: The AIDS and HIV crisis is affecting millions of people worldwide everyday. Many of the victims live in poverty and do not have the accessibility to healthcare that many in first world countries enjoy. This entry will: give you a definition of HIV/AIDS, how it affects people worldwide by…

Dec 13th

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Biggest Prisoner Strike in U.S. History →

In an action which is unprecedented on several levels, black, brown and white inmates of Georgia’s notorious state prison system are standing together for a historic one day peaceful strike today, during which they are remaining in their cells, refusing work and other assignments and activities. This is a groundbreaking event not only because inmates are standing up for themselves and their own...

Dec 13th

National Call Your Governor To Free Sara Kruzan... →

believeinfreedom: Time: Thursday, December 16 - 4:00 am - 9:30 pm Location: Wherever you can get to a phone or fax Please join thousands (wait..did I say thousands? I meant TENS OF THOUSANDS) of people who support the plea of clemency for Sara Kruzan. This is a simple act targeting your state’s governor to support the granting of clemency for Sara Kruzan who was sentenced to prison for life...

Dec 12th

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A Commitment to the HIV Response Is a Commitment... →

projectqueer: Lest we close out World AIDS Day without mentioning what’s happening with the AIDS crisis around the world – I offer this glimpse of the work of the Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+), onpassed by my friend Sean Strub, founder of POZ Magazine. The situation with the Global Fund is actually pretty complicated – including protests in Los Angeles and Washington DC...

Dec 11th

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Support West Bank Infrastructure Projects - The... →

Sponsored by: International Relief & Development To support his goal of actively pursuing peace in Israel and the Middle East, President Obama has requested that funding be made available for development within the West Bank and Gaza, which will help to build a solid foundation for a future Palestinian state. International Relief and Development (IRD), a leading development organization...

Dec 10th

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Iranian Students Stage Protests →

BEIRUT—Iranian students staged antigovernment protests nationwide Tuesday, turning an annual commemoration of student political activism into an opportunity to voice opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the regime that backs him. Videos posted online showed students marching across campus grounds with green banners—the color of the opposition—holding pictures of jailed students, and...

Dec 9th

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LGB Teenagers Face Harsher Punishments Says Study →

Dec 9th

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Dec 9th

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One Month To Go: Sudan Moves Toward Tipping Point →

Today starts the one-month countdown to the referendum in South Sudan. A lot is at stake in the plebiscite that is widely expected to split Africa’s largest country in two. Considering Sudan’s history of past mass violence and an ongoing culture of impunity, we are at high alert and will closely monitor the situation on the ground. Looking at the daily news coming out of Sudan, which...

Dec 9th

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A Petition to Stop the Anti-Wikileaks Crackdowns -... →

Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

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“That’s how sex is presented to boys - it’s not intimacy; it’s not the loving,...”

– feminist Don McPherson, on rape culture and educating boys to not rape (via notyourheart) so true. (via feministatheist) Didn’t you know not to get drunk around your trusted friends? (via sexartandpolitics)

Dec 8th

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Dec 8th

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Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as... →

jonathan-cunningham: thedaughtersofeve: Most victims are foreign, with least 85 per cent of the women working as prostitutes coming from countries including Brazil, China, Lithuania and Thailand. Many victims are lured to Britain with false promises of work in bars or nightclubs only to be sold for up to £5,000, often at airports or service stations, to pimps and brothel-keepers. The women are...

Dec 8th

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Wikileaks cable shows Dyncorp (Texas) has pimped... →

progressivefriends: Can we bring charges against this corporation and the people? That’s one thing I will not tolerate is fucking little kids, not to mention pimping them out.

Dec 8th

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