Tag: human rights
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June 05, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
I am not gay, nor are my children. I do have gay friends, though, and I know how important it is to them to be able to have equal marital rights. For instance, I have friends who have been together for . . .
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August 17, 2008 02:02 PM EDT --
It may be somewhat of a stretch to liken the Invasion of Georgia to the Invasion of Iraq, or use that as any reason why the U.S. lost rights to publicly condemn Russia forthe . . .
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October 20, 2009 07:57 AM EDT --
In a Wall Street Journal column on October 20th, 2009, Bret Stephens asks, "Does Obama Believe in Human Rights?" That's a valid question.
Stephens explains in his lede, "Nobody should get too hung . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:04 AM EST --
Although it was not it’s main theme, my last article touched upon the sacrificial slaughter of a goat by slitting its throat. Not unexpectedly, it elicited a horrified reaction from some readers. . . .
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December 19, 2008 10:13 AM EST --
66 countries signed a UN declaration (sponsored by France and the Netherlands) to demand an end of legal punishment of people based on their sexual orientation.
60 other countries . . .
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December 10, 2008 10:18 AM EST --
TODAY IS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY. It's a day to raise awareness of human rights.
Today also marks the 60 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that is the foundation . . .
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October 16, 2006 09:55 PM EDT --
The funny little man with the pompadour hairstyle may look like a joke, talk like a joke and act like a joke, but he is just plain evil. The North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il may be currently in the news . . .
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March 08, 2007 07:05 AM EST --
China is the fastest growing economic superpower in the world. India comes a close second. It is estimated that, by 2030, these two countries will overtake the United States and Japan as the world’s . . .
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May 26, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
I can't get over this story. Here was a guy who was in a car wreck, dazed, bleeding and burned so badly that his skin was flapping on his back, and he had staggared away from it far enough . . .
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June 12, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
HOLLYWOOD -- India, which advocacy groups say may have as many as 65 million forced laborers, was spared the worst ranking on the State Department's new list of nations where humans are bought and . . .
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September 26, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL the TIME
HUMAN . . .
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March 29, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
From the Free Tibet Website:
Web Site: http://www.freetibet.net/
Note: Please go to this website and sign this important petition! With the Olympics focusing attention on China, this is . . .
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April 16, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
DATELINE: Yemen
Yemen, a staunch Allie that does not need US exported Democracy has demonstrated their progressiveness for the World to see. A court their has terminated the marriage of an . . .
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April 30, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
I know that the people that were interrogated were suspected or known terrorists, and there are people that say that alone should be reason that we can torture these men for information, but the . . .
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September 11, 2007 04:27 PM EDT --
I lost a friend, and the world lost a visionary social activist and human rights defender this week, when Dame Anita Roddick died at age 64 from the effects of a brain hemorrhage. Roddick, the working . . .
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November 15, 2006 03:07 AM EST --
A human rights group named the Human Rights Consultative Committee is mounting a legal challenge to pop star Madonna's bid to adopt a baby boy from Malawi. The 14-month old baby boy, David, is now . . .
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May 19, 2006 01:21 PM EDT --
Hijab:The word "Hijab" is often used in news reports and common use, by both Muslims and non-Muslims, to refer to a headscarf (Wikipedia).
I started wearing hijab on the first day of fasting . . .
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August 23, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
He lay there on the ground
cold and dead;
though not from bullets,
she had wished for his head.
Neither prison for him,
nor a gruelling fate.
Or judgement day
at the pearly gate.
Dead drunk, he had stumbled, . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
Kunte Kinte, his daughter Kizzy, and her son George noticed that every time the whites "massas" became frightened--most likely by the threat . . .
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September 29, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
IS JUSTICE JUST US?
Justice Clarence Thomas' . . .
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