Tag: human rights
group name: politicsjustice
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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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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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November 30, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
A Seattle fourteen-year-old Seattle boy died of leukemia after a judge ruled he had the right to refuse a life saving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs. Dennis Lindberg . . .
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April 27, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barak Obama's pastor appeared on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS last week. I watched the full hour and found Rev. Wright, a former US Marine who cared for . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:39 PM EST --
STATEMENT: LGBT Equality Fight Continues
Country Is Making Progress Despite Setback in Maine
By Jeff Krehely
Maine voters rejected same-sex couple marriage rights yesterday, but other . . .
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May 23, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Each time I read a report of the suffering of people in Iraq, or Gaza, Or Lebanon, or East L.A. I am reminded that America claims a tradition of defense of equality and liberty. And each time i am reminded, . . .
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July 31, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
The Chinese government has banned the Amnesty International Website, even for journalists covering the Olympic Games.
According to Executive Director Larry Cox, "... we've learned that a . . .
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October 16, 2009 05:23 PM EDT --
I created a photo as directed and included it in the upload...it is automatic...easy!
This is the one of two I created and sent in my support
e-mail!
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January 11, 2008 02:54 PM EST --
NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Human rights activists will lead rallies across the United States today to build pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to end the detention of foreign prisoners . . .
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January 20, 2007 10:56 PM EST --
Since US credibility has been undermined by the use of torture and detention without trial, the European Union must now fill the void on global leadership of human rights. The . . .
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September 21, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
I have been goaded into anger again.
The United States Senate, representing me and you, and Andy Meyers and Moveon.org has overstepped its bounds by a couple of dozen leagues. They have voted a . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:30 AM EST --
A friend just forwarded a desperate plea for financial help in the face of a health crisis to me. The appeal is being made To cover the expenses of an unborn child facing an uncertain future, the . . .
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April 11, 2006 08:22 PM EDT --
SAVE NAZANIN
View Current Signatures - Sign the Petition
To: The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan,The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
Haider Rizvi
OneWorld US
Fri., May. 2, 2008
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (OneWorld) - The Canadian government has drawn fierce condemnation from the world's indigenous communities for . . .
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December 07, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
Recently the CBS program Sixty Minutes ran a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians still living in Iraq. Since our invasion of Iraq the minority Christian . . .
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October 07, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
Global civil society organizations are pressing the 192-nation U.N. General Assembly to recognize indigenous peoples' rights to their land and resources.
''This is an opportunity that must . . .
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October 22, 2009 11:13 AM EDT --
As a married, straight man who is strongly committed to Equal Rights for all Americans, I was quite moved by the following from World War II Veteran, and member of our "Greatest Generation" , Philip . . .
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December 22, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
Human rights advocates are cheering the genocide conviction of former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Mengistu and dozens of his military government officials were convicted Tuesday of the killing . . .
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August 21, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
August 20, 2008
Haider Rizvi , OneWorld US
NEW YORK, Aug 20 (OneWorld) - Following revelations about the latest death of a detainee in the custody of U.S. immigration officials, lawyers . . .
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December 22, 2006 01:36 PM EST --
Human rights groups reacted with skepticism Thursday after military prosecutors charged eight Marines in the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in the western Iraqi town of Haditha.
The squad . . .
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