Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
By: Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Interreligious Understanding
Professor Marshall Breger, Catholic University of America
Suhail A. Khan, Institute for Global Engagement
The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
We are here as a single voice that comes from the three Abrahamic faiths, because we are seeing a new slogan ripple from downtown Manhattan across the US. Its timing particularly resonates as some of us have just returned from an unprecedented tour of concentration campsin Europe, where we stood side by side with a delegation of the most influential US Imams and Muslim leadership. Together, those of us who are Jewish and Muslim, came face-to-face with the unambiguous lesson that religious demonization can and does lead to unimaginable violence and horror.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
By Amparo Pamela Fabe
Posted at 08/13/2010 4:28 PM | Updated as of 08/14/2010 3:28 AM
The Philippine government has recognized the intertwining linkages between human rights violations, poverty, exclusion, vulnerability and conflict.
A significant aspect of the solution is the vital role of human rights play in advancing social change; upholding a new state-society relations; breaking down the barriers faced by the poor in accessing services; and providing the basis for the integrity of the criminal justice systems needed for the emergence of a dynamic business environment.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Published: Friday, Jul 30, 2010, 17:06 IST
Place: Kochi | Agency: PTI
Describing honour killings as a great social menace, National Human Rights Commission chairman justice KG Balakrishnan today said effective police investigation is needed to probe such criminal cases, only a few of which get reported.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Legitimate debate is one thing. But reflexive bias against Israel means even basic security efforts to defend innocent civilians are criticized as violations of human rights.
By Jeffrey Robbins / July 29, 2010
Boston
In 1947, when excusing Soviet totalitarianism had become quite the rage in fashionable progressive circles, George Orwell eviscerated a British politician who consistently defended totalitarians but nevertheless denied that he was a defender of totalitarianism. “But of course he does,” Orwell wrote. “What else could he say? A pickpocket does not go to the races with a label ‘pickpocket’ on his coat lapel, and a propagandist does not describe himself as a propagandist.”
Orwell’s point holds true for today’s debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His pickpocket metaphor seems particularly applicable to those critics of Israel who can always be counted upon to decide that Israel has behaved miserably in defending herself, regardless of the suffering of Israeli civilians that their government is seeking to prevent and regardless of the actions of those who have caused that suffering.
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For biased critics of Israel, even its defensive actions violate human rights
Legitimate debate is one thing. But reflexive bias against Israel means even basic security efforts to defend innocent civilians are criticized as violations of human rights.
By Jeffrey Robbins / July 29, 2010
BostonIn 1947, when excusing Soviet totalitarianism had become quite the rage in fashionable progressive circles, George Orwell eviscerated a British politician who consistently defended totalitarians but nevertheless denied that he was a defender of totalitarianism. “But of course he does,” Orwell wrote. “What else could he say? A pickpocket does not go to the races with a label ‘pickpocket’ on his coat lapel, and a propagandist does not describe himself as a propagandist.”
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Orwell’s point holds true for today’s debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His pickpocket metaphor seems particularly applicable to those critics of Israel who can always be counted upon to decide that Israel has behaved miserably in defending herself, regardless of the suffering of Israeli civilians that their government is seeking to prevent and regardless of the actions of those who have caused that suffering.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 9:36 AM
On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan:
“The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
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LONDON: Amnesty International urged Pakistan on Monday to tackle human rights violations ahead of a visit to Britain by President Asif Ali Zardari, which has become clouded by a diplomatic row over terrorism. On the eve of President Zardari’s arrival in London, Amnesty International said the worsening security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had left thousands of civilians dead and over a million displaced, and urged Islamabad to take action. “The conditions are right for Pakistan to show it is serious about political solutions to the human rights violations, poverty, and a constitutional rights vacuum in the northwest,” said Amnesty International Asia-Pacific head Sam Zarifi. “President Zardari should take this opportunity to announce specific, major reforms, like the abolition of the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) that treat northwestern Pakistan like a human rights-free zone,” he said. The FCR is a colonial-era law that applies only to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. afp |
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Gallery
Teens learning history’s lessons are reminded that “racism and anti-Semitism are really alive and well,” program manager Arthur Brown says.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 25, 2010 When Wendy Holland heard that a security guard was gunned down at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last June, she didn’t think much of it. She saw the clip on the evening news and went back to life as a 17-year-old in Prince George’s County: advanced classes, sports practices, hanging out with friends–
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Posted in Doing the Right Thing, ETHICS, Education, Hate Crimes, Heroism, Human Rights, In Memoriam, Museums and Memorials, Student Projects, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
15/07-2010 07:35, Bishkek – News Agency “24.kg”, by Daniyar KARIMOV
The United States of America are concerned over human rights violations in southern Kyrgyzstan. This was stated Wednesday at a press conference in 24.kg news agency by Special Assistant to U.S. President for National Security Affairs, Michael McFaul.
“Especially it concerns ethnic Uzbeks”, he stressed.
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Posted in ASIA, GENOCIDE, Genocide Denial, Genocide survivors, Human Rights, Human Rights Abuses, Kyrgyzstan, Preventing Genocide, United States, Uzbeks | No Comments »
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
By Richard Johnson / June 28, 2010
Kigali, Rwanda
Arrogance, ignorance, and indifference to African victims of genocide have long been hallmarks of Western treatment of Rwanda. The US government should take care not to perpetuate this unfortunate tradition in the run-up to Rwanda’s presidential election in August and fan ethnic tensions in Rwanda.
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Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire poses at her home, on April 7 in Kigali in Rwanda. Ingabire was arrested for collaborating with a terrorist organization and other genocide-related accusations. She is currently released on bail.
Bertrand Guay/AFP/Newscom
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton admonished the Rwandan government on June 14 for its legal prosecution of “opposition figures” and “lawyers,” which she called political actions that should be reversed. Whoever drafted and vetted the secretary’s comments did her, and Rwanda, a disservice.
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Posted in AFRICA, Analysis and Opinion, GENOCIDE, Genocide Denial, Genocide survivors, Hate Crimes, Hate Speech, Human Rights, Human Rights Abuses, Rwanda | No Comments »
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
By ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI
Published: June 28, 2010
In an article on June 18, Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, wrote that the teaching of the Holocaust should focus more on preventing ethnic conflict and genocide.
Before questioning the value of Holocaust education,one should first address its goals:
What, exactly, are we trying to achieve in teaching about the Holocaust? Is it realistic to expect that the study of the Holocaust will diminish human rights abuses and racism, and instead nurture democracy and tolerance? Will mixing the narrative of the Holocaust with other types of atrocities really encourage better human behavior
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