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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Human Rights Facts (26): Human Rights and the Recession
(source, photo by Anna Gowthorpe, Associated Press) Like any recession, the current one has a detrimental effect on human rights. Both the so-called economic human rights (the right to work, the right to a certain living standard etc.) and the more … Continue reading
Posted in aid, education, health, housing, human rights facts, poverty, trade, work
Tagged development aid, economics, hate crime, homelessness, human rights, human rights facts, politics, poverty, recession, remittances, unemployment, xenophobia
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Racism (6): The Effect of Racism on Cancer
(source) A new study by Ahmedin Jemal finds that blacks in the U.S. are more likely than any other group to have cancer and die from it. And when they develop cancer, they die sooner. (Death rates for cancer patients have fallen … Continue reading
Posted in discrimination and hate, equality, health, racism
Tagged cancer, discrimination, equality, health, health care, human rights, poverty, racism
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (14b): Keynes and the Recession
(source, United Press International picture) Drama was a Keynes tool. During a 1934 dinner in the U.S., after one economist carefully removed a towel from a stack to dry his hands, Mr. Keynes swept the whole pile of towels on … Continue reading
Gender Discrimination (11): Honor Killings
(source) The press has reported a number of honor killings in the United States, Canada, and Europe. These cases show the killings to be primarily a Muslim-on-Muslim crime…The victims are largely teenage daughters or young women. Wives are victims but … Continue reading
Human Rights Ads (8): Amnesty International Poster
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The Ethics of Human Rights (15): Justice After Genocide
(source) A new political regime that is installed in a society that has recently suffered human rights violations on a cataclysmic scale, such as genocide or ethnic cleansing (Rwanda and Cambodia are examples), always faces the problem of justice. What … Continue reading
Posted in equality, ethics of human rights, horror, justice, law
Tagged genocide, guilt, justice, law, politics, reconciliation
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Overpopulation and the “Tsunami of the Poor”
Just a reminder of some of my highly interesting but even more highly unappreciated posts on overpopulation: I would like some of you to read them here :-)
Political Graffiti (31): I Want Change
(source) More on idealism.
Posted in justice, political graffiti
Tagged activism, change, idealism, political graffiti, politics
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Human Rights Maps (47): Rule of Law
(source) More on the rule of law.
Capital Punishment (12): Crime Prevention Through Fear
(source) Capital punishment is just one of many types of punishment for criminal activity. The main purpose or function of all criminal punishment is prevention (some other functions are social recognition of a criminal act, social condemnation, recognition of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, law
Tagged capital punishment, crime, crime prevention, death penalty, deterrence, education, human rights, immanuel kant, politics, punishment
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