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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Political Graffiti (82): Poverty on a Train
Looks like this is from the same artist as this one and this one. More on poverty here. More political graffiti here.
Inequality, A Collection of Images
More on inequality, and the differences between types of inequality, is here. Other collections of human rights images are here. (source, more on income inequality here) (source) (source, more on income inequality here) (source, more on same-sex marriage rights here) … Continue reading
Why Do Countries Become/Remain Democracies? Or Don’t? (8): The Resource Curse
I’ve written before on the so-called resource curse: the fact that some countries with lots of natural resources tend to do worse than countries with less resource wealth, worse in two respects: less economic growth and prosperity and less political … Continue reading
The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (26): Executing “Witches” in Saudi Arabia
Scores of alleged witch doctors, fortunetellers, and black magicians each year are dragged through the Saudi courts, including Fawza Falih, who’s been on death row since 2006 for witchcraft. Her accusers include a man who claims the 51-year-old, illiterate Falih … Continue reading
Annals of Heartlessness (1): Luxury Cruise Ship Docks On Private Haitian Beach, Just 60 Miles From Devastation
Not all suffering in the world is a human rights violation. A broken heart or an earthquake both cause suffering but neither is a human rights violation (needless to say there’s no equivalence here). We don’t have a human right that protects us against the … Continue reading
Posted in aid, annals of heartlessness
Tagged assistance, caring, compassion, cruise ship, duty, earthquake, empathy, haiti, heartless, help, human rights, human rights violations, morality, sympathy
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Measuring Democracy (5): The Freedom House “Freedom in the World” Report
According to the latest report by Freedom House, 2009 marked the fourth consecutive year in which democracy suffered a decline—the longest consecutive period of setbacks in the nearly 40-year history of the report. These declines were most pronounced in Sub-Saharan … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (78): Numbers of immigrants and Amounts of Remittances
This is a map in the form of an animation. If the video doesn’t play, please click here. More maps on migration are here and here; more maps on remittances here. Statistics on development aid and remittances are here and … Continue reading
Posted in aid, human rights maps, poverty
Tagged development aid, human rights maps, maps, remittances
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Statistical Jokes (7): Fun With the Kuznets Curve
Ever heard of the Kuznets curve? If not, see here or here. And then there’s this variant: (source) More statistical jokes.
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged humor, joke, kuznets curve, statistical joke
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Religion and Human Rights (21): The Attractiveness of Religious Liberty to Those Who Hate it
(this is from a paper I’ll publish in February 2010 in ”Rights and Righteousness: Religious Pluralism and Human Rights“, a book edited by Trinity College Dublin and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission) Religious extremism This post examines the relationship between … Continue reading
Posted in globalization, philosophy, religion
Tagged apostasy, causation, coercion, extremism, female genital mutilation, freedom of religion, human rights violations, interdependence, islam, jihad, multiculturalism, plurality, proselytize, religious extremism, religious liberty, sectarianism, self-interest, terrorism, tolerance
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