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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Political Graffiti (90): Someone’s Supermarket
More on homelessness and hunger, and more on housing as a human right. Some other stuff around the same idea is here, here and here. More political graffiti is here.
Posted in housing, political graffiti, poverty
Tagged homelessness, hunger, political graffiti, politics, poverty, shelter
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Religion and Human Rights (24): Why and How Do We Separate State and Church? And What Are the Consequences for Religious Liberty?
A bit more about the proper role of religion in a modern democracy (see here for the original post I’m building on). I know it’s making things more simple than they actually are, but one can see the history of … Continue reading
Posted in data, democracy, equality, freedom, globalization, law, philosophy, religion
Tagged confucianism, confucius, constitution, equal liberty, establishment clause, free exercise clause, freedom of religion, jefferson, lemon test, morality, multiculturalism, rawls, religious liberty, religious war, scalia, scotus, secularism, separation of church and state, sharia, supreme court, theocracy, tolerance, violence
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Human Rights Ads (42): Homelessness
(source) More on homelessness and on housing as a human right. More human rights ads.
Posted in housing, human rights ads, poverty
Tagged ad, advert, advertising, homelessness, housing, human rights, human rights ad, shelter
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (78): Godless Church
A man, down on his luck, went into a church which catered to the “uppity”. Spotting the man’s dirty clothes a deacon, worried about the churches image, went to the man and asked him if he needed help. The man … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged church, humor, joke, poverty, religion
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Human Rights Quote (78): Prison Abuse
I often discuss the human rights implications of incarceration: prison rape, overpopulation in prisons, juvenile incarceration, racism in incarceration rates, the social cost of incarceration, voting rights for felons and other related issues regularly make an appearance here. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in human rights quote, law
Tagged crime, human rights, incarceration, prison, prison abuse, prison conditions, prison rape, quote, statistics, u.s., violence
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Gender Discrimination (22): Gendercide
The Economist has a front page story this week on “gendercide”, the millions of girls missing in the world, especially in India and China. Perhaps as many as 100 million girls have disappeared in the last decades because of selective … Continue reading
Posted in culture, data, discrimination and hate, economics, education, equality, gender discrimination, health, law, poverty
Tagged abortion, boomerang human rights violations, china, dowry, femicide, fertility rates, gender discrimination, gendercide, genocide, human trafficking, india, inheritance rights, marriage, one child policy, overpopulation, prejudice, selective abortions, sex ratios, sexual violence, son preference, statistics, tradition
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Measuring Poverty (5b): Poverty in Africa
Here‘s an interesting paper by Sala-i-Martin and Pinkovskiy on the evolution of poverty in Africa, and it contains exciting news: African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly since 1995 (this contradicts some older research). Moreover, this evolution is remarkably … Continue reading
Posted in aid, data, economics, measuring poverty, poverty, statistics
Tagged absolute poverty, africa, correlation, economic growth, GDP, Gini coefficient, income inequality, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, oil, one dollar a day, poverty in africa, poverty rate, poverty statistics, pro-poor growth, statistics
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Political Graffiti (89): Freedom of Speech
Something on the right to free speech (and to a free press), and something on the possible limits of this right. More political graffiti.
Income Inequality (21): And Economic (In)Efficiency
I’ve often argued against income inequality on this blog and pointed out the problems it creates. Standard economic theory suggests that these problems are a necessary price to pay for economic efficiency: unequal rewards incites those with talents, skill and … Continue reading
Posted in economics, equality, income inequality, justice
Tagged effort, incentives, income inequality, inefficiency, inequality and guard labor, innovation, productivity, property, Sam Bowles
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