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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Child Labor, A Collection of Images (2)
(An older collection of images about child labor is here). According to Time, Kazakhstan tobacco farms contracted by Philip Morris have allowed children to work alongside their parents. This practice is outlawed because of the hard nature of the labor, … Continue reading
Self-Defeating Human Rights Policies (5): Land Reform
Intuitively, if poor people don’t have land of their own and are forced to work for a few major landowners who have monopolized all the fertile land in the country, there’s a bargaining problem: poor people have no other options … Continue reading
Posted in data, economics, equality, poverty, self-defeating human rights policies, work
Tagged africa, agriculture, human rights, land reform, property, property rights, zimbabwe
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Human Rights Maps (102): Travel Restrictions for People With HIV
(source) More on AIDS and HIV. More on freedom of movement. More human rights maps.
Posted in data, freedom, globalization, health, human rights maps, international relations, law
Tagged aids, freedom of movement, HIV, human rights, maps, travel, travel restrictions
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Discrimination (7): Statistical Discrimination v. Background Checks?
Employers often use background checks before deciding to hire someone. For example, they may check the criminal record of job candidates, their credit scores, health history etc. It’s somewhat understandable although not always acceptable that they are reluctant to hire … Continue reading
Posted in discrimination, discrimination and hate, economics, equality, health, law, poverty, statistics, work
Tagged African American, background checks, credit scores, crime, discrimination, employment, incarceration, prison, racial discrimination, racism, statistical discrimination, unemployment, vicious circle
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Ironic Human Rights Violations (7): The Poor Get Robbed More Than the Rich
Apparently, in the U.S., the less you have, the more likely it gets stolen from you: (source) More about property rights and theft. More ironic human rights violations.
Posted in economics, human rights violations, ironic human rights violations, law, poverty
Tagged human rights, ironic, property, property rights, theft, United States
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Racism (13b): Race and Employment
In the U.S., and probably elsewhere as well, there’s a large discrepancy between the unemployment rates for people of different races. The easy answer is “racism!”, but that may be a bit too easy. Some of the discrepancy can be … Continue reading
Posted in data, discrimination and hate, economics, poverty, racism, work
Tagged employment, Job Search, Race and Racism, racism, unemployment, unemployment and race, United States
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (64): The Commodification of Albinos
A lobby group says politicians are involved in the trade of human albino body parts in Africa and use them as charms to bring them good fortune. Albino body parts are sold for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars in … Continue reading
Wikileaks and the Paradox of Freedom of Information
It’s impossible to measure of course, but I would guess that the recent disclosure by Wikileaks of secret documents about the Iraq war has created more noise than the war itself. And that’s good. We want people to have information … Continue reading
Posted in freedom, human rights violations, law, war
Tagged escher, freedom of information, iraq, m.c. escher, mc escher, paradox, publicity, secret, whistleblower, Wikileaks
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (98): One More Ironic Protest Sign
Add this one to the older collection of ironic protest signs. (source) These guys were counterprotesting the infamous sign carriers of the Westboro Baptist Church (infamous for signs such as this and this). More serious variations on this theme are … Continue reading
Posted in activism, comedy, discrimination and hate, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged free speech, hate, hate speech, protest, signs
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