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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Human Rights Maps (122): Indicators of Gendercide
The human sex ratio is approximately 1:1. In many countries, however, and especially in China and India, there are a lot more men than women. The most important cause of this are social and cultural pressures in favor of boys. … Continue reading
Political Graffiti (130): Surveillance Society
Well, not exactly “graffiti”, but street art in the general sense of the word: (source, source) More about CCTV, big brother and privacy. More political art. More political graffiti.
The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (75): Prison Slavery
(source) Although inmate labor is helping budgets in many corners of state government, the savings are the largest in corrections departments themselves, which have cut billions of dollars in recent years and are under constant pressure to reduce the roughly … Continue reading
What Are Human Rights? (25): Some Common Human Rights Misconceptions
Here’s a short and unfortunately incomplete list of common misconceptions about human rights. I distinguish between theoretical misconceptions (mistakes about what human rights are or what they mean) and factual or historical misconceptions. The former are obviously the most harmful, … Continue reading
Statistical Jokes (22): The Original Venn Diagram
More Venn diagrams here. More statistical jokes here.
Human Rights Maps (121): Residential Segregation in the U.S.
Segregation comes in many forms: there can be segregation in schools, at work, in the places people live, in restaurants etc. In U.S. history, it has often been racial segregation, but there is also something like gender segregation, wealth segregation … Continue reading
Gender Discrimination (24): Gendercide in India
(source) About 6.2% of potential female births are aborted in India because ultrasound reveals the sex. That’s 480,000/year, which is more than the number of girls born in the UK each year. The estimates suggest that Indian families desire two … Continue reading
Posted in data, discrimination and hate, equality, gender discrimination
Tagged abortion, gender, gender discrimination, gendercide, india, ratio, selective abortions, sex selection
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Why Do We Need Human Rights? (22): Private Property Rights, Justifications Based Not On Their Origins But On Their Purpose
I guess a few clarifications about the right to private property are in order (this older post was rather unsatisfactory). Property is the set of rules governing people’s access to and control of things. Three types are traditionally distinguished: private … Continue reading
Posted in economics, freedom, housing, justice, law, philosophy, poverty, privacy, trade, why do we need human rights, work
Tagged assisted suicide, collective property, common property, eminent domain, gun rights, intellectual property rights, justification of property, private property, property, property rights, scarcity, taxation, tragedy of the commons, types of property, value pluralism
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Measuring Democracy (6): Three Waves of Democratization According to Polity IV and Google Ngrams
(source) Following Samuel Huntington, many political scientists believe that there have been three waves of democratization in recent history. The first wave of democracy began in the early 19th century when suffrage was gradually extended to disenfranchised groups of citizens. … Continue reading
