- This is Filip Spagnoli's blog, which is mainly about human rights - including political and economic human rights such as the right to participate in government (democracy being a subset of human rights) and the right not to suffer poverty - seen from the perspective of politics, art, philosophy (hence p.a.p.), law, economics, statistics, psychology etc.
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- Income Inequality
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- Lies and Statistics
- Limiting Free Speech
- Moral Dilemmas
- Political Art
- Political Graffiti
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- Self-Defeating Human Rights Policies
- Types of Human Rights Violations
- What Are Human Rights?
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Human Rights Ads (66): Organ Donation
(source unknown) A slightly creepy yet also very moving advert encouraging people to donate their organs after death. More on the human rights implications of organ shortages and – in particular – organ trade is here, here, here and here. … Continue reading
Posted in health, human rights ads, law, trade
Tagged advert, advertising, human rights, organ donation, organ harvesting, organ trade, publicity
1 Comment
The Causes of Poverty (49): Brain Drain?
People with socially useful skills – such as nurses, doctors and teachers – often desire to leave their poor native countries and migrate to the West. A higher wage and the chance of escaping some of the world’s most dysfunctional … Continue reading
Posted in causes of poverty, economics, education, globalization, international relations, poverty, work
Tagged africa, brain drain, development, Higher education, immigration, migration, remittances
2 Comments
Political Graffiti (148): God Less America
(source) More political graffiti here.
Racism (20): Evidence of Colorism
(source) Colorism is prejudice of or discrimination against other people based on skin color. The concept is different from racism because it’s usually used to describe discrimination within a certain race or ethnic group, based on the tone of skin … Continue reading
Posted in data, discrimination and hate, equality
Tagged colorism, crime, discrimination, Discrimination based on skin color, Human skin color, incarceration, racism, Skin
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Human Rights Maps (143): Hiroshima Bomb Damage
Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. Of the people who … Continue reading
Posted in data, horror, human rights maps, international relations, war
Tagged atomic weapons, Bomb, ground zero, hiroshima, history, human rights, japan, map, maps, nagasaki, Nuclear weapon, World War II
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