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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
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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
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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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Human Rights Nonsense (28): China’s Human Rights Action Plan
I didn’t know China had a human rights action plan – more evidence of the normative universality of human rights I guess. Take a look at this Pravda-style article from China’s mouthpiece newspaper: (source) In view of this, what do … Continue reading
Crime and Human Rights (13): What’s the Use of Criminal Punishment?
Criminal punishment, even in our non-medieval and so-called Enlightened societies, is the deliberate, intentional and organized imposition of harm on those we believe to be guilty of a crime. That remains the case even if we assume that those who … Continue reading
Posted in human rights and crime, justice, law, philosophy
Tagged crime, criminal justice, desert, deterrence, fair trial, foucault, Fyodor Dostoevsky, harm, incapacitation, incarceration, instrumentalization, justification, lex talionis, michel foucault, morality, nietzsche, prison, proportionality, punishment, rehabilitation, retribution, sentencing, signaling
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Political Graffiti (147): Freedom of Expression
(source) More on freedom of expression and free speech. More political graffiti.
Posted in activism, political graffiti
Tagged free speech, freedom, freedom of expression, graffiti, human rights
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Gender Discrimination (25): The Plough as a Cause of Gender Inequality
Gender inequality means different levels of protection of human rights according to gender. No need to say which of the two gender’s rights are usually violated more or protected less rigorously. Gender inequality occurs in many areas of life: in … Continue reading
Human Rights Stories (17): A Hanging
(source) Possibly a true story, reported by George Orwell when serving in the British Imperial Police in the 1920s, describing the execution of a criminal in Britain administered Burma (an Indian province until 1937, when it became a separate, self-governing … Continue reading
Posted in art, human rights story
Tagged burma, execution, George Orwell, Hanging, Human Rights and Liberties, india
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