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Monthly Archives: September 2011
The Causes of Human Rights Violations (28): Inattentional Blindness
(source) Why do human rights violations endure? Because we don’t see them. Or better, some of them. We often suffer from so-called inattentional blindness, the phenomenon of not being able to perceive things that are in plain sight because we … Continue reading
Capital Punishment (36): Retribution
I understand the argument that people sentenced to death aren’t getting any worse than they’ve given the world. Still, I think that the state could and should be held to a slightly higher standard of behavior than that which we … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, law
Tagged Crime and Justice, death penalty, execution, Lady Jane Grey, official murder, punishment, retribution, state murder
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Terrorism and Human Rights (34): Terrorism Reduces Respect for Human Rights
(source) And I don’t mean that in the obvious sense: terrorism is a human rights violation and therefore reduces respect for human rights. I’m more interested in the indirect effects of terrorism on human rights. According to this study, terrorist … Continue reading
Posted in freedom, human rights violations, international relations, terror, torture
Tagged 9-11, human rights, security, terrorism, war on terror
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Human Rights Video (23): Nuclear Explosions, 1945-1998
Starts a bit slow, but interesting nonetheless: the numbers and places of nuclear explosions throughout the years: More on atomic weapons here and here. More on Hiroshima here. More human rights videos here. Related Articles Japan Commemorates 65th Anniversary of … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (148): The Right to Internet Access
(source) The right to internet access is obviously not a widely recognized right yet, but should it be? As a rule, we should avoid rights inflation because creating new rights dissolves the importance of rights in general. However, in this … Continue reading
The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (86): “We Inflict an Injustice Upon You, and Then We Make You Pay For It”
Two horrible cases of government officials treating people unjustly and then making them pay for it: 1. According to the Las Cruces Sun-News, “A Las Cruces woman has been charged $1,122 by a local hospital for a forcible body cavity … Continue reading
Political Graffiti (154): Sex Slave
(source) More on modern slavery, human trafficking and prostitution. More political graffiti.
Posted in art, political graffiti
Tagged graffiti, human trafficking, modern slavery, politics, prostitution, sex slave, sex work
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Racism (21): The Recession Isn’t Colorblind
(source) The recession obliterated more than half of the wealth (assets minus debts) of the average black and hispanic household in the U.S. White households lost “only” 16%. (Assets are houses, cars, savings and checking accounts, stocks and mutual funds, … Continue reading
Posted in data, economics, housing, poverty, racism
Tagged Pew Research Center, racism, Real estate bubble, recession, wealth, wealth inequality
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Updated Set of International (Non-Muslim) Danger Signs
More on islamophobia and the war on terror.
Posted in international relations
Tagged beard, danger signs, islam, islamophobia, muslim, signs, war on terror, war on terrorism
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