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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Types of Human Rights Violations (7): Unintentional Human Rights Violations
(source) The common view is that there can’t be unintentional human rights violations: only when someone intentionally harms the rights of someone else can we talk about rights violations. In all other cases we should talk about accidents, tragedies or … Continue reading
Human Rights Poem (82): What Work Is
(source) What Work Is, by Philip Levine We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is–if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although … Continue reading
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Tagged human rights, Philip Levine, poem, poetry, right to work, unemployment, wagner, What Work Is
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Statistical Jokes (34): Another Venn Diagram
(source) Other Venn jokes are here, here and here. More statistical jokes here.
Posted in comedy, statistical jokes, statistics
Tagged graph, humor, joke, venn diagram
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What Are Human Rights? (32): A General Formulation
(source) You can rephrase the question in the title as follows: “what do human rights have in common?”, or “what is the essence of the idea of human rights?” Michael J. Perry offers a general formulation in The Idea of … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, what are human rights
Tagged animal rights, human rights, what are human rights
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (91): Marry Your Rapist and Get Out of Jail
After the attack, [Gulnaz] hid what happened as long as she could. But soon she began vomiting in the mornings and showing signs of pregnancy. It was her attacker’s child. In Afghanistan, this brought her not sympathy, but prosecution. Aged … Continue reading
Posted in data, discrimination and hate, equality, human rights violations, law, most absurd human rights violations
Tagged adultery, afghanistan, honor, honor killing, human rights, islam, Kabul, prison, rape, women's rights
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