Posted on July 15, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
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We must send a clear and strong message to all who would commit crimes of hate: it is wrong, it is illegal, and we will catch you and punish you to the full force of our laws. Al Gore
A hate crime (or a bias crime) is a crime committed against a person that is motivated, [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
The right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions. Hina Jilani, lawyer and human rights activist
An honor killing is a murder, carried out by a family to punish a female family member who has supposedly brought dishonor on the family. The acts which are the cause of [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
The term Sharia literally means “path” or “way” (”way to the water source”). So, originally, it wasn’t a legal code or a set or rules as it is now. With the passing of time, the word has come to mean the body of legal rules which were produced through a very long process of scholarly [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
Some facts about gay rights (or LGBT/Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights).
This is a problem of discrimination and unequal treatment, both in law (legal discrimination) and in social life (homophobia and hate crime). It’s not about special rights or special treatment for homosexuals as some kind of minority group with a separate identity, but about [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
(by http://www.graphicclassics.com/pgs/konopack.htm)
Do homosexuals have a right to marry according to the international human rights standards? Not explicitly. They do not even have the explicit right to be homosexual, but jurisprudence has established that homosexuals should not be discriminated. First of all, all human beings, whatever their convictions, practices, behavior etc., have the same rights. So [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Filip Spagnoli
(by www.coxandforkum.com)
Ahmadinejad really does believe that there are no homosexuals in his country. And at the same time there are routinely executions of homosexuals. This is well-documented. The executions are by hanging most of the time. And not just hanging, but slow stragulation. Rather than dropping the victim through a door in the floor, they [...]
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