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Canada : Conservatives Bring Woe to Women

Canada : Conservatives Bring Woe to Women

Stephen Harper has made it public that he’d like the Conservative government to put women’s health issues first, while hosting the G8. Nice, but unfortunately this is coming from someone who’s party has largely worked in the reverse (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Josh Chalifour

Activists Celebrate 2009’s Many Wins Against Scientology Crime-Cult

Activists Celebrate 2009's Many Wins Against Scientology Crime-Cult

The Scientology organization suffered many crippling blows in 2009, as the Anonymous human rights activist network turned up the pressure, journalists and judges stopped pulling their punches, and cult members continued to bail out in droves. As 2009 (...)

31 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Turning Borders into Music: A Magical Transformation Project

Glenn Weyant at work

In a work he calls The Anta Project, Weyant transforms the U.S.-Mexico border wall into a musical instrument using, as he says: "a cello bow and implements of mass percussion." He literally uses that cello bow to make avant garde music from the (...)

26 Oct. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Human Rights Activists Outraged that Scientology Cult Founder Compared to MLK, Gandhi, Mother Teresa

Human Rights Activists Outraged that Scientology Cult Founder Compared to MLK, Gandhi, Mother Teresa

Human rights activists worldwide were outraged this week to learn that in a new Scientology cult fundraising video, cult founder L. Ron Hubbard is described as a humanitarian and inspirational world leader on a par with Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, (...)

14 Aug. 2009 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Natalya Estemirova : kidnapped and murdered

Natalya Estemirova : kidnapped and murdered

On 15 July the body of human rights activist Natalya Estremirova was dumped in a wood in Ingushetia. This obituary appeared today on www.polit.ru. Natalya Estemirova, one of the leading activists of the human rights centre ‘Memorial’ in the (...)

17 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

Internet access as a human right?

Internet access as a human right?

The events taking place in Iran for the past three weeks have made me thinking about this topic. Would the situation in Iran been different if access to the internet was part of the UN’s declaration of human rights? Isn’t it time to start (...)

6 Jul. 2009 | 1 comment | Bente Kalsnes

Global poverty : the human-rights dimension

Global poverty : the human-rights dimension

The problems of the world’s poor are at their heart an issue of human rights. This sets a test for the world’s powerful. By Kate Allen of Amnesty International. The worldwide economic recession is working its way through every level of the (...)

29 mai. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Scientology Targets Haiti, But Why?

Map of the region

The Scientology organization has increasingly targeted poor countries such as Haiti in its recruitment efforts. Why would this money-hungry crime-cult be interested in one of the world’s poorest countries? The answer: Because they want to bring (...)

26 Mar. 2009 | 3 comments | Lilly von Marcab

God is Dead: Nietzsche Right, Bush Wrong

At the end of every year, the world should question and check its codes and models. This article is a contribution to this principle, that is why it is subtitled ’2008: Things to Remember When Models without Essence Prevail.’ Normal 0 (...)

5 Jan. 2009 | 1 comment | Mohammed Hashas

Scientology Cult Claims Another Victim

The Scientology cult’s former international chief of security, a man with multiple sclerosis, has died in Scientology’s "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF). The RPF is Scientology’s internal prison network. Uwe Stuckenbrock, a native of (...)

15 Oct. 2008 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Massacre of 1988 in Iran

Amnesty International has declared September 1st the International Day in Remembrance of the Massacre of Political Prisoners. The 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran is a crime against humanity. By 1988, there was nothing left of the relatively (...)

29 Sep. 2008 | | Jahanshah Rashidian

Scientology cult’s secret prison camps: The "Sea Org" and "Rehabilitation Project Force"

Scientology cult's secret prison camps: The "Sea Org" and "Rehabilitation Project Force"

The Scientology cult’s internal prison gulag currently holds hundreds of people of various nationalities. This is happening right now in the USA at the "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF) centers run by this "church," where members who have (...)

1 Sep. 2008 | 2 comments | Lilly von Marcab

The power of the press needs reasonable limits

Racism, anti-Semitism and sexism used to be rampant in Canadian society. Black people would be denied apartments in buildings with racist owners. Signs at beaches would say "no dogs or Jews". Some woman were kept in the kitchens and bedrooms and (...)

17 jui. 2008 | 1 comment | Jason Cherniak

Steyn Alone

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has dropped the complaint against author Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine. The complaint was baloney from the start anyway. For those who have been under a rock for the last few months, a human-rights complaint (...)

14 Apr. 2008 | 1 comment | Werner Patels

Lost Souls: Human Suppression in a Philippine Democracy

Where is Jonas Burgos?

This article explores involuntary disappearances in the democratic republic of the Philippines. PROLOGUE In a society which values freedom, democracy, and human dignity, two citizens quickly rose to prominence for mysteriously disappearing from their (...)

7 Apr. 2008 | | Michael Teodoro G. Ting Jr.

Flame guards...

Flame guards

China Olympic games The most protected flame ever...any other star in Hollywood would be jealous! micmac08USA

1 Apr. 2008 | 1 comment | micmac08USA

Help Shi Tao, Wang Xiaoning, Yahoo asks US

With the Beijing Olympics on the horizon, Yahoo wants US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to, “help win the release” of pro-democracy dissidents Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, each jailed for ten years after Yahoo handed Chinese authorities and (...)

26 fév. 2008 | | Jon Newton

The shortest speech ever....

Fidel Castro the shortes speech ever

Fidel Castro Cuba 2008 Cuba At the age of 81 years old Fidel Castro made his shortest speech ever... and since now on, steps down from the goverment. Are theses his last words? micmac08USA

20 Feb. 2008 | 2 comments | micmac08USA

Canadian law and Human Rights

Last week, I wrote an article in defence of laws against hate speech. My thesis was that while we all have freedom of expression, we do not have a right to use our free expression to attempt to remove the freedom of expression from others on the basis of (...)

5 fév. 2008 | 1 comment | Jason Cherniak

Free-thinking spirits

Free-thinking spirits

Life has a tendency to throw a curve ball at the oddest moments. While such luminaries of the free-speech movement as Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are defending their right to express their opinions freely, a member of the very group that they both have (...)

31 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

Message in a bottle...

Message in a bottle...

Martin Luther King. Yes indeed there was a voice, a voice of freedom, on a deaf world, now a days I’m willing to dream that this world won’t become a bipolar one and therefore the only victim of it self. Martin Luther King was and is one of (...)

23 Jan. 2008 | 1 comment | micmac08USA

No hyphenation, please

Kirpan

Back in school, the most unpopular kid would be the one who constantly ran to the teacher to tattle on others: "Teacher, Peter took my eraser!" While some students’ behaviour or actions, of course, are clearly out of bounds - kids will (...)

21 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

How not to build bridges

Ezra Levant fighting for his right to speak

In western-style democracies, people enjoy a wide range of rights, with freedom of speech and expression being just one example. When seeing reports from around the world, such as the current disaster that is Pakistan today, we in the West are reminded (...)

14 Jan. 2008 | 3 comments | Werner Patels

Interview : Viral Video Campaign Captures Guantanamo Interrogation Techniques

The human rights group Amnesty International has launched a new anti-torture campaign that’s attempting to capitalize on the viral nature of Internet video to raise awareness about interrogation techniques reportedly used in Guantanamo Bay. The (...)

15 nov. 2007 | | Andy Carvin

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