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Human Rights Poem (29) 2008-04-11 02:59:16 THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the dark fens of the Dismal Swamp
The hunted negro lay;
He saw the fire of the midnight
camp,
And heard at times a horse’s trams
and a bloodhound’s distant bay.
Where will-o’-the wisps and glowworms
shine,
In Bulrush and in brake;
Where waving mosses shroud the
pine,
and the cedar grows, [...] Read more:Human Rights
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Human Rights Cartoon (65) 2008-04-10 06:31:01 Is it justified to use the word “rights” in the context of economic rights such as the right not to suffer extreme poverty? Are these rights comparable to classical freedom rights or are they an example of the way in which superficial reasoning destroys the meaning of words? Are they rights or are they mere [...] Read more:Cartoon
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A bit of fun 2008-04-09 02:42:12 The Queen
(vulgar limerick)
The tits of the Queen, since her coronation,
have taken a downward orientation.
It wasn’t their weight,
nor did they deflate.
‘T was the shaking of hands without cessation.
Human Rights Cartoon (64) 2008-04-08 04:52:09 (copyright Chappatte, )
Self-determination is the essence of nationalism. A nationalist believes that a people or a nation can only have an autonomous and authentic existence, according to their own traditions, language, values and norms, in a state of their own. He often sees himself as a force for democracy. Self-determination, the national liberation of a [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Rights Quote (33) 2008-04-07 03:01:27 If you are someone of faith, there is no conceivable way that it wouldn’t affect your politics. TONY BLAIR, former British Prime Minister, discussing his Christianity in a lecture on global religion.
The separation of church and state is not always what it seems to be. Religion does not have to remain silent when it comes [...] Read more:Human Rights
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Human Rights Quote (32) 2008-04-06 15:29:00
To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks. They claimed that they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice. WU HEPING, China’s Public Security Bureau spokesman
First it was anti-communism, then it was “Asian values”, then economic stability and progress, and now TERRORISM. A list of [...] Read more:Human Rights
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What is democracy? (14) 2008-04-06 15:27:41 Democracy means continuous confrontations between a maximum number of different opinions coming from a maximum number of levels of society, all of which have to be treated equally, with the same respect and attention. We have to listen to and take into consideration every opinion on an equal basis. This confuses, complicates and extends the [...] Read more:democracy
Human Rights Cartoon (63a) 2008-04-06 15:24:40
It is unacceptable that countries intervene only when their economic, strategic or other interests are at stake, or that they do not intervene when abstention better serves their interests. Some countries in particular can use economic sensibilities to escape even condemnation. China is a notorious example of a country with such an appealing market that [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Rights Quote (34) 2008-04-15 04:06:51 It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Read more:Human Rights
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Human Rights Cartoon (66) 2008-04-14 04:47:34 The choice is not one between hunger and oppression or between starving liberals and well-fed slaves. On the contrary, hunger and oppression often go together.
The real choice is one between hunger and freedom. The end of oppression ultimately means the end of hunger and vice versa (because freedom promotes development and because well-fed people will [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Rights Cartoon (67) 2008-04-15 08:34:56 Violations of human rights must be countered by way of international intervention of one kind or another. This intervention in the internal affairs of states may take place without the consent of the state where the intervention takes place, especially when this state is the primary violator. However, it must also take place when violations [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Rights Quote (35) 2008-04-18 01:59:47 “It kind of bums me out because it’s my first Olympics and maybe my only Olympics, and I might not be able to go to the opening ceremonies.” PHIL DALHAUSSER, American beach-volleyball player, voicing frustration over the politicization of the Beijing games due to China’s controversial rule of Tibet.
What a shameless expression of egoism. “I [...] Read more:Human Rights
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Human Rights Cartoon (68) 2008-04-17 06:47:08 (copyright )
Some countries have granted their courts so-called “universal jurisdiction” in certain matters. Traditionally, courts only have national jurisdiction and can only punish crimes committed on the national territory; crimes committed elsewhere should be handled by the courts of the country in question or by international courts. Laws of one country are also generally understood [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Rights Quote (36) 2008-04-19 07:19:18 In a speech on his U.S. trip, Benedict said that respect for human rights, not violence, was the key to solving many of the world’s problems.
While he didn’t identify the countries that have a stranglehold on global power, the German pope — just the third pontiff to address the U.N. General Assembly — addressed long-standing [...] Read more:Human Rights
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What is democracy? (15) 2008-04-23 07:16:41
A democracy
regards and must regard all people as equally valuable (the equal worth or the equal dignity of the human being, see art. 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). A citizen of a non-democratic society can be considered as more or less valuable than other citizens because of his or her family, [...]
Human Rights Cartoon (69) 2008-04-22 11:26:08 Bad health and suffering create the same problems as poverty. You have to be healthy and without pain, in order to have a cultural and political life and to be able to use freedom rights and political rights. A sick, suffering or toiling person is thrown back upon himself and unable to relate to the [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Right Quote (37) 2008-04-22 11:16:37 A wonderful example of political irony. I just hope it’s irony and not the outcome of our current system of history education. Read more:Quote
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Human Rights Cartoon (70) 2008-04-24 03:49:59 Why are all people equally valuable? Or why do all people have an equal value?
This seems to be something we believe intuitively. It is an idea with a long history. Christianity, for example, is based on it (all people are children of God and created in His image). Everybody understands the importance of being recognised [...] Read more:Cartoon
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Human Rights Poem (31) 2008-04-26 05:27:53 One of my own:
The capital of punishment
Mistaken religion, unlucky position,
You may be spoiling someone’s horizon
Or crossing a trajectory in the streets of Bagdad.
It’s better that your execution is extra-judicial rather than intra.
At least you don’t have to wait for the date and satisfy the spectators. Read more:Human Rights
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Human Rights Poem (30) 2008-04-25 07:00:23 Injustice, Pablo Neruda
(tr. Alastair Reid)
Whoever discovers the who of me will find out the who of you,
and the why, and the where.
Early on, I discovered the range of injustice.
Hunger was not just hunger,
but rather a measure of man.
cold and wind were also measures.
The proud man racked up a hundred hungers, then fell.
Pedro was buried at [...] Read more:Human Rights
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What is democracy? (16) 2008-04-25 04:41:44 Self-government (the equality of rulers and ruled, government of the people by the people instead of government of the people by an elite sprung from the people) is an important value because it gives people control over their own lives. Most people want to be masters of their own lives and want to be involved [...] Read more:democracy
Human Rights Cartoon (71) 2008-04-28 06:16:13 The idea of equal rights resulted from the emergence and the ascent of the bourgeoisie in 17th and 18th century Europe, and was in the first instance, a tool for the protection of their interests. The bourgeoisie was, compared to the aristocracy, a relatively open class. One could enter and leave this class in a [...] Read more:Cartoon
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