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A direct line to marketing hell | Simon Davies
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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A direct line to marketing hell Unregulated telephone harassment by automated dialling machines is fast becoming a major privacy issue Like millions of people across Britain, I now refuse to answer my home landline number, and with good justification.
Tags: Privacy International, ICO, phone line, United Kingdom, London, Information Commissioner's Office, Human rights, Telemarketing, Data privacy, Orange United Kingdom, Ofcom, Telephone Preference Service
Human rights activists teach by theatrics
Sanaa :: Yemen | 2 days ago
Credibility The artist imagines the unimaginable, thinks the unthinkable. The artist usually represents as a model citizen for the community...Smith praised this step, “the first of its kind,” and said that she looks forward to February for the results of the program....
Tags: FPDF, Yemen, Sanaa, Society, Human rights, Culture, Politics, Economics
Goldstone receives human rights award
Gaza :: Palestine | 2 days ago
Credibility Swedish Bar Association and the International Bar Association. The decision cited Goldstone's 'extraordinary career' in promoting human rights, in his native South Africa and elsewhere. A United Nations inquiry led by the former South African Judge detailed...
Tags: Israeli, Judge Richard Goldstone, human rights, goldstone received, war crimes, rights awarded, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Gaza, Tzipi Livni, United Nations Human Rights Council, Richard Goldstone, Politics, Gaza War, Human shield, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, War Conflict
UC Berkeley students to emphasize rights at global climate confab
Berkeley :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Two UC Berkeley law students are trying to make sure human rights do not get swamped as the planet's climate changes. Caitrin McKiernan and Zoe Loftus-Farren, both second-year students at Boalt Hall, will travel next week to United Nations-led climate...
Tags: Font Resize UC Berkeley, human rights, berkeley law, Berkeley, Environment, Berkeley California, University of California Berkeley
Satates Must Improve Efforts For Landmine victims
Peru :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Senior UN Rights Official Exhorts Nations To Focus On Landmine Victims New York, Dec 4 2009 10:10AM States must step up efforts to help landmine victims – including women, children and indigenous populations – in especially vulnerable situations, a senior...
Tags: human rights, landmines victims, Peru, Human rights instruments, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Laws of war, Social Issues, Mine action, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Land mine, Ottawa Treaty, Survivor Corps
In Iran: 'Popular Uprising' Is Alive; Students To Again Protest Monday
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 days ago
Credibility One leading watchdog on the issue of human rights in Iran says that while we Americans may not be paying as much attention to events in his country as we did last summer, the "popular uprising ... has not died out." I spoke by telephone today with Hadi...
Tags: Iran, Hadi Ghaemi, human rights, popular uprising, Tehrān, Politics, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
RIGHTS: Women's Treaty a Powerful Force for Equality
Vienna :: Austria | 3 days ago
Credibility Convention is at the core of our global mission of peace, development and human rights," U.N. New York Thursday. "The Convention is one of the most successful human rights treaties ever." Still, he cautioned, three decades after the treaty was introduced,...
Tags: Austria, Vienna, Women's rights, Human rights instruments, Human rights, NGO Committee on the Status of Women New York, Social Issues, Discrimination law, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Gender equality
Driving History: Bus-eum Reminds US How to Treat Enemies
Sages say that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. And that may be why the TRACES traveling exhibit, or "bus-eum," roves the US on a dual mission. Objective #1: To tell the story of German POWs who were held in...
Tags: TRACES Center for History and Culture, WWII, POW, Prisoners of War, immigration, Germany, New Mexico, history, Irving Kellman, bus-eum, US Army, Minnesota, The Sun, international relations, conflict avoidance, human rights, education., allnews, Albuquerque, Prisoner of war, War Conflict, U.S. Army
A House in Disrepair
A House in DisrepairBy M. Quinn I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever. This highly insightful and candid articulation...
Tags: american history, politics, racism, American, America&rsquo, allnews, Thomas Jefferson, United States ambassadors to France, Human rights, Jim Crow, United States of America
Shell must clean up its act in Nigeria | Chima Williams
Lagos :: Nigeria | 3 days ago
Credibility Shell must clean up its act in Nigeria As Nigerian villagers take Shell to court over huge oil spills, it's time for the group to take responsibility for polluting practices A court in The Hague is considering whether Shell can be held liable for alleged...
Tags: Shell Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, Until Shell, Niger Delta, Nigerian, oil spill, human rights, Nigeria, Lagos, Environment, Niger River Delta, OPEC, Ogoni people, Shell Oil Company, Environmental disasters, Disaster Accident
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