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Keyes: Allowing states to make abortion decision not an option
Hopkinsville :: KY :: USA | 5 days ago
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Keyes, a four-time candidate for president and former U.S. ambassador, was the keynote speaker for the organization’s “The Candidates and the Constitution” rally. In addition to Keyes, Andy Barr and Matt Lockett, who are seeking to represent the Kentucky’s...
Tags: Dr. Alan Keyes, U.S. Senate, David Adams, U.S. Supreme Court, Matt Lockett, Bill Johnson, University of Kentucky, Hopkinsville, Pro-choice, Roe v. Wade, Pro-life movement, Maya Keyes, Human rights, Alan Keyes, Conservatism in the United States, Politics
Women's Reproductive Health Is Not a Social Issue
Bedford Heights :: OH :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Connie Schultz, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed Language matters, so let's be clear: Women's reproductive health is not a "social issue." Deciding whether to carry the red purse or the black bag to dinner Saturday night?...Wondering why your child wasn't invited...
Tags: abortion, social issuing, health care, Stupak-Pitts, Congress, Bart Stupak, Bedford Heights, Pro-choice, Reproductive rights, Women's rights, Human rights, Gender studies, Social Issues
Human rights for Native Americans should be a priority
Lexington :: KY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility One representative from each of the 564 federally recognized tribes was invited and nearly 400 came to the White House Tribal Nations Conference. As perhaps the most forgotten Americans, they came hoping to be recognized, acknowledged and helped. In...
Tags: native americans, Barack Obama, human rights, Native American, Lexington, Punahou School alumni, Native Americans in the United States, Political positions of Barack Obama, Indian termination policy, Politics, Native American history, American culture, Social Issues
U.S. Taps Tough Critic for U.N. Council
Priština :: Kosovo | 5 days ago
Credibility Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, shown here, has been tapped to be the Obama administration's representative on the U.N. Human Rights Council. (Facebook) The California scholar and Obama donor tapped to be the first U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights...
Tags: U.N. Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, U.S, Kosovo, Priština, Human rights, United Nations Human Rights Council, Social Issues, Hillel Neuer, Barack Obama, United Nations, Politics
The Child Labour: The negligence goes on and on ......
I was rather depressed to read at dawn.com editorial this morning (see below) the fate of young kids who must be going to schools and enjoying their childhood by indulging in sports and healthy activities. Its not only the state, its all of us at fault...
Tags: child labour, neglected children, Labor, allnews, Pakistan, Pensions etc, Nicolas Asfouri, Justice, Dawn, Human rights, Child protection, Childhood, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Childrens rights, Labor rights, Anti Pakistan, Social Issues
Arar-case lawyer sees torture déjà vu
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
Credibility In light of the human rights record of Afghanistan, you would expect that officials would check it out," says Paul Cavalluzzo. Afghanistan's widely criticized record on human rights should have been enough for Canadian officials to suspect detainees in...
Tags: Paul Cavalluzzo, human rights, Afghanistan, Arar, rights records, Syrian, Mr. Colvin, Canadian, Richard Colvin, Kabul, War in Afghanistan, Franco Pillarella, Abdullah Almalki, Public inquiries, Maher Arar, Human rights abuses, Politics
Children be protected from abuses: Fehmida ...
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
Credibility Staff Report Islamabad�Speaker National Assembly Dr. Fehmida Mirza on Friday said that children are the hope of mankind and continuity of human race and needed to be protected from degrading living conditions, violence, drug trafficking, child labor and...
Tags: Dr. Fehmida Mirza, beings protection, Pakistan, Islamabad, Human rights, Politics, Society, Fahmida Mirza, Torture, Human rights abuses, Crimes against humanity, Culture, Social Issues, Labor
RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
Mexico :: Philippines | 6 days ago
Credibility The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Ju�rez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system. The Inter-American...
Tags: human rights, Ciudad Ju�rez, Court, Cotton Field, Commission, Mexico, Philippines, Human rights abuses, Political repression, Femicide, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, Homicide, Crimes against humanity, Law Crime
Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee. The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature...
Tags: New York, attorney general, New York City, Human rights, Constitutional law, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, Presidency of Barack Obama, Military tribunal, Politics, Law Crime, Al-Qaeda, USS Cole bombing mastermind, Jamal Mohammad Ahmad Al Badawi, Politics of Yemen, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, USS Cole bombing, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Charles Krauthammer, September 11 attacks, Propaganda, AlterNet, Islamic terrorism, Interrogations, Baloch people, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism
Senators told about failures in V.I. mental health care --
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | 6 days ago
Credibility Senators told about failures in V.I. mental health care Friday, November 20th 2009 ST. The territory's system of providing mental health care to its citizens remains sorely lacking, some testifiers at a Senate Health Committee hearing on Thursday said.
Tags: Health Department, mental illness, health care, Arlene Monaghan, V.I, Eldra Shulterbrandt Residential Facility, Mental Health Division, Julia Sheen, British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Psychiatry, Mental health, Mental disorder, Mental health courts, National Institute of Mental Health, Social issues, Human rights, Medical ethics, Health Medical Pharma
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