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AI: Don't forget poor in climate talks
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 7 days ago
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World leaders meeting in Denmark next week must ensure any climate change pact doesn't put the world's poor at further disadvantage, Amnesty International said. After a conference discussing the impact of climate change on human rights in the run-up to...
Tags: climate, climate change, human rights, Mary Robinson, Denmark, Copenhagen, Environment, Amnesty International, IPCC Third Assessment Report, Global warming, Action on climate change
303 candles throw light across the shadow of AIDS
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 7 days ago
Credibility United Nations Development Program) Pacific Centre at Sukuna Park in Suva. The number of candles lit reflected the number of confirmed HIV cases in Fiji...If we do not fully acknowledge and empower our fellow human beings, who have been affected, we will...
Tags: human rights, Fiji Islands, Suva, Health Medical Pharma, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China, Social Issues, AIDS, Immunodeficiency, HIV, Initialisms, Pandemics, World AIDS Day
South High student joins advisory board
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Lane Erickson, a 16-year-old student at South High School in Torrance, was recently selected to the Student Advisory Board of Education. The program allows students to attend a five-day conference in Sacramento to engage in discussions with members of...
Tags: Lane Erickson, advisory board, Sacramento, Education, Human rights, Torrance California, Pedagogy, Alternative education, Education reform
Swiss Islamophobia betrays Enlightenment ideals
Aleppo :: Syria | 7 days ago
Credibility Visitors marveled at what seemed to them an extraordinary general prosperity; one could travel for ten miles by the light of street lamps, and along an uninterrupted series of buildings. The city is said to have had then 200,000 houses, 600 mosques, and...
Tags: human rights, religion, swiss, minarets, islam, European Islam, mosques, Syria, Middle East, Muslims, Aleppo, Ethnic groups in the Arab League, Christianity in Syria, Islamic fundamentalism, Religious discrimination, Mosque, Religious persecution, Islamism, Freedom of expression, Religion Belief
Abortion statistics for US states
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility Abortion is rarely out of the news in the US. Right now, Catholic bishops and Protestant evangelists in the US have unleashed an intense lobbying campaign to force fresh limitations on access to abortion into healthcare legislation under debate in the...
Tags: abortions statistics, United Kingdom, London, Human rights, Politics, Pro-choice, Abortion, Pro-life movement, Social Issues, Abortion in the United States
Japan to allow resettlement of Burmese refugees
Nakagawa :: Japan | 7 days ago
Credibility Parliamentarians from several countries expressed concern about the plight of refugees from North Korea and Burma, while a Japanese MP said that Japan will start selecting refugees from Burma to resettle from early 2010. Burma, where they share a similar...
Tags: News Regional Japan, Thai-Burma, human rights, Thailand, North Korean, korean refugees, allows resettlement, UNHCR, Japan, Nakagawa, Demography, Burma, Refugee, Politics, Social Issues, North Korean defectors, Politics of Burma, Forced migration, Population, Right of asylum, War Conflict
Swiss minaret ban 'security risk'
Zurich :: Switzerland | 7 days ago
Credibility A decision by Swiss voters to ban the construction of minarets poses a risk to Switzerland's security, the country's foreign minister says...A top UN official has called the ban "clearly discriminatory". Bookmark with:
Tags: Switzerland, European Union, minaret ban, Swiss People's Party, Italy, Roberto Castelli, deeply divisive, Zurich, Minaret, Referendum, Politics, Islamophobia, Religion Belief, Lega Nord, Swiss Federal Council, Roberto Calderoli, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Minarets, Islam in the Netherlands, Arabic architecture, Franco Frattini, Environment, Flag of Italy, Guusje ter Horst, Interior ministry, Geert Wilders, Islam in Europe, The People of Freedom, Party for Freedom, Mustafa Kemal Atatￃﾼrk, Human rights
The religious right redux | Sarah Posner
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility The religious right redux Churches' influence on policy is as strong as ever, as debates over the place of abortion in Obama's healthcare reforms show When Barack Obama was elected president, conventional wisdom had it ( once again ) that the religious...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Politics, Abortion, Social Issues, Pro-life movement, Religion Belief, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Pro-choice, Bioethics, Christianity and abortion, Nancy Pelosi, Human rights, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Evangelicalism, Political parties in the United States, Abortion in the United States, Democratic Party
Swiss Ban on Mosque Minarets - Analysis and Impact
The Swiss Government has recently banned the building of Minarets in Mosques. The ban comes as a result of a recently held referendum in Switzerland. According to New York Times story: The Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban...
Tags: Islam, Mosques, Religion, Switzerland, Swiss, Minarets, Human Rights
Denmark Passes "Anti-Riot" Law Days Before UN Climate Meetings
Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed "anti-riot law", less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the...
Tags: copenhagen, UN, UNFCCC, climate, global warming, climate change, Obama, US, China, human rights, environment, allnews, Denmark, Justice, Parliament, V2G, United Nations Climate Change Conference, G-20 London summit protests, Civil disobedience, Riot, Protests, Diplomatic conferences, Copenhagen Police
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