Paraguay: Land dispute victory for displaced indigenous community India: Security forces cannot claim immunity under AFSPA, must face trial for violations Chad: Hundreds of families forcibly evicted from their homes Cuban blogger blocked from travelling to film premiere in Brazil Israel must release or try Palestinian detainee on prolonged hunger strike Double veto of draft Security Council Resolution on Syria a betrayal of protesters Cambodia: Khmer Rouge judgment welcome, but raises human rights concerns UN court ruling on Nazi war crime victims ‘a setback for rights’ Albania: Temporary solutions are no solutions for evicted Roma families in Tirana Pakistan should protect Ahmaddiya community against threats of violence Yemen: One year on since the start of mass protests Cambodia: Stop the use of excessive force against peaceful land activists South Korea must release activist charged over Kim Jong-il tweet Senegal: President must rein in security forces as third person killed amid protests Security Council: Russia must not block efforts to end atrocities in Syria Ukraine must protect detained asylum-seekers attacked by security forces USA urged to clarify basis for drone killings in Pakistan Haiti: Dropping Jean-Claude Duvalier case 'a disgrace'
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Civil Liberties and Anamnesis Ron Paul is a Serious Candidate Understanding the 2012 NDAA Six New Historical Timelines 40th Anniversary of the Stanford Prison Experiment Luther Strange: A George Wallace for Our Times? Five New Timelines On Calling Atheists Terrorists Mississippi Considers Personhood Amendment Celebrating Genocide?
The Next Generation Joins The Copyright Wars A Copyright Wars Primer for Libertarians A Worthwhile Hour of Your Time (post-SOPA) If I Can't Share, I Can't Dance Tyler Neylon on What Elsevier Should Do Scalzi vs. Franzen on E-Books The Peasants are Revolting (Scientifically) Petition the Copyright Office - Remix Culture Apple's Evil Sabotage USPTO and Prior Art What the Hell is Up with Copyrights in the UK? Y Kill Hollywood Apple Jumps Into iBooks - With Hobnailed Boots On the Dissent in Golan v Holder Jonathan Coulton on Megaupload/Piracy
UK's digital policy seized by fanatical bureaucrats, say MPs Beware Freedom of Info law 'privacy folktale' - ICO chief Oracle wins round in Java patent lawsuit against Google Anonymous releases law firm's emails about Haditha killings UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing Google tells French watchdog 'non' on privacy tweak halt Ofcom proposes fall in BT Openreach charges to rivals Job-seeking Marriott hacker gets 30 months' porridge Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online CA wins copyright wrangle against ISI Hollywood gathers to pick over Limewire’s corpse Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak Judges retire to consider Assange’s last chance on extradition Sprint gives LightSquared extra 6 weeks to get FCC thumbs-up French court lays le smackdown on Google Maps Met's email hack probe turns spotlight on The Times - MP
PlayStation 3 "Other OS" Saga Shows: Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime This Week in Censorship: Arrested Bloggers in Vietnam, Google's New Censorship Policy, and China... Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries Tell Congress: No Backroom Deals to Regulate the Internet Megaupload's Innocent Users Deserve Their Data Back What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy EFF Requests Information from Innocent Megaupload Users EFF Asks Judge to Prevent ‘Catch-22’ in Porn-Downloading Lawsuit International Privacy Day: Top Concerns of Activists and Data Protection Authorities The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy
SD House Committee Strikes Down CPC False Advertising Bill Anti-Gay Bill Reintroduced in Uganda Breaking News: 9th Court Panel Rules Proposition 8 Unconstitutional Karen Handel Involved in Komen's PPFA Decision WA Judge to Rule on Emergency Contraception Law International Day of Zero Tolerance of FGM/C Day Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes in WA Senate VA Senate Blocks Fetal Pain Bill Komen To Continue Grants To Planned Parenthood Komen Foundation to Stop Grants to PPFA Departments of Labor and Treasury to Enhance Retirement Security VAWA Reauthorization Passed by Committee on Party Line Vote Komen Foundation to End Partnership with PPFA Department of Labor Announces Equal Pay App Challenge Department of Labor Seeks Comments on FMLA for Military Women's Rights Groups Launch Campaign to Save Birth Control from Catholic Bishops Blog Carnival Will Support VAWA Reauthorization First-Ever Oral HPV Study Conducted UN Secretary General Promotes Women's Rights, Gay Rights
Outrage of the Season: No Winter Recess, Safety Ground Cushioning “Too Hard” A 4-Page Playdate Waiver? Is This the New Normal? Why Johnny Can’t Run Warning! Divorced Dad at Home During Sleepover!!! A Child Visitor to America Asks: “Where Are All The Kids?” There’s Hope for Mayberry Yet! Why Are Parents So Scared? Ask Barry “Culture of Fear” Glassner Outrage of the Week: Mom HANDCUFFED for Tardy Kids College Student in Burning House Calls Parents — Not 911 Worried About Internet Bullying & Predators? Props to Danah Boyd!
Media and advertising: manipulating photos of people; going too far? Media in the US: lax campaign financing bad for democracy but good for media companies Climate change: historic emissions still matter COP17 - Durban Climate Conference Iran nuclear report: Regurgitating old stories as new information to justify sanctions? Inequality in the US; the top 0.1% gaining even more than top 1% Protests on the economic situation are global Global Arms Sales Decreases in 2010 compared to 2009 Today, around 21,000 Children Died Around The World War on Terror: 10 years on Health and poverty; a vicious cycle Corruption East Africa Food Crisis 2011 Climate change means ocean change Foreign aid: highest levels ever but still way below promised amounts Foreign aid: shortfall since 1970 over $4 trillion; greater than aid given After the Japan crisis many rethinking nuclear option as fossil fuel alternative World military spending exceeds $1.6 trillion, continuing upward trend despite economic conditions
Human Rights Watch blasts ISI over Pak scribe's killing Hershey's to be Called-Out for Alleged Use of Child-Slave Labor in Ad at Super Bowl The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International Hershey's to be Called-Out for Alleged Use of Child-Slave Labor in Ad at Super Bowl French Senate`s law on so-called Armenian genocide unrecognized by OIC Human Rights Watch Flay ISI Over Shahzad's Murder Qatar National Human Rights Committee ,UNHCR Sign Cooperation Agreement Call for Africa to entrench human rights Scores Die in Ethnic Clashes in Warrap State Five New Inductees For County Civil And Human Rights Hall Of Fame UN human rights top monitor to visit Myanmar Five New Inductees For County Civil And Human Rights Hall Of Fame Sudan: Scores Die in Ethnic Clashes in Warrap State Remember Rousseau: Property Rights And Human Rights Are Still At War Sri Lanka: USA pressurises civil society to accept genocide and to live with it Three new trials for human rights violations start in February Sean Penn Tells Oprah His Humanitarian Work In Haiti Helped Him Get Through Divorce U.S.-Based Humanitarian Team Here to Promote, Peace Others
Larry Echo Hawk: How being a Mormon helped me succeed Mohawk man charged for digging up ground at Superfund site Leader of Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation faces removal DC Circuit set to hear first of challenges to Cobell settlement New Mexico Secretary of Indian Affairs hasn't been confirmed Julia Good Fox: A unified political platform for Indian Country Steve Russell: Talking Mitt Romney with cousin Ray Sixkiller Pueblo man charged in connection with woman's brutal death Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation files federal recognition lawsuit Opinion: Jack Abramoff still trying to say sorry for his crimes Body of missing Native teenager located in snow in Manitoba Increase in sightings of 'Bigfoot' in Navajo Nation mountains Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe to decommission old fish hatchery Witness List: House subcommittee hearing on Indian land bill Tribes in Minnesota shift campaign donations to Republicans AIM co-founder discusses US treatment of American Indians KTSK: Sealaska donates cedar logs for clan house renovation Review: 'Seldom Disappointed' with Tony Hillerman memoir
Submission by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature to Río+20 Paraguay submission to Rio+20 proposes harmony with nature Ecuadorian Submission for Rio+20 proposes Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature The Durban Package: “Laisser faire, laisser passer” One Year Since Cancun and Just Days Away from Durban: MORE THAN 4°C Press Release: Bolivia calls for urgent high level talks on cutting climate pollution Bolivia Proposes Pathway to Solve Climate Talks: Be clear about targets and honour commitments Press Briefing of Bolivia: How to close the emission GAP? Climate Negotiations Need: Kyoto, a focus on protecctiong forest now Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous
Reporters Without Bordershttp://en.rsf.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH43/siteon0-2a858.pnghttp://ww... France - Documentary filmmaking threatened by court ruling on autism documentary United States - Censored, prosecuted and on terror list, filmmaker denied First Amendment rights India - Danish journalists banned from India over TV documentaries Iran - Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2012) Thailand - Dictators can thank Twitter for its new censorship policy Tunisia - Internet filtering – danger of return to past Iran - Rights groups urge international community to press Iran to end violations Djibouti - Radio journalist threatened and tortured for 24 hours Kazakhstan - Leading independent Kazakh newspaper at centre of major media crackdown Côte d’Ivoire - Le Patriote editor released after being held for 24 hours Portugal - Answers needed after public radio programme pulled in suspicious manner Nepal - Government decides on big increase in range of documents to be classified Iran - Support for Khabarnegaran Iran, a news website for Iranian journalists Russia - Office of opposition newspaper destroyed in firebomb attack Panama - Canadian TV crew hoping to cover mining dispute fears being denied entry Mali - Promoting professional media coverage of this year's elections in Mali Somalia - Shabelle Media Network director gunned down outside home in Mogadishu
UK MPs call for end to ‘human safaris’ as new video proves police link Brazilian Indians fear imminent eviction from ancestral land Up close one year later: startling new photos of uncontacted Indians released Two years after Andaman tribe dies, another 'faces extinction' German travel industry warns Samburu eviction could harm Kenya tourism Further threats as Guarani Indians remember murdered leader ‘Evidence of attack’ where Indian child was reportedly ‘burned alive’ Revealed: Andaman authorities alerted to human safaris two years ago 'Mainstreaming' the Jarawa would be a disaster says Survival International Undercover audio tape proves Andaman ‘human safaris’ continue Loggers invade tribal home of Amazon Indian child 'burned alive' Police involvement in ‘human safaris’ exposed in the Andaman Islands
Report from the Chaco Forest Beekeepers Tribal leader abducted in India "One must have courage" Richard Gere stands up for tribes The Things They Said... The Gunmen Ogiek houses torched in Mau Forest evictions Singing and Dancing Survival Greenwashing Award Film Trailer: Birdwatchers Video footage of The Last of his Tribe Rainforests are not just carbon sinks, they're peoples homes. We Are One Like a Poison to the Penan From the Kalahari to Court Virgin Forest Crisis Point "While this theatre goes on, our mountain is slowly decimated." What happened at Devil's Bend? La Muerte en la Curva del Diablo: el relato de la testigo belga Marijke Deleu The Real Avatar: Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain Trailer - Mine: story of a sacred mountain Progress Can Kill
The Worst Police Misconduct Videos of 2011 Madness: In America Even School Children Are Being Pepper-Sprayed and Shocked with Tasers Fourth Grader Suspended For Sexual Harassment for Calling Teacher a Four Letter Word, You Won't ... Deaf, Disabled Senior Citizen on Bicycle Deemed Threat by Police, Tased to Death Man 61 Riding Bicycle Shot With Stun Gun Dies N.C. probes death of bicyclist tased by police - CBS News War Veteran Wounded By Police At Occupy Oakland, Stun Grenade Thrown At Folks Helping Him 9th Circuit finds police stun gun use excessive in 2 cases Video Shows Cop Lied About Reason For Using Taser on Inmate Shotguns, Handguns and Tasers...Oh, My! Anthony Bologna Using Pepper Spray In Second Video (VIDEO) NYPD, Unprovoked, Peppersprays Women Behind Barricade at Occupy Wall Street Protest Two California policemen charged in fatal beating of mentally ill homeless man - 4 other officers wh... 2 Fullerton Police Officrs Charged In Beating Death Of Kelly Thomas DOJ Investigating 15 Police Depts. Across Country for Alleged Police Brutality IMPD Tries New Approach to Police Officer Training Florida Cops Sued for Brutality Kelly Thomas' grieving father fights for justice - Los Angeles Times
Deaths in police custody figures 'understated' Coroner Releases Details In Teen's Taser Death RCMP's Taser use in 2003 death slammed in report Fraction of VPD carries Tasers under new rules Transit cop turned off by Tasers-Ex-VPD officer says he now doubts safety, usefulness of devices Deaths in Police Custody: Excited Delirium New standards for Taser use go into effect in B.C. Monday Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/new... Karbon Arms Prevails over Taser in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona Tasers a ‘new urban terrorism’ against ‘downtrodden’: Canadian study Attorney calls Taser use ‘sadistic’ Bipolar Man's Death by Taser Needs Jury Trial Texas man dies after police taser him TAZED - the movie California man dies after police taser him Editorial: Delirious Fatality report EDITORIAL: Delirious over delirium California man dies Four taser related deaths in December 2011
Panama: UN expert calls for dialogue between Government and indigenous people Myanmar: UN rights expert urges authorities to remain committed to reforms El Salvador: UN panel voices concern at arbitrary detention, prison overcrowding Ethiopia's anti-terrorism laws must not be misused to curb rights - UN UN official voices concern about possible excessive use of force by Senegalese forces Somalia: UN envoy deplores murder of radio station director UNESCO chief condemns latest murder of journalist in Somalia Mediterranean the deadliest sea for refugees and migrants, says UN agency Former Haitian leader must face charges for human rights abuses, says UN
References on explanations of repetitive war crimes sought Yemen protests: Evidence snipers shot to kill Woman accused of Bosnian war crimes appears in Kentucky court UN Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from US Raids Gaddafi Warns Of 'No Mercy' In Rebel City Released detainees recount military torture, thousands remain in custody Gadhafi threatens to increase bloodshed ahead of no-fly vote "Black History Month...", con't: UK 'gave torture tacit approval' Bradley Manning being 'mistreated', says Hillary Clinton spokesman Senators want new policy for detainees Senate GOP'ers Unveil Comprehensive Detainee Legislation Most of those killed in drone attacks were terrorists: military Third way needed to try Guantanamo detainees On the Humiliating Treatment of PFC Bradley Manning
If Michelle Obama will blow me... Re: Immigration but...........Who wants to buy a book "Illegal Love" by Zdravko Joseph Lad... Re: #Obama Tries Not Paying Ransom to the Republicans Invasion of privacy by the MHSD(Welfare) Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets It's a good sign Zimbabwe: 5 Men Arrested for Being Gay AMERICA SHOULD BE A LAND BEYOND KINGS Obama’s Dive on DOMA 'We still need a 1000 national guard troops to support current law enforcement' Warrantless Wiretapping: Should Feds Pay for Snooping on Suspected Terror Group? "Special request for help: I have a question about the DEA gold badge": HP employees,stockholders ,clients and Government Clearance officers : Open letter , questions and w... Ultimate Evil Calls for Ultimate Punishment If Donald Trump and Marc Anthony Can Pack Heat in NYC, Why Can't Everybody Else?
Tibetans Burn Selves for Freedom (Insightful article by Ming Xia) To President OBAMA (2012.02.07) satellite tortures (penis itches) to push toward suicide_________________________________ satellite tortures (penis itches, buttock itches) to push toward suicide_ Today's Shock Poll, February 7, 2012 Religious ritual or abuse? Police investigate cuts on 4-year-old girl Re: Building Myanmar Into A Nation by President UTheinSein. The Hindu genocide that Hindus and the world forgot Hindu Genocide in Kashmir, and in Bangladesh Hindu Kush means Hindu Slaughter - by Shrinandan Vyas Was There an Islamic 'Genocide' of Hindus? - by Dr. Koenraad Elst Burma reveals international debt {Correction] Choking in Debt The Superpower And Its Hatred For All II satellite tortures (penis itches) to push toward suicide________________________________