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Human Rights Defined
A right or rights (for instance to freedom of speech, freedom of movement, certain standards of life or treatment) which are believed to belong to every person and individual.
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Holy See on Displaced Persons
Published October 13, 2008, 11:21 am, Zenit News Agency
GENEVA, OCT. 13, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the statement delivered to the U.N. refugee agency's annual Executive Committee meeting by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent observer at the U.N. offices in Geneva.
Binay dares Malacañang: Order arrest of Palparan
Published October 13, 2008, 6:55 am, The Daily Tribune
The United Opposition (UNO) yesterday dared President Arroyo to immediately file criminal charges and order the arrest of retired Army Gen. Jovito Palparan to disprove allegations that her administration sanctioned the wave of extra-judicial killings and disappearances of activists and government critics allegedly perpetrated by military death squads.
Smugglers throw migrants into shark-infested waters
Published October 13, 2008, 6:33 am, The World
SAN’A, Yemen — Dozens of bodies washed ashore Friday in Yemen after smugglers threw nearly 150 Somali migrants overboard in shark-infested waters, the latest such tragedy in one of the most lawless stretches of ocean in the world.
Palparan denies link to abduction
Published October 13, 2008, 4:59 am, Philippine Daily Inquirer
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Philippines—Retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. on Monday questioned the credibility of a farmer whose testimonies served as bases for the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to link him to the abduction of that man and his brother in Bulacan in 2006.
Nigeria: PDP Should Stop Playing Politics And Govern - Mamora
Published October 13, 2008, 4:04 am, AllAfrica.com
Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, a chieftain of the Action Congress (AC), is not an alien to Nigerian politics. The medical doctor-turned politician stormed the political scene in 1999 when he emerged Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly ahead of several veteran politicians in the House.
Kenya: MPs Take the Public for a Ride, Again
Published October 13, 2008, 2:19 am, AllAfrica.com
I cannot resist the temptation to bang a table for our Members of Parliament. And I am not just mad at them. I am pissed off.
Palace dared to order Palparan arrest
Published October 13, 2008, 1:59 am, Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—The United Opposition on Monday dared Malacañang to order the arrest of retired Army General Jovito Palparan and file criminal charges against him to prove that the government was serious in solving cases of extrajudicial killings and disappearances among activists.
Top Scoops
Published October 12, 2008, 9:24 pm, Scoop.co.nz
One unforeseen consequence of my visit to Lebanon this summer is that I am now married to a Lebanese-Palestinian named Hassan. I met Hassan in the fall of 2006, when my friend Amelia and I were hitchhiking through south Lebanon in search of Hezbollah guerrillas.
SC affirms Palparan link to abduction
Published October 12, 2008, 3:01 pm, Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has upheld the findings of the Court of Appeals linking retired Army Gen. Jovito Palparan to the abduction of two brothers, and said it found “convincing” one of the brothers’ accounts of how they were tortured by their captors.
No funds available to hold population census
Published October 10, 2008, 11:48 pm, Pakistani Newspaper
RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: The federal government has no funds to finance the holding of the next population and housing census in the country, which was scheduled to start this month, and from the current economic crisis, it appears the exercise of census may delayed for several months.
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- Tibet documentary wins best Human Rights film award - www.phayul.com
- Official UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Home Page
- Things Can Always Get Worse - DRC Edition
- Videla Back to Prison
- YouTube - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- YouTube - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- YouTube - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Know Your Human Rights!
- In Sierra Leone, Every Pregnancy Is a 'Chance of Dying' - washingtonpost .com: multi media on pregnancy risks for women in africa
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