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Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights
Rejecting TPP a Matter of Human Rights Trade deal would put Canada in consort with nation plagued by trafficking, aggressive corps Forget about the dairy farms and supply management. The real reasons Canada should withdraw from its unseemly flirtation with the Pacific Rim trade deal are that it would formalize a trade relationship with a […]
Canada Without Poverty charity challenges Harper govt. audits at UN in Geneva
Canada Without Poverty charity challenges Harper govt. audits at UN in Geneva Ottawa anti-poverty charity in Geneva this week arguing before UN that political-activity audits are an abuse The head of a small Ottawa-based charity is in Geneva this week to complain to a United Nations committee about the Canada Revenue Agency’s program of political-activity […]
Canadian Miners on the Road to Accountability
Canadian Miners on the Road to Accountability There was a time not that long ago when Canadian mining companies could feasibly commit all sorts of human rights abuses abroad, trampling the rights of local impoverished communities and overstepping their remit as a foreign firm extracting natural resources. Numerous allegations against these mining firms have cropped […]
Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say
Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say Most Americans value privacy and oppose mass surveillance. The minority who don’t – and who think spying is okay because they have “nothing to […]
Resentful Rage: Stage-4 of Cancerous Inequality
Resentful Rage: Stage-4 of Cancerous Inequality White America’s ugliest, uncompassionate, punitive face came to life in 1994 politics as Bill Clinton signed the incommensurable largest crime bill Congress had ever legislated: the Violent Crime Control Act; now, in retrospect, perhaps the most anti human rights legislation in modern times, not just in the US but […]
A Cool Interval-James Howard Kunstler
A Cool Interval For the moment, while the racial grievances of 2014 have chilled on the polar vortex, and no unarmed black teens have been shot by cops for a couple of weeks, it might be a good time to continue that honest discussion about race that the media nabobs — such as Charles Blow and Nicholas […]
Saudi blogger receives first 50 lashes of sentence for ‘insulting Islam’
Saudi blogger receives first 50 lashes of sentence for ‘insulting Islam’ A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said. The witness said Raif Badawi’s feet and hands […]
U.S. torture debate underscores shifting view on personal liberties – World – CBC News
U.S. torture debate underscores shifting view on personal liberties – World – CBC News. In America, you get a fair shake, or you’re supposed to. Here, you’re governed by law, not the whim of some swinish satrap. America is not a place where peaceful dissent should cost you your freedom, or even your life. Americans […]
Amnesty International: Tories’ Resources-Over-Human-Rights Approach Mistaken
Amnesty International: Tories’ Resources-Over-Human-Rights Approach Mistaken. OTTAWA – Amnesty International’s Canada branch has issued a wide-ranging attack on the Harper government for making economic development a higher priority than human rights — especially in resource development. Alex Neve, Amnesty’s director general, said the organization wants human rights issues to be on the agenda for the […]
UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians — RT News
UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians — RT News. Kiev-controlled volunteer battalions and the Ukrainian Security Service are involved in an increasing number of human rights violations including torture and forced disappearances of those suspected of “separatism,” according to a UN OHCHR report. The report by the UN High […]
China says U.S. can’t slam others on rights when it has racism problems at home | Reuters
China says U.S. can’t slam others on rights when it has racism problems at home | Reuters. China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that the United States has no right to confront other countries on their human rights records when it faces problems with racism and mistreatment of prisoners at home. Both U.S. Secretary of […]
CIA report: ‘Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice’ | US news | theguardian.com
CIA report: ‘Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice’ | US news | theguardian.com. The UN, human rights activists and legal experts have renewed calls for the Obama administration to prosecute US officials responsible for the CIA torture programme revealed in extensive detail following the release of a damning report by […]
