human rights
November 15, 2009
- President Obama needs to show backbone when it comes to fighting for the values that his country and the rest of Western world hold. Sometimes, I think President Obama is weak because he has a hard time standing up to dictators around the world when it comes to Human Rights, free speech, freedom of thoughts and freedom of identity. Obama promised change in his campaign and he ...
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November 3, 2009
- I left France and went in the Republic of the Congo, when I was a kid. When I came in the Congo, I felt something was different from my native country, France like the climate, the way of life and joy that I saw in people, the music and the cuisine. There were certain things that I didn’t look differently from France like in the city life and the school system. I was living in ...
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October 26, 2009
- I am currently working on a book that I feel very passionate about and have been blessed by the amount of support I have received on this project, from both my personal and professional life, as well as the tremendous amount of information and assistance that has been offered to me by various organizations and academics. To be able to write this book, with the people it has introduced into my ...
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October 24, 2009
- This sounds a bit weird despite its tragic resonances. One can imagine that in Guantanamo Bay some kinds of music might be considered torture simply because of their quality. Here we are talking decibel levels to “help break uncooperative detainees”.Musicians have joined the coalition that is backing Barack Obama’s shut down plan for the camp for terrorist suspects. The group is depending ...
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October 12, 2009
- When our countries are at war, it’s important for us to give equal opportunities to our peoples to fight for our countries, regardless of them being gay, straight, Black, White, men, women etc. We are dealing with hard times and we cannot afford to waste our time of being suspicious of others because of race, ethnicity, gender, religious, non-religious, sexual orientation, marital status etc. ...
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September 29, 2009
- The ability to speak; the right to speak; the skill of articulating what we care about; civil rights; human rights; discovery of new ideas; fresh ways of looking at a problem; solutions to problems; human contact; value for the lives of others; respect for ourselves; ability to curb violence; chance to teach our young an anti-violence way of being; honesty; the past century of human rights ...
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September 3, 2009
- In some countries, women are killed for not being virgins. In a May 2005 paper entitled, "The Economic Advancement of Women in Jordan: A Country Gender Assessment," the World Bank reported that 95% of the women killed in Jordan in 1997 for alleged violations of family honor were later found to be innocent of immoral behavior. In other words, they were still virgins, even though ...
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September 3, 2009
August 31, 2009
- http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com/ Fire in the Soul is edited by Dinyar Godrej and published by Amnesty International and The New Internationalist. Two of the poems are from Burma.
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August 27, 2009
- ...everything would be just fine by now. It's the one year anniversary of Del's passing. She was one of the foremost activists in the lesbian feminist movement and she finally married (twice) her partner, Phyllis Lyon, after 52 years, before conservatives stole our rights back. Her book written with Phyllis, "Lesbian Woman" saved the lives and shaped the politics of an entire ...
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