human rights
January 5, 2009
- This morning I awoke to the sound of news and police helicopters overhead. It has become a daily constant over the past week or so. Just a 10-minute walk east of my home is an Israeli consulate; a 10-minute walk southeast of my home is the district headquarters of the senior senator from my state. People in my area are protesting the events in the Middle East, and news reports claim most of ...
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January 4, 2009
- On Feb. 20, one month after Barack Obama is sworn in as our next president, he must file a brief to let the Supreme Court, and the American people, know how he stands on the Bush administration's policy that says the commander-in-chief "may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime." (NYT) We hope Mr. ...
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December 18, 2008
- Five years ago today, I finished working on an essay that I began researching right around Daniel Pearl's birthday on October 10, 2003, and about a year after his murder in Karachi, Pakistan. Wall Street Journal reporter, and father-to-be, Pearl was savagely killed, as you recall, back in February, 2002. The article attempts to show that instead of working to overcome that kind of ...
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December 16, 2008
- During a press conference with Prime Minister Maliki, the other day, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at the president. Bush quipped: "It's a size 10 shoe," which only proves he missed his calling. He should have been a shoe salesman.
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December 10, 2008
- and as relevant today as it was when first signed, or more so...The Universal Declaration of Human RightsAdopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages.Following this historic ...
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December 7, 2008
- On this, the 67th anniversary of the day the Japanese launched a surprise military strike on a U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii , I'm reminded of the words of Austrian psychiatrist, Victor Frankl: "no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them."Dr. Frankl, who survived four concentration camps including Auschwitz, and witnessed firsthand the horror ...
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December 1, 2008
- A 16-year-old Arab-Israeli mother from Ramle, Dalia Abu-Ghanem, is believed by police to have been murdered by her brother, Mohammed. She has been missing for two weeks, having fled her home due to alleged spousal abuse.Nine other members of Dalia's family have been murdered in dishonor killings in the past eight years. The first of them was Dalia's mother, Naifa, whose corpse was discovered ...
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November 19, 2008
- I've blogged about the January 2008 dishonor killings of the beautiful and promising Said sisters, Amina and Sarah, in suburban Dallas (http://www.redroom.com/galleryimage/amina-18-and-sarah-17-said-usa). Last month the FBI, in a wanted poster of the prime suspect, the girls' father, Yaser Abdel Said (http://www.redroom.com/galleryimage/yaser-abdel-said-50-usa), finally called this crime what it ...
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November 17, 2008
- Ms. Gloria Allred; Trailblazing Attorney! Attorney Gloria Allred's cases include; OJ Simpson; Michael Jackson; Heather Mills divorce from Paul McCartney, Robert Blake, Hunter Tylo; actress fired by producer Arron Spelling for becoming pregnant; Rocker Tommy Lee's battery charges, model Kelly Fisher's lawsuit against Dodi Fayed before he died with Princess Diana, sexual abuse case against Catholic ...
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November 17, 2008
- Last night, in his first interview since being elected, Barack Obama told "60 Minutes" that among his top priorities is to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.But, Guantanamo Bay is not just a prison, it's a state of mind, and a legal limbo in which hundreds have been trapped since 2002.And, as what the President-elect calls "part and parcel of an effort to restore ...
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