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Tag Archives: human rights
Malaysia’s War on Tomboys
Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council issued a warning to human rights groups yesterday that should they criticize its efforts to repress “tomboy behaviour” among Malaysian women, it could result in…further repression. One has to marvel at this sort of thinking. How … Continue reading
Medvedev’s Caribbean Dream
A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia: “I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.” (AFP) We’d … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged 1898, Caribbean, Cold War, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Grenada, Haiti, hegemony, human rights, humanitarian, hurricane, Medvedev, Moscow, Putin, Putinism, resistance, Russia, United States, Venezuela
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Ignoring Chad
David Axe writes on one of the world’s biggest ignored crises—right next door to the much more hip, much more visible crisis in Darfur. The Central African Republic has been spiraling into conflict, forcing over 60,000 people into refugee camps… … Continue reading
GVO Summit: The Power of Organized Utopianism
One of the subtextual themes coming out of the conference so far is what can almost be called a double-standard: the participants demand the right to unrestricted speech, but recoil in horror at the consequences such speech brings. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Media, regulation
Tagged activisim, Budapest, censorship, conference, freedom, Global Voices Online, human rights, speech
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What happened to the world?
“Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.” via Althouse.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Canada, ezra levant, human rights, richard warman, speech, threats to freedom
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Silk Purses and Sow’s Ears
(Cross Posted at What if?) We all know that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Similarly, an anti-racism conference that features Libya as its chair, with Cuba as its vice-chair, has virtually no chance of achieving … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Media, Peg's Page, Race
Tagged Canada, Cuba, HRC, human rights, Human Rights Comittee, Israel, Libya, racism, UN
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