Human Rights

Celebrities including Ellen Page, Eddie Izzard, Jason Biggs, Sheryl Crow, Tila Tequila, Jorja Fox, Eric Szmanda, Wallace Langham, Will Ferrell, Sylvester Stalone, and Eva Longoria declare that they are all Aung San Suu Kyi. And so are we.

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An amazing program helping kids across the nation to get an education.

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Of course, Korea, Sudan and Burma top the list, and Iran, Pakistan, China, Zimbabwe and Saudi are also on the list, but so are Uzbekistan and Eritrea, which we we don't hear much about.

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An article I wrote for the Photography Spot about Kevin Carter's life and death.

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The homepage for the US Campaign for Burma.

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Author's Note: I would like you all to know that this task was exceedingly difficult. First of all, I narrowed it down to ten in this pick and that was hard enough. But I decided to organize them into a list like this, and that was tremendously hard. All of the people on this list beat out heavy competition, and I respect the one in tenth place as much as I respect the one in first place. There was a lot of switching around. Also, this list is incredibly biased. I would like to note now that honorable...

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Inspiring words often do little in the long run to spur anyone into action, because we forget about them, surrounded as we are by such extravagant distractions like television, iPods, and the Internet. So this article asks you to fight the urge to ignore that voice inside your head when you hear inspirational speeches or quotes and stop just talking about things. Go out and do something.

I heard the great legend, Quincy Jones, speak today at the 2008 commencement exercises for the University of Washington. While intrigued that such an influential person would be...

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This is more of a rant than a well-thought out article, but since this here is called "soap-box", I am going to use it.


I'm currently writing my paper for my Human Rights class. Sometimes I come upon articles that are so messed up...

I can understand articles that argue for example for economic interests against human rights. I do not agree with those, but at least they have often an argumentation that makes sense.

But the article I just read... it was actually published in a booklet by Amnesty International. I have no idea why they put that in...

B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal has awarded $11,000 to a Muslim man of Arab descent because he was the victim of a co-worker's paranoia after the terrorist attacks of Sept.

Indian-origin ICC judge Navanethem Pillay has been named the United Nations' new human rights chief, despite some initial opposition from the US.

Max Mosley yesterday declared that the judgment in his favour by Mr Justice Eady against the News of the World was 'devastating'. That is undoubtedly true.

United Nations: Indian-origin ICC judge Navanethem Pillay has been named the United Nations' new Human Rights chief, despite some initial opposition from the US.

Defense attorneys were among the loudest supporters of Georgia's ambitious public defender program, which for the first time created a statewide network of full-time attorneys to represent Georgia's poor.