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Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

'No Other Land' scores with human story, mesmerizing cinematography, surprising cameos of law

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A Palestinian-Israeli collaboration yielded the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land , which is well worth the price of admission...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Free Syria regime stands at crossroads

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A lone demonstrator outside my local city hall today, in Barrington, Rhode Island, is getting plenty of horn honks for his sign, "Celeb...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Law student leads protests in Kenya

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Socioeconomic unrest and youth protests are roiling Kenya, and President William Ruto seems unable to get a grip on the discontent. Freelanc...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Lawyers spotlight persecution of profession in Iran

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Taymaz Valley via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Yesterday the International Law Section (ILS) of the American Bar Association (ABA) recognized the In...
Friday, November 4, 2022

As Jacoby talk commemorates Kristallnacht, Ukraine recurs in historical record of flights from oppression

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An upcoming talk on Kristallnacht, a recent experience in the Paraguayan Chaco, and the ongoing war in Ukraine have me thinking lately about...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Invasion of Ukraine marks six months; Russian propaganda flows despite court OK of EU media ban

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#IStandWithUkraine On July 27, the European Union (EU) General Court upheld a continental broadcast ban on Russia Today (RT). The EU Council...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Habeas petition for woolly monkey was valid, Ecuadorian court rules, recognizing right of nature

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A silvery woolly monkey at the Louisville Zoo (Ltshears CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Constitutional Court of Ecuador entered a ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Inter-American Court heralds community radio as human right for indigenous Guatemalan broadcasters

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Community radio in Colombia (USAID CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) ruled in October 2021 that ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Should mass media audiences have right to know whether content is fact or opinion?

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Political protestor in 2012 (photo by Gabriel Saldaña CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr ) To protect the civil rights of the audience, radio and te...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Museveni still holds reins in Uganda after 35 years, rebuffs allegations of human rights abuses

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At age 77, Yoweri Museveni maintains his grip on power in Uganda and yesterday rebuffed criticism by Human Rights Watch. In 2016, I presente...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Rwanda preens in Commonwealth spotlight, while genocide trauma, Congo conflict smolder just offstage

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June 22, KIGALI —The usually biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, "CHOGM 2022," postponed from 2020, is under way in...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Uruguay busca idear carta de derechos digital

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Palacio Legislativo en Montevideo ( foto por Tiana Gerfauo Gonzalez CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Uruguay está redactando una carta de derechos digitales....