Human Rights
Time to repeal Taft-Hartley
December 19, 2012It is one of those ironies of history that on December 10, 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Human Rights Day demand: tax rich, jobs not cuts
December 12, 2012She stood silhouetted against the backdrop of a holiday-lit City Hall. But she wasn't speaking of holiday celebrations.
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Huge Argentina human rights trial begins
November 29, 2012On Wednesday, the trial of no less than 68 former military and civilian officials of the 1976-1983 Argentine military dictatorship began in Buenos Aires.
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Petition drive seeks freedom for Oscar Lopez Rivera
November 27, 2012Supporters of Oscar Lopez Rivera have kicked off a petition drive asking President Barack Obama to grant clemency to the Puerto Rican independentista,
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Pakistan rallies around Malala Yousafzai
October 16, 2012The 15-year-old Pakistani woman gravely wounded in a Taliban attack, has come to symbolize a broadening struggle in that country, against the extremist views the Taliban seeks to enforce there.
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