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Viewpoints: Egyptian candidate could bridge divide of secular, devout
May 19, 2012

Kathleen Parker: Plight of Chinese dissident should matter to all of us
May 06, 2012

Editorial: China's human rights record can't be ignored
February 16, 2012

U.N. investigator urges Sacramento to provide water, sanitation for homeless
February 04, 2012

Movie Review: Judi Bari's tale, many other movies at Davis Film Festival
April 06, 2012

Obituary: Thomas Hand, 26, medical student and human rights activist
January 25, 2012

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Chinese Activist Chen Guangcheng Heads to U.S.
May 19, 2012 | Newsy.com

Queen under fire over Bahrain guest
May 18, 2012 | Press Association UK

Acoso sexual en agricultura.
May 17, 2012 | KCEC Denver, CO

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‘Virulent’ homophobic attacks put South Caucasus activists at risk
May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012 - Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan must do more to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, Amnesty International...

John Feffer: America the Serial Killer
May 17, 2012
May 15, 2012 - Everybody loves Dexter. He's handsome. He's helpful. He works at the Miami Metro Police Department, and he's very good at his job as a...

Sexual Violence, Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers
May 16, 2012
NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 - Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual...

Iraq: Mass Arrests, Incommunicado Detentions
May 15, 2012
BEIRUT, May 15, 2012 - Iraq's government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in...

Chris Toensing: Operation Lip Service
May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 - The popular uprising in Bahrain shows no signs of going away. The royal family tried crushing the revolt, importing shock troops from Saudi Arabia...

NATO: Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya
May 14, 2012
BRUSSELS, May 14, 2012 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011...

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Robert Scheer; Faking support for the Chinese masses
May 06, 2012 | AppealDemocrat
We do not care a whit now -- or have we ever cared -- about their human rights or any other aspect of their lives as long as they satiate our unbridled appetites. To pretend...

Media sources on anniversary of U. S. attack on Osama bin Laden
April 23, 2012 | UC Davis News
Human rights ... Almerindo E. Ojeda is the founding director of the UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights ... He started The Davis Group, a gathering of military and civilian lawyers, human rights ...

UC Davis dean elected to Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
April 17, 2012 | UC Davis News
The American Council of Learned Societies is supporting three faculty members in their book projects on medieval French farces, Mark Twain and human rights ... history of human rights ...

Human Rights Watch director to speak March 5
February 29, 2012 | UC Davis News
March 5, Monday -- The inaugural UC Davis Provost's Lecture in Human Rights ... Division...

From around the web

R. I. P. David Littman
May 20, 2012 | Jihad Watch
We have lost a lion It is with great sadness that I must report that my friend David Littman, one of the foremost warriors for human rights of our age, has died today in...

Dan Carpenter: WellPoint critic, 88, leads docs' crusade for Medicare for all
May 20, 2012 | indystar.com
He ministered to civil rights marchers in the dangerous Deep South as head of an interracial doctors' group, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, whose efforts paved the way...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: April 2012
May 19, 2012 | Wake up America
'' Human rights groups and Coptic rights activists say the meetings are just a way to pressure powerless groups and people into giving away what little rights they have.''...

The world in which everything is based on lies and hatred
May 18, 2012 | Jihad Watch
The longer these imaginary sanctions continue, along with talks and political games revolving around Iran's Islamic nuclear capability, the more muffled the voice of freedom and free speech and human rights ...

Internet Society's Wentworth: Treaties Like ACTA Won't Solve Piracy
May 17, 2012 | Read/WriteWeb
recognize their human rights as set forth in the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights - the ability to impart information regardless of frontiers? I think Mr. Putin's approach, at...

AFDI/SIOA, FMU to Host'' Summer Night for Human Rights'' in Defense of Iranian Pastor...
May 17, 2012 | Jihad Watch
From Yahoo News: NEW YORK, May 17, 2012/PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- The prominent human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)... Night for Human Rights ...

Human Rights on twitter

	bna_en: Bahrain News Agency\|Minister of State for Human Rights's speech before the UN Human Rights... http://t.co/yoBgkvgk #Bahrain #Feb14 Twitter: @iSupportBH
	Mexico: Human rights defender kidnapped and tortured http://t.co/BDEkSZsu via @labourstart Twitter: @BrunoNinomis
	RT @BarnabyBarratt: Just had wisdom tooth out. I would go so far as to say that what they did to me in there is a violation of my human rights. Twitter: @AffinityDJ
	End Harassment of #Sudan Journalist and Human Rights Defender Faisal Mohammed Salih http://t.co/SKGJhB4C via @@EHAHRD #HumanRights Twitter: @DoaaAbdelaal
	@slappers Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng arrived Saturday evening in the United States, bringing an end to a diplomati... Twitter: @MoahNast
	@WHO: Dr Chan: Nordic countries and Canada promote women’s empowerment, gender equity and human rights, leading by example. #WHA65 Twitter: @EddyAniekan