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Dan Morain: Marriage equality gets Wall St. talk, not money
February 08, 2012

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

Viewpoints: In Syria, it's not just about freedom; it's also about Iran
February 03, 2012

Editorial: State must grapple with aging prisoners
February 01, 2012

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

Thomas L. Friedman: Egypt's Islamist leadership tests U.S. trust and diplomacy
January 19, 2012

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Driver's licenses advocates to be at Roundhouse
February 08, 2012 | KOB Albuquerque, NM

Patched and Improved Magna Carta Unveiled
February 02, 2012 | Associated Press

East Haven police board recommends firing Gallo
February 01, 2012 | New Haven Register

Sacramento Connect

IACHR Urges the Haitian Authorities to Investigate, Try and Punish the Grave Violations to Human Rights
February 02, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. Feb. 1, 2012 - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses concern over the declaration of statute of limitations on the...

Iraq’s execution of 34 people in one day ‘shocking’ – UN human rights chief
January 24, 2012
High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Jan. 24, 2012 - The United Nations human rights chief s...

Suzanne Nossel: Amnesty International Calls On President Obama to Implement Bold Policies for Human Rights Progress
January 23, 2012
Jan. 23, 2012 - Suzanne Nossel, Amnesty International USA's executive director, issued the following statement in advance of President Barack Obama's scheduled...

Human Rights Watch: Egypt Should Dismantle Tools of Repression
January 16, 2012
NEW YORK, NY, Jan. 16, 2012 - Egypt's newly elected parliament should urgently reform the arsenal of laws used by the Mubarak government to restrict freedoms,...

Human Rights Campaign: Connect the Dots between Kris Kobach and Africa’s Anti-Gay Movement
January 13, 2012
Jan. 12, 2012 - Yesterday, Mitt Romney proudly announced Kris Kobach's endorsement of his presidential campaign. Kobach is the Kansas Secretary of State and a...

Human Rights Campaign: Romney and Santorum Debate Statements Don’t Match Their Actions
January 09, 2012
Jan. 8, 2012 - Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were asked questions about their support for gay Americans and the issues...

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UC Davis experts: 10th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay
January 11, 2012 | UC Davis News
JUVENILE DETAINEES, TORTURE -- Linguistics professor Almerindo Ojeda, who directs the UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights ... Contact: Almerindo Ojeda, Center for the Study of Human Rights ...

UC Davis offers innovative new majors, minors
October 31, 2011 | UC Davis News
Also new this fall: a minor in human rights ... The new undergraduate minor in human rights ... It encourages students to link their major fields of study with the history, theory, practice and promotion of human rights ...

UC Davis experts on the Occupy movement
December 05, 2011 | UC Davis News
Johnson can comment on the human rights and social justice aspects of the Occupy movement. Contact: Kevin Johnson, School of Law, (530) 752 - 0243, krjohnson@ucdavis.edu....

UC Davis media sources for cases pending before the U. S. Supreme Court
November 09, 2011 | UC Davis News
Sunder's expertise traverses numerous legal fields, from intellectual property to human rights law and the First Amendment. Contact: Madhavi Sunder, School of Law, (530)...

From around the web

Iranian Majlis Chair: We Will Not Allow the U. N. Special Rapporteur to Investigate...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
Majlis Human Rights Committee chair Zohreh Elahian said Iran would not allow Ahmad Shaheed, the former Maldivian foreign minister whom the U.N. Human Rights Council elected...

Iranian Human Rights Website: 11 Executed For Criminal Offenses
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
An Iranian human rights website reports that 11 people were executed yesterday by hanging, in several Iranian cities, for criminal offenses. May 27, 2011, 2: 20 pm...

Political Prisoner Calls on U. N. Human Rights Rapporteur to Prevent Executions...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
Iranian political prisoner Issa Saharkhiz has sent a letter to U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur on Iran Ahmad Shaheed, urging him to come to Iran in order to prevent ongoing secret...

Taliban Statement Lauds UN Report On Human Rights Abuses In Afghan Prisons
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
report highlight human rights violations in detention centers maintained by the Afghan intelligence and... October 12, 2011, 11: 50 am ...

Iranian Lawmaker: Iran Will Create Data Bank Of Western Human Rights Violations
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
Iranian Majlis Human Rights Committee chair Zohreh Elahian says that Iran is planning to create a data bank for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help them investigate...

Iranian FM Says We'll Establish Int'l Apparatus To Deal With West's Human Rights...
December 24, 1999 | Memri Latest Blogs Urdupashtu
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that the Western countries are currently focusing their years-long struggle against Iran in propaganda regarding Iranian human rights ...

Human Rights on twitter

	More than 80 killed in Syria, most in Homs: Activists: Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that of the ... Twitter: @MARKETRISER
	Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo win grant to "support democratic transition in North Africa http://t.co/gXtr4x9v Twitter: @NAltstadt
	Amnesty & human rights watch; urge israel to allow refugees to excercise right of return #Finkelstein Twitter: @HMSupertramp
	http://t.co/GoONHE0J we must stand up to Euro Judges #commonsenseatlast Twitter: @ohArfurrrrr
	RT @NEDemocracy: @HollmanMorris: Even European citizens, human rights defenders were intimidated by #DAS. #Colombia #nedevents Twitter: @cordoba_esteban
	RT @AmberLyon: If #Bahrain has nothing to hide, why forbid human rights activists and journos from entering the country? Twitter: @AlSobh