Human Rights

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

Submitted by Cinders 26 days ago

The homepage for the US Campaign for Burma.

Submitted by Cinders 1 month ago

See the videos posted to this spot and more done by celebrities like Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman, Jennifer Aniston, Woody Harrelson, Jason Biggs, Eddie Izzard, and more. And all in support of Burma.

Submitted by Cinders 1 month ago

An interesting video Kegel originally posted with two stars of CSI talk about life in Burma.

Submitted by Cinders 1 month ago

International Campaign Against Honour Killings. In honor of Du'a Khalil's death, here is a checklist of things you can do to help stop honor killings.

Submitted by nosemuffin 3 months ago

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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...

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Background

Rachel Corrie was a 23 year old college student and human rights activist from Olympia, Washington. On March 16, 2003, she was run over and killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza, while defending a Palestinian home from demolition. A gifted writer, Rachel left behind a series of diaries and emails from an early age which were crafted into a play by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. While the United States government in its annual human rights report describes Rachel as "a US citizen peace activist" and designates her as a human rights observer,...

Prosecutors and judges celebrated the 10th anniversary of the International Criminal Court's founding document Thursday, but behind the scenes there was turmoil.

BEIRUT: Loud screams break the quiet of a Beirut neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday, June 15: It's Angelique, a 26-year-old domestic worker from Congo, crying for the police as she runs to the balcony.

Guwahati: A senior State leader of the Communist Party of India, Manoj Deka, is battling for his life in a private hospital here after he was beaten up allegedly by a police constable.

An audit of the San Antonio Police Department released Thursday says the department should clarify its use of deadly and Taser force and should make its complaint process more accessible to citizens.

A New York-based advocacy group has settled its federal class-action lawsuit with the state of Michigan over its child welfare system, just days before the case was scheduled to go to trial.