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<DIV>Human Rights Day...all day....<BR>-------<BR>wahjeh<BR>rolland
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:49 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Human Rights Day</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>HUMAN RIGHTS DAY - December
10<BR>==============================<BR>Human Rights Day is celebrated each year
on Dec. 10 to honour the U.N. General Assembly's adoption of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. But just as the Geneva Convention has not
given enough protection to prisoners of war, this Declaration has done little to
stop human rights violations the world over. Democracy itself -- or the freedom
it presupposes -- has not been protective enough. This century, there's an
urgent need felt to curb politicisation of human rights and embrace more
humanising political ways. IPS keeps an eye on that difficult path.<BR><BR>Read
IPS coverage on Human Rights at:<BR><A
href="http://ipsnews.net/human.asp">http://ipsnews.net/human.asp</A><BR><BR>============================================================================<BR><BR>CENTRAL
AMERICA: Trade Unionists Face Deadly Dangers<BR> Raúl
Gutiérrez<BR>SAN SALVADOR - Central America has become the world's most
dangerous region for trade unionists, due to the increase in threats, torture,
disappearances and murders, says a report by the International Labour
Organisation (ILO).<BR><A
href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45056">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45056</A><BR><BR>*****<BR>Bipartisan
U.S. Panel Offers Blueprint to Prevent Genocide<BR> Jim
Lobe<BR>WASHINGTON - A bipartisan task force of former top national security
policymakers is calling on the incoming administration of President-elect Barack
Obama to make the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities overseas a top U.S.
foreign policy priority.<BR><A
href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45036">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45036</A><BR><BR>*****<BR>CARIBBEAN:
Despite Successes, Too Many Dying of AIDS<BR> Peter
Richards<BR>PORT OF SPAIN - Every day, 55 people in the Caribbean are infected
with the HIV virus and 38 of them die of the disease. That's 20,000 new
infections and 14,000 deaths annually.<BR><A
href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45045">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45045</A><BR><BR>*****<BR>NEPAL:
'Maoists Slow to Return Seized Property'<BR> Renu
Kshetry<BR>KATHMANDU - Tej Bahadur Roila, a member of the Nepal army, is unable
to return to his home in the Khotang district of Eastern Nepal because his
property, seized by Maoist rebels in the middle of the decade-long civil war
they waged against the monarchy, has not been returned.<BR><A
href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45039">http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45039</A><BR><BR>=============================================================================<BR><BR>Read
more IPS reporting on Human Rights at: <BR><A
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