Fw: Human Rights Day

Wed Dec 10 20:07:33 UTC 2008

Human Rights Day...all day....
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Subject: Human Rights Day

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY - December 10
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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.

Read IPS coverage on Human Rights at:
http://ipsnews.net/human.asp

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CENTRAL AMERICA: Trade Unionists Face Deadly Dangers
     Raúl Gutiérrez
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).
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45056

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Bipartisan U.S. Panel Offers Blueprint to Prevent Genocide
     Jim Lobe
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.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45036

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CARIBBEAN: Despite Successes, Too Many Dying of AIDS
     Peter Richards
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.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45045

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NEPAL: 'Maoists Slow to Return Seized Property'
     Renu Kshetry
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.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45039

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Read more IPS reporting on Human Rights at: 
http://ipsnews.net/human.asp

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