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Written by Luisa Teresa Salazar de Nordlander
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Monday, 19 May 2008 19:40 |
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 The international conference on trade and peace took place on the 15th of May at the Oslo City Hall; our organization, HumanRightsDefence was present at this event. The topics covered included the relationship and interdependence between trade and peace and the effects of world trade and globalisation. Also discussed was how trade can be an important tool in tackling the world famine, with particular focus on Africa.
The humanitarian activist Bob Geldof (Sir Robert Frederick Geldof) was one of the key speakers. His brilliant speech was titled "Global Economic Growth and the 2 billion still living on 2 USD per day".
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 March 2009 07:59 |
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Written by HRD Guest Author Dr. Stuart I. Bain
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:09 |
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 “The great age of democracy and of national self-determination was the age of the musket and the rifle. … But thereafter every development in military technique has favoured the State as against the individual … The one thing that might reverse it is the discovery of a weapon—or, to put it more broadly, of a method of fighting—not dependent on huge concentrations of industrial plant.” “Ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. … A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon—so long as here is no answer to it— gives claws to the weak.”
George Orwell (1945) “Collected Essays: You and the Atomic Bomb”
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 March 2009 07:59 |
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Written by Benjamin Jakobus
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 15:15 |
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‘From humanitarianism, through nationalism, to bestiality’ - Franz Grillparzer's description of modern political problems dates back to 1849. Unfortunately the saying "the only way to avoid control is to control", dates back to the origins of man. It is about time to acknowledge that all known forms government have failed - be they communist, fascist or democratic, or built on utilitarian grounds or egalitarian. Why? Because they involve sacrificing individuals to some other purpose - either other individuals in the case of egalitarianism or to the aggregate state/community in the case of utilitarianism. Today's societies are bankrupt, coined by a millennium of slavery and oppression, and junkies to authority. Today's governments don't cause the problem, they are the problem.
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 March 2009 07:59 |
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Written by Dr. Tomas Eric Nordlander
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Friday, 06 June 2008 16:10 |
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 Dr Binayak Sen, a 56 year old Indian paediatrician known for his commitments to human rights and health care to the poor was arrested on the 14th of May 2007. He lived and worked in Chhattisgarh, one of India's most deprived states. In his role as the national vice president of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) he was engaged in highlighting human right violations in Chhattisgarh.
He was arrested and accused for ties with the Naxalites, a revolutionary communist group that is ideologically close to Maoism. The arrest took place one week after Dr Binayak Sen's investigation by local police and Salwa Judoom's (an anti-maoist militia group) involvement in the murder of several indigenous people. Six month after his arrest, the Indian Supreme Court rejected his bail petition. His trial started a week ago (30th of April), almost a year after his arrest.
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 March 2009 07:59 |
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Written by Luisa Teresa Salazar de Nordlander
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:09 |
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Aung San Suu Kyi's 63rd birthday was the 19th of June. Nothing has changed since her last birthday, she continues living under house arrest in Burma, the country where she was born in. She is a woman of peace inspired by the non-violent leaders such as Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Her crime has been to voice her belief for a peaceful transition of regime, from the military dictatorship to democracy. For Aung San Suu Kyi, the 19th of June is one more day under house arrest, one more year of her life without seeing a change toward democracy, and one year more where the voice of their people is not respected in her country. Her father General Aung San—the national hero—fought long for the Burma’s independence against Great Britain in the 1940s. Her father was assassinated 1947, half a year before he could see the liberation of Burma.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:39 |
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