Posts tagged “human rights”
Trinidad and Tobago's anti-gay laws are why I can't live in the country I was born in. Jason Jones is taking the T&T government to court to overturn them, and he needs your help. Please donate to his campaign. I'll be matching donations on Twitter.
The Olympic torch controversy is messy but meaningful. China's willingness to engage with the world stage, despite the protests it invites, reflects an internal struggle between openness and the status quo. Let the protests happen, let the Olympics proceed. We have to start learning to coexist somewhere.
If this story is accurate, the US is now keeping slaves in Iraq. Slaves. I'm done making jokes about this administration. Bush is closer to Hitler's wartime behavior than anyone in recent memory. This has to stop.
The casual way people reference physical torture as an interrogation tool is unsettling. "There are ways other than physical torture" implies it's the obvious fallback. That framing is deeply troubling.
Slate reminds us why Rumsfeld has no business lecturing anyone on the Geneva Conventions. Did they really think we'd forgotten about Camp X-Ray?
Outraged by Russia's use of chemical gas to end the Moscow theater hostage crisis, killing civilians while withholding the antidote from doctors. Putin, what were you thinking? Also, Phoenix browser is simply the best browser ever made.
Credit to Matt Elton for the office supplies link. More pressingly: how many innocent people like that BBC story's subject are we not hearing about? And what happened to our outrage over Guantanamo Bay?
The UN Security Council voted 14-1 to back a Palestinian state. About time. The endless cycle of death in that region fills me with despair.
Alanis is back with *Under Rug Swept*, a fantastic return to form. Also: America's treatment of Camp X-ray prisoners violates the Geneva Convention, the USA PATRIOT Act is being abused to silence dissent, and the "land of the free" is looking pretty hypocritical right now.
