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This resolution is not the first time that the council has expressed its views on conflicts and human rights in places outside of Cambridge...
...could I not do something?” said City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who authored the resolution with Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons and who has written other policy orders aimed at upholding human rights in the past. “To not say something feels very complicit...
...council passed a policy order in support of a bill in the state legislature that would use the Commonwealth’s pension fund investments “to promote democracy and human rights in Burma...
...feel a mite more morose than usual, a dose more dolorous. Nine AIDS activists in Dakar, in the supposed shining citadel of West African democracy, had been sentenced to eight years imprisonment upon suspicion of homosexual conduct. Even more shocking was the well-worn statement issued by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW): merely, that the Senegalese state had violated Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and that the doctrine of natural rights demanded that the prisoners’ shackles be burst asunder post-haste.If human rights advocates are to establish a relevant global code of ethics...
...Researchers play down the significance of the unusual spate of attacks. They point out that more people are entering the ocean, increasing the chances of an encounter. "The human population is expanding at a rate of knots," says Rory McAuley, a senior research scientist with the West Australian Fisheries Department. "Not only is it getting larger, it's getting more dispersed, so people are getting into the water over a greater area of the shark's range. It's probably likely to expect to see an increase in shark sightings and attacks...