Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organization sponsored the campaign to place Question Five on the ballot in Cambridge and parts of Somerville. They have continued their efforts with a fundraising drive and a continual media campaign designed to "convince voters that to vote no would be to condone violence against civilians and their basic human rights," said Gordon...
Officially, Question Five reads: "Shall the Representatives from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon Congress and the President of the United States to achieve peace in the Middle East by: demanding that Israel end its violations of Palestinian human rights and its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; stopping all expenditures of U.S. taxpayers' money for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; and favoring the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with peace for all in the region including Israel...
...made it clear to Americans that our perceptions were somewhat skewed. Most everyone agrees that we should continue to support Israel, to defend its existence as well as its integrity. It does not necessarily follow however, that this support should include such massive funding of its brutal occupation and human rights violations. Most Americans now realize that Palestinians are the victims, not the oppressors; the occupied, not the occupiers...
...Aristide affair is exacerbating a latent split among Haiti's Roman Catholics between the official church and Aristide's "prophetic" wing. Both work for human rights and justice, but the official church, which led the nonviolent popular uprising that forced Duvalier to flee, insists on orderly and deliberate change. The church's internal conflict has become yet another wound in Haiti's suffering and demoralized society...
...Soviet dissidents was one way. Now, though, it looks as if the Soviet Union's most prominent dissenter will be granted a visa for a trip to the U.S. that will not result in unwanted exile. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights efforts, announced last week that the Soviet government had tentatively agreed to let him visit the U.S. next month. The reason for the trip: a conference of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, an organization devoted to environmental, economic and human rights problems that was launched...