Word: humanity
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...Pourzand says while she was initially fascinated by the determination of the young people in recent rallies, she has since become more concerned after talking to her mother, a prominent Iranian human rights activist and lawyer who Pourzand said seems to be caught between excitement and grave fear...
...Pourzand's mother, Mehrangiz Kar, was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School this past year. In 2001, she was convicted and imprisoned in Iran for "acting against national security" after calling for constitutional reforms and secularization. Her husband, now in his 70s, is currently living under a loose form of house arrest in Tehran...
...particularly once he rose to the rarified but also isolated position of archbishop. "I soon realized that a relationship with Jesus Christ, as intense as it might be on the spiritual level, could not fill the emptiness rising from the lack of the physical presence and reality of another human person," he writes in A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church...
...glimpse from another monitoring station that gives hourly updates shows a very different picture. The U.S. Embassy operates a single station in eastern Beijing that records levels of PM2.5, fine particles considered particularly dangerous to human health. At noon that same day, the hourly measure of PM2.5 crept up into the "hazardous" range, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards, and hit a maximum value of 500 for several hours...
...absolute value, not a convenient principle." But what swayed the Belfast Recorder Tom Burgess was the risk to Breen's life. In his ruling, Judge Burgess said complying with the police request could lead to "a breach of [Breen's] right to life under the European Convention [on Human Rights]" "The Real IRA have killed, and attempted to kill, for much less. During the attack on the soldiers at Massereene barracks, the gunmen shot and seriously wounded two men delivering pizza to the barracks. Their crime? Collaborating with the British army, which, in the eyes of dissident republicans, made them...