Archiv für die Kategorie: human rights

Jul

24

2010

Hunger: A Human Rights Violation

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Food insecurity in the world has reached epic proportions with as many as 1.7 billion people battling a daily war against hunger. Over 950 million people suffer from chronic malnutrition and 16,000 children die each year as a result of hunger. It is the most basic human rights violation in the world today. (more…)

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Jan

18

2010

Human Rights in the Philippines

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During the last weeks, the Philippines have been covered worldwide in the media because of Mayon Volcano in the south-east of the capital Manila which was up to erupt. A few ten thousand people had to be evacuated, but after weeks of fearing a dangerous eruption of one of the most amazing volcanos in the world, the alert was lowered and people could go back to their homes. (more…)

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Jan

6

2010

China jails human rights activist Liu Xiaobo

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The famous Chinese author and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (who was born back in 1955 in Changchun, Jilin) was arrested December 24, 2009, for pursuing “subversion” and criticizing the Chinese regime in Beijing. The very harsh sentence has shocked many friends and intellectuals not only in China, but all over the world. Many demonstrations took place after the condemnation to show solidarity with the author and president of the Chinese P.E.N. club. (more…)

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Dec

21

2009

European Court of Human Rights rules against Germany

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The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg decided against the High Court of Germany, for it has committed unlawful retroactive implementation through an extension of preventive detention. A German 52-year-old prisoner complained about being castigated twice for the same criminal act; his complaint was followed by the ECHR – a compensation of 50.000 Euro was claimed for the plaintiff. (more…)

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Oct

30

2009

Human Rights – a short introduction

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In our blog we are covering different important topics like human rights, justice, poverty, equality, politics and many others. But how are the human rights exactly defined?

To define human rights, we have to look at history and modern laws. They are regarded as subjective rights which are given to every human being. Moreover, they are universal, cannot be given away and cannot be reduced. The idea of human rights is narrowly connected with Humanism, the Enlightenment and with natural justice. (more…)

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