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    Rights Are Not Entitlements

    FEBRUARY 28, 2013 7:40PM

    By Howard Steven Friedman


    Topics: politics news, human rights, entitlements, drone strikes, universal declaration of human rights, eleanor roosevelt, abu ghraib, unemployment, prisons, guantanamo bay, social security

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    • 7 Ratings
    • 1812 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Germany poised to legalize male circumcision this fall

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 5:53PM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: germany, berlin, circumcision, judaism, islam, jews, muslims, human rights, constitution, child's rights, medicine, politics, religion

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    • 12 Ratings
    • 8987 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Africa's male circumcision crusade: Boon or boondoggle?

    JULY 27, 2012 6:51AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: human rights, condoms, ronald goldman, foreign aid, united nations, medicine, who, ngos, hiv/aids, health, circumcision, africa

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 3035 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    The Lessons of 22 July

    JULY 19, 2012 3:28PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: human rights, news, 2011, july 22, norway, family

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    • 26 Ratings
    • 5900 Views
    • 90 Comments
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    Is this the gravest threat to European Jews since 1945?

    JULY 18, 2012 7:42AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: circumcision, judaism, islam, human rights, holocaust, nazis, hitler, germany, yitshak ehrenberg, pinchas goldschmidt

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 6291 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    UN blamed for prostitution boom in South Sudan

    JULY 16, 2012 7:39AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: un, united nations, south sudan, juba, prostitution, human trafficking, women, human rights

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    • 8 Ratings
    • 3846 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    In Russia, "Church and State" are no myth

    JULY 5, 2012 7:19AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: russia, putin, russian orthodox church, religion, blasphemy, human rights, amnesty international, feminism, women, dissent

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 3123 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Cutting The Head Off The Snake

    MAY 30, 2012 4:59PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: news, accountability, impunity, justice, human rights, sierra leone, liberia, charles taylor, special court for sierra leone

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1739 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    When it rains, it pours: NAACP now OK with same-sex marriage

    MAY 20, 2012 4:53PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, family, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, william saletan, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, president barack obama, politics, ohio, obama, national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, marriage, lgbt, lesbians, jesse jackson, human rights, hope, homophobia, hiv, george w. bush, gays, gay rights, gay community, fourteenth amendment, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, civil rights, change, california, black homophobia, black homophobes, black community, bigots, bigotry, benjamin todd jealous, barack obama, al sharpton, aids

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 629 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Did Texas execute yet another innocent man?

    MAY 20, 2012 11:18AM

    By Mary Shaw


    Topics: death penalty, justice, human rights, texas

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 5029 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    A Beastie Boy's Surprising Legacy

    MAY 6, 2012 1:50AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: adam yauch, beastie boys, mca, tibet, human rights, music, feminism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 4339 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied for Cambodians

    MARCH 27, 2012 12:54PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: cambodia, genocide, extraordinary chambers in the courts of cambodia, justice, human rights, khmer rouge

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 3734 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Women Lead Defense of Maldivian Democracy (Updated)

    MARCH 10, 2012 11:56AM

    By profkeck


    Topics: politics, news, feminism, belief/religion, equality, women's rights, gayoom, dictator, democracy, waheed, elections, voting, human rights, contraception, protest, mohamed nasheed, coup, maldives, islam, extremism, muslim, international women's day, flogging, hillary clinton, condoleeza rice, michelle obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 8174 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    Birth Control Is Not a Women's Issue: It's a Human Right

    MARCH 5, 2012 7:53PM

    By Maureen Andrade


    Topics: family, post-sexual revolution, human rights, limbaugh, santorum, birth control

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 8630 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    The Definition of Family

    MARCH 2, 2012 2:55PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: same-sex marriage, politics, family, human rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 2999 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    The Fallujah tragedy: A war crime by any other name...

    JANUARY 12, 2012 7:11AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: iraq, fallujah, iraq war, depleted uranium, war crimes, human rights

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 5215 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    What I Learned in Peru

    JANUARY 4, 2012 11:54AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: response to terrorism, human rights, family, travel, peru, hope

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2449 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Egyptian military halts "virginity tests" for protesters

    JANUARY 2, 2012 3:48PM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: egypt, sexual abuse, women, arab spring, human rights, amnesty international, islam, women

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 4363 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Becoming a Human Rights Warrior

    DECEMBER 19, 2011 8:30AM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: career, human rights, life, parenting, family, the new years resolution i kept, open+call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 3357 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Iraq war commemorations ignore ongoing humanitarian disaster

    DECEMBER 16, 2011 10:42AM

    By Judy Mandelbaum


    Topics: unhcr, refugees, human rights, iraq war

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