Talking Rights

This week, my “Human Rights Activism” class welcomed Verónica Cruz Sánchez, a human rights activist from Guanajuato, Mexico. With Las Libres, the group she helped found, Cruz works not only to stop domestic and sexual violence, but specifically and energetically to guarantee access to safe abortion as a human right for all women.
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The Los Angeles Times caught up with Jo Rosano, the mother of Marc Gonsalves, in an article published today. Gonsalves, an American, has been a hostage of the Colombian guerrillas known as the FARC since February 2003 — almost five years now.
Since the guerrillas released two hostages last month, there is new hope that Gonsalves, [...]

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California Assemblywoman Fiona Ma has introduced a bill in Sacramento that would require companies with touring plastination exhibits to prove that the corpses were obtained through consent. Ma wrote the bill after touring “Body Worlds 2,” the Gunther von Hagens show currently at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation.
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Who knew that the Old North State would convoke a subcommittee to consider outlawing torture?
Yet on January 18, the Torture Offense Subcommittee will meet in Raleigh for the first time to study what punishment they might recommend for people who engage or plan torture and enforced disappearance in the state. Chaired by Superior Court [...]

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In the January 17, 2008, issue of the New York Review of Books, Michael Massing published a very good piece on the “Inside Iraq” blog maintained by correspondents for the McClatchy Newspapers. Since this media company has no outlets in Washington, Massing wrote, the firm can operate “outside the glare of the nation’s political and [...]

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Great cartoon from Rob Rogers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (thanks to Sarah at NoBodies4profit):

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