By Mike MacLachlan Malaysian dissidents plan to protest at the United Nations Human Rights Council this week following arrests under the Sedition Act, a measure introduced by the British colonial government in 1948. They will also raise the question of the Peaceful Assembly Act, passed last year, which is said to be used to block [...]
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Trusted organisations, such as the NHS and some UK royal colleges, profit by selling commercial advertisers access to pregnant women through promotions such as Bounty bags. On bmj.com today, GP Margaret McCartney says these potential conflicts of interests are unacceptable. For example, she describes how a commercial company was offered access to mothers through adverts [...]
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(CORDIS) — Tissue engineering is making a huge impact in the world of science with artificial scaffold structures, in which new cells are encouraged to grow. This means that the nanostructure of tissues in the body can be mimicked, so that human organs and body parts can be developed in the laboratory. Leading this research [...]
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Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle met Tuesday with the co-chair of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Selhattin Demirtaş in Brussels. They discussed recent political developments in Turkey, notably the peace process, the drafting of a new civilian constitution, recently passed legal changes as well as the need for further reforms. [...]
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The human rights situation in Russia is worsening, a member of the feminist punk-rock collective Pussy Riot told a European Parliament Human Rights Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. Subcommittee chair Barbara Lochbihler (Greens/EFA, DE) said, “The new restrictive laws impeding the work of NGOs and human rights defenders, an increase in political prisoners and politically-motivated charges, [...]
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Burma has failed to make progress in ending its use of child soldiers nearly one year after signing an agreement with the United Nations (UN) to do so, Human Rights Watch said in a new paper released today. In June 2012, Burma and the UN signed a Joint Action Plan in which the Burmese government [...]
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By Ilham Nasser and Mohammad Abu-Nimer In these days of political unrest and constant change in the Arab world, there are many instances of violence and a pervading lack of trust among people. More than ever, people wonder what mechanisms need to be in place to heal and repair relationships between people and public institutions. [...]
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By Richard Lightbown Israel’s raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 caused the severance of diplomatic relations with Turkey and spawned legal actions in several countries. Claims in compensation cases in Turkish courts from only 40 victims have already amounted to the equivalent of more than 6 million Euros. Meanwhile the case [...]
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Americans need to stop picking the politicians they support based on how those politicians self-identify. Each of us needs to know what values we hold, and when all the evidence shows that the guy claiming to represent those values doesn’t, give up the party line. Conservatives are supposed to be for limited government—both in size [...]
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By Monish Tourangbam Close to 12 years after the 9/11 attacks that led to the global war on terror, and defined the landscape of US foreign policy and national security strategy, President Barack Obama delivered a landmark speech, seeking to reorient US counter-terrorism policy. Speaking at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. Obama outlined [...]
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By C. Raja Mohan As he lands in Tokyo on Monday evening, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will find his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe ready to think bold on transforming the bilateral relationship with India. A deeper partnership with India is central to Abe’s effort to bring Japan back to Asia’s centrestage. Since his landslide victory [...]
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By Manish Vaid and Tridivesh Singh Maini There is reason to be optimistic about closer economic ties between India and Pakistan, in spite of the political tensions. A strong illustration of this point is the fact that in spite of Pakistan’s delay in granting the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India, trade between both [...]
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By Marian Moszoro The development of wind farms was taking off slowly in Poland in the early 2000s. The suitability of wind conditions in the north and northwest of the country represented attractive possibilities for investors, with some regarding Poland as the next “tiger of wind power.” Despite protests by some that wind farms destroyed [...]
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By Shamshad A. Khan Japan and Russia have recently “agreed”, in a joint statement, that it is “abnormal” that they have not concluded a “peace treaty 67 years after the end of World War II.”1 For over six decades, Japan had been maintaining that it will “conclude a peace treaty with Russia “contingent on the [...]
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The Chinese just stole a treasure trove worth of advanced military weaponry designs from the Pentagon, including: missile defense systems, combat aircraft and naval ship specs. The full extent of the digital theft is unknown. Such brazen direct assault effectively places the US and China on a cyberwar footing which has been intensifying this last [...]
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A 65 year old French man who had travelled to Dubai has died from the SARS-esque coronavirus, the French health ministry said on Tuesday. Health Minister Marisol Touraine announced the fatality, who died in hospital in French city of Lille. This recent death brings the total number of those killed worldwide by the virus to [...]
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Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, and otherwise abused and arbitrarily detained at least 1,000 refugees between mid-November 2012 and late January 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Kenyan authorities should immediately open an independent public investigation, and the United Nations refugee agency – which has not spoken publicly about [...]
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By Hasan Selim Ozertem Syria is devolving into a failed state that will in turn become the center for many of the conflicts in the Middle East. The state institutions of Syria are foundering as the conflict descends into a spiral of unending clashes. A comparative analysis is necessary to be able to understand the [...]
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Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin is currently on a working visit to Japan. On the first day of the trip he held meetings with top managers of SODECO and MARUBENI. Igor Sechin is also expected to meet executives of the leading energy companies INPEX and TEPCO and visit the office [...]
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Just weeks ago, the political focus in Washington was on reaching a “grand bargain” on taxes and spending to cut the country’s burgeoning debt, but now a string of events seems to have pushed the issue into the background. The U.S. government’s debt is nearing $17 trillion, as its annual budget deficit topped $1 trillion [...]
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