Visitors: 355LONDON, UK/TORONTO, CANADA, December 25, 2009 International PEN, the world’s leading freedom of expression organization with 145 member centres in 104 countries, calls today’s sentencing of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo a grievous betrayal of his inalienable rights as a Chinese citizen. In what amounts to a show trial, after weeks of courageous solidarity […]
Visitors: 394London (22/12/2009) The ruling today by the European Court of Human Rights, that the exclusion of Jews and Roma from Bosnia’s highest state offices is unlawful discrimination, is a major step toward ending racial and religious exclusion in Europe, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Human Rights Watch said today. Bosnia, along […]
Visitors: 360London (22/12/2009) The ruling today by the European Court of Human Rights, that the exclusion of Jews and Roma from Bosnia’s highest state offices is unlawful discrimination, is a major step toward ending racial and religious exclusion in Europe, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Human Rights Watch said today. Bosnia, along […]
Visitors: 312Copenhagen Summit The climate demonstration in Copenhagen on 12 December, with over 100,000 participants, was the biggest climate protest ever. It had a strong anti-capitalist character. “We chanted ‘Climate Justice’ and ‘Save the planet – smash the system – whet we need is socialism’. People along the demo applauded us and we sold many […]
Visitors: 328Copenhagen Summit The climate demonstration in Copenhagen on 12 December, with over 100,000 participants, was the biggest climate protest ever. It had a strong anti-capitalist character. “We chanted ‘Climate Justice’ and ‘Save the planet – smash the system – whet we need is socialism’. People along the demo applauded us and we sold many […]
Visitors: 356United States of America BELLINGHAM, WA – Hours before Obama would announce his plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, approximately 160 students, veterans, and community members hit the streets of Bellingham to protest the troop surge. Many protestors were especially outraged because voters elected the Democrats to have full control over the […]
Visitors: 463United States of America BELLINGHAM, WA – Hours before Obama would announce his plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, approximately 160 students, veterans, and community members hit the streets of Bellingham to protest the troop surge. Many protestors were especially outraged because voters elected the Democrats to have full control over the […]
Visitors: 320Seattle, USA Across the United States, the media ecosystem is quickly evolving. Some main-stream news organizations are shrinking, as advertising decouples from journalism. Remarkable new technologies and the work of committed citizens are making it easier for us to build unique communities that share civic passion and purpose. In the Pacific Northwest, this evolution […]
Visitors: 331Seattle, USA Across the United States, the media ecosystem is quickly evolving. Some main-stream news organizations are shrinking, as advertising decouples from journalism. Remarkable new technologies and the work of committed citizens are making it easier for us to build unique communities that share civic passion and purpose. In the Pacific Northwest, this evolution […]
Visitors: 414Chairman: International Division, Chartered Institute of Journalists, London Wrapping sandwiches or fish and chips in that morning’s newspaper indicates the lack of importance many people give to the day’s news. True, “the best tings in life are free”, goes the maxim. But while news, be it in a newspaper, on radio or on the […]
Visitors: 468European Union All buildings built after 31 December 2020 must have high energy-saving standards and be powered to a large extent by renewable energy. Public authorities will lead the way two years earlier and part of the funding for these changes will come from the EU. These are among the key points of a […]
Visitors: 399International PEN Sydney Centre Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Father Nguyen Van Ly, has reportedly suffered a serious stroke and has been transferred to a Hanoi hospital. As many of you already know, Fr Van Ly is a sixty-three-year-old priest, scholar and essayist and co-editor of an underground online magazine who has been imprisoned […]
Visitors: 334International PEN Sydney Centre Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Father Nguyen Van Ly, has reportedly suffered a serious stroke and has been transferred to a Hanoi hospital. As many of you already know, Fr Van Ly is a sixty-three-year-old priest, scholar and essayist and co-editor of an underground online magazine who has been imprisoned […]
Visitors: 376Ontario, Canada This morning as well as yesterday on the local news I heard three things aside from the couple suing the O.P.P. on the land claims issue here in Ontario Canada. The first, or all three anyway …, ties in with the law suit and it was that Native protesters were protesting next […]
Visitors: 397Ontario, Canada This morning as well as yesterday on the local news I heard three things aside from the couple suing the O.P.P. on the land claims issue here in Ontario Canada. The first, or all three anyway …, ties in with the law suit and it was that Native protesters were protesting next […]
Visitors: 420 Amnesty International The Singaporean parliament should enact new legislation protecting freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today, after a magazine and its editor agreed to pay S$405,000 (Approximately US$290,000) following a fine by the country’s highest court for alleged defamation. The Dow Jones Company-owned Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) magazine and its editor […]
Visitors: 390 Amnesty International The Singaporean parliament should enact new legislation protecting freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today, after a magazine and its editor agreed to pay S$405,000 (Approximately US$290,000) following a fine by the country’s highest court for alleged defamation. The Dow Jones Company-owned Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) magazine and its editor […]
Visitors: 510 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha.INDIA: Government of West Bengal must act to prevent further starvation deaths E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified […]
Visitors: 376 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and the Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha.INDIA: Government of West Bengal must act to prevent further starvation deaths E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified […]
Visitors: 502European Union “The biggest polluters turn out to become the biggest failures for climate protection”, commented EP Environment Committee Chair Jo Leinen (S&D, DE), on this weekends events. On the contrary, the December climate conference in Copenhagen “needs to become a success”, stressed Mr Leinen, who will chair the EP’s Copenhagen delegation. It would […]
Visitors: 417 15 November 2009 “Since November 2008, thirty-five print and online journalists have been murdered,” said Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee. “All over the world, writers and journalists and bloggers are suffering for practicing their right to speak out on issues that matter.” On 15 November 2009, International PEN’s […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningWe believe that all the basic needs of human beings to stay alive, are produced by common society since the beginning of society. Capital was produced by common society and still it is produced by common society. In current market systems there is no accountability towards common society. The Current market and various […]