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		<title>Human Rights Day: Speak Up Stop Discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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Secretary-General&#8217;s Message
Human rights are the foundation of freedom, peace,  development and justice &#8212; and the heart of the work of the United  Nations around the world.
Laws to protect and promote human rights are indispensable.  But  quite often, progress comes down to people… courageous women and men…  striving to protect their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Refugee Day: Real-time video feed of daily life in a refugee camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is World Refugee Day and for the first time in history you can witness refugee camp life in real time, live on the UNHCR refugeedaylive.org website between 2pm and 2am GMT (9am and 9pm EST).
Watch and gain insights into daily refugee camp life:

A refugee mother cooking a meal for her children using refugee rations,
Meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day: Do Environmental Rights impact on Human Rights?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think of Human Rights we tend to think about, freedom of speech, freedom from persecution on the grounds of religious or political belief, torture, unjust imprisonment and state endorsed police or military brutality, on Earth Day 2009 Human Rights Digest looks at the link between environmental rights and human rights.
Many think of environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Human Rights film festival looking for submissions.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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Document 7, the UK&#8217;s only film festival dedicated to international human rights, will take place in October 2009 in Glasgow. Now in its 7th year, the festival is seeking submissions (deadline: 5th June 2009) which help us understand the world around us. From politically charged frontline reportage to cinematic explorations of what it is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: World Conference on Untouchability</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is organizing the first “World Conference on Untouchability” at Conway Hall Humanist Centre, London, UK, on June 9 and 10, 2009. The conference will bring together activists and experts from around the world to explore a problem that afflicts nearly 250 million people in countries from Japan to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global: Human Rights Watch World Report 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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The 564-page World Report 2009, Human Rights Watch&#8217;s 19th annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2008 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the country in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global: UN General Assembly Statement Affirms Rights for All Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a powerful victory for the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, last Thursday 66 nations at the UN General Assembly supported a ground breaking statement confirming that international human rights protections include sexual orientation and gender identity. It is the first time that a statement condemning rights abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global: Human Rights Websites Directory Launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Human Rights Digest launch the Human Rights Links Directory.

We&#8217;ve received many link inclusion requests this year and struggled to accommodate and do justice to them on the site as it was, so we&#8217;ve created a links directory that has an unlimited capacity.
At the moment categorisation is by region or in the global category for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global: This Alien Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.humanrightsdigest.org/2462/global-this-alien-legacy</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otto</dc:creator>
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The Origins of &#8220;Sodomy&#8221; Laws in British Colonialism
A new HRW report &#8220;This Alien Legacy&#8220;describes how laws in over three dozen countries, from India to Uganda and from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea, derive from a single law on homosexual conduct that British colonial rulers imposed on India in 1860. This year, the High Court in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global: Human rights defenders remain under threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human rights defenders continue to face serious threats in countries across the OSCE region, concludes a report published today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
&#8220;Some of the report&#8217;s findings are alarming. The threats human rights defenders still face in many OSCE countries are unacceptable in a democratic society,&#8221; said Ambassador [...]]]></description>
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