[The Bullet] This CLC demand represents a significant consolidation of labour power. Several national unions, notably the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) had already adopted policies to oppose Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan.
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Tagged Afghanistan, Canadian Labour Congress, CUPE, CUPW, Human Rights, Your Money
[Nanaimo Daily News, Letter To The Editor] It is now up to us to keep this issue on the radar. We need to write to our prime minister, to our MPs, and to the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration and urge them to create the legislation necessary to grant a permanent haven in Canada to all U.S. war resisters.
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[CP] An Ontario man serving a life sentence for killing a policeman is to be honoured for years of efforts to educate prison inmates about how to lower their risk of becoming infected with HIV.
The Canadian HIV-AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch is to announce Monday that they are giving their 2008 Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights to Peter Collins, the groups have revealed.
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[Pacific Free Press] We don’t like being lied to. Saying “sorry” doesn’t cut it.
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The money being offered to some of the victims is our own money. Any profit from our lands held in trust is “blood money”. We want an economy. Stop depriving us and forcing us out of our communities. Release all our trust funds immediately. Everything that was “kicked back” to the Vatican must be returned to us. These churches that committed these atrocities have investments from our lands worth billions and have combined stock portfolios in the billion if not trillions. Release these to us.
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Tagged Aboriginal Rights, Canada, Cash, Human Rights, Stephen Harper, Your Money
While fearless Canadian human rights crusaders take magazines to hearings for printing articles, their country winds up on a list of destinations for sex slaves.
[New Vision] CHILDREN from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi are reportedly trafficked into Uganda for sexual exploitation, commercial and agricultural labour, according to a United States report.
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The report is titled ‘2008 Trafficking in Persons’ and was issued ON June 11.
Uganda, it said, is a destination of forced labour workers from Pakistan, India and China.
Ugandan children, the report states, are trafficked within or taken to Canada, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia for sexual slavery.
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Posted in Bureaucrats, International, Your Money
Tagged Canada, Human Rights, Sex Slavery, Uganda
No matter what you think of blogging, Internet-based citizen journalism is a real threat, not just to traditional media business models but to totalitarian governments. How do we know that bloggers are drawing blood? Because some governments are hitting back harder and harder; last year saw a tripling in the number of bloggers arrested around the world compared to 2006,according to a report from the University of Washington.
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Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, China, Free Speech, Human Rights, Iran
[Scoop] New Zealand’s bid for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council took another step forward today with the launch of a campaign website, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said.
New Zealand is standing for election next year to the 47-seat Council for the term 2009-2012, and is the first country from the Pacific region to stand.
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Tagged Bureaucrats, Human Rights, New Zealand, UN, UNHRC, Your Money
Down With Everybody 