5.03.08 globalizing liberation, solidarity, protest

Human Rights and "Asian" Values

Authors: Amartya Sen

Summary:

When Zilu asks him "how to serve a prince," Confucius replies, "Tell him the truth even if it offends him."

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The Burmese Cyclone, Nonviolent Action, and the Responsibility to Empower

Pushing the relief truck out of the mud, photo: Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Patrick Meier

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It is not acceptable to let regimes like Burma's dictate the rules of humanitarian intervention.

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Assisting Burmese Cyclone Survivors: Defying the Government to Save Lives

A generous monk who shared relief supplies with his entire region stands in front of the village's damaged monastery photo: © Beyond Rangoon Project, May 17, 2008
Authors: Beyond Rangoon Project

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When we made it to villages farther down the road, we found that a monk had shared the rice for his village with all the surrounding villages, which had received no aid and were starving.

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A Politics of Inclusion: An Interview with Egyptian Democracy Advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Following a fire in the Qale't el-Kabsh slum of Cairo, residents were promised replacement housing and compensation, but many received nothing. After a prosecutor told residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights that they would not pursue
Authors: Saad Eddin Ibrahim

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Women got upset and marched to the Royal Palace. The King called me and said, 'Saad, do you see what is happening?' I said, 'Yes, but that is democracy, your Majesty.'

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The Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change

Authors: A coalition of Syrian democrats

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The process of change has begun. It is not directed against anyone, but requires everyone's efforts.

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006
Authors: Ammar Abdulhamid

Summary:

We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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"Z" is for Zimbabwe: Silence & Turmoil as a Country Potentially Unravels

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Authors: Bill Fletcher Jr.

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Colleagues of mine in Zimbabwe were jailed and tortured by the Mugabe administration, but I was expected by pro-Mugabe activists in the USA to say nothing, and indeed, to deny everything.

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The Zimbabwe We Want

Authors: the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe the Zimbabwe Council of Churches Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference

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Zimbabwe needs a new national vision to restore our self-confidence, dignity, and hope.

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Human Rights & Dignity for All: Activists Around the World Fight the Repression of Sexual Minorities

Authors: International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission

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Rivera fought a landmark lawsuit, bringing issues of gender identity into the public view, finally winning the right for trans people in Chile to legally change their name and sex.

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