5.11 countering religious bigotry, promoting liberatory religion

The Work Unfinished: Remembering Hilda Silverman

Hilda Silverman, Winter 2006, during filming of a video on Jewish activism for peace with justice in Israel/Palestine Photo: Linda and Steven Brion-Meisels
Authors: Jennifer Bing-Canar

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We're left without our moral compass.

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Human Rights and "Asian" Values

Authors: Amartya Sen

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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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Stop the Killing: Arab Activists Call for Ending the Death Penalty in Arab Countries

Egyptian labor bloggers Hossam el-Hamalawy and Kareem el-Beheiry. Kareem was jailed from April to early June 2008 after promoting and covering an April 6 general strike (partially organized via Facebook!) and ongoing independent labor union activism cente
Authors: Amman Centre for Human Rights Studies

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Sharia'a law insists that room be left for forgiveness and reconciliation.

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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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Syrian Human Rights Defenders Brave Jail: Repression Met with Waves of Resistance

Syrian stamps celebrating the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Photo: Joseph Morris
Authors: Dr. Radwan Ziadeh

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Ali Abdullah has been jailed three times. One of his sons is serving a five-year sentence for involvement in a pro-democracy youth group. The other chose exile.

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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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We Cannot Be But As God Has Made Us: Desmond Tutu Receives Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Award

Desmond Tutu
Authors: Desmond Tutu

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How tragic that our church, the Episcopal Church, should be so obsessed with this particular issue of human sexuality, at a time when God's children all over are facing massive, massive problems.

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