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Human Rights

Human Rights
Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them.


Women's Health
by Kamala Sarup (centrist)
Published: March 3, 2011
In this part of the world, millions of women often give birth one child after another. There is no respect for women's health or feelings. For example, most women give birth before the age of 18 and want only two or three children, but they are not able to use family planning if their husbands object. Also, women do not have easy access to various types of family planning facilities.

DADT Repealed - Now What?
by Don Goins (libertarian)
Published: December 21, 2010
Is this the death knell for our military or just another page in history?

China Support Network Demands Media Apology
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: December 8, 2010
Right on schedule, here is our Op-Ed on the eve of Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize

Stopping the In-TSA-nity
by Brian McCandliss (libertarian)
Published: November 21, 2010
This article proposes an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to protect the American People from the maurauding rash of federal searches at airports.

Nobel Prize goes to Liu Xiaobo, still in jail
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: October 8, 2010
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and the China Support Network has reacted by demanding his release.

Government Must Be Honest, to Solve Problems
by EmilyCragg (libertarian)
Published: May 3, 2010
Problems get solved when the truth is known; since the Johnson years, corporations have manipulated the workplace process to maintain control over hiring, that has not always played out as ethical practice.

S 3081 and the American Police State
by David S (libertarian)
Published: March 13, 2010
S 3081 would set the cause of freedom back 800 years to the time before the Magna Carta

Sleepless in Seattle
by Larry Warrick (libertarian)
Published: January 12, 2010
How the merciless beating of a young girl in a police jail cell was heard across the nation

PRC: Merry Christmas, Here's 11 Years In Prison
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: December 25, 2009
China just tried, convicted, and sentenced a famous leading dissident to 11 year in prison.

Torture: The greased pig of our perilous existence
by robertjb (centrist)
Published: November 23, 2009
Torture:A pervasive and impeccable hypocrisy, once undertaken is very difficult to eradicate

China Support Network writes to Obama
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: November 5, 2009
The President will visit Asia Nov. 12-19 and China on the 15th-18th. In an open letter, the China Support Network has advice for Obama and for CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

News conference scolds China and Hong Kong
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: September 20, 2009
Two governments create a unique new precedent-setting human rights abuse for one Tiananmen Square student leader.

This Week at the China Support Network...
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: September 13, 2009
We have praise for Obama, jeers for Tom Friedman, and we're announcing a press conference and an art exhibit.

Tiananmen Persecution Continues in the Present Day
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: September 1, 2009
A public statement on behalf of the China Support Network

Chinese dissident leans into campaigning
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: August 2, 2009
Tang Baiqiao was attacked, likely by CCP-hired goons in Flushing, NY. As a campaigner, he's pushing back.

The Opposite of the Right Thing
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: May 29, 2009
It's 20 years after Tiananmen Square. What happened to America's anti-communism?

"LET'S FIX MEDICARE"
by Mavis Mathews (conservative)
Published: May 27, 2009
This is an appeal to the Greatest Generation, their family or their friends. Please help.

Skepticism for New Chinese Promises on Human Rights
by John Kusumi (centrist)
Published: April 13, 2009
China cannot credibly announce a human rights breakthrough. In a new report, the Chinese government paints itself as a hero of human rights. We remember otherwise, and say so.

On the Matter of Human Rights and the UDHR
by Henric C. Jensen (liberal)
Published: February 24, 2009
Some thoughts and ideas on the matter of human rights and their place in society. what they are, who has them, who has them not, how they are obtained and retained and how they are violated through legal measures in civilized nations.

Scientology Kills Siberia USA
by Louanne Lee (centrist)
Published: October 13, 2008
52 years ago, a coalition of citizen advocacy groups and members of the Church of Scientology, together with L. Ron Hubbard, brought the clear and present dangers of Bill to public attention that would have ended at piece of freedom in the US.

The Five Boxes of Liberty
by Simplulo (libertarian)
Published: October 4, 2008
Among an individual's innumerable rights, a critical few defend the others. The US Constitution mentions at least five defensive rights, "The Five Boxes of Liberty."