This is a video of David Toube, a Barrister for Cleary Gottlieb making an Islamophobic rant. The women sitting behind him is none other than Gareth Peirce one of the most respected Human Rights solicitors in Britain. Not one of the charges made are true accept to those who want to believe such things. Toube
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SocialistUnity 3 days ago (via socialistunity.com)
Nick Clegg will be speaking tonight at the 20th annivesary celebrations of human rights group, Privacy International, and will stress the importance of this coming general election as an opportunity to win back privacy. Here are some extracts from his speech: Labour has spent 13 years trampling over people’s privacy. From allowing children’s fingerprints to be taken
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LiberalDemocratVoice 3 days ago (via libdemvoice.org)
A report by the human rights group says Germany and the Czech Republic are among several nations that allow the trading of goods such as shackles, electric shock weapons and chemical sprays
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FT 4 days ago (via traxfer.ft.com)
THE government has challenged a landmark ruling that British soldiers serving abroad are protected by human rights laws.
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Scotsman on 16th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Andrew Dismore is doubtless preening himself over his prominence this morning as chairman of Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights, which has criticised Trevor Phillips. Remember the sanctimonious Andrew Dismore. He is MP for Hendon, which is an easy ride to Westminster on the tube, with just one change. Yet he milks taxpayers for a second home. Andrew Dismore reportedly claimed £...
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PurpleScorpion on 15th Mar 2010 (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)
China and the US traded barbs over the economy and human rights, raising the temperature ahead of a possible showdown over currency policy next month
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FT on 13th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Sean Penn, defending Hugo Chavez from accusations that he is less than completely committed to democracy and human rights: Because every day, this elected leader [Hugo Chavez] is called a dictator here, and we just accept it. And we just accept it. And this is mainstream media, who should – truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies. Are we clear? Hugo is no...
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MrEugenides on 12th Mar 2010 (via mreugenides.blogspot.com)
'Mosquito' devices which emit high-pitched whine to help disperse teenagers from street corners could be banned by the European Union on the grounds that they infringe children's human rights.
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Telegraph on 11th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Alex Salmond has warned BBC chiefs they are breaching the human rights of the Scottish people by denying him a place in a televised general election debate.
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Telegraph on 10th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)