Paul Goodman

"Before Theodore Rozak defined the counter culture as the social movement of the Sixties and identified it with the libertarian philosophy of self regulation, self development, there was Paul Goodman."

UN to monitor Assembly elections in Nepal

"The United Nations will monitor the ceasefire by the Army and Maoists during the constituent assembly elections in Nepal. ''Arms of the both the sides would be kept silent during the period of the elections to constituent assembly to be held under the UN monitoring to...

The Eternal Value of Privacy

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House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act (Laurie Kellman/Associated Press)

"House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act  —  House GOP leaders delay renewal of Voting Rights Act under objections from Southern Republicans  —  (AP) House Republican leaders on Wednesday postponed a vote on renewing the 1965 Voting Rights...

Animal rights protest shuts restaurant

"Banner-wielding animal rights protesters swarmed into a restaurant serving cat meat in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and forced it to shut, Xinhua news agency said Sunday."

Sri Lanka on UN Human Rights Council - A Challenge to the Credibility of the ...

"The International Federation of Tamils welcomes the inauguration of the reformed UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 19 June 2006. Taking lessons from the past, observing challenges and problems of the present and vowing "

Exposé highlights abortions in India - San Jose Mercury News

"he televised video, shot with a hidden camera, was a bit foggy, but the message was clear. A pregnant woman, sitting in a doctor's office, explained that she was carrying a girl. She already had two girls, she said, and didn't want a third. That's why she was seeking an...

UK Photographers Rights - Sirimo.co.uk

Free to download PDF covering photographers rights in the United Kingdom.

Pakistan stops marriage of five girls to settle blood feud

"Pakistani authorities have barred the forced marriage of five girls into a rival family to compensate for a 1997 murder and end the ensuing feud, officials said today. "

Smoking Signals?

Do we live in a liberal society? Is the individual supreme? In a way, yes, but anyone’s right to act as he or she pleases ends where the well-being of another is impaired.Canada now has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws: New laws have gone into effect in the provinces...

Gay couples take marriage fight to NY's top court

"Reuters - New York State's highest court started hearing a case on Wednesday that gay rights activists hope will overturn as unconstitutional a state law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman."

Dark times for gays in russia

"Newsfilter: More than 100 arrests at Moscow gay protest. Upon others, German MP Volker Beck, Oscar Wilde's grandson and Paris mayor's representatives were injured by a mob of fashist thugs and christian-orthodox fundamentalists at Moscow's first gay pride march, and then...