Know your rights, human!

Amnesty International remind us through music how much more there is to do.

http://www.witness.org/

By now you will have heard of the Parisian protests, with several successful extinguishments. Additionally, abseiling activists climbed Golden Gate Bridge and then unfurled their protest banner. If memory serves, it's been nearly 20 years since a group climbed the bridge.

Moreover, by the time the torch gets to Beijing, significant social and ( Read more... )

1. ICRC has put out some fairly novel condemnation of the Burmese junta. Detailing aggregious violations of human rights. I'm glad the ICRC is getting into this brand of confrontational neutrality.

2. US State Dept. in 'frank talks' with the Burmese juntaOn the one hand it is good to have this kind of international spotlight pressure, but I feel ( Read more... )

1. Whoa! Parthenogenic sharks! Biology is weird.

1.1 EDIT: Plus from the Sci-Fi File - Radiation-metabolising fungi

What was that theory called, pansporia? My goodness, if something as complex as fungi can thrive on that, anything is possible through space.

2. More poor behaviour by UN peacekeepers in the Congo...rearmament, for gold ( Read more... )

YouTubed - of course. Dated from 23 March. nhw, have you been following this? Anything to add?

This: http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/216/video_excerpts.html#

Reminded me to look for this: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm