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Category: human rights

Supremacists Bulldoze American Dream

22nd March 2015 HughWinter human rights

When two Austin landlords bulldozed a Hispanic family’s piñata store on 20 March, to make space for a party, they destroyed the property of people they regarded as “roaches”.  They […]

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The Chinese government is dissipating its legitimacy

23rd January 2014 HughWinter China, human rights

If it is to retain its legitimacy, the Chinese government needs to change the way it responds to issues.  Recent incidents, relating to corruption and freedom of speech, suggest that […]

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Proposed Intervention in Syria

29th August 2013 HughWinter human rights, Middle East, Syria

There are obvious comparisons between the current considerations being given to intervention in Syria and the previous political processes which led to the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999 and […]

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European Convention on Human Rights

4th March 2013 HughWinter Europe, human rights

An article in The Mail on Sunday, on 3 March 2013, celebrated the British Home Secretary’s proposal for Britain “to pull out of the discredited European Convention on Human Rights […]

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