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- Corporations and human rights liabilities - four steps to protect from the courts
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Over the last decade, big US corporations have been sued for human rights abuses offshore under the 200-plus year Alien Torts Claims Act (ATCA). Here are four steps corporations should take to protect themselves from the ATCA.
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- Ethics gaps
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  Businesses perform reasonably well when it comes to corporate governance but a new report shows serious ethics gaps in the areas of human rights and environment.
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- Aotearoa: National Day of Action: July 14th - Melbourne
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  National Day of Action: Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land A mass community rally will be held in Melbourne on Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm to voice opposition to the government's escalation of attacks on Indigenous communities and the denial of justice for Mulrunji and other Indigenous people who have been killed in police custody.
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- Crooks and Liars » Bong Hits For Jesus
  Posted by theangryindian from Crooks and Liars
  The phrase doesn’t make any sense, and it wasn’t supposed to. 18 year old high school senior Joseph Frederick unfurled the 14 foot banner on a public sidewalk across the street from the high school during a non-school event. High school administrator Deborah Morse confiscated the banner and suspended Frederick for “advocating drug use” evidently in view of other high school students.
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- Wilderness Protector Sentenced to 10 months – Law Courts Locked Down.
  Posted by RobBaxter from Rbaxter.blogspot
  Betty Krawczyk was sentenced to 10 months in prison today for her involvement in protests against highway expansion at Eagleridge Bluffs. When observers of the proceedings attempted to ask questions about the extraordinary security measures in place, the court security responded by locking down the courts for almost two hours.
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- UK Indymedia - Indymedia and British Intelligence Services
  Posted by Kaerast
  Following the American pattern after 9/11, the UK government has used its own alleged terrorist attacks to push towards a police state. This has involved increasing the funds allocated to 'security services' and granting them extra-judicial powers; the systematic assault on civil liberties and human rights; media-spun fear based on dubious 'terror
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- The United States v. George Bush
  Posted by Damianmann from Alternet
  What would the case against George Bush for intelligence fraud in the leadup to the war in Iraq look like? A former federal prosecutor lays out her case to an imaginary grand jury, and all she needs is the evidence available in the public record to make her case
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If Korean civilians are murdered in a forest and no one hears them fall, is it really a massacre?
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