https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1 Human Rights en-us 2017-03-23 20:05:31 UTC 2025-09-28 22:05:00 UTC hello@padlet.com 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/162274425 Van Jones
-founding director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
-founded in 1996 and named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the Center challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system
-Jones’s efforts to establish civilian oversight, and to require transparency and accountability within disciplinary proceedings, have yielded results
-Jones’s efforts to ban the use of pepper-spray, routinely used by police in subduing suspects, has helped launch a nationwide campaign against the chemical weapon.

]]> 2017-03-23 20:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/162274425 122756 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/162274486 John Lewis

-  As a student at American Baptist College, Lewis organized sit-in demonstrations, was one of the Freedom Riders, who were civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, and was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped form.

]]> 2017-03-23 20:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/162274486 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168969734 "Illegal combatants" held today at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, these Nazi saboteurs challenged the legality of the military tribunal process. Their lawyers took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled against them. In a unanimous decision delivered by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the court determined that the German agents had violated the law of war and that a "military commission was lawfully constituted" to try them for that crime. Thus, declared the Supreme Court, "the motions for leave to file petitions for writs of habeas corpus are denied."]]> 2017-04-28 19:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168969734 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168970008 Under Trump, the rule will impact an estimated $9.5bn in foreign aid funding, as opposed to $600m. (Unsafe abortions, incidentally, are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality, with the World Health Organisation estimating that a woman dies of an unsafe abortion every eight seconds.)]]> 2017-04-28 19:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168970008 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168970774 Less than 20 years ago it was considered normal for military forces to use children as young as 15 as soldiers in armed conflict. This was legally accepted international practice.  The horrifying experiences of child soldiers during the conflicts of the 1990s mobilised the international community to act. People refused to see the use of children in war as normal or inevitable. In 1998, a committed group of actors, including Child Soldiers International, came together to advocate on behalf of children. As a result, an international treaty was adopted on 12 February 2000 which prohibited the use of any person under the age of 18 in armed conflict, and raised the minimum age for recruitment.

]]> 2017-04-28 19:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168970774 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168970849 The estimated age of entry into child prostitution is 12 years old, while girls as young as 9 years old have been known to be recruited for prostitution. (FBI Audit Report 09-08) Most of these girls were recruited or coerced into prostitution. Others were "traditional wives" without job skills who escaped from or were abandoned by abusive husbands and went into prostitution to support themselves and their children. (Denise Gamache and Evelina Giobbe, Prostitution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation, National Coalition against Domestic Violence, 1990) 
Estimates of the prevalence of incest among prostitutes range from 65% to 90%. The Council for Prostitution Alternatives, Portland, Oregon Annual Report in 1991 stated that: 85% of prostitute/clients reported history of sexual abuse in childhood; 70% reported incest. The higher percentages (80%-90%) of reports of incest and childhood sexual assaults of prostitutes come from anecdotal reports and from clinicians working with prostitutes.]]> 2017-04-28 19:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168970849 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168971090 Despite the huge challenges ahead, efforts are already underway with regard to all measures highlighted in the provisions on Farmers' Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.]]> 2017-04-28 19:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168971090 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168971438 After prisoners were released from American custody, some found neither help nor relief. Mohammed Abdullah Saleh al-Asad, a businessman in Tanzania, and others were snatched, interrogated and imprisoned, then sent home without explanation. They returned to their families deeply scarred from interrogations, isolation and the shame of sexual taunts, forced nudity, aggressive body cavity searches and being kept in diapers.]]> 2017-04-28 19:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168971438 125451 https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168971781 The exotic “pet” trade is big business. Selling protected wildlife in stores, auctions, or on the Internet is one of the largest sources of criminal earnings, behind only arms smuggling and drug trafficking. But the animals pay the price. Many don’t survive the journey from their homes, and those who do survive often suffer in captivity and die prematurely from malnutrition, an unnatural and uncomfortable environment, loneliness, and the overwhelming stress of confinement.]]> 2017-04-28 19:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/122756/sh9s1f6qlwp1/wish/168971781