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The Color Orange

By using something with the color orange during the Olympics - both inside and outside of China - you are sending a signal to the world that something is wrong in China. Join the initiative TheColorOrange.net with the aim of showing China - during the Olympics in August 2008 - that we are many people who are keeping an eye on China's human rights violations.

http://www.thecolororange.net/uk/page63

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The Haiti Support Group

The Haiti Support Group (HSG) is an association of individuals who support the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. It is a solidarity group based in the United Kingdom. The HSG was launched in June 1992 in the aftermath of the military coup d'état that overthrew the democratic government.

http://haitisupport.gn.apc.org/

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The Human Cost of Energy: Chevron's Continuing Role in Financing Oppression and Profiting From Human Rights Abuses in Military-Ruled Burma [pdf]

This report documents Chevron's ongoing role in financing and profiting from the military regime in Burma. This is the first comprehensive report on conditions in the Yadana pipeline region since Chevron acquired Unocal's interest in 2005, and documents the continued serious human rights violations by pipeline security forces, including forced labor, murder, rape and torture. The report also describes Chevron's continuing legal liability associated with abuses in the pipeline region (EarthRights International, April 2008).

http://www.earthrights.org/files/Burma%20Project/Yadana/HCoE_pages.pdf

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The Online Burma/Myanmar Library

The Online Burma/Myanmar Library is a database which functions as an annotated, classified and hyperlinked index to full texts of individual Burma documents on the Internet. It also houses a growing collection of articles, conference papers, theses, books, reports, archives and directories on-site (e.g. the 17MB archive of the Burma Press Summary). The Librarian requests help from specialists to refine the structure and add content. Launched in October 2001, it is organised on a database (using MySQL software, in combination with PHP) into 60 top-level categories based on traditional library classifications, with a hierarchy of some 850 sub-categories. These hold approximately 4000 links (mostly annotated, with keywords and descriptions) to individual documents, and about 400 links to websites which in turn give access to another 100,000 or so documents.

http://www.burmalibrary.org/

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The Tsunami exacerbates Dalit women's sufferings from caste discrimination

Dalits are the lowest caste people in India , the so-called untouchables. Most Dalit villages in the northern districts of Tamil Nadu, from Tiruvallur to Nagapattinam, have been affected by the tsunami. Families who lost their houses are not eligible for housing assistance as for generations they lived on their land without land titles. Over a million Dalit survivors of the tsunami have been living as refugees in 'warehouse' type temporary shelters set up near graveyards or garbage dumps without sanitation and/or electricity. The relief supplies are handed to men who spend the money on alcohol leading to increased domestic violence. Even the tsunami failed to wash away caste discrimination in the Indian society. (Fatima Burnad, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development)

http://www.apwld.org/tsunami_dalitwomen.htm

(Added: Thu Jun 08 2006   Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007   Hits: 207)

Trade Imbalance Masks a Struggle to Get By in China

The hopes and fears of a surging Chinese economy, the warnings of catastrophic trade imbalances, the million-dollar salaries of American retail executives - the story begins here, on the factory floor where Wang Haiyun hunches over her sewing machine and stitches about 600 pairs of boots a day, all bound for customers in the United States, and many in sizes she can hardly fathom.(Thomas Fuller, International Herald Tribune, August 3, 2006)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/03/business/produce.php

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UN Security Council rebukes Burma

Article by the BBC about the recent UN Security Council statement deploring Burma's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. It is the first time the 15-nation body has taken any formal action over Burma. (BBC, 11 October 2007)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7040371.stm

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Unemployment Protection in the Philippines (PDF)

By Nepomuceno A. Malaluan. Action for Economic Reforms, December 2001. Unemployment protection, which we define here as the mechanisms intended to protect private sector labor from loss of income resulting from loss of employment, should receive greater attention from policymakers in the face of the unfolding vulnerabilities of globalization. Even as greater integration of the Philippines to the global economy has presented new opportunities for Philippine labor, recent events have also demonstrated its downside. (PDF-87KB )

http://www.aer.ph/images/stories/projects/pssp/unemploy.pdf

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US Campaign for Burma

The United States Campaign for Burma is a U.S.-based membership organization dedicated to empowering grassroots activists around the world to bring about an end to the military dictatorship in Burma. Through public education, leadership development initiatives, conferences, and advocacy campaigns at local, national and international levels, USCB works to empower Americans and Burmese dissidents-in-exile to promote freedom, democracy, and human rights in Burma and raise awareness about the egregious human rights violations committed by Burma's military regime.

http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/

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Uzbekistan's silenced society

The Uzbek government has the country on a media clampdown and gets particularly oppressive when this administration experiences criticism (BBC News, 19 December 2007).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7150697.stm

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Visualizing Rights: India & Bolivia

These fact sheets are intended to contribute to ongoing monitoring work to hold the state accountable for their economic and social rights obligations. The Center for Economic and Social Rights hopes that they will be helpful to various UN and other intergovernmental human rights mechanisms including the Treaty Bodies, Special Rapporteurs and the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (Centre for Economic and Social Rights, 2008).

http://cesr.org/node/775

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Write a letter about human rights to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

Hosting the Olympic Games in 2008 is an excellent opportunity for the People's Republic of China to demonstrate its commitment to international standards on human rights. Call for the immediate release of all individuals jailed for seeking to exercise their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. Call for the right for Chinese citizens to speak openly and honestly without fear of censorship, detention or imprisonment.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/china/beijing08/toolkit.htm

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