So many women still dont have the Right to Equality.Marital abuse by husbands and in-laws exists worldwide. Here is one case from India.A woman accused of unfaithfulness was set on fire by ...
A person who has to migrate for survivalrisks their life on the journey.Survivors of a journey from North Africa, who never made their destination of Italy, tell of their ordeals ...
There are so many rights for the Right to Expression,but the Right to Sports is probably one of the most popular ones.This right often interconnects with two other rights:the Right to Body Care ...
Sky of Stars is a blog where almost 100 rights have been declared.I know it is unique because it does not fall into any of the typical blog categories.Now, my current blog posts take each right, prev...
On to a lighter note in the vast subject of new rights.One of the many Rights to Expression is the Right to Fashion.Fashion is a form of expressing oneself just like speech.Thus, as all expressions, ...
French king Louis XIV had a journal in the 17th centurycalled the Journal de la Sante du Roi, or Kings H ealth Journal..For almost his whole life, from 1747-1711,his doctors, three...
How do we coexist with Earth and its natural forces?We have a relationship with gravity.Gravity pulls our bodies down to earth and grounds us for our entire life.Why cant we acknowledge the coexistin...
Fairness as the key to Right of Equality was covered in a former post.Here, I discuss equality and capitalism.It is inevitable that there will always be rich and poor in a capitalist system...
The original post for The Right to Life for Plants is here.Plants are the underdog of rights. We view plants through the what-can-they-do-for-us optic: that plants give us food, a sense of ...
As posted previously, there is the Right to Cultural Heritage.An example of the denial of this right occurs when sacred land is disregarded.This week, there was protest against oil pipelines pla...
Many countrys constitutions use the word dignity but few use the word respect.Which should it be: Right to Respect or Right to Dignity?Maybe, ask:1) what is the real difference between dignity ...
In a science fiction scenario,corporate privatization of air finds us living in domed cities of the future.Art by German artist, Alexander PreussMeanwhile, back in 1957, actor Carleton Young can...
All humans have the Right to Food, as a basic survival right and as a responsibility of all civil societies.The problems with getting food to all people are complex and numerous.Poverty. Food waste. ...
"Justice is what love looks like in public," states American philosopher Cornel West.This is the Love Train.This is the Love Supreme.This is what the worldwide public protests are about:Love...
A Peoples History of the United States, by historian Howard Zinn is a groundbreaking telling of U.S. history.It provides a new perspective not in typical school textbooks, becaus...
It is shocking but true: 76,154 U.S. war veterans wereamong the homeless in 2010.Click on this interactive map from 2010 by the National Alliance to End Homelessness to view how many U.S. v...
I declare the Right to Listen.As we can speak, we can listen.No speech exists without a listener.But listening goes beyond speech---listening is paying attention.Sometimes, in this blog, I refer to v...
Some rights can only apply to humans.But some rights, like the Right to Air and the Right to Life,belong to all beings.In an action that I find unprecedented, provocative, and beautiful,the U.S...
Self-determination generally means that a group of people are able to determine their own future, without being prevented by a dictating government regime.The term derives from oppressive colonial go...
I declare the Right to Purpose.When a person discovers what they should do in their life---their life mission--- they have found their purpose in life, and they find a certain inner tranquillity with...
Theres a lot of people moving around.The U.N. refugee agency, the UNHCR, documents 33.9 million persons as refugees--- 10.5 million refugees are of immediate concern to the UNHCR (2011).26 ...
Governments have to start crowdsourcingbefore they do some of the things they do.Making decisions with an elite group of people in a closed officebreeds poorly made ideas, with mistakes then paid fo...
The 10th Archivist of the United States, David S. Ferriero, writes on his government blog, "Citizens have the right to see, examine, and learn from the records that document the actions...
All beings have the Right to Law.Rights should come before laws.That is, a law protects a right.As Calvinist pastor, Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne, wrote in 1787 to the king of France:&nbs...
All beings have the Right to Sunlight.Sunlight is a necessary right for the basic survival for all beings,excepting a few species who have evolved in the complete darkness of caves or deep sea.The sh...
René Descartes (1596–1650) is considered a founder of modern philosophy, but he also influenced physics in a big way.In his mature work, Principles of Philosophy (1644),Descartes believed that...
Elephants dont belong in a circus.No animals belong in a circus.Elephant training techniques with bull hooks and chains are known for their cruelty.It is about time this news finally made mainstream ...
All beings are created equal.This means each is born with inherent basic rights,including the basic survival rights and the Right to Respect.But all life forms do not have equal status in the chain o...
Friendships make a full life.A close friend is someone who understands you.Friendship is a choice, which means that we maychoose a good friend or a bad friend.Like love, friendship is a gamble of tru...
Expression is energy.It is a sign of life shown in so many ways.Art, music, language, performance, gesture, fashion are just some expression forms.Marilyn and a portrait of her facial...
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