Category Archives: human rights

Officer Randolph Holder Is Buried in His Native Guyana – The New York Times

Officer Holder, who was shot and killed on Oct. 20 chasing a suspect in Manhattan, was given the kind of ceremony usually reserved for public officials. Guyana’s president, David Granger, attended, and the mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, offered brief remarks. Lisa Punch, a singer who was recently crowned Miss Guyana, paid tribute with a song called “One Last Time.”

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Quote of the Day: No mother wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did

Yesterday, Glamour named Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, a Woman of the Year. And damn — that woman has seriously had a year. Speaking about the attacks on Planned Parenthood, TRAP laws passed in conservative states to shut down clinics, and the pressures of her job, Richards said: There’s not a mother in the world who wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did—and for me, it’s the 2.7 million people Planned Parenthood serves each year who make everything I advocate for possible. Women, men, and young people deserve quality health care and fundamental rights. I will do this job every day to protect them.We’re all so grateful that she does.

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No, it is true that meat causes cancer | Sci-Tech | DW.COM | 29.10.2015

“I have sat on many committees around the world, I have done cancer research for 35 years – if you want the ultimate answer to something, you go to the IARC monograph program,” says Neil Pearce, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.Pearce tells DW that such criticisms come out every time IARC produces a monograph. “The same happened with smoking, with asbestos and many other things.”

Source: No, it is true that meat causes cancer | Sci-Tech | DW.COM | 29.10.2015

Eyewitnesses: soldiers placed knife next to youth after his execution, Hebron | PNN

An eyewitness, a schoolteacher at the scene said that the boy was heading towards the checkpoint, and when he was close, an Israeli soldier shot him in the shoulder and the stomach.He adds that when he fell down, soldiers approached him, placed a knife right next to his body, then again fired three bullets on his head, from zero distance, leading to his immediate death.The soldiers then stripped him from his clothes, covered him in a black bag, and took him in an ambulance, detaining his body.Several eyewitnesses denied Israeli claims of any stabbing attempts, and confirmed it was a cold-blooded execution.

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