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Art by Trần Băng Khuê A poem in Vietnamese by Bạch Diệp Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm LENT My friend had messaged The best season to visit …

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Si des prospecteurs cherchaient de l’or dans votre arrière-cour et contaminaient votre seule source d’eau avec du mercure, vous décoreriez-vous …

Est-ce toi? Nous devons repenser notre relation avec l’ensemble du monde vivant et ne plus penser comme des consommateurs dans une économie mais …

Si des prospecteurs cherchaient de l’or dans votre arrière-cour et contaminaient votre seule source d’eau avec du mercure, vous décoreriez-vous …

We all have rights, says Stand Up for Jamaica. Who are you to tell us otherwise?

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Is there something that we humans don’t understand about “human rights for all?”

I wonder sometimes. Here is commentary from Stand Up for Jamaica, which makes perfect sense to me. J-FLAG, which used to represent the LGBTQ community, apparently had nothing to say on the matter.

I also had concerns about therecent public opinion pollby Don Anderson (but it made a great headline), as did Dr. Damien King of the University of the West Indies, who pointed out in a couple of tweets: “The opinion of a majority is irrelevant on questions of human rights. This question should not have been the been the subject of a poll and should not have been published. Who cares, for example, if the majority in a country think it’s okay to enslave an ethnic minority?”

We all have rights

The move from regarding homosexuality as a sin – the opinion…

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