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hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/iraq

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U.S. Should Adopt Clear Strategy on Syria, End Contracts With Rosoboronexport | Human Rights First

Once More on Russia | Freedom House

Why should we support Russia’s membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—since Moscow has already joined the #WTO—but exempt #Russia from #US efforts to “defend and promote” values? Why would we want to let it join another rules-based organization—and then defy its rules? It already does this in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe and ignores its commitments under the Universal Declaration of #HumanRights; it is even raising concerns in the WTO. Let’s think twice before welcoming Russia into more organizations where it can undermine their integrity.

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UN urges Iraq to address human rights abuses

UN condemns ‘slaughterhouse’ executions

GENEVA: The UN’s top human rights officials is condemning Iraq’s widespread use of the death penalty, comparing it to a slaughterhouse.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says Iraq’s justice system is “too seriously flawed to warrant even a limited application of the death penalty,” let alone its execution of 33 people in the past month or its plans to put another 150 people to death.

Pillay said in a statement on Friday on that “executing people in batches like this is obscene. It is like processing animals in a slaughterhouse.”

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: After executions of 42 people over the past 2 days, we call onthe Gov’t to halt all immediately


 

United Nations Human Rights

“I am appalled about the level of executions in Iraq. I deeply deplore the executions carried out this week, and am particularly alarmed about continuing reports of individuals who remain at risk of execution,” UN rights expert Christof Heyns today urges an immediate halt of executions: http://bit.ly/S13CRg

iraqforsale.org

Human Rights Watch: Iraq becoming ‚police state‘

Join us in calling on the G20 to end tax haven secrecy: Tax dodging by multinational companies costs developing countries over a hundred billion dollars every year – more than the entire global aid budget – at a time when the global crisis is prompting severe cuts in states’ budgets around the world and millions of children are denied a basic education.

developmentwatch.net, makeaidtransparent.org (Video).

In 2013 Russia will host the 2013 G20 summit, the Organization’s leaders decided at the Cannes summit. According to Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, the countries have adopted Action plan for Growth and Jobs and Russia has also undertaken obligations in line with the document, namely to reduce inflation, unemployment and to keep the exchange rate of the ruble within fixed boundaries.

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The G20 nations must act now to challenge this injustice by agreeing on measures to stop tax haven secrecy. Call on the G20 leaders to put tax haven secrecy on the agenda.

SIGN THE PETITION NOW: g20transparency.com/who_suffers.php

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G20 Must Seek Exits From Stagnation – Putin: http://bit.ly/Xbkiob

Text – G20 Transparency Petition G20 Transparency Petition. We call on the G20 leaders to: Recognize the link between illicit outflows of capital from developing countries, absorption of those … g20transparency.com/petition.html 

Russians Brace For Tradeoffs That Come With WTO Membership. As their country officially joins the World Trade Organization, Russians remain deeply divided over accession to the global trade body. stwr.org/imf-world-bank-trade More rferl.org/content/russian-tradeoffs-wto-membership/24684780.html via @RFERL

The Voice of Russia — Twenty years ago, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus became independent. All these countries, except Belarus, like Russia, have adapted their economic systems to capitalist rules. All of them joined the world economy with great potential. A few months ago Russia joined the WTO and a new free trade area was created between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. So, how is business going in the region? What current opportunities are there for foreign companies?  english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_17/Business-climate-in-Russia-Kazakhstan-Ukraine-and-Belarus

The “Our World is not for Sale” network of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading system.  ourworldisnotforsale.org/ is committed to a sustainable, socially just, democratic and accountable multilateral trading system. Livelihoods are being destroyed, human rights ignored, public health endangered, the environment plundered and democratic systems eroded local economies are being undermined, with workers, peasants, family farmers, fishers, consumers, women and indigenous peoples being especially disadvantaged and exploited and governments’ ability to guarantee access to the essentials of life, promote health, safety and food sovereignty, and to protect cultural and biological diversity is being undermined and sometimes eliminated.

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sourcewatch.org/World_Social_Forum

world-economy-and-development.org

en.wikipedia.org/Millennium Development Goals

en.wikipedia.org/Convention on Biological Diversity

ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Poverty/Pages/MSepulveda.aspx

facebook.com/oak.institute OAKLAND INSTITUTE – A policy think tank whose mission is to increase public participation and promote fair debate on critical social, economic, and environmental issues in national and international forums. Free Trade, Farmland Grab, Foodcrises, Right to Food …

Nasser H Al-Khalifa @NasserIbnHamad :

“ World leaders=vultures #UN Humanity is ruled by vultures! These vultures ruling humanity enjoy the slow death of tens of thousands of Syrians civilians so they will pick up the corpses #UN.“

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SYRIA HUMAN RIGHTS & RELIEF FOLLOW UP : We Association (Azar Syria) Relief, Charity & Media

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Aung Aung @Aungaungsittwe #Rohingya Blogger @rohingyablogger

Asean must address #Rohingya issue on humanitarian grounds, Surin insists

robinhoodtax.org/ Not complicated. Just brilliant.

This tax on the financial sector has the power to raise hundreds of billions every year globally. It could give a vital boost to the NHS, our schools, and the fight against child poverty in the UK – as well as tackling poverty and climate change around the world.

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GLOBAL CORRUPTION TRANSPARENCY REPORT CLIMATE CHANGE

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL G20 PROGRESS REPORT CHECKLIST

GLOBALIZATION & TRADE

Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch seeks to ensure that in this era of globalization, all Americans can enjoy economic security, a clean environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making in matters that affect them and their communities. Learn more about GTW. www.citizen.org/Global Trade Watch Program

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalise the economies of the Asia-Pacific region; specifically, Article 1.1.3 notes: “The Parties seek to support the wider liberalisation process in APEC consistent with its goals of free and open trade and investment.”[1] The proposals have been accused of being excessively restrictive, providing intellectual property restraints beyond those in the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement,[2] and in developing countries, particularly Vietnam, could limit access to affordable medication, including generic drugs.[3] en.wikipedia.org/Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership

Tantra ist die Erforschung des Universums aus der Perspektive des Individuums. Die praktische Anwendbarkeit der tantrischen Lehren macht Tantra zu einer einzigartigen Wissenschaft, die alle anderen Wissenschaften miteinander verbindet und aus ihrer Essenz brauchbare Formeln schafft.Tantra beschränkt sich nicht darauf, eine Ebene des Lebensbaumes zu untersuchen – Tantra ist die Erforschung des Lebensbaumes. — Harish Johari


www.ohchr.org, www.free-syria.com, www.bahrainrights.org http://ntclibya.org, http://egyptindependent.com, www.yemenis4justice.com, http://tibet.net, www.mideastyouth.com, http://iranhr.net, http://globalvoicesonline.org, http://fluechtlingshilfeiranev2010.wordpress.com, http://www.speak4iran.org, http://www.justiceforiranianworkers.org/, http://freeirannow.wordpress.com, http://united4iran.org, http://www.iranhumanrights.org,  http://justiceforiran.org, http://www.transparency-for-iran.org