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EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT: NO RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

The highest human rights court in Europe has told European LGBTs that they have no human right to same-sex marriage, in a case that also shows how complicated sexual and marital norms have become in this new transsexual world. The case arose after a man in Finland, who was married with a child, decided he wanted to live as a woman. After a sex-change operation, he attempted to change his governmen... »

Human trafficking: the numbers

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NSA Surveillance as Intrusion on Human Right

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has expressed his concern over the the recently revealed secret NSA surveillance systems. “Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society,” Berners-Lee told the Financial Times. The Internet guru also argued that these type of government intrusion ... »