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Australia: Lead the Human Rights Movement in Asia

Open letter from Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes.

(HONG KONG) - Australia has expanded its human rights advocacy at the international level for the last five years, this includes its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council.

This commitment to engage constructively in human rights dialog leaves the country in an ideal position to lead other nations in the protection and promotion of human rights.

Why One of the World`s Leading Peace Advocates Threatened to Punch Me in the Face

Gareth Evans, a former attorney-general and foreign minister in Australia, threatened me because I raised the issue of his support for the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - I have rarely ever come face to face – only inches in fact – with such anger. Certainly not at an academic conference.

And certainly not from such a prominent figure: chancellor of Australian National University, former attorney-general and foreign minister, former head of the International Crisis Group, and one of the world’s most prominent global thinkers.

Media Quiet on Child Abuse...

Why and how are child molesters kept out of other news?

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Wherever they happen to live, whatever other passports they happen to carry, whatever they happen to do, it is forbidden to criticise Israelis unless--like Bernie Maddoff--they steal money from other Israelis.

When non-Israelis, often referred to as “goyim”, commit an offence, the media jumps all over them.

Special Report: UN Will Deny Tamils Justice

On the agenda for the upcoming 19th session, nothing about Sri Lanka...

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - Brace yourselves Tamils in and from Sri Lanka! The UN Human Rights Council will not grant you justice at its 19th session, or, perhaps, in any foreseeable future.

Until the past few weeks it looked as though the “international community”, was content with ignoring Sri Lanka’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Sri Lanka`s Missing

Where are they?

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - What happened to dozens of LTTE members who surrendered to the army together with Rev. Francis Joseph, a Catholic priest, south of the Vadduvaakal bridge on May 18 2009?

“Aananthi” (not her real name), the wife of one of the disappeared, told Human Rights Watch that she saw the army load the priest and the LTTE members on to a bus and drive them away.

Medical Marijuana: the Best and Safest Pain Killer
Compared to Oxycontin, et cetera

I had 5,000 or so patients with 70% complaining of severe pain, who found relief with Mairjuana.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - I presume that a few people will disagree with my thesis. I will admit to a few exceptions and I will address them later.

For my own review, I pulled up the standard doses of the opiates, (from opium) and the opioids, not from opium but totally synthetic.

Ethnic cleansing of invented people

Israeli children are educated to see the Palestinians as a problem that must be solved and as a threat that must be eliminated.

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - Mostafa Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, Bahjat Zaalan and his son Ramdan from Gaza died on my fiftieth birthday and just a few days after Newt Gingrich declared them an invented people.

They were murdered by the Israeli terrorist organization, the IDF, an organization that is supported and funded by the US.

Global Movement to Create a Non-Violent World Launched

People who wish to join the movement are invited...

(BLACKBURN, Aust.) - On 11 November 2011, the 93rd anniversary of the armistice of World War 1, a new movement to end human violence was launched around the world. 'The People's Charter to Create a Nonviolent World' was launched simultaneously in Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States and has already gained signatories in twenty-one countries.

The aim of the Nonviolence Charter is to create a worldwide movement to end violence in all of its forms.

Tent Monsters at Occupy Melbourne

Occupy Movements supporting efforts on Wall St keep growing, however none were so clever as the Aussies...

(SALEM / MELBOURNE) - This might be one of the funniest and most rewarding videos published regarding the Occupy movement, and this one comes from those awesome blokes down under where innovation and courage have always been necessary tenets in their society.

It isn't every day we have a chance to laugh at the antics of cops who so profoundly, fail to see the ridiculousness of their orders. Of course there is a growing percentage of cops in the USA who are bailing out, they are ashamed of the thugs with badges in LA, New York and Oakland, Portland, Denver and so many other places.

Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism`s Role is Taboo

The role of respectable journalism in western state crimes — from Iraq to Iran, Afghanistan to Libya — remains taboo.

(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - On 22 May 2007, the Guardian’s Iran’s secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq." The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which included "forging ties with al-Qaeda elements."

The coming "showdown" was an Iranian plot to influence a vote in the US Congress. Based entirely on briefings by anonymous US officials, Tisdall’s "exclusive" rippled with lurid tales of Iran’s "murder cells" and "daily acts of war against US and British forces."