Petition Tag - human rights

I'm am tired of my neighbors telling Me and my other neighbors we cannot ride on our road back in the woods! The only thing I have every wanted to do in life is ride my dirt bike. Ever sense I was little all I was ever able to do was ride my dirt bike and since we lived in a neighborhood we moved out to the woods where we were allowed to ride our dirt bikes and be as loud as we want to.

What many people don't understand is that motocross is really expensive and it is not easy for my family to pay for food and every day finances like normal families have to. When you add on all the gas money for the truck and two bikes its a lot of money but when you add on all the money to pay for a race bike, maintenance, gear, oil, parts, and many other things to keep a rider safe while they ride its a whole lot of money! When you add on the going to a track to ride during the week when it is $20-35 per rider! It's a lot and not many people have that kind of money.

Motocross is a ride at your own risk sport. My little sister and I understand the dangers of motocross because we have been riding incee we where very little. We have had friends break bones, get knocked out, get a concussion, and even death has found a few of them unfortunately.

We have been told we cannot ride because we are in danger of hurting someone else or our selves while riding out in the woods on a gravel road where there is a speed limit. I am a licensed driver and I ride a dirt bike with my neighbors who stay close behind in case of a car.

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Brazil has advanced greatly in recent years. On the one hand, it has become a model of democracy for Latin America. On the other hand, it has managed to incorporate the fight for gender equality and the promotion of racial equality.

But still Brazil has failed to promote the historic rescue of our native peoples, or Indians, who still remains somewhat on the fringes of the development process itself as a subordinate population. What is the reason for this delay?

They can not be left behind, because our history can not be orphaned.

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The Macedonian-speaking population in Greece is indigenous to the land, and their Macedonian language holds an vital place in their hearts and minds. However, the people cannot defend themselves from the Greek government's assimilation policies alone. For over 100 years, the Greek language has been forcibly imposed on us, and the state has tried to bring our ancestral linguistic heritage to extinction.

Linguistic diversity is an important part of the diversity of life. When a language is threatened, it also threatens the cultural traditions and social fabric of local communities, making the world more fragile, more vulnerable, and less hopeful for the future.

Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states that “The Union shall respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity”.
The Charter was proclaimed in 2000 and has become legally binding on the EU with the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, in December 2009.

Article 3.3 of the Treaty of the European Union stipulates that “(…) The Union shall respect its rich cultural and linguistic diversity and shall ensure that Europe’s cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced.”

Επικύρωση του Ευρωπαϊκού Χάρτη για της Περιφερειακές η Μειονοτικές Γλώσσες στην Ελλάδα

Οι μακεδονόφωνοι Μακεδόνες στην Ελλάδα είναι γηγενής πληθυσμός στη γη του, και η μακεδονική γλώσσα κατέχει μια ζωτικής σημασίας θέση στις καρδιές και το μυαλό τους. Ωστόσο, οι άνθρωποι αυτοί δεν μπορούν μόνοι τους να υπερασπιστούν τους εαυτούς τους από τις πολιτικές αφομοίωσης της ελληνικής κυβέρνησης. Για πάνω από 100 χρόνια, η ελληνική γλώσσα έχει επιβληθεί δια της βίας σε εμάς, και το κράτος προσπάθησε να φέρει την προγονική γλωσσική μας κληρονομιά να απειλείται με εξαφάνιση.

Η γλωσσική πολυμορφία είναι ένα σημαντικό μέρος της πολυμορφίας της ζωής. Όταν μια γλώσσα απειλείται, απειλούνται επίσης οι πολιτιστικές παραδόσεις και ο κοινωνικός ιστός των τοπικών κοινωνιών, κάνοντας τον κόσμο πιο εύθραυστο, πιο ευάλωτο, και λιγότερο αισιόδοξο για το μέλλον.

Το άρθρο 22 του Χάρτη των Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης ορίζει ότι «Η Ένωση σέβεται την πολιτιστική, θρησκευτική και γλωσσική πολυμορφία». Ο Χάρτης διακηρύχθηκε το 2000 και έχει καταστεί νομικά δεσμευτικός για την ΕΕ με την έναρξη ισχύος της Συνθήκης της Λισαβόνας, τον Δεκέμβριο του 2009.

Το άρθρο 3.3 της Συνθήκης για την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ορίζει ότι «(...) Η Ένωση σέβεται τον πλούτο της πολιτιστικής και γλωσσικής της πολυμορφίας και μεριμνά για την προστασία και την ανάπτυξη της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς της Ευρώπης."

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We have documented proof of MR Orashia Glenroy Edwards bi-sexual orientation from his family and friends also his minister and also from the gay and
lesbian support group he attends regularly backed up with photo support.

The UK government does not believe MR Orishia Glenroy Edwards is bi-sexual when it is clear to everyone around that he is.

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Mothers are the primary carers everywhere in the world. Caring for children, sick, disabled and elderly people is work vital to society.

Carers are impoverished. Income Support is being abolished. Child Benefit, society’s commitment to children, is no longer universal. Carer’s Allowance is insultingly low and most carers don’t even qualify. 200,000 care workers are denied the minimum wage.

When mothers are impoverished, children suffer: hunger, ill-health, and more often taken into care.

Mothers are told they are ‘workless’ and that earning is more important than caring. They are pushed into jobs regardless of hours, pay or childcare provision. The right to have children is being challenged.

Mothers are forced into unpaid work to ‘earn’ their benefits (‘workfare’). ‘Workfare’ bypasses the minimum wage, driving down all wages, especially women’s, and undermining pay equity.

Having to fit caring around jobs results in overwork, exhaustion and ill-health. Grandparents must often leave retirement to help.

Employed mothers (or fathers) who take time off to care for children or relatives, lose pay, promotion and future pension.

When caring work is devalued, people, relationships and life itself are devalued. The result is inequity and social neglect, but also environmental destruction and war.

Demanding time and resources for caring aims to redirect economic and social policies towards people and the planet, and away from the uncaring market.

For Petition background: http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/background-petition-invest-a-caring-society-a-living-wage-mothers-and-other-carers

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I am hoping to find support to help my children, and myself being able to start a new life in Australia. We have been here 8 months having moved from the UK where we were subjected to arson attacks and stalking/ harassment, and the police would not protect us, despite witnesses etc.

In the end we were accused of 'doing this ourselves' and the police tried to get the children taken out of a loving family and put into care? All they need is to feel safe, and since being in Australia, they have, and don't want to go back, as they are scared of the 'child catchers' (social services) as they heard the lies being told! We don't want to live off the state, we want a new life, and to achieve our goals. My baby, born a month ago, here in Canberra, has the only chance of a life without violence, and we need help please?

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The health, safety & human rights of South Australian Sex Workers are compromised/negated under the laws set down in the "Criminal law Consolidation Act 1935” and the “Summary Offenses Act 1953”.

Repealing these laws will allow for the human rights, health and safety of sex workers and the wider community to be protected & respected.

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Legalise the use of Cannabis for medical purposes. Stop the Zero Tolerance of Pain and Suffering!

(Target Signatures 10,000 - AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS SIGNATURES ONLY PLEASE)

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Legalise the use of Cannabis for medical purposes. Stop the Zero Tolerance of Pain and Suffering!

(Target Signatures 10,000 - NSW RESIDENTS SIGNATURES ONLY PLEASE)

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April 13, 2013--Committee of Human Rights Reporters – According to received reports, student, blogger and cyber activist Pouria Farazmand was detained in Kermanshah on April 7th.

According to CHRR, last Sunday when the student from Kermanshah province went to his university to follow up on matters regarding his graduation, he was handed a summons by the university security. As Farazmand was exiting the university, plain clothed officials who were equipped with walkie-talkies and pistols accosted and detained the student.

Students who witnessed the clash reported that the officials engaged in a brutal confrontation with Pouria Farazmand, beating him up and insulting him as they detained him.

After Pouria Farazmand was violently taken away, one of the security officials, M. Seyedi, appeared in front of the university’s gate and hurled insults while threatening the group of students who had converged at the scene. He lashed denigrating remarks and called the detained student and blogger a “spy” who is associated with “foreign entities.”

Pouria Farazmand is the writer for the blog Azadi Baraye Hamegan (freedom for all) and served on the editorial board of Mosht (fist), a banned student newspaper. Witness students said Farazmand never wrote anything pointing to foreign associations and that he only wrote about internal politics in Iran.

There is still no news of the whereabouts or condition of the student blogger.

During the past months an increasing number of bloggers, Internet activists and citizens taking part in social networks critical of the ruling regime have been arrested in various provinces in the country including Tehran, Alborz, Fars, Kurdistan and Razavi Khorasan.

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A request for an urgent review of Spain's new requirement for the reporting of assets held outside Spain and the compatibilty of that requirement (as set out in Law 7/2012 and Decreto Real 1558/2012) with EU Treaties and Laws, particularly those relating to non-descrimination, privacy and free movement of persons and capital.

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Warning all freedom loving people and human rights organizations to prevent the coming massacre of the lives of 250 political prisoners in the regime’s Gohar Dasht prison in Iran!

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I was brought up by my Grandmother and my father. I have grown up knowing what it is like to live without both parents by my side.

You grow up and decide that what ever happens you will make sure that you will do the best for your children and they will grow up with everything you did not have whilst growing up. So now the time has come where i give my beautiful daughter , who is 4, everything i was deprived of.

Back in 2008 i married Zahras dad, an amazing man who gave me hope that there are decent people out there in this world. He has supported me through everything. After i fell pregnant with our child i came back to the UK inorder to recieve better treatment and settle down inorder to sponsor my husband. In august 2008 a new law was passed. Both sponsors must be aged 21. I was gutted, I had to wait for 2 years before I could apply.

After waiting 2 years a new law had passed... The English Language Test. I just thought 'what is happening'. I felt i was just catching up with each new law. Last year the age limit has gone back to 18. Hearing this made me so angry, they made me wait 2 years for nothing if that law had not passed my husband would be here supporting me through life and most of all watch his daughter grow up.

My husband is losing out on watching his daughter grow up. It has been 5 years now and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!! As British born citizens it is my human right that I live a normal life with my husband and it is my daughters human right to have access to her father.

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This is a petition whose signatories are to be only those who:

(a) are official members of The Salvation Army; and

(b) believe the organisation's position statement on homosexuality should change.

All signatories are to state their name and their ranking within The Salvation Army (eg. "Adherent", "Soldier", "General", "Major", etc.).

The petition calls for The Salvation Army to change its official position statement on homosexuality, to not proscribe homosexuality or bisexuality, and to allow for same-sex relationships, including same-sex marriage.

A link to The Salvation Army's position statement on homosexuality is here:

http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/PSHumanSexuality

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In the 2013 New York State Legislative session, New York State Assemblyman Francisco Moya, representing District #39 (Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst) introduced bill A2597, entitled "The New York State Dream Act".

This bill would allow undocumented students who were brought to the United States as very young children to be eligible to receive Financial Aid for a College Education within New York State.

The Bill increased Financial Aid by 25 million dollars, in support of this initiative. The Bill is supported by Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver. A similar bill was introduced in the New York State Senate bill #S2378, but is being blocked by the Republicans Led by Senator Dean Skelos. Senator Skelos does not want the bill to reach the floor because he is afraid to put the State Senators on the record to either support or object to the Bill. Senator Skelos, does not want to loose power in the Senate. Senator Skelos is putting Politics above People.

We need to contact Senator Dean Skelos and tell him to support The Dream Act.

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Lil Pluto is deaf. She requires a visual fire alarm. She cannot hear a regular fire alarm. It is her right to have access to one.

My building manager will not provide me with the 2 visual alarms that are needed. They also lied and told the property manager that we already have the visual alarm.

Let's show the support Lil Pluto has and help get her "Her Human Right".

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On Friday the 15th of March 2013, a Swiss girl was raped by several (possibly 7 or 8) Indian men, while her boyfriend was tied to a tree. This act of violence is not standing alone.

Through the past years, there have been many acts of (group) rapes in India. Rape is a direct violation against the human rights, and therefore it should be strictly prohibited.

The Indian government is not taking enough action against it. That’s why the rapes still continue. Therefore the United Nations should make sure the Indian government is going to take action.

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Refugees arriving by boat in Australia who are released into Community Detention are forced to live for several years upon charity. According to international conventions, every person has the right to work: The Right to Work is Protected by:
Articles 23 and 24 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Articles 6,7,8, and10 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Articles 8 and 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Article 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Article 11 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

The basic right to work is stripped from asylum seekers in detention centres and in Community Detention, along with their dignity and self esteem.

The cost to the Australian public via Charitable and Governmental organisations is not justifiable when many of these detainees arrive with skills and a strong desire to finance their own and their families' existence here. The effect of forced unemployment on their mental health increases the health bill for their care while torturously awaiting the governments decision to grant a visa or exile them into probable danger.

Australians should be aware of this breach of human rights by our Government, and assist change by voicing their concerns.

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At present...

There are few, and possibly no laws that protect those who are discriminated on the basis of class. We believe that class discrimination should be recognised and included, therefore with other protected characteristics - including: age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability and race.

Why include Class Discrimination?

Well, doing so would reduce anger - and the likelihood of prejudice and discrimination including:

- between 'people who have different social, economic, and educational status'
- between the working, middle and upper classes
- between business owners, directors, management, employees, temps, and contractors
- because it supports and is connected to race, culture, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation and education - and
- when analysing class alongside status and power

Gans (a functionalist) would argue that discrimination is the result of the need to transfer social costs from those with the most power to those with the least power. Please find more information via this link: http://www.sociology.org.uk/as4p3.pdf

...noting that in January 2009, in England the government at the time, lead by Gordon Brown unveiled a long-awaited white paper on social mobility as they had apparently planned to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of social class in a bid to improve the career chances of talented people from less privileged backgrounds. Please find articles via links below:

https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/society/2009/jan/13/class-discrimination-social-mobility

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/13/new-opportunities-white-paper

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Ghasem Ahmadi (pictured on right) is an Iranian Kurdish journalist who is one of the editors of the Rojav Quarterly. Rojav is a political, cultural and social quarterly which published by the Kurdish students of Tehran university. The quarterly published 13 volumes and it's releasing stopped by disciplinary and cultural committee of Tehran university on April 9th of 2011.

Ghasem Ahmadi was arrested in Mahabad on Thursday, March 7--the same day as fellow Kurdish journalist Khosrow Kurdpour. The brother of Khosrow Kurdpour, Masoud Kurdpour (also a journalist) was subsequently reported arrested as well.

These three arrests indicate an escalation of the persecution against Iran's Kurdish minority by the Islamic Republic regime, as well as a further intensification of the regime's campaign of persecution against Iran's independent journalists. This campaign has been ongoing since January and is transparently related to the up-coming presidential elections in June.

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中國政府處死被虐打婦女！

四川婦女李彥，婚後受到嚴重家暴，被前夫譚勇切斷手指，以煙蒂掐臉，虐打！

李彥曾報公安，所有有關機構卻不了了之。直至2010年尾，李彥用槍殺害前夫。中國法院在沒有詳情考慮律師提出的大量家暴證據下， 在2011年判處李彥死刑，隨時執行！

李彥由家暴受害者變謀殺犯，提出所有上訴都維持原判處以死刑。

中國是世界上執行死刑最多的國家之一。現時沒有數據顯示死刑可以有效減低罪案。死刑是司法以正義之名，終極剝奪人民生命，嚴重違反人權的行為。如果你也認為李彥罪不致死，請你用幾秒時間，為中國人權出一分力，簽名聯署向中國政府施壓，停止執行死刑。

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PETITION TO DEMAND RELEVANT CHINESE AUTHORITIES TO HALT EXECUTION OF LI YAN

Li Yan, a 41 year-old Chinese woman from Sichuan province (South West China), could be EXECUTED any day from now and the Chinese New Year in February.

In late 2010, Li Yan has beaten her husband to death with a gun after suffering months of domestic violence: frequent beatings, having her fingers cut-off, stubbed cigarettes out on her face and was locked outside her home with little clothing during the freezing Sichuan winters. All inflicted by her own husband, despite Li Yan's testimonies about the abuse she suffered and evidence provided by witnesses, the court upheld the death sentence. The court did not put her history of domestic violence into consideration.

China is one of the top executors in our world. There is currently no statistics that show that death penalty can effectively deter people from committing crimes and reduce crime rate. Death penalty is a serious violation of human rights, which states commit murder under the disguise of justice. If you agree that Li Yan's execution should be halted, please spare a few seconds, support our petition to pressurize the relevant Chinese authorities.

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6 February 2013
Yasan Mousavi arrested and transferred to prison

Keywords : Political Prisoners

فارسى

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – On Sunday, February 3rd, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence detained Yasan Mousavi at his home in Tehran and transferred him to Evin prison.

Yasan Mousavi, born in 1984, was an activist at Mir Hossein Mousavi’s 2009 presidential campaign. His brother Hooman Mousavi was arrested during that time and since then, Yasan Mousavi has been summoned and interrogated many times.

According to news obtained by CHRR, Yasan Mousavi was arrested without notice on February 3rd, and two days later on February 5th, judiciary agents contacted his family and informed them that he will be kept in temporary detention for one month.

Yasan Mousavi was alone at his residence when he was detained. According to witnesses, Intelligence agents entered his home by breaking the locks, conducted a massive search of his home during the arrest and seized personal items such as his computer and satellite dish.

Yasan Mousavi’s brother Hooman Mousavi is a former political prisoner who was arrested during the time of unrest following the contested presidential election results of 2009, and spent 2 years behind bars in Evin prison. Their parents were also political prisoners and were executed by the Islamic Republic in the late 1980’s during the period of mass executions in Iran’s prisons.

هرانا؛ بازداشت یکی از فعالین صنفی بازار تهران
سه شنبه 17 بهمن 1391 ساعت 23:49 |

خبرگزاری هرانا - یاسان موسوی از فعالین صنفی بازار تهران روز یک شنبه ۱۵ بهمن ماه بازداشت و تاکنون موفق به تماس با خانواده خود نشده است.

بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، ارگان خبری مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران، یاسان موسوی متولد ۱۳۶۳ از فعالان صنفی بازار تهران و از فعالان ستاد میرحسین موسوی که پدر و مادر وی در دهه ۶۰ اعدام شده‌اند روز یکشنبه ۱۵ بهمن ماه با یورش مامورین امنیتی به منزل مسکونیش بازداشت شد.

مامورین امنیتی که اقدام به شکستن در منزل کرده بودند پس از تفتیش منزل وسایل شخصی وی مانند دوربین عکاسی، آلبوم خانوادگی، کامپیو‌تر و ریسیور را ضبط کرده و با خود بردند.

یکی از بستگان یاسان موسوی به گزارشگر هرانا گفت: "امروز سه‌شنبه ۱۷ بهمن ماه از دفتر پیگیری وزارت اطلاعات با ما تماس گرفتند و گفتند برای یاسان یک ماه قرار بازداشت موقت صادر شده و اکنون در زندان اوین بسر می‌برد."

وی ادامه داد: "ما از وضعیت سلامتی وی هیچ‌گونه اطلاعی نداریم و خانواده نگران وضعیت وی می‌باشند."

گفتنی است، یاسان برادر هومان موسوی می‌باشد که در طی حوادث پس از انتخابات سال ۸۸ بازداشت و بیش از دو سال در زندان اوین بسر برده بود.

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Yasan Mousavi arrested and transferred to prison.

CHRR 6 February 2013

On Sunday, February 3rd, agents from the Ministry of Intelligence detained Yasan Mousavi at his home in Tehran and transferred him to Evin prison.

Yasan Mousavi, born in 1984, was an activist at Mir Hossein Mousavi’s 2009 presidential campaign. His brother Hooman Mousavi was arrested during that time and since then, Yasan Mousavi has been summoned and interrogated many times.

According to news obtained by CHRR, Yasan Mousavi was arrested without notice on February 3rd, and two days later on February 5th, judiciary agents contacted his family and informed them that he will be kept in temporary detention for one month.

Yasan Mousavi was alone at his residence when he was detained. According to witnesses, Intelligence agents entered his home by breaking the locks, conducted a massive search of his home during the arrest and seized personal items such as his computer and satellite dish.

Yasan Mousavi’s brother Hooman Mousavi is a former political prisoner who was arrested during the time of unrest following the contested presidential election results of 2009, and spent 2 years behind bars in Evin prison. Their parents were also political prisoners and were executed by the Islamic Republic in the late 1980’s during the period of mass executions in Iran’s prisons.

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Iran is imprisoning and abusing an American pastor because of his faith. Iran, home of one of the world’s most radical Islamic regimes, is holding American Pastor Saeed Abedini because he is a Christian, refusing to release him, and subjecting him to unspeakable abuse.

At the ACLJ, we are launching an international campaign to free Pastor Saeed, and we need Americans to mobilize for religious liberty.

Urge the President, the State Department, and every Member of Congress to take a stand for an American Christian.

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UPDATE Hrana 2013-04- 23

Editor: Human Niazi
Translator: Houman Niyazi

HRANA News Agency – Mehdi Khodai and Mohammad Davari have returned to the section 350 of the Evin prison while their vacation has been finished.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mehdi Khodai and Mohammad Davari returned to the Evin prison couple of hours ago.

Mehdi Khodai is the former secretary of the Islamic Society of Shahre Rey Azad University and a member of Human Rights Activist has come for vacation on March 20, 2013 after 3 years.

Mohammad Davari is the Editor of Saham News Website and had been in the prison since September 2009. He had a heart problem when he heard his brother’s death and was transferred to hospital. He had been on the vacation since February 20, 2013 however he was not allowed to take part in his brother’s funeral.
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Recently, prison authorities have rejected imprisoned student and human rights activist, Mehdi Khoaei's request for medical leave.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), It is around three years that Mehdi Khodaei and his family are trying to get medical leave, but recently, prison authorities has rejected the request.

Mehdi Khodaei is the former Secretary of Azad University Islamic Association in Shahr-e Rey, and a human rights activist. He was an electrical engineering student at the time of his arrest. Khodaei was arrested on 2 March 2010, five days after receiving a sentence of four years in prison on the charge of "acting against national security through organizing gatherings." Previously, he had spent 38 days in detention in the summer of 2008.

After his arrest on 2 March 2010, he was transferred to IRGC's Ward 2-A inside Evin Prison, where he spent ten months in solitary or two-person cells. Khodaei's family had no information about him for months after his arrest. During his detention inside Ward 2-A, he was subjected to repeated interrogations and severe physical and psychological pressure to make forced confessions against himself.

Khodaei was tried on 21 August 2010 in Branch 28 of Tehran Revolutionary Court, with Judge Moghisseh presiding. On 12 October 2010, Khodaei was sentenced to an additional three years in prison on charges of "acting against national security through organizing gatherings," and "propagating against the regime."

Separately, in December 2010, his earlier four-year prison sentence was upheld by a Tehran appeals court. Therefore, with his three-year prison term also upheld, Khodaei is currently serving his seven year prison term. In late December 2010, Khodaei was transferred to Evin Prison's General Ward 350. Despite his long prison term, he has not been allowed furlough since his detention. Khodaei remains defiant and active in prison and has participated in several protest hunger strikes and has signed several group letters in prison.

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On January 31, prominent Kazakh dissident, author, and poet Aron Atabek turned 60. Atabek marked the milestone alone, in solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in the city of Arkalyk, where he has just been transferred for the next two years.

In 2007, Atabek was convicted of organizing mass disorder against the demolition of the Shanyrak shantytown that resulted in the death of a police officer. His supporters believe the case against him was politically motivated. He was sentenced to 18 years in a labor camp. Atabek has always maintained his innocence and even rejected a government pardon if he would admit his guilt.

Atabek, who already served two previous years in solitary confinement, from 2010 to early 2012, is now accused of insubordination against the prison regime.

"A real man must stand up for his honor and dignity if he finds himself among the ranks of the 'troublemakers' and 'offenders of the regime,'" he told RFE/RL.

Atabek described conditions in Arkalyk, saying that in the first year of his previous solitary confinement -- a "prison within a prison," as he described it -- he was not allowed a single book, only a manual on chess. In two years, he says, he received only one letter and one parcel from his family and was not allowed to make a single phone call -- a "complete vacuum," as he put it. He says he was permitted a television and a radio in his second year, on which he listened to RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.

He gives a long and grim description of prison life for people serving life sentences in isolation.

"The conditions are very harsh: 24-hour video surveillance and, when you're taken out for exercise, it's in handcuffs and a mask, so you can't see anyone. The whole system was formed under [Soviet dictator Josef] Stalin, and now it's even worse," he says.

He goes on to criticize Kazakhstan's penal system, which in 2011 was moved out from under the Justice Ministry and handed back to the control of the Interior Ministry. Since then, he says, cases of "violence and tyranny, torture, and humiliation" have been on the rise.

"It's not only the police but special interior forces who conduct prison checks," he says. "They're pure scum. For them, there are no laws, no order. They lead people out to the grounds to conduct a search, then steal the prisoners' property -- different things, like radios. They wear black masks. We call it the 'mask show.' They come to the camp and turn everything upside down."

He says he knows of at least three people who have died in prison as a result of torture.

"This is the image of a modern system," he says. "I'd call it the agony of the Nazarbaev regime. Of course, officially he's still sitting on his throne. But his throne is quite rotten. The 2011 Zhanaozen events [during which at least 16 protesters were killed in December 2011 when police and riot troops fired on them] are proof of that. And the Shanyrak events are also proof."

While treated harshly, he says he has not been beaten in prison, although he said he is aware of prisoners being severely beaten and raped with truncheons. He says he is in good health, though he has been treated for tuberculosis and eye problems from a scuffle with a fellow inmate.

He believes his transfer to solitary confinement is linked to the recent publication on the Internet of a book he wrote while in prison called "The Heart of Eurasia." (He has described the book as an essay that presents "evidence-based" criticism of the Nazarbaev regime. He says he means the book to be a political forecast for the next 10 to 20 years in Kazakhstan.) The scenario is similar, he says, to what happened in 2009, when he was sent to Arkalyk after an antigovernment book of poetry and prose titled "Nazarbaev's Regime and Revolution" was circulated on the Internet.

"This shows once again how much the regime [of President Nursultan Nazarbaev] fears the truth," he says.

Atabek's family says his health is deteriorating, and that they fear for his life after the publication of his latest book.

Here's a passage from a poem, "Re-Zona-Nce," by Atabek as translated by the website Samponsia Way:

My father was a slave of the Soviet State
in the gold mines of Kolyma
and my destiny, too, is repeating this pattern
and the brutality of Kolyma.

My father was tried in court as an Enemy of the People,
so it turns out I am a “Son of the Enemy.”
I break rocks with a pickaxe alongside him,
no different to him.

Russia is my Mother; my Father is Kazakhstan.
A childhood on the Volga, I grew up in Almaty
to kick open the doors to the Throne Room of those in power,
with a strong belief in my rights and in righteousness.

Atabek says he is very grateful for the international attention his case has received, including a prize in 2010 from Freedom to Create, an NGO dedicated to supporting projects that unleash people's creativity.

That was a huge help. They would have killed me a long time ago in this prison if people didn't know who I was and didn't defend me," Atabek says. "They're afraid to torture and beat me because international organizations know about me. I'm grateful to the people and the organizations that are protecting me. I thank them with all my heart."

Atabek vowed to "fight to the end" for democracy for Kazakhstan, for an end to Nazarbaev's "rotten throne."

"Every man fights within the limits of their own understanding," he says. "And I have my way. I'll never turn my back on politics. I'll fight to the end."

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Through Latvia babybox - 17babies saved, 12 babies adopted, 2 of the adopted babies - parents changed their mind, took the baby with them.

South Korea- during 2years: 26 babies abandoned.

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In Three Languages (English-Turkihs-Farsi)

English:

Geographically South Azerbaijan is the region stretching from northwestern Iran to the center of the country. This region fully encompasses East and West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Zanjan, and Qazvin; it also includes parts of Hamadan and Merkezi. Due to its role as being an opening door to Europe, this region is strategically important. Approximately 40-45% of the Iranian population is ethnic Azerbaijani. The protests which took place in May of 2006, due to official attacks and discriminations against Azerbaijani Turks and their language, is spreading the promise of democracy to all parts of the society; meanwhile the Iranian regime is continuing its undemocratic politics.

Mass arrests, imprisonments, threats towards families, and similar injustices are continuing. Peaceful South Azerbaijani activists are tried at the courts of the Iranian regime for supposedly being “traitors and agents for America and Israel”. Many Azerbaijani Turks are charged and imprisoned for supposedly “being ethic fanatics”.

Our goal is to promote the notion of equality for all with peaceful and non-violent activities constructing the center of our mutual activities. However, the Iranian regime has proved many times that it is far from sharing these values. It is continuing its silent massacre in the region of South Azerbaijan which was hit by twin earthquakes back in August of 2012; many people are still living in plastic tents under harsh winter conditions. This inhumanitarian regime has stayed quite to the drying of Lake Urmia and is continuing to socially and physically damaging South Azerbaijan.

For the cause of freedom of speech and to promote democracy in the region, we are starting this petition for South Azerbaijan. When the topic is democracy, every signature means very much to us.

Turkish:

Coğrafi olarak Güney Azerbaycan, İran’ın kuzeybatısından merkezine doğru uzanan bölgedir. Bu bölge Doğu ve Batı Azerbaycan, Erdebil, Zencan, Gazvin illerini tamamen, Hemedan ve Merkezi illerini kısmen içermektedir. Bu bölge İran’ın Avrupa’ya açılan kapısı olduğu için stratejik önem taşımaktadır. Azerbaycanlıları, İran nüfusunun %40-60’unu oluşturmaktadırlar.gecen Mayıs ayından itibaren Güney Azerbaycan’da ve İran’ın değişik bölgelerinde Türklüğe ve Türkçeye yapılan iğrenç Fars şövenisti saldırıya karşı gösterilen milli tepki dalga dalga yayılırken, Tahran’ın şaşkınlık içinde aldığı tedbirler yeni hukuk facialarına yol açmaktadır.

Toplu tutuklamalar, hapisler, Şüpheli ölümler, gözaltılar, ailelerin tehdit edilmesi, sebepsiz yargılamalar, soruşturmalar, asılsız suçlamalar, yüklü para cezaları sürmektedir. Aşağıdaki listede adları yazılı olan milliyetçi gençler Tahran rejiminin tehdidi altındadırlar. Tebriz'deki ve diğer şehirlerdeki tutuklu Türk gençlerine sorgularda ABD veya İsrail'le bağlantılı değil Türkiye ve Azerbaycan'la bağlantılı suçlamalar yöneltilmekte, sorular sorulmaktadır. Resmi belgelerle sabit suçlamalar şunlardır: Rejimin Aleyhine Faaliyet, Pantürkizm, Kavimcilik.

İnsanlık ailesinin bütün üyelerinde bulunan haysiyetin ve bunların eşit ve devir kabul etmez haklarının tanınması hususunun, hürriyetin, adaletin ve dünya barışının temeli olmasına, İnsan haklarının tanınmaması ve hür görülmesinin insanlık vicdanını isyana sevkeden vahşiliklere sebep olmuş bulunmasına, dehşetten ve yoksulluktan kurtulmuş insanl... ama malesef şuana kadar iran adlanan ülkede konuların hiç biri uyğulanmamaktadır. deprem bölgesinde yumuşak soykırım, urmu gölünün kurutulma siyaseti, ana dilde eğtimin yasağı, anti türk politikalar, şiilik yayımçılığı ve boşu boşuna suçlamaların hepsi bu rejimin mahiyetini ifşa etmektedir. bizler bu hasızlıklara karşı, Güneydeki soydaşlarımızın azadlığı için , inanç ve özgürlük tutuklularımız için bu kampanyaya onur ve şerefle başlamışız. nitekim, özgürlük ve insanlık için çalışan eller için, bir kalem ve bir imza bize büyük bir ümitdir.

Farsi:

آذربایجان جنوبی به لحاظ جغرافیایی منطقه ای است که از شمال غرب به سمت مرکز ایران گسترش یافته است؛این منطقه در مجموع و به طور کلی از استان های آذربایجان غربی،شرقی،اردبیل،زنجان ،قزوین،همدان و شامل بخشی از استان مرکزی می باشد.از نظر استراتژیکی این منطقه دروازه ورود ایران به اروپا میباشد، به همین سبب از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است.حدود 40تا 60 درصد از جمعیت ایران را آذربایجانی ها تشکیل میدهند.از ماه می سال پیش در تعرض تهوع برانگیز شوونیزم فارس به تورک و تورک بودن، آذربایجان جنوبی و بخش هایی از ایران و بر انگیخته شدن اعتراضات و با به همراه بودن موج موج واکنش ملت ، دولت تهران حیرت زده، راه را برای فاجعه های حقوقی باز کرده است.دستگیری های جمعی، حبس ها،مرگ های مشکوک، توقیف ها ، تهدید خانواده ها، محاکمه های بی علت،تحقیقات، اتهامات بی اساس، جریمه های هنگفت در حال پیشرفت است.اسامی جوانان ملی گرایی که نامشان در لیست زیر آمده است تحت فشار و تهدید رژیم تهران میباشند. جوانان ملی گرای بازداشت شده به اتهام اینکه شما وابسته به آمریکا و اسرائیل نیستید بلکه در جهت اتهامات مطرح شده که وابسته به ترکیه و آذربایجان هستید مورد مواخذه و بازجویی قرار گرفته و تحت پرس و جو هستند. اسناد رسمی و اتهامات ثابت شده به این شرح است: فعالیت علیه رژیم، پان تورکیست ،نژادپرستی... و با اعمال وحشیانه که وجدان بشریت را جریحه دار کرده است ...حیثیت و کرامت ذاتی تمامی اعضای خانواده انسانی بر مبناو به رسمیت شناخته شدن حقوق و به خصوص آزادی، اجرای عدالت و صلح جهانی و همچنین آزاد شدن ملت از فقر و ترس میباشد... اما متاسفانه هیچکدام از این موارد در کشور "ایران نامیده شده" به اجرا در نیامده است. نسل کشی نرم در مناطق زلزله زده، سیاست خشکانیدن دریاچه اورمیه،ممنوعیت آموزش به زبان مادری،سیاست های ضد تورک، انتشار مذهب شیعه، تحت فشار قرار دادن های بی سبب، همه این موارد ذکر شده ماهیت اصلی رژیم ایران را افشاء میکند.ما این کمپین را با شرف و افتخار در مقابله با این بی عدالتی ها ،نسبت به هم وطنانمان در آذربایجان جنوبی و آزادی آنها و همچنین برای آزادی زندانیان عقیده ای آغاز کرده ایم. بنابراین یک قلم و یک امضا از طرف دستان یاری رسان انسانیت و آزادی برای ما امید بزرگی است...

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Milad Fadai Asl, Head of the Political Section of ILNA News Agency, Arrested.

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Agents from the Ministry of Intelligence have detained journalist Milad Fadai Asl tonight, January 26, 2013.

According to news obtained by CHRR, Milad Fadai Asl had just left his office and was talking on his mobile phone when suddenly he was accosted by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence and transferred to an unknown location.

In the past few months, his wife Saba Sherdost has been summoned to the Islamic Republic office of investigations several times. Previously on December 2, 2009, at the time of the mass protests against the disputed presidential elections, Milad Fadi Asl was arrested at his home. Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court handed a one-year prison term on the charge of “propaganda against the regime.” Fadai Asl was released after serving his one-year sentence behind bars.

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The Liverpool Care Pathway was first developed by specialists in palliative medicine to give compassionate care and respect to those facing death. Its stated aim was to enable patients ‘to live until they die’, free of pain. Extended to all NHS hospitals since the 1990s, this Pathway has become subject to major abuse.

Large numbers of patients not suffering from terminal illness, but whose quality of life is judged deficient or too costly to sustain, are routinely being put on the Pathway - often without the knowledge or consent of either themselves or their families. The Telegraph, before Christmas, famously reported that of the 130,000 patients placed on the Pathway in NHS hospitals every year, 57,000 last year were given no hint that their treatment had been stopped and measures put in place to hasten death.

What it means: For patients on this Pathway all treatment, broadly defined so as to include food and hydration, is withdrawn. This effectively means the patient is starved to death. The process is then helped along by the administration of massive doses of narcotics, which serve to sedate the patient, but even by themselves can be lethal.

People wrongly put on this Pathway, if removed in time, have gone on to make a full recovery. Sadly, many others - also wrongly put on this Pathway, but for whom help has come too late, - have died. We do not criticise right use of the Pathway for those in the end stages of clear and established terminal disease, but we wholly deplore wrongful extension of this Pathway to the chronically ill, or to those whose only deficiency is to be old.

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