Monthly Archives: januar 2012

Gene Sharp Visiting Oslo with the movie: How To Start A Revolution

29. januar 2012
Gene Sharp Visiting Oslo with the movie: How To Start A Revolution

  We are proud to announce that the world´s foremost thinker on nonviolence, Gene Sharp, is Human Rights Human Wrongs´ guest of honour during our festival  7th-12th of February. The screening of the film How To Start A Revolution, about Dr. Sharp’s work, will be a Norwegian premiere and followed by a Q&A session...

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Thousands Protest Canadian Mining Project in Argentina

29. januar 2012
Thousands Protest Canadian Mining Project in Argentina

  Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area’s sole source of drinking water. La Rioja «is a dry province and we have just enough clean water to live...

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Activists Send Hundreds of Tacos to Connecticut Mayor

29. januar 2012
Activists Send Hundreds of Tacos to Connecticut Mayor

East Haven, Connecticut, Mayor Joseph Maturo, Jr. ruffled a lot of feathers this week when he told a reporter that he would address Latinos’ concerns over police discrimination and abuse by «eating tacos.» Maturo has since apologized numerous times, but activists around the country continue to take him to task. Some, like Connecticut’s Latino...

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Senegalese president awaits verdict on controversial bid

29. januar 2012
Senegalese president awaits verdict on controversial bid

Senegal’s 85-year-old incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade waited Friday for a ruling on whether he can seek a controversial third term, amid fears of violence as opposition parties planned to demonstrate despite a government ban. AFP - Senegal’s main opposition parties plan to protest Friday against President Abdoulaye Wade’s bid to run for a third...

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Unarmed resistance still Syria’s best hope

29. januar 2012
Unarmed resistance still Syria’s best hope

  VIEWPOINT The Syrian pro-democracy struggle has been both an enormous tragedy and a powerful inspiration. Indeed, as someone who has studied mass nonviolent civil insurrections in dozens of countries in recent decades, I know of no people who have demonstrated such courage and tenacity in the face of such savage repression as have...

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Doll ‘protesters’ present small problem for Russian police

29. januar 2012
Doll ‘protesters’ present small problem for Russian police

  Police in Siberian city ask prosecutors to investigate legality of protest involving display of toy figures holding miniature placards Russian police don’t take kindly to opposition protesters – even if they’re 5cm high and made of plastic. Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a...

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A Mid-Winter Romanian Spring?

29. januar 2012
A Mid-Winter Romanian Spring?

The Romanian people have been asleep for quite some time now. After more than 20 years since the end of Communist rule, Romanians have decided to wake up, to wake up and see that the faith they put in their elected officials has not brought them the life they wished for. The current economic...

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Cambodia: Workers strike after union leaders fired

29. januar 2012
Cambodia: Workers strike after union leaders fired

More than 200 workers protested outside a garment factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district yesterday, demanding the factory’s recognition of a newly formed union and its  reinstatement of seven union leaders who workers claim were unfairly terminated last week. Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post Garment workers protest outside the Kwei Yang factory in Kandal...

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More arrests in Maldives as protests spread

29. januar 2012
More arrests in Maldives as protests spread

  Dozens of anti-government activists were arrested in the Maldivian capital Male, the opposition said Saturday as the government accused them of whipping up religious extremism. Opposition parties said police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of activists on Friday night and that dozens were detained, raising to 82 the number of arrests in...

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Israel-Palestine into the Middle East nonviolent revolution: RN welcomes prominent Palestinian attorney Sharhabeel Al-Zaeem to board

29. januar 2012

Right to Nonviolence welcomes lawyer Sharhabeel Al-Zaeem to its Board of Advisors.  “This is a significant, decisive link between the Arab Spring  and the Middle East nonviolent revolution”, says RN Chairman Chibli Mallat. “Sharhabeel is a model lawyer citizen in the midst of tragic daily life in Gaza. His stature, dynamism and expertise bring...

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