The Execution of Troy Davis
The Execution of Troy Davis - Did Georgia Execute an Innocent Man?
The state of Georgia carried out the execution of Troy Davis in spite of serious and legitimate doubt about his guilt. In the days and months leading up to the execution, thousands of human rights advocates around the world protested the execution. On the other hand, many people said that the legal system worked and that Davis was a cop-killer who deserved the death penalty. Was justice served? Or did Georgia execute an innocent man? Photo used under Creative Commons from 4Ward Ever UK.

April 14th - Dr Ambedkar Jayanthi
Introduction
Dr B R Ambedkar is known as the father of the Indian Constitutional leader. He has written the constitution alone and most of the committee members were not interested or against the constitution. Sahuji maharaj's idea of reservation based on caste system. Dr Ambedkar developed this concept and included in the constitution for the socially, historically oppressed, suppressed and depressed people can have an opportunity to compete with higher class of people and advanced upper caste people. ...

Ch 7: human rights hackers find support
Anarchy & Government: Human Rights & Liberty -- a beginning
The earliest known declaration of human rights. Interpreted from Akkadian cuneiform on a cylinder dating from 583 BC, during the reign of Cyrus The Great Liberator. 1. I declare I will respect the tradition, customs and religion of the nations of my empire and never let any of my governors look down or insult inhabitants of my nations. 2. I hereby abolish slavery; my governors are ordered to prohibit exchanging men and women as slaves within their ruling domains. Such a tradition should be ex...

The Silent Genocide of Tamils
Poetry for Justice
'Victims Without A Voice' is a poetry campaign designed to raise global awareness and consciousness of the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide. More than fifty thousand ethnic Tamils were massacred to death in northern Sri Lanka between January to May 2009. Over 300,000 have been imprisoned in detention camps. Thousands more are disappeared, displaced and exiled from their traditional homeland. We witnessed during the Apartheid in South Africa that poetry is the language of hope. Poetry gave voice to...

Politics of Genocide in Sri Lanka
The Mahavamsa Ideology
Since Ceylon's independence in 1948, the rise of "political Buddhism" has seen a radical and uncompromising deviation from traditional Theravada Buddhism. Though Buddhist philosophy eschews violence, in Sri Lanka, monks and political elites have used mytho-history, like the Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle), to espouse ethno-religious supremacy. This is an ideology which contravenes the moral, ethical, and peaceful values of Buddhism. It has contributed to a Sinhalese Buddhist ultra-nationalism th...