Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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What Human Rights Day Means to Me
I’m about to board a flight back to the U.S. after spending two weeks delivering human rights lectures and musical performances to youth in Taiwan. Door to door the travel time is about 25 hours. In other words, I’m about as far away as I could be from home while still being on planet earth.
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Why “Sticks and Stones” Should Be the New College Creed
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” has fallen on hard times in American campuses of late, abandoned amid partisan firefights and outright violence sparked by self-righteous outrage at “offensive” points of view.
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What Does it Take to Maintain Freedom of Religion Against Hatred and Intolerance?
I was 28 when I met Gunnar and Lois and their son Anders. When they asked me what I thought about Nixon and Watergate, I had to buy an English-language news magazine to find out what they were talking about.
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Don’t denigrate the faith of others.
You took at face value claims made by former sitcom actress turned obsessed anti-Scientologist who now gets paid to smear her former faith.
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Does Disney Actually Value Human Rights?
May I recommend that you immediately terminate the employment of Nancy Dubuc and Paul Buccieri for encouraging this hateful display to continue.
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GM, You Don’t Need A&E TV Hate Programming to Promote Your Products
Remini’s program spews hatred rather than providing honest information. It has resulted in actual threats of violence against my religion by people who said they were goaded into criminal action by her message.
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Celebrating International Religious Freedom Day
The Religious Freedom Act—the passage of which we celebrate today—established the office of the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and highlighted America’s responsibility to the world in guaranteeing Human Right #18, Freedom of Thought and Belief .
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German High Court Shuts Down Discriminatory Law in Win for Religious Freedom
According to a ruling this month by Germany’s Federal Administrative Court, the City of Munich can no longer discriminate against Scientologists.
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Holland Becomes Latest In Parade of Nations to Officially Recognize the Scientology Religion
Millions of Scientologists in more than 150 countries celebrate this latest recognition as another victory for religious freedom.
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Honoring International Human Rights Day
Sixty-nine years ago today, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights —what would become the most widely agreed upon text on the subject of human rights and the most translated document in the world—was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
