[EdChange] Social Justice News

Fri May 11 18:05:17 EDT 2007

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from Paul C. Gorski
May 11, 2007

<http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__int
ernational_news/&articleid=307244> G8 breaks pledges on poverty, millions
dying
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
Industrialised nations have broken promises to alleviate poverty and provide
better health and education, leading to the deaths of millions of people in
...

<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C05%5C11%5Cstory_11-5-2
007_pg3_5> VIEW: Bush-Blair decade and human rights -Jonathan Power
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
The era of George W Bush and Tony Blair will be remembered for one thing
twenty years hence - the world went backwards on human rights after fifty
years of ...

 <http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=117245> Teach children
human rights earlier
Newstalk ZB - New Zealand
A visiting British official says teaching children about their human rights
has a profound effect on their behaviour and learning at school. ...

<http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/10/filmNarratesUntoldCivilRightsTa
le> Film narrates untold civil rights tale
Stanford Daily - Palo Alto,CA,USA
Sixty years ago, in a relatively lesser-known but important chapter of the
civil rights movement, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that
segregating ...

<http://www.livemint.com/2007/05/10121803/Farmer-debt-and-suicides-in-Bu.htm
l> Farmer debt and suicides in Bundelkhand may increase this summer
Livemint - Delhi,Delhi,India
Lucknow: Climate change and oppression in Bundelkhand region of Uttar
Pradesh have combined to worsen hunger and deprivation amongst some of this
populous ...

 <http://www.gcn.ie/content/templates/?a=2173&z=4> GAY AFRICANS RAIL AGAINST
'STATE-BACKED' HOMOPHOBIA
GCN - Dublin,Ireland
Gay activists are protesting against what they describe as "state-sponsored"
homophobia in Africa, saying authorities tacitly condone their persecution
...

 <http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/11029/1/371> Talking about a
revolution: Calls for action on global warming ...
People's Weekly World - USA
The latest report of a world scientific panel on global warming has called
for what amounts to a social revolution, one of the report's authors said.
...

 <http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSN0932446120070510>
Brazil's racial income gap narrows-ILO
Reuters - USA
BRASILIA, May 10 (Reuters) - Income inequality between races in Brazil has
narrowed over the past decade but a black woman still earns only half what a
...

 <http://www.workers.org/2007/us/death-penalty-0517> Racism, resistance and
the death penalty
Workers World - USA
Racism plays such a huge role in the death penalty because it is a direct
outgrowth of the legacy of slavery and lynchings. ...

<http://www.users.csbsju.edu/record/archive/2007/04/19/news/bringing-feminis
m-to-iraq.html> Bringing feminism to Iraq
CSB/SJU The Record - St. Joseph,MN,USA
By Laura Connelly. Yanar Mohammed, a leader in the fight for women's rights
in Iraq, presented "A Window of Hope: Standing with Women to End Violence in
...

 <http://starbulletin.com/2007/05/10/news/story04.html> No Child law is
leaving isles behind, study finds
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
Lack of funding, staff and technology support are to blame for Hawaii's
struggle to keep up with requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, ...

 <http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclusion/story/0,,2076914,00.html>
Report warns of widening workplace discrimination
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The influential study published in Geneva by the International Labour Office
reveals that new forms of workplace discrimination are emerging, ...

<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Redir.aspx?ID=25c6d65f-1c3e-4d0c-845a-1a2e84f
184fa> Caste based discrimination still prevalent in India, says ILO report
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
Caste-based discrimination maybe abolished by law in India but it remains a
major cause why backward classes, especially the Dalits, remain confined to
...

<http://ucsdguardian.org/viewarticle.php?story=news07&year=2007&month=05&day
=10> Female Grads Earn Less Than Male Counterparts
The UCSD Guardian Online - San Diego,CA,USA
"Despite the progress women have made, gender pay equity in the workplace
remains an issue," the study said. "Improvements to federal equal pay laws
are ...

<http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/2007/05/10/News/Gov-Kulongoski.Signs.Histo
ric.GayRights.Legislation.Wednesday-2899054.shtml> Gov. Kulongoski signs
historic gay-rights legislation Wednesday
Oregon Daily Emerald - Erb Memorial Union,OR,USA
Fifty-two percent of the US population will live in jurisdictions protecting
gay, lesbian and bisexual people - the first time the halfway mark has been
...

 <http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4223> What's Next for the Peace Movement?
Foreign Policy In Focus - USA
More broadly, we need to advocate a US foreign policy that really stands for
democracy and social justice - the opposite of the foreign policy
promulgated ...

 <http://gaysocialites.com/2007/05/canadian_study_gay_parents_jus.html>
Canadian study: Gay parents, just as good as straight parents
Gay Socialites - New York,NY,USA
The study focused primarily on lesbian couples and found that children
raised by lesbian parents are as socially competent as children raised by
...

 <http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/09/global-warming-national-security/>
Right Wing's Global Warming Denial Takes New Form, Now Attacks ...
Think Progress - Washington,DC,USA
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes and House Select
Committee on Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey recently pushed through a
bill that ...

 <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/09/opinion/edgiddens.php> Right on
economics, wrong on social justice
International Herald Tribune - France
He has little interest in social justice or the limiting of inequality.
Social protection will take second place. France has massive ethnic
inequalities. ...

 <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,103218.shtml>
National Community Reinvestment Coalition Files Civil Rights Case ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
WASHINGTON, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Community
Reinvestment Coalition filed a civil rights lawsuit today against the
Novastar Financial ...

 <http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0509toxic0509.html> Link between
race, hazardous-waste sites still strong
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
In Phoenix, the disparity has historical roots, say scholars who study
environmental justice issues in the city. By the early 1900s, the railroad
tracks ...

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