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Aicha el-Wafi and Phyllis Rodriguez: 9/11 Mothers

May 13, 2011 by  
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Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Phyllis’ son was killed in the World Trade Centre attacks on September 11, 2001; Aicha’s son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence. In hoping to find peace, these two mums have come […]

Rights of Passage

May 12, 2011 by  
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Rights may be legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement. They are what is allowed or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

An Anchor in the Social World

May 6, 2011 by  
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The strongest commitment a Government can make to protect the Human Rights of its citizens is to embed them in a constitution, and create statutory procedures to enforce the international standards. New Zealand has a good record of approving of and compliance with its international obligations.

Noreena Hertz: How to use experts and when not to

April 24, 2011 by  
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We make important decisions every day and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls for us to start democratising expertise to listen not only to surgeons and CEOs, but also to shop staff.

Model Citizen: A Piece of Kate

April 24, 2011 by  
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Katherine Raue is a fellow blogwriter, she is a friend. Currently, she is in my opinion being ‘improperly detained’ in Rangipapa, an inpatient service that caters mainly for the needs of women in treatment programmes aimed at rehabilitation.

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