In another grim day in what has become one of the bloodiest periods of the unrest, human rights activists said that at least 26 people were shot dead by security forces across Syria on Friday, 13 of them in the restive city of Homs, including a defecting soldier.
The novel is set during the Emergency in the mid-1970s, a period marked by huge political unrest and human rights violations, including detention, torture and forced sterilisation.
And it calls for equal treatment under the law for immigrants from Central America and Haiti, many of whom have fled civil unrest and human rights abuses to seek a new life in America.
More than 100 people, nearly three quarters of them from in and around Dara'a, have been reported killed since the unrest began, human rights organizations said, and scores of arrests continue.
The race was cancelled last year due to civil unrest and human rights groups have called for the race to be axed.
"How are we going to go about creating a better version of business — a better version of capitalism?" he began, dubbing this "one of the most pressing issues of our time" given its contribution to social unrest and human unhappiness.
In 2011, Groupon was criticized for a commercial that appeared to make light of the political unrest and human rights abuses in Tibet.
Could Greece's music scene restore its reputation as a tourist hotspot after years of economic downturn, social unrest and the human crisis that has led to overcrowded refugee camps?
It has unparalleled economic power to attack the root causes of terrorism and unrest by fostering human development, regulating the arms flow to terrorists and dictators, and pursuing the dream of a world without nuclear weapons.
I think I was hoping that someone else might magically come to the same realisation, but Help Is Coming is one of the most obscure songs in Crowded House's catalogue, but in 2015, this hushed, heartbreaking hymn to the human spirit in times of unrest sounded like it could do some useful work.
