"A safe, secure home is so fundamentally important for all of us but especially so for people who are new to Scotland and trying to navigate their way through complicated systems and may be recovering from torture, trauma and violent human rights abuses".
Massive corruption and violent human rights violations are mutually reinforcing, and unless this linkage is exposed and broken, it can lead to mutually reinforcing impunity.
Unlike former Presidents Fujimori of Peru or Pinochet of Chile, Mr. Chen has no violent human rights record that he's been charged with.
At the time, Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former political prisoner, was still widely idolized as a champion of democracy and non-violent human rights advocacy.
Charges against Amro, a 36-year-old Palestinian activist who heads the non-violent human rights group, Youth Against Settlements, stem from 18 alleged crimes stretching back three years.
The Rafto Foundation in Norway will present Frank the 2011 Rafto Prize in honor of Frank's and SMUG's non-violent human rights work, and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights will present the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in Washington, D.C. in honor of the same.
Now, when you hear the name Rumsfeld, you'll think "the gardener" and not "the guy who supported violent human-rights-violating interrogation techniques".
He did not name any specific governments or groups, but he spoke of "challenges that arise from violent extremism, human rights violations, xenophobia and other threats".
Natural resources have long been used to fuel violent conflict and human rights abuses, but now we must accept that gadgets can be equally dangerous.
To Egypt, then, and Mr Blair's declaration that the military removal of a country's first democratically elected head of state represents exciting progress for the Middle East, along with the violent crackdowns and human rights abuses that have followed.
"Craigslist is committed to being socially responsible, and when it comes to adult services ads, that includes aggressively combating violent crime and human rights violations," the chief executive, Jim Buckmaster, recently said on his blog.
