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Items tagged: human rights

Meet Mansimran: Immigrant teen overcomes bullying


Truth-Compassion-Tolerance 2011 International Art Exhibition

The 2011 International Exhibition is prepared by the Falun Dafa Artists Group (www.FalunArt.org). Artists including Xiaoping Chen, Xi Chiang, Kathleen Gillis, Yuan Li, Weixing Wang, Kunlun Zhang are among the many painters whose works are grouped around themes: Cultivation, Persecution, Resistance, Retribution, and Salvation.


TODAY join Rights Working Group and Melissa Harris-Perry on Twitter to discuss profiling and rights after 9/11

Crossposted from Rights Working Group

Rights Working Group and renown progressive scholar Melissa Harris-Perry will hold a Twitter Chat, TODAY from 3-4 pm ET, about racial profiling and ways to reclaim and expand rights lost after 9/11.


President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House

Cross-Posted Article Written by Geeta Goindi  "Dalai Lama Celebrates 76th Birthday in Washington"

WASHINGTON, July 6 – It was an event extraordinaire: the 76th birthday celebration of the Dalai Lama, one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world, here in our nation’s capital.  The program, which opened the 10-day Kalachakra for World Peace ritual which is being guided by him, was held at the cavernous Verizon Center and drew thousands of his avid supporters.


Norway killings reveal politics of hate

 

From the Restore Fairness blog-

From the Restore Fairness blog-

 


Watch “A Better Life”- a powerful film about an undocumented family from the director of “Twilight”

From the Restore Fairness blog-

We know you’ve been waiting for Harry Potter forever, but make sure you support the film A Better Life!