Here’s the key sections from an Associated Press report. Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs has failed. The outspoken evangelical Christian and host of “The 700 Club” on the Virginia Beach-based...
…economists Lauren Heller and Frank Stephenson of Berry College used the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America index to explore state economic growth from 1981 to 2009. They found that if a state adopted fiscal and regulatory policies sufficient to improve its economic freedom score...
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India dominated the Asian Junior Girls event, winning gold, silver and bronze. Iran did the same at the Asian Junior Open event: IM Masoud Mosadeghpour won the title, IM Alireza Firouzja won silver and Arash Tahbaz bronze. Mosadeghpour also finished second in Open Rapid with 5.5 points beh...
Since its inception in 1961, Amnesty International has coordinated research, information, and education campaigns in order to focus world attention on such issues as freedom of conscience and expression, freedom from discrimination, and the cessation of physical and mental abuse and torture suffered by...
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it” said the Ancient Roman Stoic Epictetus. Born into enslavement in 50 AD, he eventually gained freedom and lived as a teacher in Rome until he was exiled and died some 85 years later in the Greek city of Nicopolis. ...
Humanists International is the global representative body of the humanist movement, uniting a diverse community of non-religious organizations and individuals from around the world.
Are they entitled to expect the organisation to use its resources to campaign against countries that score poorly on independent democracy and freedom indexes rather than those that do not? Davids report raises this legitimate point. Will there be a response from the charity or its supporters?
(or infamous) in the United States is The Drudge Report. Many others had strong political, religious, or social points of view. In any case, nowindividualshad at their command almost as much material as was once the sole purview of world-class news agencies or major media outlets. The ...
Members of Parliament in the UK have raised concerns about deteriorating religious freedom and human rights abuses of minority religious groups in Pakistan during a cross-party debate in the House of Commons. The ‘Pakistan: Freedom of Religion’ motion was tabled by Democratic Unionist Party (DUP...