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“Human Rights and Westernizing Illusion” – article by Amartya Sen

by Barney on 23 August 2009

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[AMARTYA SEN is Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University and former Lamont University Professor at Harvard. This article is a revised version of the Commencement Address given at Bard College on May 24, 1997. It originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, Summer 98, Vol. 20 [...]

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Postcards for Iran – speak up for the silenced

by Barney on 22 March 2009

Send a postcard to Iran’s government? Why would that be a good thing?
The Iranian government, like all tyrannical regimes, makes great efforts to silence all those it considers unacceptable – activists, dissidents, minorities.
It is all too easy to feel frustrated in the face of the extraordinary cruelty of the Islamic Republic towards its citizens, including [...]

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