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Margareth S. Aritonang

The Jakarta Post

Publication Date : 07-05-2014

Political parties in Indonesia have agreed that the countrys next president must uncover past human rights violations, with the first step being the establishment of a Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (KKR).

However, most of the parties have balked at the proposal to form an ad- hoc human rights court.

The limited support for the establishment of an ad-hoc court will, however, affect any efforts by the next president to bring cases of gross human rights violations to court.

Only the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and its coalition partner, the NasDem Party, have publicly declared via PDI-P presidential candidate Joko Jokowi Widodo their commitment to employing legal mechanisms to solve gross human rights abuses from the past, such as by setting up the KKR and ratifying all the international human rights covenants.

We previously passed a law on the KKR. Pak Jokowi is committed to kick-starting the process toward its establishment. His commitment will also include the ratification of international conventions on human rights because the issue of human rights is a trans-border issue. All countries around the world must work together to uphold them, Andreas Parera of the PDI-P said.

Andreas said the PDI-P was such a strong advocate of human rights as the partys own members had been subjected to human rights abuses in the past.

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A Chinese human rights advocacy group has established a database of political prisoners in Mainland China.

China Political Prisoner Concern (CPPC), run by volunteers, set up a Chinese-language website recently to collect, verify, and publish the status of political prisoners in China.

Since its inception on Feb. 1, the group, consisting mainly of human rights activists in mainland China, has already published a list of 100 political prisoners. They include democracy activists, dissidents, human rights activists, as well as Tibetan, Uyghur, Christian, and Falun Gong prisoners of conscience, and others. Among them are Xu Zhiyong (No. 54), founder of the New Citizens Campaign, and Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti (No. 59).

Some of CPPCs volunteers are past political prisoners. During the past three months, they have collected and categorized large amounts of data and thousands of photos and have produced the first 100 prisoners profiles. More profiles and updates will be added on a continuous basis, according to New Tang Dynasty Television, based in New York.

The aim of the project is to effect the release of every one of the prisoners. By highlighting their cases, the group hopes to draw greater international attention to the issue. Another goal is to boost Chinas social progress.

Chinese human rights lawyer Tang Jingling has already been collecting data on prisoners of conscience since 2008. He also called on Chinese Internet users to send postcards to the prisoners.

Tang told NTD that there are many Chinese prisoners of conscience. If since the June 4, 1989 massacre someone had collected information on these prisoners and systematically launched rescue actions, including sending postcards, it would have put huge pressure on the Chinese communist regime. At the same time, it would have also encouraged those imprisoned for reasons of conscience.

The prisoner list is likely to become very long, should the CPPC volunteer staff be able to collect all of the prisoners identities.

The World Uyghur Congress websitelists dozens of Uyghur political prisoners, many of them writers, journalists and webmasters who are imprisoned on lengthy terms on charges related to freedom of speech, freedom of association, and religious charges.

The real number is likely much higher, but due to the restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities to reveal details on imprisoned Uyghurs, it is impossible to determine the exact number.

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New Grassroots Database Tracks Chinas Political Prisoners

A post-mortem at the Centre for Forensic Sciences in Toronto has confirmed that human remains found late in the afternoon of April 30 in the area of Big Sand Bay on Christian Island are those of missing pilot Wilfred Oscar Burnside, 64, of Owen Sound, say OPP.

Burnside was well known in various circles in the Owen Sound area, including as a teacher, principal, realtor and businessman.

Burnside, 64, was flying in his single-engine Cessna plane back from Stowe, Vermont, Nov. 7. He'd stopped at Cornwall airport, then made his way back to Owen Sound about 5 p.m.

When he didn't arrive at Owen Sound airport, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre out of Trenton was notified and a search of the bay began almost immediately. His last cellphone signal placed him in the Midland area.

Pieces of airplane consistent with his plane and bits of clothing began washing up on shore north of Wasaga Beach late the next day. He had been with his wife, Lynne Parsons, for 30 years. There are no children.

* With files from QMI AGENCY

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Remember when ESPN business reporter and post-human Darren Rovell narced out a guy on Twitter for cracking a joke at his expense? At the time, a lot of people figured Rovell was just blustering. Surely, they thought, he's not so big a baby that he'd tattle on someone just for busting on him on the internet. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we now know that, yes, Darren Rovell really is that big of a baby.

Here was the initial exchange, beginning with Neill Mohammad's joke:

To which Rovell responded thus:

We put in a public records request with the University of Michigan asking for any correspondence between Rovell and Charles Shipan, the chair of the political science department where Mohammad got his PhD a while back. (Why Shipan? Mohammad isn't sure. He told Kissing Suzy Kolber: "Presumably Darren Googled my full name and then zeroed in on the first authority figure he could find that had any presumptive relationship with me.")

This is what Michigan sent us:

What a penis.

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These Emails Confirm That ESPN's Darren Rovell Is A Sensitive Penis

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- State Senator Stacey Campfield has posted a response to his Holocaust reference made in a blog post earlier Monday. His response reads:

I regret that some people miss the point of my post. It was not to offend. It was to warn. To draw attention to Obamacare and the slippery slope that I see occurring in the lives of myself, my constituents, and the rest of the country with the continued taking of freedom by the federal government.

In no way was my post meant to diminish or detract from the pain, suffering and loss of human life that occurred during this dark time in human history. Instead the post was meant to draw attention to the loss of freedom that we are currently experiencing. I stand by my steadfast opposition to Obamacare.

My position and record on the sacredness of human life and protecting that life speaks for itself. 300 million Americans are at risk from government bureaucrats deciding who should be given life saving medications and who should be denied. Every citizen now faces the possibility of their tax dollars going to pay for a government funded abortion. At no point in our history have we ever faced a federal government and administration with a lower regard for human life, and that is something that I cannot and will not allow to go unchallenged.

I will continue to stand up against the government takeover of the nations healthcare. I will continue to support freedom and life.

This morning, Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield posted a "Thought of the Day" to his blog that read,

"Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory [sic] sign ups for "train rides" for Jews in the 40s."

Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney released a public statement on the blog post this morning:

"While Stacey Campfield routinely makes remarks that are over the top, today's comments are ignorant and repugnant. No political or policy disagreement should ever be compared to the suffering endured by an entire generation of people. Those comments have no place in our public discourse. He should offer an apology to members of the Jewish faith immediately."

Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Roy Herron also issued a statement on the post:

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During his first two years working at a large oil field in Kazakhstan in the early 1990s, Joel Haight saw eight people die on the job.

It was a vast operation run by Chevron Corp. in partnership with the government, and Mr. Haight was the projects safety director. The oil wells and processing plants were run by Kazakh workers, Russian supervisors and Turkish maintenance crews.

Some of the technology and job requirements were unfamiliar, and cultural tensions wedged themselves into work. The first time there was an accident, workers rounded up the culprit and prepared to beat him up as punishment.

Mr. Haight had long had an interest in human factors engineering which includes designing machines and processes to match the humans who would be carrying them out. This assignment gave him a perfect chance to mind the humans involved in designing a safety program.

"Safety is very much a human-centered process," he said. "Human factors engineering seeks to optimize and match up attributes of humans with the expectations of a job. When those are not properly matched up, people are more likely to get injured."

Human factors research dates backto the early 1900s but only recently has become a trending topic in safety.

"Designers, engineers, researchers and practitioners need to understand the human as a component in the system and as one that is interactive, variable and adaptable," Mr. Haight wrote in an article pushed in Professional Safety, a journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers,in 2007.

The discipline will be a central component of a new safety engineering certificate program at the University of Pittsburgh, where Mr. Haight now teaches.

The program is expected to launch in the fall and will be available to Pitt graduate students, as well as industry professionals. Mr. Haight and the university are hopingthe latter group will show up en masse. The programs advisory committee is stacked with heavy hitters from the oil and gas industry, including Chevron, BP and several large insurance companies.

Human factors engineering isnt necessarily intuitive to oil and gas companies, which use success metrics that tend to focus on production, productivity and growth.

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Crysis 3 Campaign Walkthrough Part 1 Post Human (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Hey guys, this is part 1 of my Crysis 3 walkthrough. This level is called Post Human which sees Prophet and Psycho infiltrate a CELL ship heading to New York. I am playing on the PC but it #39;s...

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New York, May 3, : Human Rights Watch announced the departure of its Pakistan director Ali Dayan Hasan after 11 years with the organization.

Hasan joined Human Rights Watch in 2003. Over the past decade, he has been a pioneering figure in the organization's internationalization efforts, providing inspiration to replicate the process more broadly across the international human rights movement.

With his background as a journalist, Hasan has shown what a gifted writer, tireless advocate, and constant media presence can accomplish in the most challenging of circumstances. In the face of public threats and at risk to himself, Hasan has been a powerful and relentless voice against abuses by government authorities and militant groups, and against complicity in such abuses by US and British authorities.

Hasan's exemplary body of work - including on abuses in Balochistan, in support of the rights of Pakistan's Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities, and in defense of media freedoms - speaks for itself. The power of Hasan's message struck at powerful rights abusers, and generated a huge media and Twitter following, another area in which he has been a pioneer for Human Rights Watch.

"Ali Hasan has been a constant and courageous defender of human rights in Pakistan over the past decade with Human Rights Watch," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "We will miss him greatly as he embarks on the next chapters of his professional life."

--ANI (Posted on 04-05-2014)

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Oct. 10, 2010: In this file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un attends a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.AP

North Korea is pushing back against a United Nations report on its human rights violations with a report of its own -- one that lists "human rights abuses" in the U.S.

The official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday released a news article titled "News Analysis on Poor Human Rights Records in U.S.," which discusses racial discrimination, unemployment and poverty, The Washington Post reported.

The article refers to the U.S. as "the world's worst human right abuser and tundra of a human being's rights to existence" and makes the following points:

North Korea previously accused the U.S. of orchestrating the U.N. commission's February report that it committed crimes against humanity, calling the findings and recommendations "extremely dangerous" political provocations.

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry found evidence of an array of crimes, including "extermination," crimes against humanity against starving populations and a widespread campaign of abductions of individuals in South Korea and Japan.

The three-member panel recommended that the U.N. Security Council refer its findings to the International Criminal Court, which is unlikely to happen given likely opposition among permanent council members that have veto power to prevent the move.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Oct. 10, 2010: In this file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un attends a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.AP

North Korea is pushing back against a United Nations report on its human rights violations with a report of its own -- one that lists "human rights abuses" in the U.S.

The official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday released a news article titled "News Analysis on Poor Human Rights Records in U.S.," which discusses racial discrimination, unemployment and poverty, The Washington Post reported.

The article refers to the U.S. as "the world's worst human right abuser and tundra of a human being's rights to existence" and makes the following points:

North Korea previously accused the U.S. of orchestrating the U.N. commission's February report that it committed crimes against humanity, calling the findings and recommendations "extremely dangerous" political provocations.

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry found evidence of an array of crimes, including "extermination," crimes against humanity against starving populations and a widespread campaign of abductions of individuals in South Korea and Japan.

The three-member panel recommended that the U.N. Security Council refer its findings to the International Criminal Court, which is unlikely to happen given likely opposition among permanent council members that have veto power to prevent the move.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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