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A man is trying to sue Google New Zealand for $10 million because its online search engine brings up an unfavourable blog post.

Razdan Rafiq, an undischarged bankrupt, was the subject of a post on blog cqae.co.nz, which labelled him "nutbar" and a "serial moaner".

The post made reference to a Human Rights Tribunal decision about Mr Rafiq and included direct excerpts from his "shrill, abusive and racist" correspondence during the proceedings.

Mr Rafiq "took umbrage" at the blog and filed proceedings against Google New Zealand under the claim that a search on the Google website brings up the blog post.

He is suing Google New Zealand for $10 million for defamation.

"He does not suggest that the defendant itself defamed him," Associate Judge Jeremy Doogue said in a High Court judgment.

"I understand that his argument is that if one framed a Google search in suitable terms, it would lead to a synopsis on the report page."

However, Google has applied for a security of costs, meaning Mr Rafiq must come up with about $10,000 before the case can proceed.

Associate Judge Doogue said Mr Rafiq's case had "little prospect of success" and there was legitimate concern that he couldn't afford the costs.

"Given the extraordinary and obscene communication which the plaintiff (used)... the blogger may very well have a defence of honest opinion," the judgment said.

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[This is areviewforBeing Humanseason 4, episode 12. There will be SPOILERS.]

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After four seasons, we know quite a bit about Aidans guilt for the monstrous misdeeds that his hunger has nudged him toward, Joshs fear that his own inner monster will one day overtake his life and everything he loves, Noras worries that she and her husband will never live a normal life, and Sallys newfound fear that she isnt good enough for Aidan, but were not the only ones.

An obviously growing threat during last weeks episode, Ramona elevates her evil beyond expectations, bubbling over after the group steps away from her innocent seeming pleas so that they can go talk at the grown-ups table. Once there, Josh briefs the group on his worries about Ramona following last weeks massacre while Aidan and Sally trade coded lovers looks despite their relationships relative youth. When they return, though, Ramona has departed, only to return when her twin sister, Beatrice, shows up.

Clean and concise, Beatrices insight into Ramonas awful backstory clears up any residual questions about the girls parents and how her ghost wound up in that hidden room, but when Ramona reacts violently to her sisters presence essentially force choking her to death it pushes the gang to run for the exits, setting off the game, as Ramona calls it.

Mixing an icy confidence that all of her new-found dominoes will fall and a general sense of glee over the festivities, young Helen Colliander steels this episode as Ramona, an evil ring leader who is more than a mere corduroy clad ghost and deeply connected to the house. Ramona craves blood, and so, she sets out to extract it by tricking the group members into spilling it themselves.

To do this, she isolates them, pairing them each with a familiar (but not entirely expected) ghost from their past to play on the above mentioned insecurities while slowly driving them to their end, the camera floating and pulsing throughout to signify the nightmare state.

Aidan and Josh get the worst of it, with Aidans vampire off-spring, Henry, singing him to shipwreck by convincing him that atoning for his sins and saving all others from future harm will allow him to truly be with Sally in the afterlife a stake conveniently rolling across the cold basement floor as an increasingly bright white light bathes the room to underwrite Henrys divine promises. Only Sally who figures out Ramonas game before the others can stop him from pushing the stake into his chest, same as Aidan stops Josh from putting a knife into his chest after he his worst fears seemingly come true.

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Pyongyang, March 31 (IANS): North Korea Monday rejected a UN resolution condemning human rights violations in the country.

North Korea "totally opposes and rejects" the resolution, "a product of the vicious hostile policy towards it," Xinhua quoted a North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson as saying.

The reaction came three days after the UN Human Rights Council endorsed the resolution with a 30-6 vote, with 11 members abstaining.

The resolution condemns, among other things, "the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations and other human rights abuses" in the country.

The spokesman claimed that the US and other hostile countries, while "unable to bring down North Korea by taking issue with it over its nuclear issue", now seek to invent an excuse for toppling the country's social system by intensifying "human rights racket" against Pyongyang.

"Human rights precisely mean national sovereignty," he added.

The latest move came as Pyongyang vowed Sunday to carry out a "new form" of nuclear test to further strengthen its nuclear deterrence if the US continuesd its hostile policy.

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Sri Lanka is being hounded at the UNHRC for Human Rights violations by a group of nations led by USA, Britain and EU countries whose involvement in colonial crimes of the most brutal kind, has never been brought to book.

The crimes against humanity committed in Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America in the last five hundred years during European Colonial rule represent one of the darkest chapters in human history.

International law and international institutions in charge of 'enforcement' of International law have been so structured that crimes committed during the colonial era by European countries escape scrutiny and public investigation.

The textbooks for schoolchildren in the West are totally silent on this subject. If at all they will be slanted in a way to whitewash or cover up.

This morally indefensible stance of appalling silence by the international community on colonial era crimes is compounded by two new Institutions that have come up in the last ten years i.e. the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) and International Criminal Court (ICC) which continue with the same type of double standards employed during the colonial era, and what former Indian diplomat KM Panikkar in his ground breaking book Asia and Western Domination - A Survey of the Vasco De Gama Epoch of Asian History 1498 - 1945 (published 1953) described as the doctrine of different rights, showing partiality towards Europeans and prejudice and discriminatory attitude towards non-Europeans.

The more or less exclusive hunt of Black African leaders we see today by the ICC is a continuation of the same shameful path that Western imperial countries adopted in the Berlin Conference (1884 - 1885) in their Scramble for Africa through invasion, occupation, colonization, and annexation of African territory by European powers, including brutal assassination of heroic leaders and freedom fighters such as Patrick Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of independent Congo. Three countries USA, Britain and Congo have been implicated in the murder of Patrice Lumumba.

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Doctrine of Clean Hands

The doctrine of clean hands, used in municipal law courts is an equitable defense in which the defendant argues that the plaintiff is not entitled to obtain an equitable remedy because the plaintiff is acting unethically or has acted in bad faith with respect to the subject of the complaintthat is, with "unclean hands".

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The Chinese regimes macabre practice of killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs was raised before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva recently by the Vancouver-based Lawyers Rights Watch Canada.

Speaking at a session reviewing the UNHRCs report on Chinas human rights record, Vani Selvarajah of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada reiterated a recent European Parliament resolution demanding an immediate end to the forced harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience in China, mainly Falun Gong practitioners.

She also condemned certain other U.N. member states approval of Chinas so-called progress on human rights.

In the face of systemic torture, killing for organ procurement, deprivation of independent legal representation and harassment of human rights defenders and lawyers, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada considers States comments welcoming Chinas human rights progress as cruelly inappropriate, Selvarajah said.

She also noted that China prohibits lawyers from defending Falun Gong practitioners, and courts from accepting lawsuits on their behalf.

Lawyers advocating for Falun Gong practitioners, including Gao Zhisheng, are intimidated, disbarred, imprisoned, and/or tortured, she said.

Gao, who has been referred to as Chinas conscience, was arrested, harassed, and tortured from 2005 onwards after defending persecuted practitioners of Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual discipline, and other groups targeted by the Chinese regime.

In late March, four prominent Chinese rights lawyers, Jiang Tianyong, Tang Jitian, Wang Cheng, and Zhang Junjie, were detained for attempting to free Falun Gong practitioners held in a brainwashing centre.

Since Falun Gong was outlawed by the Chinese regime in 1999, practitioners have often been subjected to various forms of torture and brainwashing in an attempt to transform them.

Selvarajah also brought up during her talk that Washington, D.C.-based Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting delivered a 1.5-million-signature petition to the High Commissioner for Human Rights last year calling for end to and an investigation of Chinas slaughter of prisoners of conscience for organ procurement.

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(MENAFN - Arab News) Kuwait called on Friday on the international community take responsibility in safeguarding human rights, urging all countries to follow the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993. Human rights must be fulfilled for all people regardless of their race or ethnicity, said Kuwaiti Diplomat Fahad Talal Al-Thamer in the 25th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Kuwait is a signatory state of several international human rights agreements, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child signed in 1991, said Al-Thamer.

Kuwait was on top of the list in the Arab Human Development Report of 2009, issued by the UN Development Programme, while it came in the 33rd place internationally, said Al-Thamer. The Diplomat also noted that Kuwait supports the UN's efforts to fight poverty, create equality between the sexes, and limit the cases of child deaths. The Kuwaiti constitution respects the freedom of individuals, human dignity, and ensures that people are equal in rights and duties, despite their religion, sex, language, or ethnicity, he said. The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, also known as VDPA, is a human rights declaration adopted by consensus at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993 in Vienna, Austria.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was created by this Declaration endorsed by General Assembly Resolution 48/121. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Ali Al-Omair affirmed the respect to the rule of law and a court decision by all those who belong to the oil sector, particularly with regard to the return of high ranking officials to their post, a current hot issue in courts. The minister stressed that the court ruling on the issue is going to end soon. He made his remarks on the sidelines of KAFCO's Golden Jubilee ceremony, adding that some court rulings which were issued have been implemented and others await final issuing of the courts, clarifying that all respect and appreciate the courts.

Court The minister noted that they are keen not to have the court issue affect the oil sector in any way and regardless of the outcome of such rulings. In terms of production, the minister noted that the ministry is working to increase oil production to four million per day by the year 2020, yet its normal that the oil sector becomes hectic with not only oil extraction, but also production, and execution of refinery projects. On another front, Al-Omair said oil prices reflects global competition and new discoveries, however there is stability in the global markets and therefore stability in oil prices.

In yet another development, the Ministry of Electricity and Water paid about KD1.740 million as bond for cases filed by individuals and companies against it from April 1 to Sept 30 last year, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting sources. Sources disclosed the estimated budget for fiscal 2013/2014 reached KD3 million, which means the amount paid in these cases was more than half of the budget. Sources pointed out this is a huge loss for the State at a time it is trying to find alternative sources of national income amidst allegations of public funds misappropriation in the public sector. In another development, Al-Watan Arabic daily has reported that the emergency centers affiliated to the ministry has disconnected water supply from 202 buildings in Hawally due to certain violations. This is in addition to the issuance of 392 warnings to owners of other buildings for violating regulations on the installation of water meters - an act that led to the disruption of water supply to adjacent buildings. Sources added the inspection teams will intensify their efforts in the coming days to limit, if not eliminate, the violations.

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President Obama, left, and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.AP

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pressing President Obama to raise the issue of human and religious rights during his face-to-face meeting Friday with Saudi Arabias King Abdullah.

The latest appeal came from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who wrote Obama a letter expressing concern over Saudi Arabias systematic, ongoing and egregious infringements against what he called basic religious freedoms.

Rubio also urged the president to push for the release of religious prisoners and to end persecution of individuals charged with apostasy, blasphemy and sorcery.

In May 2013, Saudi religious police announced they had arrested more than 200 people during the prior year on charges of sorcery, Rubio said.

High school textbooks in Saudi Arabia contain highly inflammatory passages that dehumanize or call for violence against non-Wahhabi religious groups such as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Shiites and Sufis, the senator added.

In his letter, Rubio praised Joseph Westphal, the U.S. ambassador-designate, who told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he will work with Saudi authorities on human rights and religious tolerance issues. Sustained interventions at the highest-levels of the U.S. government are required to make progress on this issue with our Saudi partners, Rubio wrote. I hope you can state such an engagement with the Saudi leadership during your meetings in Riyadh this week.

The president will be navigating choppy waters during his meeting with the Saudi king on Friday. Not only will he be there to ease Saudi concerns that he has neglected the old U.S. ally but hell also have to keep pressure on the Middle Eastern country to address its human rights violations.

The Friday meeting marks Obamas first trip to the oil-rich country since 2009.

On Tuesday, 52 bipartisan members of Congress and more than a dozen non-governmental organizations sent Obama their own letter asking him to confront Saudi leaders on serious human rights violations.

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