Articles on Civil and Political Rights

Articles on Civil and Political Rights

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/01/09/906058/pakistans-blasphemy-problem.html  (Pakistan’s blasphemy law)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/15clinton.html?_r=2&ref=world  (US taking steps to facilitate internet freedom)

http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org   (website of an organization seeking to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110106535.html (migrants subject to racism and denial of human rights)

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/20/facebooks_foreign_policy  (Facebook will increasingly face issues of privacy and censorship in foreign countries)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/21/internet-web-censorship-asia  (Southeast Asian countries attempting to regulate/censor internet use)

http://www.economist.com/node/17312290  (Middle Eastern governments cracking down on bloggers)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/opinion/23Jagland.html?th&emc=th  (explanation of awarding Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/world/europe/17roma.html?th&emc=th  (NYT article on controversy raised by movements of Roma within the EU)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/world/europe/04roma.html?th&emc=th  (Italy to shut down Roma camps)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,714848,00.html   (blogger and virtual news sources pose challenges to Russian government’s control of news)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129425721  (social networking and blogging in the struggle for democracy in Egypt)

http://www.cceia.org/resources/articles_papers_reports/0056.html?sourceDoc=000181  (Carnegie report on the failures of democracy in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan)

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2010/0704/Locked-out-The-12-million-people-without-a-country-and-their-need-to-become-a-citizen  (CSM article on the problem of stateless people)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/28/AR2010032802679.html (Amnesty International article on numbers of executions in 2009)