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Democrats still embrace their slavemaster roots , The party of slavery, segregation and the Klan now runs eco-slavery operations. Ban leasing, drilling, fracking, pipelines and coal use, as the Biden-Harris team is doing – and energy prices skyrocket as supplies dwindle

History isn’t always quite what’s portrayed in popular culture or taught today in schools, especially regarding racial politics. Do your kids know the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to

Press Release Sponsorship Speech of Sen. Leila M. De Lima for The Foundling Recognition and Protection Act Good afternoon, dear colleagues. I speak to you today, as I always have in this chamber, in behalf of those who cant speak for themselves. When one of our colleagues, Sen. Grace Poe, ran for President on 2016, she shined a light on a class of citizens which would otherwise be invisible in the eyes of the law: the foundlings. This bill defines a foundling as "a deserted or abandoned child...

The Africa Forum held at the 2021 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference in Windhoek, Namibia on 30 April called upon African governments to adopt democratic pieces of legislation that guarantee access to information for all citizens.In her keynot

El Día de Los Niños Celebrations Throughout Latin America April 30, 2021 Although not much is known about El Día de Los Niños in the United States, it’s an annual celebration throughout many countries in Latin America, that was actually believed to be initiated in Mexico when then President Álvaro Obregón and Public Education Minister José Vasconcelos accepted the Children’s Rights Declaration on April 30, 1925, and is now observed on that day yearly. Today, it’s evolved into an ev...

Temporary Representative of the Philippines to the AICHR Assistant Secretary Jaime Victor B. Ledda represents the Philippines during discussions on human rights in ASEAN on 8 April 2021. (Photo courtesy of AICHR Brunei) PASAY CITY, Apr. 12 -- ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) Philippine Representative Jaime Victor B. Ledda joined representatives of other ASEAN Member States in discussing current developments on human rights in the region and expressed deep concern over ...

Philippines to Myanmar: Adhere to ASEAN Human Rights Declaration Pia Lee-Brago © STAR/File Philippines to Myanmar: Adhere to ASEAN Human Rights Declaration MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has called on Myanmar to adhere to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Human Rights Declaration amid the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Southeast Asian nation. During the 33rd meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights held recently throu...

Where is Somchai? A brave wifes 17-year quest for the truth The unresolved case of Somchai Neelaphaijit is in stark contrast to Thailands beautiful image as the Land of the Free Trending Posters of missing Thai activists are pasted on a wall in Bangkok in June 2020. (Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP) I was taking a train in Manila in March 2004 when I received a call from Munir Said Thalib, then chairperson of my former organization, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances. Munir reque...

Given its own history of transition from military rule, Indonesia is probably the nation best placed to lead the bloc’s diplomacy on Myanmar.