Cotton - Child Labour & Human Rights Abuses (by EnvironmentalJustice)
Posts tagged human rights
Posted 4 months ago
"The Sketchbook from Auschwitz"
Found hidden away in a bottle, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum has published sketches drawn by a prisoner at the Birkenau extermination camp. They provide a rare first-hand glimpse of life and death inside. The book is part of the museum’s plans to launch a catalogue of 6,000 artworks in its archives.
Posted 4 months ago
Iran Rights Official Calls Homosexuality 'Disease'
from Radio Free Europe
The secretary-general of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights has been quoted as telling a visiting German lawmaker that homosexuality is a disease.
“The West says that the marriage of homosexuals should be allowed under the human rights charter, however, we think it is sexual immorality and a disease,” Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency quoted Mohammad Javad Larijani as saying, according to dpa.
