12/04/2008 -
UK police DNA bank a 'human rights violation'
The British police practice of keeping DNA records of anyone they arrest is a human rights violation, The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously Thursday.
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CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/04/uk.dna.database/index.html?section=cn
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12/04/2008 -
DNA bank called a 'violation of human rights'
The British police practice of keeping DNA records of anyone they arrest is a human rights violation, The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
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CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/04/uk.dna.database/index.html?eref=rss_c
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12/04/2008 -
Machine-Driven News Site Adds a Human Editor
Techmeme , the popular technology and business news hub, has become the ultimate news cyborg. On Wednesday, Gabe Rivera, the site?s founder, announced that he had hired a human editor to oversee the site.
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New York Times
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/techmeme-adds-a-human-editor/?pagemode=
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12/04/2008 -
Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
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ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11081
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12/03/2008 -
Human noise drowns out song of whales
The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_re_eu/eu_un_noisy_seas_4
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12/03/2008 -
Oman issues law to fight human trafficking
Oman's sultan has created a law against human trafficking, an official at the royal court said on Wednesday, five months after a U.S. report said the Gulf Arab state was failing to stop "modern day slavery."
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081203/lf_nm_life/us_oman_trafficking_1
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12/04/2008 -
Court rules UK's DNA records breach human rights
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Britain's practice of keeping DNA samples from people with no criminal convictions is a breach of their human rights.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/05/2438399.htm
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12/04/2008 -
DNA database 'breaches human rights'
Keeping DNA samples from people with no criminal convictions is a breach of their human rights, a court ruled today.
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ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081204/tuk-dna-database-breaches-human-rights-dba16
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12/04/2008 -
European court rules DNA database breaches human rights
Police forces in much of the UK could be forced to destroy the DNA details of hundreds of thousands of people with no criminal convictions, after a court ruled today that keeping them breaches human rights
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/04/law-genetics
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12/04/2008 -
Nigeria: Government Blames Budget Delay On Weak Human Capital (Vanguard)
The Federal Government yesterday blamed weak human capacity in the nation's civil service as well as the National Assembly's delay in the passage of the 2008 budget for the poor implementation of the 2008.
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/comments/list/aans/post/post/id/200812040270.html
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12/04/2008 -
Pacific Human Rights Awards to honor individuals this year
To mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, four courageous individuals from across the Pacific Island region will be honored tonight with this year's RRRT/SPC Pacific Human Rights Award.
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Saipan Tribune
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=85911
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12/04/2008 -
Event addresses human rights abuses
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Hundreds of religious and political leaders gathered in New York for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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UPI
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/03/Event_addresses_human_rights_abuses/UPI-2
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12/04/2008 -
DNA database: Questions and answers on ruling by European Court of Human Rights
The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on the UK's police DNA database will have huge implications with one million 'innocent' DNA profiles possibly expunged.
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Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3548134/DNA-database-Questions-and-answers-on-ru
ling-by-European-Court-of-Human-Rights.html
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12/04/2008 -
DNA database: Campaigners welcome ruling that DNAholding breaches human rights
Campaigners welcomed the European court ruling that holding the DNA of innocent people breaches their human rights.
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Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3547773/DNA-database-Campaig
ners-welcome-ruling-that-DNA-holding-breaches-human-rights.html
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12/04/2008 -
Zimbabwe: Amnesty International Demands Immediate Release of Abducted Human Rights Activist in Zimbabwe
Amnesty International demanded that Zimbabwean authorities immediately disclose the whereabouts of human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, who was abducted from her home at dawn today south of the capital, Harare, by armed men in plain clothes who identified themselves as police. The abduction follows the arrest in late November of three of Mukoko?s colleagues at a clinic offering treatment to ...
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Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20081203002&lang=e&rss=r
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