Reva Landau denied standing by ON Justice

Source: Metronews.ca

A woman who went to court last year seeking to strip Catholic schools of almost all government funding has been denied legal standing, stopping her court challenge before it got started.

Reva Landau was to argue the court should reduce Catholic school funding to the formula used in 1867, which she said would eliminate public funding for Catholic high schools and restrict elementary school funding to contributions from the property taxes of Catholic landowners.

She argued that the existence of Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic schools is protected by the Constitution, but that the legislation that funds them today violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.   Read the full story here.   

United Nations Offers Murderous Dictator Posh Retirement Package

Dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe (with Hitler-esque mustache).

Here is text from the leaked cable which was written in September 2000. The memo records a meeting between a US embassy official in Harare and a senior source in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the party opposed to Mugabe's Zanu-PF.

1. (S) According to Elton Mangoma, MDC-T Minister of Economic Development and member of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's inner circle, the MDC would like the U.S. to contribute to a "trust fund" to buy off securocrats and move them into retirement.

It was also reported that the UN planned to ask Germany and the United Kingdom to contribute to the so called "trust fund".

What is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?-Know Your Rights.

December 10th is Human Rights Day

Author: Gaurav Virk

Do you know your rights? Have you ever evaluated your rights? If not, how you will follow the legal course to redress the problems arising from it? Very few countries are serious in promoting education right for people to help you know your rights. Being a student of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Rights, I have attempted to summarize.

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It aims to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and their universal recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. It is applicable to all UN member states, which are now almost all countries of the world. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was not originally designed to be legally binding, but it became legally binding as customary law of the individual man. It lists the rights of your human beings in the world, called articles 30.

1 You are born free and equal and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood

2 You can not be discriminated against based on race, color, sex, language, religion, political or social origin.

3 You have the universal right to life, liberty and security.

4 You can not be held in slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms

5 You can not be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment in all countries.

6 Your rights are equal as a person before the law in all countries

7 You are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration of Human Rights.

8. The universal human rights for all individuals are protected by the law of the country.

9 You can not be arbitrarily arrested, detained or exiled to a country.

10. You have the universal right to trial by an impartial tribunal means any criminal charge against you.

Universal Cell Phone Charger Approved

This is what I consider to be a victory for anyone who has cursed the mobile industry, and the wasteful and greedy manufacturing of more than 50,000 tonnes of redundant phone adapters each year.

A new charger, that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union, which is a body of the United Nations.

It has also been estimated that greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 13.6m tonnes each year.

Read the full story at the BBC.

International Day of Peace

International Day of Peace: September 21, 2009

The United Nations' International Day of Peace - marked every year on September 21 - is a global holiday when individuals, communities, nations and governments highlight efforts to end conflict and promote peace.

Candidates of the Green Party of Canada will speak out on Peace on September 21st at C'est What! near Church & Front St.s in Toronto. Click here for a map.

Featuring Josh Rachlis, making you smile! Emceed by Chris Tindal!

Activists Draw Attention to Violations Abroad

This from KCBS in San Francisco, CA:
"Gay rights activists in San Francisco are voicing their concerns about human rights violations of gays in other countries. They plan to show their solidarity next month when the United Nations General Assembly meets." Read the full article here.