Human Rights Education
Friday is Nelson Mandela International Day, honouring the legacy of Nelson Mandela, who dedicated his life to the pursuit of dignity, justice and freedom for all.
The Day is a chance to take action and inspire change by donating 67 minutes of your time to improve the world and help others — one minute of public service for every year Mr. Mandela devoted to the service to humanity.
Help spread the word and get ideas for how you can take action here.
Malaysia Airlines jet crashes in Ukraine: http://usat.ly/1mYSh1b
- Billy Piper, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) former chief of staff (Washington Post).
Last weekend, NPR put together a list of things $100 million could buy in the Bluegrass State—including a bottle bourbon for all four million Kentucky residents.
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7 huge problems left by the World Cup in Brazil
The long list of controversies before the tournament’s start included mass evictions, violent protests, police brutality and construction worker deaths. But now that the party is over, the buzz about the games is mostly good, and the problems that the media once covered with such concern are slowly being swept under the rug.
How the media’s vicious double standard came for Ke$ha (via micdotcom)
Thor is a woman and now Captain America is black
Marvel is going all out to diversify their Avengers cast, not only bestowing the Thor title on a woman, but also officially giving the role of Captain America to a black man for the first time ever.
These announcements came Wednesday evening on The Colbert Report as a preview of the new stories in the Avengers NOW! initiative. The new series will also give Iron Man a change of direction (and a new suit) and greater visibility to the Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man and Dr. Strange (among others) in preparation for their movie debuts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Watch the hilariously bad movie trailer Chris Christie doesn’t want you to see
New Jersey governor and potential Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie put out a fake movie trailer Tuesday before suddenly pulling it off YouTube not long afterwards. Luckily, the Internet in its infinite wisdom preserved the clip elsewhere.
There is no way to treat patients who don’t know that they have TB, and it’s estimated that a person with TB who goes untreated will infect between 10 and 15 people every year. So even if things inside the walls of a hospital are running smoothly, it is what is happening outside the clinics…
On Tuesday, reports surfaced that one Guantanamo Bay nurse is refusing to participate in the force-feeding of hunger-striking inmates. According to one detainee’s lawyer, this is the first time U.S. medical personnel has chosen to not abide by the feeding regimen dictated for Gitmo inmates.
