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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pleaded to Indonesia to stop the execution of prisoners on death row for drug crimes. AFP PHOTO

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The pope wrote that the principle of legitimate personal defense isn’t adequate justification to execute someone. Photograph: Zuma/Rex

Obama becomes first president to visit US prison (US Justice Systems / Human Rights)

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US President Barack Obama speaks as he tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, July 16, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

US Death Penalty (Justice Systems / Human Rights)

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Woman who spent 23 years on US death row cleared (Photo: dpa)



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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Thursday, April 15, 2010

World activists demand release of Suu Kyi

Lilian Budianto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 04/15/2010 8:31 AM

Fighters: Dokka Itslaev of the Human Rights Defenders of North Caucasus (from left), Roberto Patino from Venezuela’s Student Movement and Radwan Ziadeh of the Damascus Center for Human Rights in Syria chat on the sidelines of the 6th Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Jakarta on Wednesday. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama

Hundreds of participants in the World Movement for Democracy (WMD) symposium in Jakarta have signed a petition calling for the release of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi and a fair trial for Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim.

Kim Campbell, a member of the steering committee of the WMD and former prime minister of Canada said, the issue of progress towards democracy in Malaysia and Myanmar had loomed over the symposium that brought together 600 activists from around 110 countries.

Former deputy prime minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim, who also addressed the WMD in Jakarta, has been facing a trial over accusations of sexual harassment against an aide. Meanwhile, Myanmar is likely to see no change in its upcoming elections as the opposition leader Suu Kyi has been barred from running from office under new poll regulations.

“We call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and a fair trial for Anwar Ibrahim. The petition will be presented to the ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan,” said Campbell.

Democracy in Southeast Asia has hogged the spotlight in the WMD 6th symposium as human rights activists have been sharing information on the latest situations in their home countries. Besides Malaysia and Myanmar, recent bloody uprising in Thailand has also grabbed attention with much sympathy for the embattled Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Protests in Thailand have claimed the lives of over 20 people, including a journalist and soldiers.

Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, said the Thai government had a reputation for non-violence and the recent death toll had hinted at the scale of the urgency forcing the government to take action.

Khin Maung Win, deputy director for the Democratic Voice of Burma, said the Thai crisis was the fault of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has financed protests.

The WMD also presented honors to four worldwide democracy activists on Wednesday for their efforts to advance freedom and democracy amid government crack-downs.

Iran’s Mahnaz Afkhami, Russia’s Dokka Itslaev, Venezuela’s Roberto Patino and Syria’s Radwan Ziadeh will receive the John Boyce Hurford honor. Hurford was a philanthropist who helped form WMD.

Mahnaz was a lecturer in literature before becoming involved in the women’s movement, which has put her life under constant threat. Mahnaz has been involved in the “One Million Signatures Campaign” to end gender inequality in Iran.

Mahnaz said, “the campaign aimed at collecting one million signatures in support of granting women equal legal status as men”. At present, men have the sole right to divorce and except in special cases, the right to custody of children. “

Dokka Itslaev from Russia’s Memorial Chechnya has been working on promoting human rights in the North Caucasus, which has been under close government control over a local insurgency. “The government has continued to clamp down on journalists and freedom movement activists,” said Dokka. Dokka pointed to the death of one Memorial Chechnya activist, Natalia Estermirova, last year.

Roberto Patino from Venezuela is a student movement leader in the Caracas’s Student Federation of Simon Bolivar University. The 21 year old student of manufacturing engineering has been involved in the student freedom movement since he was 17 and the peace movement.

Radwan Ziadeh from Syria has been living in exile in the US for years since the government blacklisted him for his vocal opposition to injustice.

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