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In the company of humans
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Sometimes wild animals are attracted to people. They seem to weigh the risks of associating with us and conclude that under certain circumstances, hanging out with Homo sapiens is the safest thing to do .
In The Biophilia Hypothesis, biologist Edward O. Wilson addresses the psychological and evolutionary reasons humans are attracted to animals. My own experience as a field biologist has exposed me time and time again to convincing evidence that many humans are indeed powerfully drawn to animals. For more than three decades, I have spent part of every year in the Peruvian Amazon, where I have ...
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Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies
; Mugwana, George William. Human Rights in Africa: Enhancing Human Rights Through the African Regional Human Rights System. Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2003. 504 pp. This book shows that the struggle for human rights...
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Human Rights and the MDGs
Magazine article from: Global Watch
; ...achieve our objectives! I will review the theme of Human Rights and the MDGs; two issues that are very interlinked and interdependent but not totally synonymous. Human rights and human development have many similarities and are interlinked...
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Human rights fifty years after the universal declaration: reconciling American political science and the study of human rights.(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Fifty)
Magazine article from: PS: Political Science & Politics
; ...Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights without negative vote. In 1945...required member states to cooperate on human rights matters. The Universal Declaration...community into an age of international human rights. One collection of international...
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Human Rights Groups Worldwide Call on UN Members to Reject Belarus' Candidacy
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: Belarus' record on human rights makes the country a supremely unfit candidate for the United Nations Human Rights Council, a coalition of more than 40 national and international human rights...
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Human rights and globalization: is the shrinking world expanding rights?(The Globalization of Human Rights)(Globalization and Human Rights)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Human Rights & Human Welfare
; The Globalization of Human Rights. Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud...University Press, 2003. Globalization and Human Rights. Edited by Alison Brysk. Berkely...advocates who work in the expanding field of human rights have been no exception and have...
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Human Cloning Legislation in Congress: Misconceptions and Realities.
Magazine article from: National Right to Life News
; ...com or 202-626-8820, and visit the Human Cloning page on the NRLC website at www...html. Introduction The urgent issue of human cloning is once again in the lap of the...debate, ignorance of the mechanics of human cloning, gullibility, or some combination...
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Human Cloning Prohibition Act Introduced in House by Rep. Weldon
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...creating cloned live-born human children (sometimes called...necessarily begins by creating cloned human embryos, a process which some...possible treatment of other humans;(7) the prospect of creating new human life solely to be exploited...
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HUMAN CLONING: SAM BROWNBACK
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...minimum, that a live-born human clone is either already among...production of made to order human clones. Some want to begin cloning humans; they just don`t want anyone...call it that. Some who support human cloning would have society believe...
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Human Rights and Australia -- is this still the land of the "fair go"?
M2 Presswire
; ...7 March 2002-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Human Rights and Australia -- is this still...General has come to Australia - to talk about human rights in Australia. But Amnesty is no...Australia, it has an impressive record of human rights action in this country and abroad...
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Human rights can be manifested differently
Newspaper article from: China Daily
; A unique outlook on human rights has taken shape in China, the...basis of the country's own experience in human rights development over the last two decades...1970s. China has also absorbed rational human rights ideas from other cultures. Human...
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