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...Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. But critics point out that the law banning denial of the Holocaust is designed to protect the memory of the Jews and other ethnic groups killed by Nazi forces and their supporters. Russia's new bill, however, would stop anyone reexamining a history fraught with half-truths and lies propagated by the Soviet government, then carried into the present on the backs of unrevised text books and a general aversion to looking too closely the country's past. (See pictures of Hitler's rise to power...
...Durban II conference was that states take legal action to combat “xenophobic attitudes towards and negative stereotyping of non-citizens.” Further passages in the document excoriate states that discriminate against immigrants, whether legal or not. This anti-nationalistic, pro-globalization sentiment is fraught with problems, particularly as the UN cannot possibly enforce or even evaluate whether states accept large amounts of immigrants and whether their immigration policies are liberal. There were further resolutions promoting democracy and multiculturalism and resolutions against assimilation and nationalism. The conference’s resolutions were generally na?...
...audience members. “I was really impressed with the level of honesty, and that people were willing to share,” said Marine. “This is a complex subject, and it’s difficult to talk about sometimes. [It’s] fraught with a lot of silence, hesitation, and ambivalence, especially by white people.” Loc Truong, assistant director of the Harvard Foundation, said that he felt that a major take-home point from yesterday’s discussion was that people should be more forthright in discussing white privilege...
...interplay between the government and women's rights NGOs is fraught with suspicion. Salim readily admits that "there's no trust" between the two groups. Yanar Mohammed's organization has been petitioning, unsuccessfully thus far, to be legally registered as an NGO and women's shelter, which would allay fears that it could be shut down at any moment. It has also sought, but been refused, permission to visit Baghdad's women's prison, where it previously identified victims of trafficking who were locked up for offenses committed as a result of being trafficked, like having false documents or prostitution...
...hectoring in Under Construction, and more moments of genuine emotion too. Amid all the absurdist chaos, there's a brief scene in which all the actors, one by one, pull a ringing cellphone out of a bucket, answer a call and proceed simultaneously to have a hushed, fraught conversation with a lover - a Babel of romantic pain. Later the actors gather to recite a round-robin reverie for icons of mid-century American life, with no irony whatsoever: "I remember my father's collection of arrowheads." "I remember loafers with pennies in them." "I remember game rooms in basements...