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...group, bought the Avatar ad and has produced a short film about the Dongria. Lindsay Duffield, a London-based spokeswoman for the group, says the Indian government should postpone its decision, expected later this year, until India's 2006 Forest Rights Act is fully implemented. The act aims to protect the interests of India's traditional forest dwellers. "The mine should only go ahead if the Dongria accept and want it," Duffield says...
...miles away in homes of white Australians, the ACPP stipulates that Aboriginal children removed by the state from their parents should be placed with family members or other indigenous Australians whenever possible. But it's a system, the study shows, that is failing the children it was designed to protect. "The present data suggests, as do some of the decisions in the case studies, that in some cases this principle appears to be given primacy over basic child-protection considerations," Bath told the Australian...
...speech becomes more emphatic as they assert that the government is treating the foreigners better than Haitian citizens, specifically when police officers cover the Americans' faces with jackets to shield them from the prying camera lenses. "If it was a Haitian, they would hit him over the head, not protect him," says Andrea Brezeau, 48. Tension over this preferential treatment erupted even among Haitian journalists. As Haitian police officers transferred the missionaries from a police vehicle to a jail cell, one Haitian female journalist threw stones at the Americans screaming, "They should be showing their faces. They don't have...
...commend Google for teaming up with the NSA to protect and secure the privacy of its users. After all, the NSA is a natural ally for Google when ensuring that people’s accounts are not compromised such that the U.S. will face any danger. The NSA’s right to collect information it deems to be a threat to the American public is vested in President Ronald Reagan’s executive order on Dec. 4, 1981—the order allows certain federal agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...give the NSA carte blanche to collect as much information as they want from companies like Google—we caution against the collection of private information that does not threaten national security. In order to protect the American people, a partnership such as Google’s with the NSA should be limited to national security purposes. If the NSA uses this situation to obtain private information that is not necessary to provide for the common defense, Google users should reconsider the security of their information...