Ethics
Thursday January 31, 2008
Ethics • Netherlands: A stale old porn movie is at the centre of a political row involving Dutch public television. Public broadcasting corporations VPRO and BNN are planning to screen Deep Throat, a 1972 vintage production, as part of a themed night on the history of pornographic films.
Wednesday January 9, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: In comments published last year, Agee defended his decision to expose the CIA: “It was a time in the 70s when the worst imaginable horrors were going on in Latin America. “Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador – they were military dictatorships with death squads, all with the backing of the CIA and the US government. That was what motivated me to name all the names and work with journalists who were interested in knowing just who the CIA were in their countries.”
Monday December 17, 2007
Ethics • Netherlands: The city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, is making good on its promise to clean up its world-famous Red Light District. Plans to upgrade the 750-year-old neighborhood over the next ten years include banning window prostitution from all but two locations.
Drew and Stacy Peterson • Ethics:
A pastor who says Stacy Peterson confided in him a few weeks before she went missing spilled details of their alleged conversation on national TV a few days ago. Was that ethical?
Sunday December 16, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: New Jersey joins the civilized world: The New Jersey General Assembly approved a bill eliminating capital punishment on Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Jon S. Corzine to sign the measure as early as Monday.
Tuesday October 30, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.
Thursday October 11, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: In an interview with CNN, former President Jimmy Carter said he believes that the United States has tortured detainee and that President Bush has authorized the abuse, which he said violates international laws.
Friday October 5, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: When it comes to human rights violations, America wants to police the world while officially following a “do as I say, not as I do” policy.
Monday September 3, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: Since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States three decades ago, 124 people awaiting execution have been exonerated. For some prisoners, the appeals process provided time to prove their innocence. Now a move by the government to speed up appeals has alarmed death penalty opponents, and even some supporters, who worry that innocent people could be put to death.
Wednesday April 25, 2007
Ethics: An “abortion ship” is planning to sail to countries where the practice is illegal and take women out to sea for terminations after the Dutch Government lifted restrictions banning it from international waters.
Wednesday April 18, 2007
Ethics: Arguing that Illinois lawmakers have a moral duty to legalize medical use of marijuana, dozens of pastors and church leaders are urging them to allow doctors to recommend the drug for seriously ill patients.
Tuesday April 10, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: Questions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment.
Wednesday April 4, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA: Conditions for detainees at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay are deteriorating, with the majority held in solitary confinement, a report says.
Thursday March 29, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights: States that commit acts of torture should be forced to pay for victims’ rehabilitation, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak has said.
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
The lawsuit contends the prisoners were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions.
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