human dignity - human rights

China loses face - and babies

Carolyn Moynihan | 19 September 2008 | comment 4

By covering up a baby-milk scandal, China and a New Zealand partner lose what they hoped to save.

Eyes on the Beijing Olympics

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 August 2008 | comment 2

It’s not all the result of bullying. The West could learn something from the Chinese ethic of working together.

Giving them reasons to live

Michelle Martin | 07 August 2008 | comment 22

Our duty to the mentally ill is brushed aside by the right-to-die lobby.

Terrorist, child soldier or Gitmo victim?

Brian Lilley | 06 August 2008 | comment 8

Outrage over Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested in Afghanistan at the age of 15 who is still being held in Guantanamo Bay, should be based on the facts.

Free speech on the ropes

Brian Lilley | 13 June 2008 | comment 27

In Canada you can go to jail for offending someone with the truth.

The road to democracy is paved with cell phones

Constance Kong | 13 June 2008

Disasters in Myanmar and China may ultimately promote governments more friendly to human dignity.

Misandry is the message

Barbara Kay | 15 May 2008 | comment 118

A Canadian columnist lifts the lid on the last respectable form of cultural bias.

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 | comment 11

The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation.

A tale of two sisters

Joanna Bogle | 02 May 2008 | comment 17

In the mad world of 21st century relationships the home of two sisters incurs a tax while that of ‘civil partners’ is exempt.

Pope Benedict at the UN: a moral grammar of rights

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas | 26 April 2008 | comment 6

Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the pope offers an interpretive key.

The donut of liberal history

Martin Fitzgerald | 04 April 2008 | comment 6

In a new book about the evolution of liberty in the West, 1500 years of Christian civilisation counts for nothing.

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