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Time’s Person of the Year: The Protester
by Sarah Joseph* Time Magazine has just announced its Person of the Year. Appropriately, it is “The Protester”. The signature characteristic of 2011 has been the extraordinary outbreak of protests, demonstrations, riots, and even overthrows of government. Most obviously, there has been the “Arab Spring”. Two long-standing dictators, Ben-Ali and Mubarak, were, remarkably, overthrown in…
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Tweeting human rights and two Revolutions (so far)
Sarah Joseph The Castan Centre’s twitter account (@castancentre) is intended to disseminate news of relevance to human rights, usually consisting of a short descriptor (very occasionally with attempted wit) followed by a link to a story. To give a sample of its flavour, many of the links below are to our twitter feed (and you…

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