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Human Rights Facts (52): The War on Terror August 6, 2008 in| by Filip Spagnoli The War on Terror, started by the US government as a response to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and later joined … more →
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Human Rights Facts (169): The Probability of Capital Punishment in the U.S., by Race
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 15 hours ago: The U.S. population is about 300,000,000. Whites represent about 80%, or roughly 240,000,000. If you … more →
What is This Graph About? (2)
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 day ago: The answer is here. More mystery graphs. … more →
Human Rights Facts (168): Internet Filtering in China
Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 days ago: Some more information on internet filtering in China, following this older post on the same topic. M … more →
What is This Graph About? (1)
Filip Spagnoli wrote 3 days ago: The answer is here. … more →
Human Rights Facts (167): Positive Developments for Gender Equality in the U.S.
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 week ago: I mentioned some positive developments for gender equality in the U.S. in two previous posts (here a … more →
Human Rights Facts (165): The Impact of Remittances on Global Poverty
Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 weeks ago: There are about 200 million people working abroad, which is a stable 3% of the world’s populat … more →
Human Rights Facts (164): Violence Against Women On Television
Filip Spagnoli wrote 3 weeks ago: The infamous rape scene from "A clockwork orange" Prime time television shows in the U.S. … more →
Human Rights Facts (163): Poverty and Life Expectancy in the U.S.
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: It’s not a surprise that poor people have lower life expectancy than others. Poverty, after al … more →
Human Rights Facts (162): The Truth About the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty, Ctd.
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: Some more data to support the claims expressed in this post, and this one. There’s a paper her … more →
Human Rights Facts (161): Poor People More Likely to Have Experienced Depression
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: There’s a correlation between poverty and depression, as this Gallup Poll points out. 30% of p … more →
Human Rights Facts (160): Numbers of Abortions Going Down
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: You can see from the graph below that the numbers of abortions, compared to 15 years ago, are down: … more →
Human Rights Facts (159): The Effect of the Recession on Global Hunger
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: I’ve discussed the effects of the current recession on human rights several times before on th … more →
Human Rights Facts (158): Poverty and Obesity, Ctd.
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: Evolution of Obesity (source) In a previous post, I mentioned that poor people in the U.S. are more … more →
Human Rights Facts (157): More Children Surviving Beyond Fifth Birthday
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: (source) Thanks to scaled up support for simple, relatively inexpensive solutions like anti-malaria … more →
Human Rights Facts (156): A Country's Responsibility to Promote Democracy Abroad
Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: I believe that there are many good reasons why countries should be democracies (see examples of thes … more →
Human Rights Facts (155): Racial Profiling and "Driving While Black" in Illinois; A Case Study
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: (source) Via The Atlantic, some information from the 2008 Annual Report of Illinois Traffic Stops: B … more →
Human Rights Facts (154): Capital Punishment in China
Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 months ago: A woman, convicted of murder, shouts before she is taken to be executed in Ghangzhou, April 11, 2001 … more →
Human Rights Facts (153): Increasing International Development Aid
Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 months ago: From Nate Silver’s blog, an invaluable resource for statisticians and other people interested … more →
Human Rights Facts (152): Measuring Poverty in India
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 2 months ago: India is undoubtedly a poor country. Over the last decades, it has seen a decrease in the number of … more →
