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Our overcrowded prisons are filled with offenders whose crimes involved drugs. Many of them were on drugs when they committed those crimes--and often the crime was committed to support their own drug habit.

But drug addiction and dependency are not happening just to the stereotypical "drug addict". People from all walks of life, and at all ages, are falling prey to drugs.

Why Youth for Human Rights of Florida is sponsoring a fashion show?

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". The pursuit of human rights was a central reason for creating the UN. World War II atrocities and genocide led to a ready consensus that the new organization must work to prevent any similar tragedies in the future.

It has just been announced that Julian Assange has lost his appeal in the UK High Court against his extradition to Sweden. He legal team however has been granted a two week period to consider an appeal to have the case reopened on a technicality.

Physicians who debunk Psychiatry as a science

Admittedly, overpopulation
Is enemy revolution
Admittedly, to make kids
In 2012, it is completely thrashes
It is complete insanity
It is criminal unconsciousness
It is a total misses decency
It is with the reason, the absence
And me, I never wanted children
And from this point of view, I am coherent
The women who were miennes
Of this option, endorsed
But the first which fought against the childbirth
That one makes undergo, with the women, by conditioning
Were anarchistic néo-Malthusians
Who practiced also clandestine abortions
Now, it is more the Neo-Malthusianism

Gerry Georgatos
The Renters Alliance (RA) started only several months ago in Western Australia with a number of its original members from Bridgetown and the Blackwood region. The RA spokesperson Lea Keenan said the renters rights movement has spread Australia-wide after the RA was swamped with emails and calls from distressed renters.

To get involved write to rentersalliance@humanrightsalliance.org

or phone 0430 657 309 or 0412 833 733

http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/news/audio/2012/may/22/national-renters-allianc...

From "The Australian"

ANGER is growing among indigenous leaders who oversee the Aboriginals Benefit Account, with committee members claiming the federal government is using the $400 million kitty as a slush fund.

ABA committee members have taken the unusual step of publicly criticising Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin over Labor's administration of the fund, amid tension between it and the ministry over funding decisions.

Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal Elders from Wiluna have slammed WA's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in approving an application for a nearby uranium mine, and it now appears only a matter of time for the state government to approve the EPA decision.

The EPA has given their go-ahead for the Toro Energy company's proposal to develop the mine 30 kilometres from Wiluna - It will become WA's first uranium mine.

Gerry Georgatos
On the back of reports released on the well-being of Aboriginal youth, with figures tabled showing more than half of Aboriginal youth are developmentally vulnerable Western Australia's Commissioner for Children and Young People Michelle Scott has called upon the state for investment in programs.

Commissioner Scott released brief reports on "Indigenous education, risky behaviour and physical health" and said that the children were most vulnerable from their first year of school.