Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Human rights/Archive 6

Migrant Worker
A colleague and I are working to modify the current article entitled Migrant worker, as well as add it to the WikiProject human rights. As globalization progresses, migrant labor has become an integral part in the economies of developing countries. Migrant labor, however, has far reaching implications that go beyond economic influences and effect human rights concerns. We feel that the current Migrant worker page is lacking in substantive information, and believe this article could benefit greatly from a more comprehensive page. We are open to recommendations on scholarly work that would help us accomplish our goal of improving this article. DArquero (talk) 02:44, 30 March 2011 (UTC), FaithSara (talk) 02:45, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Bodily Integrity
I'm interested in creating a new entry under "Bodily Integrity", presumably as a fundamental human right. Though this concept is briefly referenced in other articles, there is no definitive page in existence. However, I want to avoid producing original research. Any suggestions for scholarly sources? Also, could this be linked to the "Reproductive Rights" section under the main Human Rights article? Keb838 (talk) 19:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Human rights in Egypt
This page needs updating really, the majority of the sources were published in 2006 or earlier and it does not take into account recent material. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.213.98.15 (talk) 12:33, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

League for Small and Subject Nationalities, League of Small Nations, etc. ?
I ran across this concept while browsing around, saw no article so tried to dig up some info. I'm a little confused as to how these organisations worked and what the overlap was, and apparently some pretty major figures (WEB DuBois, Rose Standish Nichols, etc) were involved in this process. I'd appreciate any help in digging up info on the subject. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:13, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Purpose of "Category:Human rights in..." categories
Question: is there an agreed purpose for "Category:Human rights in..." categories?

I'm looking at, for instance, Category:Human rights in the United Kingdom, Category:Human rights in Mexico, Category:Human rights in Colombia - and see no sign of these categories being used to group people whose human rights are claimed to have been violated. But this is what is being done with Category:Human rights in Venezuela. Clearly, some editors want to group these people together - but since it is disputed whether their rights have been violated, there's an additional complication. Has this problem arisen elsewhere? Is there a precedent for using the category in this way? Is there some other category that would be more suitable? I haven't seen any. Suggestions? Rd232 talk 17:34, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

equal opportunity / equal outcomes / affirmative action
Your articles on equality seem to contradict each other. You have some that specifically say that affirmative action is a principle of "equality of outcomes", some that say "equal opportunity" employers are ones that practice affirmative action. Which camp is affirmative action in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.254.8.208 (talk) 03:48, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Resolve ambiguity in abolishment table
If anyone wants to comment Talk:Capital punishment in Europe, then please do, especially if you oppose the suggestion! JoergenB (talk) 15:52, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

GA Review of Akmal Shaikh on hold
The GA review of the Akmal Shaikh article, which is tagged as being within the scope of this project, has been on hold for over 30 days. It is near to being passed, but the Akmal_Shaikh section needs editing to reduce the amount of direct quotation as per Quotations, and also to be trimmed in general to meet GA criteria 3(b): "stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail". Any assistance in this matter would be appreciated. See Talk:Akmal Shaikh/GA1 for more detail. (If you feel that the article does not fall under the scope of this project, please remove the project tag from the article talkpage).  SilkTork  *YES! 10:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The article has now passed.  SilkTork  *YES! 14:05, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

New Barnstar
Hello everyone! I propose a new version of the "Barnstar of Liberty", that I just made. Very high resolution, in vector format. What do you think about it? Antonu (talk) 07:39, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The old barnstar (like many barnstars) is very ugly, which is probably one reason it is not given out too often. Your proposed design is nicer, but a barnstar is generally supposed to be barnstar shaped I think? yours is not so the replacement might grate some nerves from that perspective?Ajbpearce (talk) 21:40, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Alrighty, how about "Type 2" (barnstar shaped)? It's high resoltion too (png format). Antonu (talk) 14:42, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Or maybe brand new five-pointed "Type 3"? I'm voting for "Type 2" :) Antonu (talk) 18:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege"
New article - could be a useful resource for articles within the scope of this WikiProject. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 00:41, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege"

Cyber Rights
I have started a peer review on the article Cyber Rights, which was recently promoted to Good Article quality status. Feel free to provide feedback, at Peer review/Cyber Rights/archive1. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 17:41, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Category for discussion notice: Category:Hate groups
Please note that a user has nominated the Category "Hate Groups" for deletion. Please see discussion here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_10#Category:Hate_groups --DCX (talk) 07:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Category up for deletion: Opposes LGBT rights
If anyone cares to weigh in on this, please see link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_12#Category:LGBT_rights_opposition

Thanks!--DCX (talk) 23:03, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles
This list is now active. There are currently 3 Unreferenced Human rights articles. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 12:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed, thanks Ajbpearce (talk) 17:05, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Request for assistance
I've just created a new page entitled Refugee roulette and would be grateful if a more experienced editor could take a look! The page discusses disparities in asylum adjudication in the United States. Thank you! JRN 02:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Issues of Crimes Against Humanity and their reparations
Greetings!

I am interested in the issue of reparations of crimes against humanity and the scope of this WikiProj. Can you please either point a previous discussion about it, so I that can read, or explain why the reparations issues are not "human rights", to put it short, or their protection. PS. There's at least 1 more relevant question to the project for the later. Aregakn (talk) 12:30, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Anybody? Aregakn (talk) 20:27, 8 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Since reparations would be for violations of human rights, I would think that would fall within the scope of the project—though they would at least equally or more directly fall under WikiProject International relations as well (if the reparations were between foreign bodies). Feel free to project-tag any articles you feel relevent with WikiProject Human rights on the article talk page. I am a relatively new member to this project and am not sure how active the project has been lately, but you might try also asking any questions about reparations at WikiProject International relations or WikiProject United Nations if no one else replies here. Good luck, Wikignome0530 (talk) 23:38, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Having regard to your contributions and comments, it appears you are interested above all in one particular and contentious issue. Reparations for abuses of human rights may well fall within the scope of this project and you should feel free to tag or contribute in relation to these issues, and I (we) would very much welcome the additions! I would say though, that given the nature of the issues that you are talking about I would take particular care that you are not seen, even inadvertently, to fall prey to WP:CANVAS or WP:NPOV. I am sure that would not be an issue, but i thought it bore mention given the slightly unusual nature of your question. Ajbpearce (talk) 23:55, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you, guys, for your help.
 * Yes, I am contributing more to those issues, I have more knowledge of and less to those, I have little to add as, I think, we all do. Also I do not see any canvassing issue in trying to involve more uninvolved editors to contribute and/or discussions (not any voting or anything alike), if not the very opposite of what canvassing is coined for, and surely that helps an NPOV to be established, doesn't it? But I understand what you mean, Ajbpearce (thanks).
 * The reason I asked is that I was suggested by one of the members of the project, that a reparations issue isn't a human rights issue and thus I wanted to discuss why. In my personal understanding the human rights can be protected only through recognition and condemnation of the crime and the right of restitution is a way to enforce the human rights, isn't it? I'd really like to hear opinions as I rely more on my own thoughts/judgment in this subject rather than the knowledge of legislation.
 * I got the point about the international relations, but am experiencing some problems with the UN. Though I do see the link, but is it that related to add to it? Or is it, that the level of relevance doesn't matter much? Aregakn (talk) 00:31, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I just threw the UN link in there as another possible place to get answers, if the other failed (since the UN WikiProject would be familiar with the UN's work in Human rights, and the UN organization(s) involved in human rights.) As far as whether it is a human rights issue, i can see both sides of it. Crimes against humanity definitely are a human rights issue, but I can see where the reparations addressing the original crime -- many years after the fact -- might not be considered human rights in themselves, if the original crime is not still ongoing. It's all in how you look at it, and editors acting in good faith can see it in different ways. Wikignome0530 (talk) 00:41, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree in general but the United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law provide, that claims relating to reparations for gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law shall not be subject to statutes of limitations. Aregakn (talk) 01:13, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Popular pages
This is just a note that I am filing a request with User:Mr.Z-man, asking him to add this WikiProject to the list of projects that User:Mr.Z-bot compiles monthly "Popular pages" reports for. (See example at WikiProject Birds/Popular pages). The report will be located at WikiProject Human rights/Popular pages, but will not be posted until the end of this month, as it is only done once a month. Wikignome0530 (talk) 23:50, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

new related WikiProject: United States Public Policy
Hi everyone! I want to invite anyone who's active here and has an interest in American public policy (including policy related to human rights) to join WikiProject United States Public Policy, which is just starting up. We've got some cool things planned, including working with students and their professors for several public policy courses.--Sross (Public Policy) (talk) 13:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Human rights to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Human rights/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:32, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Assess?
Hi. I've done a bit of work on the privacy case Robbins v. Lower Merion School District, and believe it is now (at least) a B, but would appreciate it if someone were to assess it for quality and for importance to this project. Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 20:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Ethnic cleansing
Please take a look at Category talk:Ethnic cleansing. We are currently discussing if that category should be deleted, and in the process I created a table that includes many of the categories of interest to this project. &mdash; Sebastian 04:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Main Page proposal
As related to Wikipedia Signpost/2010-09-06/News and notes, subsection: "Main page biases?" Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 22:04, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Please see Wikipedia_talk:Today's_featured_article/requests.

Quick thought
Is using a US-centric emblem like the liberty torch for this article setting the wrong (not international enough) tone? As a new Yorker I rather like it, but I thought I'd ask at least. futurebird (talk) 22:45, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The current branding by User:Antonu is much much nicer than the rather tired designs we had before. Most "symbols of human rights" either are associated with a particular organisation, or are really legal symbols. The statue/ toruch of liberty does of course have American connotations and might be slightly imperial, but of course the Statue of Liberty is really a french statue of a greek goddess. Unless something drastically better comes along i think that its one of the least important areas of the project to work on in comparison to the many articles in need of love! Ajbpearce (talk) 21:22, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Human rights articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Human rights articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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In the news - suggestion
Please see In_the_news/Candidates. -- Cirt (talk) 21:43, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Witt v. Department of the Air Force

Prevention of abusive editing
I'd like to display the URL of a definition related to Human Rights in a discussion site. What will prevent the opposition in the discussion from changing the page later to their liking? Tselly (talk) 03:28, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 * it's a bit off-topic for this page, but, one thing you can do is use a "permanent link" to a specific version of the article. You'll find the option in the toolbox on the left - click on it and use the URL resulting from that. Rd232 talk 09:52, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of War in Darfur
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article after an editor placed a reassessment tag on the article talk page. You are being notified as your project banner is on the article talk page. I have found a number of concerns which you can see at Talk:War in Darfur/GA1. I have delisted the article as it is not in a good state. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:00, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Category:Nanking Massacre deniers
FYI, Category:Nanking Massacre deniers has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.198.128 (talk) 04:15, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:09, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

If you are an active wikiproject contributor, Please Reply!!
Hey all, Currently this project is a nice page but not that much else, we seem to work mostly on our own articles, with little co-ordination or real collaboration. Although we have a "list of contributors" I don't know how many of you are active (if anyone!). In an attempt to revive us abit as a wikiproject - It would be great for anyone who is currently active and interested in working on human rights articles to reply here within a week. If we get an idea of who is around perhaps we could organise an pick an article to collaborate on or improve. Alternatively, if there is no-one here but me & the fishes - I can put a notice up about low activity and encouraging new members to post on the talk page so that hopefully we can get more of a community feel!Ajbpearce (talk) 16:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm doing a bit here and there, though mostly maintenance ATM. --IdiotSavant (talk) 23:46, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * well, after a week I guess its just the Two of Us. Though there are several other people who are making good contributions to human rights articles aswell, I guess we need to think abit about how to useful the project is at the moment and whether we can recruit some others bad wording Ajbpearce (talk) 01:14, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't see WikiProjects as just being about building better articles (though that's a big part of it); they're also a categorisation and quality indexing tool. That aspect though doesn't require much work, so its just a background task.
 * I'll likely do some more work on this project once I've wrapped up the immediate article requirements from this year's Cook Islands and Tongan elections. --IdiotSavant (talk) 13:09, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I think most human rights topic editors probably have other things to do than respond to arbitrary one-week deadlines to express their interest! My guess is that most HR article contributors have a lot going on in their offline lives and are also WP contributors across a wide range of other topics - no such thing as a HR activist who isn't a fully rounded human being :) Brocach (talk) 19:05, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Both fair points, I'm certainly not suggesting we get rid of the wikiproject! Ajbpearce (talk) 19:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Not really my field, but any interested parties could review the list of current members, see which have been completely inactive for a while, and maybe move those names to a separate section. WikiProject Star Wars has, or at least had, a regular "roll-call" of active editors, and it generally does help make it a bit easier for people to contact other active editors if they know who is still here and who have, basically, retired for some time. John Carter (talk) 20:18, 21 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I believe I'm a member of the project, and active. Just today I restored much that had been deleted off the Human Rights in Tibet page. If anyone wants to collaborate on that, great. I have for a long while planned for more articles on the topic, including an article on the anti-DL campaigns, and more. — Zujine |talk 19:33, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I will certainly help out where I can: I know from trying that the article is censored in china already - though interestingly you can view the first paragraph of Human rights in China but the rest of the article throws an error :p. I may have some photo's lying around somewhere that might be suitable to add, i'll see what I can dig up.Ajbpearce (talk) 21:24, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * If I can make a completely unsolicited plug for one of my own pet projects, a Bibliography of human rights page, or something similar, which might list nonfiction works relating to human rights might be particularly useful. WP:BIB is an early attempt to coordinate efforts on developing such articles. But, I think rather clearly, if we had a list of the nonfiction books which have received some notice from other sources, we would have both a list of sources which were available for consultation and a bit of a list of some of the various topics related to the topic which might be notable enough for separate articles. If anyone has any interest in constructing such a work, please drop me an e-mail with your e-mail address and I can forward to you a listing of the various books which are described as relating to the topic that have received attention at JSTOR, Gale Cengage, ProQuest, News Bank, and EBSCO's NoveList. In many cases, the pages on these databanks will also contain review material which might be sufficient to establish articles on the various books. If anyone wants such a listing, like I said, drop me an e-mail and I can forward at least the citations from each of the above databanks to you, and maybe help a bit in structuring the possible bibliography article. John Carter (talk) 20:45, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Social Floor
I propose a new page entitled social floor. This concept, also known as a social minimum, is a policy that falls under social protection. The basic idea of a social floor is that there is a minimum level of human rights and social services that all human beings should have access to. On the Social Floor page, I will address what is included in a social floor, the arguments for and against a social floor, and proposed policies on how a social floor would be implemented.

Michellesynhorst (talk) 04:05, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District
J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District is an article I wrote. As a free-speech issue, would this fall under this particular WikiProject? —  Hun ter   Ka  hn  22:28, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The use of the wikiproject tag is fine, because it does involve freedom of speech issues, however it is primarily a case of local significance and concerning american law. Thus I guess WikiProject Pennsylvania and other more specialised projects such as WikiProject_United_States_courts_and_judges and WikiProject United States Public Policy, (which  is very active at the moment due to their grants.) would be more helpful to you. Ajbpearce (talk) 17:29, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Human rights in Vietnam
Please help improve the page Human rights in Vietnam which is not good read. Thank you!--Trananh1980 (talk) 05:31, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Let me see what I can do... — Zujine |talk 23:50, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Index of economic freedom - irrelevant in HR articles
Currently, the articles on human rights in Armenia, Egypt and Russia (at least) refer to this Heritage Foundation's ranking. However, economic freedom (unlike right to work etc.) is not a human right (see ICESCR and European Social Charter for examples of what do economic, social and cultural rights, as recognized human rights, include). The HF is not a human rights organisation, either. Therefore, I propose to delete these links from the articles mentioned (and possibly others).Fuseau (talk) 19:52, 2 January 2011 (UTC) As no objections were raised, I've deleted the irrelevant references.Fuseau (talk) 20:24, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Increasing coverage on specific refugee camps
I recently ran across a news article on Afghan refugees in or neaar Iran, and so have gone and created several articles on such camps: Niatak refugee camp, Makaki, Torbat-e Jam (refugee camp). Also re-organising the overall Category:Refugee camps. Note that I moved all the subcats into one of two categories: Category:Refugee camps by refugee origin and Category:Refugee camps by location. I reckoned this would help clear up "refugee camp for Iranians" vs. "refugee camp in Iran" issues. Nothing official, but I'd suggest some sort of WP:HR standard by consensus: maybe "Fooian refugee camps" for camps holding people from Foo, and "Refugee camps in Foo" for camps that happen to be located there? Though articles for IDP camps will be in the same country category for both.

There's a ton of good coverage online on refugee camps, since both policymakers and NGOs cover them extensively. I've had a little trouble nailing specific names down, though on GoogleBooks I've had some success with keywords "refugee camp named" or "refugee camp called", as well as searches for specific countries. In case anyone else is interested, here are a few redlinks:
 * Camp Polonia, Polish refugee camp in Iran, WWII
 * al-Tash Garrison, IDP camp in Iraq 2003
 * Taqtaq Camp, Salaam Camp; refugee camps in Iran (Shi'a?)
 * Al Artawea, Iraqi refugee camp in Saudi
 * Khoy Refugee Camp, Iraqi refugee camp in Iran

Hope folks find this of interest. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:34, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

New article: Beyond the First Amendment
New article, created, at Beyond the First Amendment. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

New articles
Hi, would someone swing by Cheng Jianping and check out the coverage, add a project tag if it fits and consider giving a rating assessment? Thanks!... I actually added some more: Would someone give them a quick glance and maybe send a pointer or two my way? Thanks, Ocaasi (talk) 21:48, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Cheng Jianping
 * Lan Zhixue
 * Shibali River Women's Labour Camp
 * Hua Chunhui
 * Institute of Democratic Society
 * Thanks for doing these, I have gone through and quickly rated them. One Easy way to make them abit nicer to read imho is too add citeweb tags so that the references don't list purely as URL's but as formatted links. I've done this on Lan Zhixue so you can see what I mean. I think It makes the references much easier to read - I can change the others if you would prefer or its easy to do yourself using the Reftools or ProveIT gadgets which you enable find in your preferences ->gadgets page. Ajbpearce (talk) 09:37, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm familiar with ProveIT and will add them. It was mainly just for convenience, since refs take about 6x as long when you don't leave them bare.  Thanks for doing the ratings! Ocaasi (talk) 09:56, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

New article: Freedom of Expression(R)
New article, created, at Freedom of Expression(R). Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 18:03, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Pictures and Recordings
Hi. I was wondering that doesn't the right to free speech protect people so we can be able to take pictures and audio or visually record anyone that's in public?

Chris —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.190.254.86 (talk) 02:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I just want to say that I've been waiting pretty long for an answer. Chris —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.190.254.86 (talk) 01:34, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

New article: Net.wars
New article, created, at Net.wars. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:52, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

New article: The Best American Magazine Writing 2007
New article, created, at The Best American Magazine Writing 2007. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 00:20, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Consent of the Governed
Should consent of the governed be incorporated into the Human Rights wikiproject? Should it also be added to the Human Rights infobox that appears at the bottom of many human rights pages? 98.246.191.164 (talk) 05:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Greetings, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution has been chosen as the U.S. Wikipedians Collaboration of the Month for February 2011. As a project who has identified this article to be in your scope we encourage you to edit this article and help to build it up to better explain the subject and to get it promoted. --Kumioko (talk) 20:49, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Family Research Council
Hello, there is a discussion relevant to this WikiProject going on here whether the fact that the Southern Poverty Law Center has added the Family Research Council to their hate-group listing should be in the introduction of the article or not. Please see the discussion and consider the arguments for or against this inclusion there. Thanks, -- Kim van der Linde at venus 14:57, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi kim, looking at that page I see a huge debate over a relatively minor issue, often conducted in a manner unbecoming to those involved. If WP:HR editors want to get involved with this dispute that is there prerogative, but I would remind everyone how many thousands of amazing wikipedia human rights articles have not temporarily turned into huge arguments and are in need of passionate content! Ajbpearce (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

GAR reassessment of International Criminal Court
Hi, this is just to let you know that the ICC article is being reassessed at Good article reassessment/International Criminal Court/1. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:12, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

B-class review request: Karl Marx
I've finished major work on this article. Before a WP:GA nomination, I'd like to invite interested projects to do a B-class review. Please post any reviews on the article's talk page. I'd appreciate any assistance with prose copy-editing (I am not a native speaker of English). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 23:21, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Human rights and corruption
Dear Bros, I am a wikipedian and very interested in human rights. I wonder whether i can have a section named corruption in an article about human rights of a country? I think there is a strong connection between human rights and corruption. The latter violates the principle of "equal access to public services and government" stated in the Universal Declaration on Human rights. Would you agree? Thank you--Trananh1980 (talk) 04:55, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Please review Articles for deletion/Aaron Tobey which concerns Aaron Tobey Richmond Airport 4th Amendment Naked Protest
and proposals being discussed there for a potential merged or more general additional article on US civilian aiport security regulation issues and public reactions, perspectives on and by foreign travelers, sociology, law, cultural phenomenology, and international context. The later detection of Fukushima radiation at US airports, which is not yet mentioned in this article, is also being discussed as a subtopic to be added into a general article. Separately from the 'criiticms' subsection on the US Transportation Security Administration alone.

Articles for deletion/Don't touch my junk is a second related AfD regarding another article which also presents a US airport bodily search protest.

A potential general article not only on protest but on efficacy, social context, and events which are of national and international note in these regards would also include breaking 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Fukushima I nuclear accidents news such as Japan radiation sets off O'Hare airport alarms -- CBS News Chicago station reports trace amounts of radiation clinging to flights from country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami:


 * "Trace amounts of radiation from Japan have been detected in Chicago, CBS News station WBBM-TV reports.

Travelers coming in from Japan on Wednesday triggered radiation detectors at O'Hare International Airport as they passed through customs. Only very small amounts of radiation were detected.

...Feds move more radiation monitors to West Coast...

"We are aware of the radiation," said Chicago Aviation Department spokeswoman Karen Pride. "We are adding screenings and precautionary measures."

...Radiation was also found in luggage and on passengers on flights from Japan.

Mayor Richard M. Daley and other city officials wouldn't provide any additional details, saying federal authorities were handling the situation.

"Of course the protection of the person coming off the plane is important in regards to any radiation and especially within their families," Daley said at an unrelated event." [more at] Articles for deletion/Aaron Tobey [and in the original CBS article March 17, 2011]. - Pandelver (talk) 20:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Rape in military culture
Recently I am confronted with rape in the military from among their own ranks. Staggering statistics show that 1/3 of women report rape while that at least doubles due to the nature of military culture and fear. My fiancé is deployed to Afghanistan. I wonder if women would join the military if they knew there was maybe a 70% chance they would be raped with no retaliation. If women in the military report rape they lose. No justice, no compensation, they lose credibility and maybe their job and pension. During times of war, we send our loved one in the assumption of damger. We do not assume this danger will come from those who should most likely protect them. What can be done about this when the highest ranking individuals protect the rapists and act as if the females are there for their use and belive they know they are there as a matter of convenience? 70.185.235.48 (talk) 05:07, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Free election
The usage of is under discussion, see Talk:Free election (Polish throne). 65.93.12.101 (talk) 04:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

--Anabuiles8 (talk) 02:14, 31 March 2011 (UTC)== Feminization of Poverty ==

Hello everybody,

I am interested in adding and revising the content of the Feminization of Poverty page. Although the current article discusses the basic concepts of the issue, I believe it is important to address the deprivation of human capabilities and how it affects women’s poverty. Therefore, I am looking into adding a new section about capabilities in relation to feminization of poverty. Many falsely attribute the feminization of poverty to gender inequality and lack of income, when in fact necessary components to alleviating poverty are capabilities, such as education and health. Please take a look at the Feminization of Poverty page, any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! --Yk12 (talk) 20:24, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Glass Ceiling
The Wikipedia page glass ceiling has many issues that need to be fixed but one that people seem to think needs to be fixed the most is that is sounds to feminist. I want people to understand that by writing it about only women is not a way of sounding feminist but a way to get a point across about human rights. Historically glass ceiling was started for the discrimination of women in the workplace so it is a human rights view point and not a radical feminist’s perspective. By helping rewrite it so that people will read it as a women’s equality of human rights then maybe it will broaden the minds of the readers to realize what feminism really is. Any suggestions or comments to help me out? Clwilson91 (talk) 02:03, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

International Labor Standards
According to the WikiProject Human Rights mission statement, the project seeks to create and manage a comprehensive and structured set of well-written Wikipedia articles on human rights. A colleague and I are planning on expanding the stub article on International labour standards and adding it to the WikiProject Human Rights in an attempt to improve the theoretical backing of labor related pages in this project. Given that two of the top 150 and eight of the top 1500 most popular articles in WikiProject Human Rights are directly related to labor issues, it is evident that the project would benefit greatly from the addition of an article that focuses on the formation of international labor standards, arguments for and against them, and the potential human rights implications. Furthermore, international labor standards are directly related to issues of human rights due to the very fact that these standards shape various conventions, treaties, and recommendations designed to eliminate unjust and inhumane labor practices. We would appreciate any feedback and look forward to contributing to this project.
 * -- Leejohnson898 (talk) 03:41, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * -- Krisinaz (talk) 03:41, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Requested Article: Women's Property Rights
The capability approach, initially conceived by Amartya Sen, is the accumulation of ideas that were originally excluded from traditional aproaches to the economics of welfare. These basic principles were then framed by way of ten noted capabilities by Martha Nussbaum. One of the ten capabilities that Nussbaum argues should be supported by all democracies is the Control over one's Environment, further divided into Political and Material areas. Within the Material environment, there is this capability of being able to hold property and having property rights on an equal basis with others.

This idea of property rights and the ability to own property is an issue that is often neglected. However, property inheritance rights are importance factors, and they can be especially important to the determination of a woman's living conditions and overall status both within the family and the community. Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide economic security.

Disputes over property, now afforded a monetary value, have grown more prevalent. There has been an observed shift in women's rights to inherit or ability to manage property to a male-dominated sphere of land ownership. Due to the prevalence of patrilineal inheritance customs, both productive resources such as land and livestock and property such as household goods have ended up in the hands of men and not women. Consequently, when only men have rights of inheritance or family succession, it is women that have little opportunity to improve their overall status and living conditions within the family and community.

Thus, I would like to propose an entry that will be an encompassing assessment of the shifting focus of economic and social matters, focusing on the issues of women empowerment through land ownership. Issues of property and inheritance rights, and the unjust nature that has shifted natural recipients to male heads, either through corrupt titling companies, social norms, or societal standards, will also be examined. I believe this issue is critical to the area of basic Human Rights, and I welcome criticisms and suggestions on how to improve the proposed article about women's inheritance rights. Slin2264 (talk) 02:36, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Family Planning in Muslim Communities
I am proposing expanding upon and possibly editing the page entitled Family Planning. The Wikipedia page indicates a need for a greater world view of the topic because though it mentions China, Hong Kong, and Family Planning in Iran, there is a great deal of content missing. I am interested in adding a major section to the page covering Family Planning in Muslim Communities. This topic is incredibly important as Islam, a religion which by its most conservative standards considers family planning solely in terms of the writings of the Qur’an and hadith, comprises approximately 21-23% of the world’s population.

There exists an increasing body of research on this topic in various Muslim communities as well as increasing legislation on the topic in most Islamic states. I propose to give examples of varying Muslim communities in order to explain family planning practice differences according to geographic location, differences between the Shia and Sunni denominations, and current legislation in various Islamic states.

One of the World Health Organization’s Millennium Development Goals (5.B) highlights a need for universal access to Reproductive health, pointing out an unmet need for family planning. I believe a thorough, unbiased presentation of family planning in Muslim populations will expand upon challenges to this goal and bring light to the development of women and human rights in these communities.

To the members of the WikiProject Human Rights: would an addition I am proposing overwhelm the Family Planning page? I originally was thinking of creating a separate page for this topic, but am unsure that it could stand on its own (without a separate page on, for example, Family Planning in Christian Communities). Furthermore, do you have any suggestions in structuring this entry as to best structure this topic? There is a great deal of discussion on the Family Planning page, and I am aiming to make this entry unbiased in all dimensions. Mschweickart (talk) 03:49, 30 March 2011 (UTC)mschweickart

United States Bill of Rights is a candidate for the U.S. Collaboration of the Month
The United States Bill of Rights article has been submitted as a possible candidate for the U.S. Collaboration of the Month. --Kumioko (talk) 16:20, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Award templates
I've just put together templates for the winners of a few human rights awards. Anybody want to pitch in and help fill in a redlink? Even a stub would be appreciated--many hands make light etc. See below. Khazar (talk) 06:50, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Chink
The ethnic slur against Chinese, "Chink", has been requested to be renamed, see Talk:Chink. 65.95.13.213 (talk) 05:10, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

New article - Book about same-sex marriage by Dan Savage
New article - Book about adoption by Dan Savage. Feedback, and suggestions for additional research and more secondary sources - would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 08:30, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

New article - book - It Gets Better by Dan Savage
Created, new article. :) Feedback, and suggestions for additional research and more secondary sources - would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 05:00, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

Request for comment
Discussing rename of prejudicial term "Chink" to more appropriate article title06:39, 31 May 2011 (UTC)