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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 1948-2008 It
is our duty to ensure that these rights are...
a living reality -- that they are known, understood and enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. It is often those who most need their human rights protected, ...
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Human Rights Day, 10 December 2007
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The Price We Pay For Homophobia
Political Animal —
... bonus pay and tuition for medical school, said Bill Carr, deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy. But they haven't been able to fill their need for 24,000 doctors, dentists and nurses in the Defense Department. The Pentagon's doctor and nurse corps remain 1,000 short of the numbers needed to treat all the military's patients, and Carr said he hoped the program would fill the gaps." And yet, as VetVoice points out, the military keeps kicking out perfectly good doctors , dentists, ...
The Price We Pay For Homophobia
Obsidian Wings —
... Carr, deputy undersecretary of defense for military personnel policy. But they haven't been able to fill their need for 24,000 doctors, dentists and nurses in the Defense Department.
The Pentagon's doctor and nurse corps remain 1,000 short of the numbers needed to treat all the military's patients, and Carr said he hoped the program would fill the gaps."
And yet, as VetVoice points out, the military keeps kicking out perfectly good doctors, dentists, nurses, and linguists because it doesn't like their sexual ...
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