John Shattuck
John Shattuck
John Howard Francis Shattuck an international legal scholar and human rights leader, is the President and Rector of Central European Universityin August 2009...
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assured by the president that he will continue to release prisoners.
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We cannot hope to see an end to this terrible conflict until the facts are known about what occurred and justice is done. ... That's the moral imperative.
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I think this is not a report that focuses on China anymore than it focuses on any other one country, ... But those who are seeking to exercise basic rights of freedom of religion in China (are being persecuted.)
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The issue of persecution is a serious one affecting many religions, ... The issue has not previously received much attention with respect to Christians, and the focal point of this report, at the request of Congress, is that subject.
war government numbers
In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.
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It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
religious world today
Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.