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Freedom of Speech

Posted by Batuts
Friday, June 27, 2008

WikiPedia.org - Freedom of speech is being able to speak freely without censorship. The right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human-rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, although implementation remains lacking in many countries. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes preferred, since the right is not confined to verbal speech but is understood to protect any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

What is Right? - WikiPedia.org In the jurisprudence and the law, a right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing something, or to obtain or refrain from obtaining an action, thing or recognition in civil society. Rights serve as rules of interaction between people, and, as such, they place constraints and obligations

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Imagine a life without Filipinos

BY ABDULLAH AI-MAGLOOTH | AL-WATAN

Posted by Batuts
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Muhammad Al-Maghrabi became handicapped and shut-down his flower and gift shop in Jeddah after his Filipino workers insisted on leaving and returning home. He said, "When they left, i felt i had lost my arms. I was so sad that I lost my appetite."

Al-Maghrabi then flew to Manila to look for two other filipino workers to replace the ones who had left. Previously, he had tried workers of different nationalities but they did not impress him. "There’s not comparison between Filipinos and others," he says. Whenever i see Filipino workers in the kingdom, I wonder what our life would be without them.

Saudi Arabia has the largest numbers of Filipino workers - 1,019,577 - outside the Philippines. In 2006 alone, the Kingdom recruited more then 233,000 workers from the Philippines and their number is still increasing. Filipinos not only play important and effective role in the Kingdom, they also perform different jobs in countries across the world, including working as a [Read whole article]

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