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Multinational Biotech Companies File Suit Against Hawaiian GMO Ban

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/big-island-biotech-ban_n_4395521.html

I was in Hawaii last year and attended a Rotary meeting featuring a speaker who was a proponent of GMO’s in Hawaii.  As a result I wrote a few blogs exploring the topic.  It is interesting to find out today about the legislation to ban GMO’s in Hawaii yet it exempts the… Continue reading

Are Civil and Political Rights Universal?

 

On the 10th December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was enshrined in international law.  This event was profoundly significant, given that at no point in history had human beings attempted to universalise human rights.   However, significant controversies have arisen about the limitations to universal rights.  These tensions… Continue reading

Mohandas Gandhi

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

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