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America and the Vatican Must Confront China on Human Rights, Starting with Jimmy Lai
11 Mar 2025 09:03 GMT
… old Hong Kong businessman turned human rights activist and convert to Catholicism … release of jailed human rights activists in the Soviet Union, Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky … including those being persecuted for human rights advocacy.
The Church, as …
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
10 Feb 2025 14:03 GMT
… the Politburo to allow Andrei Sakharov to return to Moscow … Soviet hydrogen bomb, he had been allowed unusual latitude in his human rights … the negotiations on deep nuclear cuts from constraints on … combined US and Soviet/Russian nuclear arsenals by a …
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Canadian human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler nominated for Nobel Peace Prize after Iran death threat
07 Feb 2025 17:12 GMT
… including (Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Andrei Sakharov, (anti … unyielding commitment to human rights and supporting political … an investment manager in Russia whose associate, Sergei … its efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
Recommended from …
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Jimmy Carter Deserves More Credit for Refocusing Foreign Policy on Human Rights
09 Jan 2025 18:13 GMT
… nuclear and conventional armaments of the United States and the Soviet … religious faith: René Cassin (1968), Andrei Sakharov (1975), Mother Teresa (1979), Lech … Sakharov, the dissident Soviet scientist. Carter wrote back that “human rights is a central …
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Jimmy Carter’s Enduring Legacy On Human Rights
06 Jan 2025 18:27 GMT
… , Carter underscored the importance human rights would play in his administration … received a note from Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize-winning … the centrality of human rights to his administration. Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev …
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Jimmy Carter’s lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle the Soviet Union
30 Dec 2024 02:21 GMT
… and Russia, then known as the Soviet Union … Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter … Andrei Sakharov – who were fighting an ideological war against socialist leaders.
Human rights … human rights, was a key instrument in dismantling the power of the Soviet …
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European Union honors Venezuela’s opposition leaders with heralded human rights prize
19 Dec 2024 09:41 GMT
… by recognizing them with a human rights prize.
The country’s election … is named after Andrei Sakharov, a former Soviet Union physicist and eventual dissident who won … advocated more international cooperation and human rights. The award was established in …
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EU honors Venezuela opposition leaders with top human rights prize
19 Dec 2024 00:43 GMT
… unwavering fight for democracy and human rights in Venezuela. The prize, … his commitment to justice and human rights despite facing intense repression.
… and human rights.
The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, …
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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
06 Feb 2025 20:16 GMT
… sign a letter condemning Andrei Sakharov, a leading nuclear physicist turned human-rights defender, and wrote … . In the nineteen-fifties, some Soviet astrobotanists argued that dialectical materialism …
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Venezuelan opposition leaders receive the European Union’s top human rights honor
17 Dec 2024 12:38 GMT
… including disqualifications, arrests and human rights violations. Machado went into … which has seriously undermined human rights democratic institutions and the … , named after Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, was created …