Obama Allegedly Gives Immunity to CDC Autism/Vaccine Whistleblower

The Obama Administration reportedly granted witness immunity to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist William Thompson, the accidental whistleblower in the vaccine-autism debate, reports Jon Rapporport.  

Details that Thompson and his colleagues knowingly omitted potentially incriminating data from a CDC study on the linkbetween vaccines and autism, became public knowledge after Thompson’s private conversation on the matter was recorded.

Though a Congressional hearing on any CDC cover-up hasn’t actually been scheduled, if it ever came to pass Thompson would be allegedly protected from prosecution to testify.

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Top Judges Say Australia Needs to Investigate ‘Reckless’ Surrogacy Laws

Couples in Australia have been breaking surrogacy laws to start their families, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports that two judges are urging the government to conduct a national inquiry into surrogacy.

Chief Justice Diana Byrant and Chief Justice John Pascoe called for international surrogacy reform over various dangers in Australia’s lack of comprehensive surrogacy legislation.

Judge Byrant said, according to ABC, that it was “reckless” for Australians to be creating children without knowledge or proof of who the child’s mother is, and feared that this was potentially violating children’s human rights because “they do not know one half of their genetic material.”

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ABC reported that Judge Pascoe said he didn’t think it was right to ban commercial surrogacy in Australia but allow citizens to pursue it “in countries where it exposes women and children to potential serious human rights abuses.”

“We can't ignore the fact that the technology is there, they [Australian couples] need to be able to access it and they need to access it in ways that protect their rights and in ways that protect the right of the child that they get through these arrangements," Pascoe said.

Keep reading more details of this story at:
Australian Broadcasting Company – Australian surrogacy laws a ticking time bomb, children risk growing up in limbo, senior judges warn

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Cambodia Combats Labor Violations, Protects Workers in Nightclubs and Nightlife Entertainment

Nightclub hostesses and other “adult entertainment workers” in Cambodia now have worker’s rights that are protected under labor laws after a new regulation was enacted on Wednesday, September 8, according to the Bangkok Post.

The regulation was passed in an effort to address labor-related violations that infringe on worker’s human rights, such as sexual harassment and excessive working hours, according to Cambodia’s labor and tourism ministries.

The U.N. released a statement that entertainment workers in Cambodia and throughout the region “face labor-related violations that infringe on their human rights,” and called the new regulation “ground-breaking,” reports the Bangkok Post.

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Thailand Labor Law Attorneys comment:

The update to Cambodia’s labor laws is interesting, because labor laws in Thailand typically extend worker’s rights to all laborers working in lawful industries. Therefore, workers in nightclubs would normally be protected under labor laws.

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Birth Certificate And Student Dormitory Legal Battles For Transgender

The Huffington Post reports that George Fox University, in Newberg, Oregon has stopped a transgender sophomore student from living in an all male dorm because of their “theological commitments” as a Christian school.

However, the student has now decided to file a federal complaint against the university. The school however have rejected his claim for discrimination and have released a statement saying "The university has made many efforts to provide support and accommodation for the student and remains committed to his academic, physical, emotional and spiritual welfare."

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This story comes as The Star reports that a family in Canada has filed a human rights complaint arguing their son should be allowed to change or remove the “sex” from his birth certificate. She has lived life as a girl from a young age, and is indeed now only six. Her mother said says Renn needed her birth certificate last year to register for kindergarten in Saskatoon and was embarrassed when she saw that she was listed as a boy.

In the 1970s, most provinces changed their laws so people could change their birth certificates after sex reassignment surgery. The revision left out transgender children, because people must be at least 18 to be eligible for the surgery.

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Burma: Telecoms Warned of Risk at Being Linked to Human Rights Abuses

Human Rights Watch has today warned international telecommunications companies attempting to enter the Burmese market they need to be careful to ensure they are not linked to human rights abuses if  sufficient protections are in not put in place.  

Burma's human rights reforms have been inadequate to date  in the Internet and telecommunications industries. Therefore Human Rights Watch has advised international companies to implement strong systems to prevent and address any abuses linked to them.

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