Human Rights

The Little Red-Handed Lobby Shop and the Wolf

by Diane Farsetta — October 25, 2005 - 2:40pm

While human rights groups denounce the Sudanese government's "condoning of the action of a violent militia which is raping and killing innocent women, men and children and pillaging villages

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Reuters, October 21, 2005

Public Diplomacy after Psyops Atrocities

by Diane Farsetta — October 20, 2005 - 5:42pm

While embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Afghanistan, Australian journalist Stephen Dupont filmed "U.S.

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The Independent (UK), October 20, 2005

Aid Money Goes to PR Effort to Highlight Aid

by Diane Farsetta — September 13, 2005 - 11:37am

"The U.S., which saw positive PR results from the millions donated to Indonesia after the tsunami devastation in May, wants a PR firm to spread awareness that Uncle Sam has given over $1 billion to the archipelago over the last 50 years." The U.S.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub. req'd.), September 13, 2005

America's Army Fights Back: The PR Plan for the Pentagon's "Demonstration Village"

by Diane Farsetta — August 24, 2005 - 10:17am
  • Topics: Human Rights, International, Public Relations, War / Peace

    • Sometimes even the slickest public relations effort doesn't improve a person's or an institution's image. Think of the U.S. State Department's $15 million "Shared Values" ad campaign, which tried to assuage anti-American sentiment in Muslim countries.

    SLAPPing Speech

    by Sheldon Rampton — August 19, 2005 - 9:26pm

    Thanks to Molly Ivins for mentioning our work in her recent column about "strategic lawsuits against public participation" (SLAPPs), in which corporations file harassment lawsuits to silence their critics. Ivins cites the experience of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, which "has already spent $10 million defending itself against a lawsuit filed by Isuzu Motors Ltd.

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    AlterNet, August 19, 2005

    Justifying Shooting

    by Sheldon Rampton — August 19, 2005 - 3:54pm

    Following the revelation that British police gave out false information about the shooting of a terrorism suspect who turned out to be innocent, Simon Hattenstone urges greater skepticism about official police accounts. After the shooting of Brazilian student Jean Charles Menezes, police claimed that he had been wearing an unseasonably bulky, padded jacket that might be concealing a bomb, and that he ran from police and vaulted a ticket barrier at a subway station before being shot dead.

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    Guardian (UK), August 18, 2005

    Drug Industry Embraces Human Rights ... For Ads

    by Bob Burton — August 5, 2005 - 2:11am

    Mediaweek reports that new voluntary guidelines issued by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) on Direct-to-consumer advertising "contain few requirements that will add to marketers' ethical and legal burdens in creating drug ads." The guidelines, it reports "do little to go beyond a press release PhRMA issued on July 21, which merely 'encourage

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    Mediaweek, August 02, 2005
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