Quoted: President Bush signed an executive order Friday spelling out new interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects that bar cruel and inhumane treatment, humiliation or denigration of prisoners' religious beliefs. [!]

WOW!! This is a surprisingly positive step in the Bush presidency. Too bad all the Abu Garib and Guantanamo Bay human rights violations had to occur to make this change in policy. I wonder if the CIA will actually comply...something tells me to the contrary.

Quoted: David Ritcheson was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted in 2006. This spring, he testified before Congress in favor of stiffer hate-crimes laws, and seemed to be putting his life back together. He didn't quite make it. David's story.

i can't believe hate crimes of this extremity still occurs in America today, and it's a tragedy not only for David, but also for the rest of us...

Quoted: A woman in west India strips to her underwear in public as part of a dispute with her family over a dowry payment.

Good for her! I'm glad some one had the guts to do this publicly. This whole dowry situation is absolutely uphauling, and the Indian government has frankly put this major human rights issue on the back burner while thousands of women continue to suffer every year.