{"id":880,"date":"2008-08-06T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2010-03-06T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:21:14","slug":"nrt-human-rights-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"NRT Human Rights Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In December 2006, the United Nations adopted a major new human rights treaty aimed at preventing and punishing enforced disappearance.<br \/>\nNew Zealand didn&#8217;t sign it.<br \/>\nYou can help change this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NZ political blogger Idiot\/Savant of <a href=\"http:\/\/norightturn.blogspot.com\"><\/a>No Right Turn has launched a short, sharp <a href=\"http:\/\/norightturn.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/doing-something.html\">campaign to petition the government to sign<\/a>.<br \/>\nUnsurprisingly, given my affection for Amnesty International as a favoured charity, I support this goal wholeheartedly. I would really appreciate it if you <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inspire.net.nz\/%7Eidiot\/disappearancepetition\/actionpack.zip\">download a copy of the petition<\/a>, walk it around your workplace and get folk to sign it.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve never felt entirely up to speed on political disappearance and &#8220;the disappeared&#8221;, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forced_disappearance\">a good overview on wikipedia<\/a>. The list of places with well-known incidents includes Iran, Nazi Germany, Chechnya and Northern Ireland. It is a practice that undermines the most basic aspects of being human, let alone its terrible consequences for freedom and human rights. I believe the government should become a signatory to this new treaty.<br \/>\nI\/S has set up <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.inspire.net.nz\/~idiot\/disappearancepetition\"><\/a>a page for the campaign with further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2006, the United Nations adopted a major new human rights treaty aimed at preventing and punishing enforced disappearance. New Zealand didn&#8217;t sign it. You can help change this. NZ political blogger Idiot\/Savant of No Right Turn has launched a short, sharp campaign to petition the government to sign. Unsurprisingly, given my affection for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NRT Human Rights Petition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-ec","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}