Human rights

April 21, 2009 - 11:01am
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MEDIA ADVISORY - Tonight: Lesniak Speech Re-Enactment And Book Signing

MEDIA ADVISORY - TONIGHT: LESNIAK SPEECH RE-ENACTMENT AND BOOK SIGNING

UNION – Senator Raymond Lesniak will re-enact his international award-winning speech on how the death penalty violates fundamental human rights and conduct a book signing for his speech tonight at the Kean University Conference Center from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.

The event will be hosted by former Senator Robert Martin and the Board of Trustees for the Road to Justice and Peace, a non-profit organization which aims to advance the abolition of the death penalty around the globe, to support the families of murder victims and to promote alternatives to incarceration.

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February 2, 2009 - 10:30am
PRESS RELEASE

Senator Lesniak Wins International Human Rights Competition

SENATOR LESNIAK WINS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMPETITION

CAEN, FRANCE – Today, Senator Raymond Lesniak won the Memorial de Caen International Human Rights Competition. The competition included lawyers from Washington, D.C., France, Belgium, Guinea, Senegal, and Switzerland with speech topics ranging from governmental to military abuses of human rights.

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August 9, 2008 - 4:00am

Turning our Backs on Tibet

Tibet – the broad, high plateau between India and China – is bigger than Western Europe and the source of the great rivers of Asia: the Indus, the Yangtze, the Yarlung Tsangpol, and the Salween. Mysterious and exotic, the “Roof of the World” is the place of Tantric Buddhism, seers, and mystics capable of levitation and astral travel – at least to those who do not understand a civilization where tradition and religion are living forces and whose peoples radiate a serenity and gentleness long extinct in modern society.

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