{"id":31807,"date":"2012-10-13T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31807"},"modified":"2012-10-13T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T18:51:21","slug":"global-post-the-eus-top-5-human-rights-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/13\/global-post-the-eus-top-5-human-rights-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Post: The EU&#8217;s top 5 human rights issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norway received a combination of disbelief and applause from the international community today for the Nobel&#8217;s committee&#8217;s announcement that the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize will go to the European Union for its transformation &#8220;from a continent of war to a continent of peace&#8221; and its focus on &#8220;peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights,&#8221; according to the BBC. <\/p>\n<p>However, Europe isn&#8217;t perfect, and human rights abuses still plague the continent. Human Rights Watch has called for the &#8220;end to business as usual&#8221; in the EU, although the prize is &#8220;a recognition of the EU&#8217;s contribution to democracy and human rights in Europe,&#8221; reported the Telegraph. <\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatches\/globalpost-blogs\/rights\/the-eus-top-5-human-rights-issues\" title=\"EU's top 5 Human Rights Abuses \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway received a combination of disbelief and applause from the international community today for the Nobel&#8217;s committee&#8217;s announcement that the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize will go to the European Union for its transformation &#8220;from a continent of war to a continent of peace&#8221; and its focus on &#8220;peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights,&#8221; according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31808,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807\/revisions\/31808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}