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PUERTO RICO, May 5, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - There’s a troubling reason for the low number of domestic applications to major universities in the United States, says professor Krzystztof Silwa, a candidate for the presidency of the of University of Puerto Rico: the applicants have been killed. “Do you know what is happening in the United States? In 1973, they established legal abortion. More or less 50 million abortions have been committed or done in the United States, which means that they have killed an entire generation in the United States,” Silwa told the university’s Search Committee, which is interviewing three...

The UPR stands for Universal Periodic Review, a human rights reporting process established by The U.N. General Assembly in 2006. As shall be seen, "Orwellian" does not do the UPR justice. "Bizarro World" comes closer to the mark. As the UPR is designed, the U.N.'s 192 Member States assess their respective human rights performance over the preceding four years and submit a report on the same to the HRC, the U.N. Human Rights Council. During this past year, under the guidance of our HRC, Hillary Rodham Clinton, "senior representatives" from "more than a dozen" federal entities wandered the country listening...

Some 20 students and demonstrators, including a TV journalist, were forcibly removed from the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus gate on Barbosa Avenue by Riot Police officers Tuesday morning while demonstrating against the institution’s refusal to negotiate solutions for the fiscal crisis affecting it. During the incident, at least six students were injured, including journalist Mayra Acevedo, from Channel 6, and had to receive medical assistance. “We were demonstrating on the lane that the police had already closed to traffic in front of the gate. People trying to get into the campus had to go through the students’...

University of Puerto Rico students successfully, and almost without a significant incident, paralyzed academic and administrative operations at the Río Piedras campus Wednesday after university officials had vowed to keep the institution open. A group of several dozen students who had stayed within campus premises since Tuesday night joined others coming into the campus on Wednesday morning and successfully locked the gate on Barbosa Avenue as early as 6:00 am. At the gate five or six university guardsmen had tried to stop the students in a kind of tug o’ war with them to control the gate. In the melee...

A student assembly of the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus approved Tuesday a 48 hour stoppage that will evolve into a full blown student strike “if no progress is made” in the negotiations between the University’s Board of Trustees and the appointed students’ negotiating committee. After a heated but orderly debate over the actions the student body should take regarding the budget cuts, the elimination and/or limitation of the tuition waiver program and the possibility of service privatization, the more than 2,100 student assembly decided to stop university operations for two consecutive days — April 21-22. “I’m hopeful...

"Clinton State Department Working With 'Advocacy Groups' to Prepare 'Human Rights' Report on U.S. to Give to U.N." Friday, March 12, 2010 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the State Department is soliciting comments from citizens, advocacy groups and other non-governmental organizations on the human rights record of the United States. “Human rights are universal, but their experience is local. This is why we are committed to holding everyone to the same standard, including ourselves,” Clinton told a press briefing at the State Department, where she unveiled the...