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		<title>President and Mrs. Bush Surprise Lost Boys and Girls of South Sudan</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:33:56 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Chris Walsh</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Bush Center welcomed approximately 70 Lost Boys and Girls to tour the Presidential Library and Museum.  Many Lost Boys and Girls of South Sudan resettled in the U.S. upon being displaced or orphaned during the country’s civil&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2016/02/president-and-mrs-bush-surprise-lost-boys-and-girls-of-south-sudan/</link>
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		<title>Promoting Democracy and National Security Go Together</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:08:55 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Amanda Schnetzer</category>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bush Institute launched its new digital publication, The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute. One of the featured essays, Promoting Democracy and National Security Go Together, was authored by Amanda Schnetzer, Director for Human Freedom at the George&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2016/02/promoting-democracy-and-national-security-go-together/</link>
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		<title>Greatest Threats and Opportunities for Human Freedom in 2016: An Interview with David Kramer</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:07:34 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Freedom Square</category>
		<description><![CDATA[With International Human Rights Day approaching on December 10, the Bush Institute&#8217;s Chris Walsh asked David Kramer to forecast the greatest threats and opportunities for human freedom in 2016. Kramer is a member of the Bush Institute’s Human Freedom Advisory Council and former&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/12/greatest-threats-and-opportunities-for-human-freedom-in-2016-an-interview-with-david-kramer/</link>
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		<title>The Paris Attacks: Elliott Abrams on the Changing Nature of Terrorism</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:49:09 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Elliott Abrams</category>
		<description><![CDATA[After last week’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, the Bush Institute asked Elliott Abrams to share his views on ISIS and the current nature of terrorism. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/11/the-paris-attacks-elliott-abrams-on-the-changing-nature-of-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Bible pages handwritten by imprisoned Chinese Christians</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:11:28 -0600</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifact</category>
		<description><![CDATA[&amp;ldquo;House church&amp;rdquo; Christians &amp;ndash; those who worship in private homes because their churches are not recognized by the government &amp;ndash; are often imprisoned for their unauthorized beliefs and activities. These prisoners are typically denied access to religious materials including the Bible. In response to this ban on sacred Scripture, a group of imprisoned believers transcribed each book of the Bible by hand into notebooks and circulated them within the prison. On November 1, 2011, a group of exiled house church Christians presented President and Mrs. Bush with...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//b/bible_pages_handwritten_by_imprisoned_chinese_christians/</link>
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		<title>Bush Institute Fellow Victor Cha Links North Korean Human Rights and National Security</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:41:03 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Chris Walsh</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Victor Cha, Photo Credit: Center for Strategic and International Studies &#160; “No issue has raised more of a response than the direct calling out of the regime for how it treats its people. In the end, the North Korean state&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/10/bush-institute-fellow-victor-cha-links-north-korean-human-rights-and-national-security/</link>
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		<title>MEDIA SHOULD DO MORE TO EXPOSE NORTH KOREA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:21:13 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Chris Walsh</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and BBC were among the major media outlets providing an inside look at North Korea.  NBC correspondent Bill Neely was one of those on the ground in Pyongyang to cover the Communist Party’s 70th anniversary festivities.&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/10/media-should-do-more-to-expose-north-koreas-human-rights-record/</link>
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		<title>CHANGES IN CUBA: AN INTERVIEW WITH ELLIOTT ABRAMS</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:04:06 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Freedom Square</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution and nationalization of U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy severed diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba on January 3, 1961.  Fifty-four years later, the Obama Administration reestablished formal ties&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/09/changes-in-cuba-an-interview-with-elliott-abrams/</link>
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		<title>CHANGES IN CUBA: AN INTERVIEW WITH CARLOS GUTIERREZ</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:56:15 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Freedom Square</category>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bush Institute blog is exploring the change in diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba with a series of short interviews with observers of the U.S.-Cuba relationship.  We continue the series with former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/09/changes-in-cuba-an-interview-with-carlos-gutierrez/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Vaclav Havel</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:01:50 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed April 2010
V&amp;aacute;clav Havel (1936-2011) was a playwright and poet who played a leading role in bringing an end to communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia (1989&amp;ndash;92) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993&amp;ndash;2003).
Havel was born into a wealthy, intellectual family. For political reasons he was not accepted into any post-secondary humanities program, but eventually he was able to study drama by correspondence and began publishing articles and plays. In 1968 he was a prominent participant in the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/vaclav_havel/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Ariel Sigler Amaya</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:55:20 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed March 2011
Ariel Sigler Amaya was a teacher and an accomplished amateur boxer in his native Cuba. After he began speaking out in favor of democratic reforms, he became one of the 75 dissidents arrested in the Black Spring of 2003 and was convicted of having acted &amp;ldquo;against the independence or territorial integrity of the state.&amp;rdquo; In prison he suffered torture and other forms of ill treatment.
By the time of his release in 2010, Sigler&amp;rsquo;s weight had gone down from 205 to 117 pounds. Once in excellent physical shape, he suffered from a variety of medical...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/ariel_sigler_amaya/</link>
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		<title>FREEDOM MATTERS FOR RETURNING STUDENTS</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:05:24 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Chris Walsh</category>
		<description><![CDATA[It was exciting to learn that North Texas’ Lovejoy Independent School District incorporated the Bush Institute’s Freedom Matters!curriculum into its recent “Celebrate Freedom Week.” Each fall, students in Texas public schools study their country’s founding documents and the principles of freedom.&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/09/freedom-matters-for-returning-students/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Genaro Arriagada</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:00:18 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Genaro Arriagada Herrera is a Chilean attorney, political scientist, diplomat and politician.
Arriagada was born in 1943 and studied law at the University of Chile, graduating in 1965. He became active in politics and affiliated with the Christian Democratic Party in 1963. He worked on several of the party&amp;rsquo;s political campaigns. Following the military coup d&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;tat in 1973, the regime of General Augusto Pinochet banned political parties. Arriagada became active in the democratic opposition to the military regime. From 1980 to 1989, he served as vice president of...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/genaro_arriagada/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Álvaro Varela Walker</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:43:26 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Álvaro Varela Walker is a Chilean attorney and human rights activist. He was born in 1951.Varela studied law at the University of Chile. He became student body president and was active in politics. He supported Salvador Allende, a leftist who was elected president of Chile in 1970. In 1973, Allende&amp;rsquo;s government was overthrown by a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. As the universities in Chile came under control of Pinochet&amp;rsquo;s military regime, he was expelled.
In 1974, he began working as an attorney for the Committee for Cooperation for Peace, an ecumenical...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/alvaro_varela_walker/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Marcel Granier</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:54:59 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed November 2010
Marcel Granier is the chief executive officer of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). Trained as a lawyer, he began working at RCTV in the 1970s and worked his way up through the ranks to Director General of the station. The station&amp;rsquo;s editorial policies supported democratic governance and criticized efforts by President Hugo Chavez to consolidate power and eliminate governmental checks and balances.
In 2007, the Chavez government imposed a requirement that RCTV reapply for its broadcast license then denied the application. RCTV operated successfully as a cable...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/marcel_granier/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Kim Seong Min</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:17:41 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Kim Seong Min was born in 1962. He grew up and received his education in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim is the son of a poet and was trained as a writer. After serving ten years in the military, he worked in one of the regime&amp;rsquo;s propaganda offices. Troubled by the society in which he lived, Kim escaped to China in 1997. He eventually arrived in Seoul, South Korea in 1999, and ever since has fought for the liberation and democratization of his homeland.
In 2004, Kim established Free North Korea Radio (FNKR) to broadcast messages about freedom to those being oppressed and exploited by the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/kim_seong_min/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Claudio Jose Sandoval</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:11:29 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed December 2010
Claudio Jose Sandoval is a Venezuelan human rights advocate. He was trained in social work and studied law at Andr&amp;eacute;s Bello Catholic University in Caracas. After the government of President Hugo Ch&amp;aacute;vez closed down the country&amp;rsquo;s largest private television network, RCTV, in 2007, Sandoval became active in student organizations supporting freedom and democracy in Venezuela. He was active in the pro-democracy coalition Foro por la Vida (Forum for Life) and co-founded an organization called Generaci&amp;oacute;n de los Puentes (Generation of...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/claudio_jose_sandoval/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Bertha Antunez</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:10:15 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed March 2011
Bertha Ant&amp;uacute;nez Pernet was born in 1959 to a family of limited means. She began to become politically aware in 1990 when her brother, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez (&amp;ldquo;Ant&amp;uacute;nez&amp;rdquo;), was unjustly charged with &amp;ldquo;enemy propaganda&amp;rdquo; for saying in a public square that Cuba should experience the same political changes that were taking place in Eastern Europe. He was incarcerated and then charged with additional political offenses during his confinement, which extended his sentence until 2007.
Ant&amp;uacute;nez Pernet became...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/bertha_antunez/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Mahmoud Afifi</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:44:09 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Mahmoud Afifi is an Egyptian democracy activist with the April 6th Youth Movement, a group formed in 2008 to support striking workers; afterwards, it transformed into a nationwide opposition network against Hosni Mubarak&amp;rsquo;s regime. Today, Afifi serves as the Director of the April 6th Youth Movement&amp;rsquo;s Information Office. He is a lawyer by profession and graduated from Banha University in 2006.
Afifi joined the April 6th Youth Movement in 2009 and founded the group&amp;rsquo;s chapter in Egypt&amp;rsquo;s Qalyubia governorate. There he rallied youth to take part in various...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/mahmoud_afifi/</link>
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		<title>INSPIRING BURMA’S NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:44:52 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>cwalsh</author> 
		<category>By Elizabeth Hoffman</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In this interview, Aung Kyaw Tun, a former political prisoner and a consultant for the Myanmar Institute for Democracy, discusses his experience in the Bush Institute’s Liberty and Leadership Forum and the conditions in his country. During his year in the program, Aung&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/news/2015/07/inspiring-burmas-next-generation-of-leaders/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Alejandrina García de la Riva</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:03:31 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Alejandrina Garc&amp;iacute;a de la Riva was born on April 12, 1966, in Matanzas, Cuba. Her first years of life were spent on a sugar mill in the municipality of Calimente. She went to technical school at the &amp;Aacute;lvaro Reynoso Institute in order to study agriculture and agronomy and held jobs as a statistician, grocer, independent journalist, and a correspondent for Servicio Noticuba, a press agency considered illegal by the Cuban government.
In 1983, Alejandrina married Diosdado Gonz&amp;aacute;lez Marrero, a decision that ultimately led her down the path of nonviolent civil...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/alejandrina_garca_de_la_riva/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Albie Sachs</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:17:51 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Albie Sachs was born on January 30, 1935 in South Africa and grew up under the apartheid government.
His career as a freedom and human rights activist started at seventeen, when as a second-year law student at the University of Cape Town, he became active in nonviolent, anti-apartheid protests. At 21, he began practicing law and was known for defending individuals charged under racial statutes and repressive security laws. Sachs himself was arrested by the security police, subjected to banning orders restricting his movement, and eventually placed in solitary confinement without trial for...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/albie_sachs/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Ricardo Lagos</title>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 07:22:53 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Lagos served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. While in office Lagos was known for pursuing free-trade agreements, improving health care and education, and addressing the crimes of General Augusto Pinochet&apos;s military regime.
Lagos was born in 1938 in Santiago, Chile. He earned a law degree from the University of Chile in 1960 and then attended Duke University, where he received a doctorate in economics in 1966. He returned to Chile and served as director of the University of Chile&apos;s School of Political and Administrative Sciences and was subsequently appointed...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/ricardo_lagos/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antúnez</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:47:43 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Jorge Luis Garc&amp;iacute;a P&amp;eacute;rez (better known as &amp;ldquo;Ant&amp;uacute;nez&amp;rdquo;) was born in Placetas, Cuba in 1964. He is the leader of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Resistance Front. The Front is a Cuban civil society organization named for a political prisoner who died while on a hunger strike in 2010.
As an Afro-Cuban, Ant&amp;uacute;nez experienced the regime&amp;rsquo;s discrimination against minorities in restricting both educational and career opportunities. Such treatment, along with severe political repression, contributed to his disenchantment with the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/jorge_luis_garcia_perez_antnez/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Constancio Pinto</title>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:11:53 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed July 2010
Const&amp;acirc;ncio Pinto is the ambassador of East Timor to the United States. Still a child when the Indonesian military occupied the former Portuguese colony of East Timor in 1975, he fled to the mountains with his parents. The family remained in hiding for several years before returning to Dili, the capital, where Pinto attended high school and college. While still in school, Pinto became a leader of the underground movement for self-determination. In 1991 he was arrested, detained, and tortured for several days. The military authorities released him on the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/constancio_pinto/</link>
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		<title>Interview: Chen Guangcheng</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:35:13 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Interview</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Chen Guangcheng was born into a poor family on November 12, 1971 in China&amp;rsquo;s Shandong Province. As an infant, Chen suffered a fever that left him permanently blind. Chen developed a keen interest in legal practice. Teaching himself the law by studying legal texts and auditing various courses, Chen assisted people in his village with legal matters. In 2003, he married an English teacher and the couple had two children.&amp;nbsp;
Chen&amp;rsquo;s activism began in 1996 when he petitioned the central government in Beijing over taxes that were improperly levied against his family....]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews/chen_guangcheng/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Biscet Handkerchief Message</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:17:01 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifact</category>
		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Elias Biscet is a physician and a prominent advocate for human rights and democracy in Cuba. Dr. Biscet was among 75 dissidents arrested during the Black Spring crackdown in 2003. In a summary judgment for crimes against state security, he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. While being held in solitary confinement in a tiny cell, Dr. Biscet created this message on a handkerchief, which was smuggled out of prison. The illustrations at the bottom of the handkerchief include a drawing of the Cuban flag, a reference to the Group of 75 political prisoners arrested in the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//b/biscet_handkerchief_message/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Biscet Poem</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:16:52 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifact</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In January 2009 President Bush received this poem written by Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, then perhaps Cuba&amp;rsquo;s best-known prisoner of conscience. The poem was written on a handkerchief and smuggled out of prison and out of Cuba. In the poem Dr. Biscet honors President and Mrs. Bush for their work on behalf of freedom in Cuba and around the world.
Oscar Elias Biscet is a physician and a prominent advocate for human rights and democracy in Cuba. He was released from prison in March 2011 after serving almost twelve years under harsh conditions for having organized peaceful political...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//b/biscet_poem/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Charter 77</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:16:43 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifact</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1977, a group of Czechoslovak dissidents drafted and published the Charter 77 manifesto, which called on the communist government to respect human rights. Charter 77 was inspired in part by the 1975 Helsinki Accords, an international treaty signed by the United States, Canada and most European countries. The Helsinki Accords committed governments to guaranteeing basic human rights, such as freedom of speech, conscience, and assembly. But in Czechoslovakia and other communist states, these rights were routinely denied.
&amp;ldquo;The freedoms and rights of the people guaranteed by these...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//c/charter_77/</link>
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		<title>Artifact: Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet&#039;s Medal Of Freedom</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:16:34 -0500</pubDate>
		<author>Freedom Collection</author> 
		<category>Artifact</category>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet for his dedicated work advocating for human rights, freedom, and democracy in Cuba. At the time, Dr. Biscet was serving a harsh prison sentence in Havana for his activism. The medal was accepted by his children and directors of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, which Dr. Biscet founded.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor that a president may bestow. Dr. Biscet has been recognized worldwide for his peaceful and passionate opposition to the abuses of the Cuban...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedomcollection.org/interviews//d/dr_oscar_elias_biscet039s_medal_of_freedom/</link>
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