Mazda Motor Corporation has been honored with the Human Rights Merit Award by Japan’s Ministry of Justice and the National Federation of Consultative Assemblies of Civil Liberties Commissioners. The award was established in fiscal year (FY) 2006 to recognize significant achievements in the field of human rights protection by an individual or an organization…Based on a firm belief that all human rights are sacrosanct, Mazda is pro actively and sincerely committed to human rights protection activities, and has established a system for promoting respect for human rights. In 2000, the Human Rights Committee was set up with the company’s president as its chairperson. The committee’s role is to formulate policies regarding human rights issues for the entire Mazda Group, and incorporate them in all Mazda’s business activities.

Mazda announced that it’s line up of 2008 CX-9 vehicles will have the option of docking your Gameboy Advance. That’s right, a system roughly four generations old (in gaming terms) can now hook up to the DVD dockable entertainment system available in the 2008 CX-9. Why such a throwback to an early-2000′s version of the Nintendo hand held gaming device? Mazda claims it is based on sales – the Gameboy Advance has the highest amount of sales on record for any hand held game system. If you still don’t see the logic, fear not; MazdaPedia feels this is only the first step to a Mazda and Nintendo bond, which might bring a Nintendo DS dock to your RX-8 or Wii hook-ups to the Mazda6.