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Classified documents reveal UK’s role in abuse of its own citizens 0
Post Views: 9 Former Guantanamo Bay detainees Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Martin Mubanga. MI5 officers interviewed Omar Deghayes in Afghanistan Kabul for three hours on the evening of 3 July 2002. He commented that he was treated better by
Read MoreUS: Ratify Women’s Rights Treaty 0
Post Views: 12 (New York) – The United States’ long delay in ratifying the global women’s rights treaty undermines fulfillment of the US commitment to women’s rights at home and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Former President Jimmy Carter
Read MoreNorth Korea’s crumbling health system in dire need of aid 0
Post Views: 7 The North Korean government still claims that its healthcare system is free for all – © BBC World Service Amputation and other major surgeries carried out without anaesthesia are just one indication of the dire state of
Read MoreJustice urged for Russian human rights defender’s murder 0
Post Views: 5 Natalia Estemirova was abducted and murdered in July 2009 – © Amnesty International One year after the murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to stop the harassment and
Read MoreEconomics in Freefall 0
Post Views: 8 I admire Joselph E. Stiglitz, because he has a social conscience and a sense of justice, the absence of which turns economists into monsters. Despite his virtues and Nobel Prize, Stiglitz sometimes falls down as an economist.
Read MoreFallujah: Anatomy of an Atrocity 0
Post Views: 6 Today July 6th of 2010 is the day that Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan Entesar Ariabi released their epidemiological study on the health problems the people of Fallujah are suffering from. The full study can be downloaded here,
Read MoreWave of anti-union repression in Panama 0
Post Views: 8 The ITUC, together with its affiliated organisations in Panama, firmly condemns the violent repression of the strike movement by workers in the Bocas del Toro Province that has resulted in killings, more than 100 people injured and
Read MoreKyrgyzstan: Torture, Detentions Escalate Tensions 0
Post Views: 11 Marks on the body of 30-year-old Makhmud (not his real name), an ethnic Uzbek living in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan Makhmud told Human Rights Watch that police detained him and beat him with a
Read MoreKazakhstan: Migrant Tobacco Workers Cheated, Exploited 0
Post Views: 15 A Kyrgyz child whose family has travelled to work on a tobacco farm near the village of Dostyk, Kazakhstan.© 2009 Moises Saman for Human Rights Watch For Children in the Fields, Serious Health Risks and Schooling Lost(Almaty,
Read MoreRemote-Controlled Killing 0
Post Views: 11 The Spot-and-Shoot Game Nazareth. It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill terrorists. Played by: young
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