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Back to homepageCroatia urged to speed up war crimes prosecutions 0
Post Views: 10 Sibenik village in northern Croatia was almost totally destroyed by the war © AI The Croatian authorities should speed up the prosecution of war crimes suspects and make it their top priority, Amnesty International has said
Read MoreUN Security Council: Press Sudan to Cooperate With ICC 0
Post Views: 2 Internally displaced women return to Fata Borno camp from the Kutum market under escort by African Union peacekeepers, January 2007. © 2007 Gary Knight/VII Prosecutor to Brief Council on Darfur Ahead of Southern Sudan Referendum
Read MoreKenya: Somali refugees need protection not abuse 0
Post Views: 7 Somalis are regularly harassed by Kenyan police in the Dadaab refugee camps © UNHCR/E. Hockstein Kenya’s violations of the human rights of Somali refugees and asylum-seekers are putting thousands of lives at risk, Amnesty International said
Read MoreIran: Escalating Repression of University Students 0
Post Views: 9 Dozens Imprisoned, Others Barred as Classmates Mark National Student Day (New York) – Dozens of university students are behind bars and several hundred others have been expelled from campus because of their political activism or religious affiliation, Human
Read MoreFresh appeal for UK man held for year without charge in Iraq 0
Post Views: 4 The wife of a British man held without charge in Iraq for a year is calling on the UK government to step up its efforts to secure the release of her husband. Ramze Shihab Ahmed, a 68-year-old
Read MoreGreece: End Inhumane Detention Conditions for Migrants 0
Post Views: 4 Transfer Detainees; Protect and Properly Accommodate Unaccompanied Children (Brussels) – Greek officials should immediately transfer migrants from overcrowded and inhumane detention sites in the Evros region to an empty facility on Samos Island and protect the 120
Read MoreMalaysia: Torture practiced systematically in widespread caning 0
Post Views: 8 The pain of caning is so severe that victims often lose consciousness © AI The Malaysian government must immediately end the practice of judicial caning, which subjects thousands of people each year to systematic torture and
Read MoreAvc?’s shady connections, tortures documented in book 0
Post Views: 15 MUSTAFA EDIB YILMAZ ?STANBUL Mehmet Baransu An investigative journalist has exposed dozens of illegal acts committed by former Chief of Police Hanefi Avc? during his career and how he used a recently published book to misguide people
Read MoreICC: Keep Pledges to Strengthen International Justice 0
Post Views: 6 ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo talks to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after the opening of the ICC review conference in Kampala on May 31, 2010. © 2010 Reuters Related Materials: Human Rights
Read MoreNew York City: Bail Penalizes the Poor 0
Post Views: 9 Otis Bantum Correctional Center, a New York City Department of Correction facility on Rikers Island that houses detained adult men. © 2002-2010 Andrew Garn More Coverage: N.Y.C. Misdemeanor Defendants Lack Bail Money Thousands Accused of Minor
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