HUMAN RIGHTS
Back to homepageCôte d’Ivoire: Ensure Security, Protect Expression, Movement 0
Post Views: 10 An Ivorian soldier passes members of the UN security force who were deployed to the election commission’s office in Abidjan on December 1, 2010. © 2010 Reuters Constitutional Council’s Overrule of Election Results Raises Risk of
Read MoreIraqi Interior Minister demands execution of al-Qai’da suspects 0
Post Views: 12 Jawad al-Bolani has abused his position as Iraqi Interior Minister © APGraphicsBank Amnesty International today strongly condemned a call by the Iraqi Interior Minister for the swift execution of 39 alleged al-Qai’da members as they were
Read MoreRussian prisoner of conscience: Amnesty letters were ‘connection to freedom’ 0
Post Views: 5 Click here to join Amnesty International’s Write for Rights letter-writing marathon © AI Sent to an Arctic penal colony for a crime he didn’t commit, Russian prisoner of conscience Igor Sutyagin lived for a few minutes
Read MoreIsrael: Soldiers’ Punishment for Using Boy as ‘Human Shield’ Inadequate 0
Post Views: 5 Two Sergeants Demoted and Given Suspended Sentences (Jerusalem) – An Israeli military court’s sentence on November 21, 2010, for two soldiers found guilty of using a Palestinian boy as a “human shield” during the 2008-09 offensive in
Read MoreEgypt: Systematic Crackdown Days Before Elections 0
Post Views: 18 Riot police form a line as opposition members and supporters gather to support their candidates for the upcoming elections. © 2010 Reuters Mass Arrests, Intimidation, Campaign Restrictions Make Fair Outcome Questionable (Cairo) – Egypt has carried
Read MoreFORMER MINISTER ACCUSED OVER KILLINGS IN GUATEMALA MUST BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE 0
Post Views: 3 Former Interior Minister Carlos Vielman is accused over the killing of prisoners © APGraphicsBank The Guatemalan authorities must ensure that a former Interior Minister allegedly involved in the extrajudicial execution of prisoners is brought to justice,
Read MoreBRAZIL: VIOLENCE IN RIO DE JANEIRO CONDEMNED 0
Post Views: 11 The wave of violence has seen the burning of almost 100 vehicles © AP GraphicsBank Amnesty International today urged the Brazilian authorities to act proportionately and within the law in their response to the wave of
Read MoreMore women to enter workforce if headscarf ban lifted, survey finds 0
Post Views: 5 BETÜL AKKAYA DEMIRBA? / YONCA POYRAZ DO?AN ?STANBULThe vast majority of participants in a newly-released survey believe that the ban on the use of the Muslim headscarf on university campuses and in public and private businesses is unjust
Read MoreTheresa May to announce migration cap plans 0
Post Views: 4 Home secretary to announce the level of the government’s planned cap on number of migrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EU Press association Theresa May will announce the level of the cap on number of
Read MoreEric Cantona’s call for bank protest sparks online campaign 0
Post Views: 16 Thousands of French protesters have taken up the former Man United footballer’s call for a mass cash withdrawal Kim Willsher Eric Cantona is calling on protesters against cutbacks and pension reforms in France to start a real
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