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Guest Columnist: Amnesty's travesty
Jerusalem :: Israel | about 2 hours ago
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Daniel Hillel, Rivers of Eden , Oxford University Press, 1994 The above excerpt is sufficient to heap richly-deserved ridicule on the recent Amnesty report claiming that Israel's avaricious water policy has gravely compromised Palestinians' human rights.
Tags: Israeli, million cu, Amnesty, Omar Barghouti, capita consumption, West Bank, Palestinians, amnesty report, Israel, Jerusalem, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Arab-Israeli conflict, Zionism
TIME FOR WORLD LEADERS TO RATIFY DISAPPEARANCES TREATY
Amnesty International has called on world leaders to help prevent enforced disappearances by urging them to ratify a landmark treaty at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced...
Tags: Amnesty, UNGA, Disappearances Treaty, Human rights abuses, disappeared convention, Counter-terrorism, Amnesty International, Kidnappings, International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances, International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Forced disappearance, enforced disappeared, Crimes against humanity
Danish government must arrest Sudanese President if he attends climate conference
Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate...
Tags: Amnesty, Climate conference, Amnesty International, International response to the War in Darfur, Crime against humanity, War in Darfur, International Criminal Court, War Conflict
Western Sahara's 'Gandhi' begins hunger strike
al-'Ayūn :: Western Sahara | 2 days ago
Credibility Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities. Aminatou Haidar, who is viewed by her supporters as the "Sahrawi...
Tags: rights activist, amnesty, Western Sahara, Sahrawis, Aminatou Haidar, Morocco, Moroccan, Polisario Front, hunger strike, al-'Ayūn, Sahrawi people, Independence Intifada, Ali Salem Tamek, Politics
Morocco: Reverse Expulsion of Sahrawi Activist
Morocco must reverse its expulsion of Sahrawi rights activist Aminatou Haidar and allow her to enter her country of nationality, Human Rights Watch said today. Spain must intercede with Morocco to ensure her return, Human Rights Watch added. Morocco...
Tags: Amnesty, Expulsion, CODESA, rights activist
Soldiers convicted for ill-treatment of conscientious objector in Turkey
Amnesty International has welcomed the conviction of three Turkish soldiers for “intentionally wounding” a conscientious objector while he was in military custody.A military court in Istanbul sentenced the soldiers to three months and 10 days'...
Tags: Amnesty, ill-treatment, military court, conscientious objector, Amnesty International&rsquo, military prisoners, soldiers conviction, Conscription
Egyptian Military Court of Appeals fails to rectify injustice
Amnesty International condemns the failure of Egypt's military appeals court to overturn sentences imposed on leading members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organization after unfair trials and calls on the authorities to stop trying civilians in military...
Tags: Amnesty, Egyptian Military courts, Nazi war crimes, military appeal, Human rights abuses, Muslim Brotherhood, unfair trial, military courts, Malmedy massacre trial
U.S. gives Mexico keys to open border and amnesty
Congressman calls for investigation on Sutton and House of Death Mexico’s culture of corruption is synonymous with the drug dealers, Federales as well as the government. It is no secret business south of the border is handled with a greasy...
Tags: House of Death, immigration, amnesty, Congressman Jones
Japan: Press North Korea on Human Rights
The new Japanese government should take a leadership role in helping to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, Human Rights Watch and three other nongovernmental organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama....
Tags: Amnesty, Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, The Society to Help Returnees to North Korea
Singapore: Defamation case threatens press freedom
The Singaporean parliament should enact new legislation protecting freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today, after a magazine and its editor agreed to pay S$405,000 (Approximately US$290,000) following a fine by the country’s highest...
Tags: Amnesty, Press Freedom defamation
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