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Sofia Mayor Must Urgently Improve Roma Plight
Sofia :: Bulgaria | about 12 hours ago
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Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, and Rabbi Freirich stressed that it was simply immoral to continue staying apathetic and silent spectator ignoring Roma plight, who reportedly regularly faced social exclusion, racism, substandard...
Tags: Sofia, Bulgaria, Ethnic groups in Greece, Romani people, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, Amnesty International, Thomas Hammarberg, Social Issues, Religion Belief
Govt to try all major killings
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 day ago
Credibility Terming the killings of army officers and dumping of their bodies together under the ground a brutal incident, the PM sought cooperation of all in holding the trial. �Don't be misguided by any propaganda,� she told members of the armed forces. Hasina,...
Tags: Hasina, army officers, sand extraction, Dhaka Central Jail, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Amnesty International, Murder, Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh Liberation War, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Law Crime, Social Issues, Sheikh Hasina, Sahara Khatun, Sheikh rehana, Politics, Bangladesh Rifles revolt, Bangladesh Rifles, Indemnity Act, War Conflict, Religion Belief, Sand, Po, Dredging, Turag River, Environment
AI urges Obama to help end human rights abuses in IHK
Srīnagar :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility Holding the Indian troops responsible for committing mass human rights violations with impunity in occupied Kashmir, global rights watchdog, the Amnesty International has asked US President Barack Obama to address the issue during the forthcoming visit...
Tags: human rights, AFSPA � India, Kashmir � Human, Indian, rights abuses, Amnesty International USA, mass human, commit mass, Barack Obama, Manmohan Singh, India, Srīnagar, Amnesty International, Jammu and Kashmir, Human rights in Punjab India, Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir conflict, Kashmir, Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, Politics, War Conflict
Amnesty presses Haiti to protect child domestic workers
Port-au-Prince :: Haiti | 2 days ago
Credibility Amnesty International has launched a campaign to press the government in Haiti to enact measures to protect child domestic workers from abuse, ill-treatment and exploitation. The human rights organisation wants authorities to enact legislation to protect...
Tags: Haitian, domestic worker, Amnesty International, Gerardo Ducos, child domestic, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Latin America, Republics, Social Issues, Labor
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
Linking the poor and the powerful
Canberra :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility Human rights are as vital to beating poverty as is economic advancement, says the leader of Amnesty...Irene Khan, slight of figure although a giant as head of the world's biggest human rights organisation, takes the uncomfortable rear seat and hands out...
Tags: Irene Khan, Utopia, Kate Gilmore, Australian National University, Amnesty International, Kunoth-Monks, Australia, Canberra, Jedda, Khan Noonien Singh, Khan, Social Issues
Share asylum burden, Indonesians plead
Canberra :: Australia | 2 days ago
Credibility Rudd Government as the country's foreign affairs minister called on Australia to ''share the burden'' of immigrants streaming through the archipelago. Its call came as a customs vessel intercepted 53 asylum seekers off north-western Australia yesterday.
Tags: Australian, asylum seekers, Australia, Canberra, Refugee, Amnesty International, Kevin Rudd, Boat people, Immigration, Immigration to Australia, Temporary protection visa, Immigration detention, Social Issues, Politics, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia, Chris Evans, Siev 36, Forced migration, Marty Natalegawa
AI urges Bangladesh to commute death sentences
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 days ago
Credibility Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh not to execute five convicted killers, former army officers, sentenced to death for the assassination of Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The international human rights watchdog said that the murder...
Tags: Mujibur Rahman, Hasina, Bangladesh, human rights, death sentenced, sheikh mujibur, Sufia Kamal Smrity Sangsad, Dhāka, Capital punishment, Criminology, Sheikh Hasina, Amnesty International, Jail Killing Day, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh Liberation War, Social Issues, Law Crime, Meghalaya, Shillong, Agatha Sangma, Nationalist Congress Party, Tura, P. A. Sangma, Politics, Ziaur Rahman, Rahman, Sheikh rehana, Religion Belief, Sufia Kamal, Ekushey Padak, Independence Day Award, Bangla Academy Award
Separating families need support to stop violence (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 days ago
Credibility Families breaking up need more support to prevent violent acts, the Families Commission says. Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier earlier this week called for more mental health support for people going through the family court, following 18 suspected...
Tags: Families Commission, New Zealand, Auckland, Violence, Violence against women, Domestic violence, Family therapy, Social Issues, White ribbon, Stop Violence Against Women, Amnesty International, Comfort women, National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Bride burning, Politics, World YWCA, Women in Distress, Violence Against Women Act
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