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RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
Mexico :: Philippines | about 4 hours ago
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The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Ju�rez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system. The Inter-American...
Tags: human rights, Ciudad Ju�rez, Court, Cotton Field, Commission, Mexico, Philippines, Human rights abuses, Political repression, Femicide, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States, Homicide, Crimes against humanity, Law Crime
Senators told about failures in V.I. mental health care --
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Senators told about failures in V.I. mental health care Friday, November 20th 2009 ST. The territory's system of providing mental health care to its citizens remains sorely lacking, some testifiers at a Senate Health Committee hearing on Thursday said.
Tags: Health Department, mental illness, health care, Arlene Monaghan, V.I, Eldra Shulterbrandt Residential Facility, Mental Health Division, Julia Sheen, British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Psychiatry, Mental health, Mental disorder, Mental health courts, National Institute of Mental Health, Social issues, Human rights, Medical ethics, Health Medical Pharma
AI urges Obama to help end human rights abuses in IHK
Srīnagar :: India | about 7 hours 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
Govt urged to adopt child rights legislation
Karāchi :: Pakistan | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Sharmila Faruqui said that the present government attaches top priority to this issue and scrutiny of existing legislation at the federal and provincial level is underway with a view to ensuring that domestic laws are in conformity with the convention,...
Tags: Ms. Sharmila Faruqui, child rights, Pakistan, Karāchi, Civilian Complaint Review Board, Human rights, Children's rights, Refugee, Social Issues, Politics
Building a world fit for children | Marie Staunton
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | about 13 hours ago
Credibility Building a world fit for children Twenty years after the launch of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we must do more to listen to vulnerable children To 13-year-old Mumo Katumo, the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)...
Tags: Mumo Katumo, Amnesty UK, world fit, CRC, United Kingdom, Birmingham, Human rights, Child, Childhood, Youth, Convention on the Rights of the Child
‘Too young’ and ‘too old’ Europeans pushed to sidelines of life
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The new opinion survey released by the European Commission has some alarming figures. About one of every six people in Europe claims to have personally experienced discrimination in the past year. As far as grounds for discrimination go, while ethnic...
Tags: Burkina Faso, Lon, Human rights, Discrimination, Ageism, Social Issues, Law Crime, Ein HaShofet, Kibbutz Movement, Kibbutzim, Kibbutz
Bestselling author “translates” UN Convention into “kids’ language”
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 17 hours ago
Credibility Even if he can’t read yet, his parents can do it for him,” Oster explained in an interview to Interfax news agency. For comparison Original text of the Article II of the convention 1. States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the...
Tags: Grigory Oster, young ones, Burkina Faso, Lon, Children's rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Human rights, Chernihiv Oblast, Oster, Social Issues
Humanitarian Imperialism
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 20 hours ago
Credibility It has seemed to me for several years now that the struggle for human rights has been the central preoccupation of the forces of progress worldwide. We are called upon to extend aid to unfortunate people in Africa who are being persecuted by cruel leaders,...
Tags: Iraqi, Iraq � Bush, Jean Bricmont, United States, U.S, Saddam Hussein, Guatemalan Congress, American, iraq war, radical left, Iraq, Baghdad, Occupation of Iraq, invasion of Iraq, Human rights, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Politics of Iraq, Politics
Child labor rises as Palestinian children lose faith in learning
Beirut :: Lebanon | about 21 hours ago
Credibility Twenty years ago this Friday, the UN adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. The results of this most recent survey made it clear that the organization’s work was far from done. The data, collected...
Tags: Lebanon, palestinian refugees, Beirut, Ain al-Hilweh, Refugee, Sidon, Palestinian people, Forced migration, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Social Issues, Labor, Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean, Education, War Conflict, Human rights, Children's rights movement, US ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF, Children's rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child labour, Special Rapporteur
The Tortured Reasoning of Oppression
Tehrān :: Iran | about 21 hours ago
Credibility Since 1998 the 26 June has been set aside by the UN as a day to stand with the tortured, to feel their pain and to work towards eradicating torture. Torture, often excused by its perpetrators as a necessity, is nothing more than a tool for repression...
Tags: Israeli Occupation, human rights, hegemonic regime, Iran, Tehrān, Philosophy of law, Human rights abuses, Oppression, International Day in Support of Torture Victims, Uses of torture in recent times, Torture, Violence, Morality, Politics
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