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Key members criticise UN rights council
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
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More than a third of the members of the UN Human Rights Council, including Britain, France, India, Nigeria and the United States, have criticised the body in a report seen by AFP on Wednesday. The report by 17 of the 47 member states in the Council, as...
Tags: UN Human Rights Council, United Kingdom, London, Human Rights Commission, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, Politics, Human rights, International organizations, United Nations Human Rights Council
The Very Curious Case of Mr. Gustavo De La Rosa Hickerson
Some news stories raise more questions than they answer. Gustavo De La Rosa Hickerson, the Juarez Ombudsman for the Human Rights Commission of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, was released October 21 from one of the Department of Homeland...
Tags: CBP, US Customs and Border Patrol, Chuhuahua, Human Rights Commission, Mexican military, asylum, immigration, detention, Gustavo De La Rosa Hickerson, Congressional Inquiry, political asylum
Police review committee survives heated debate before supervisors
Eureka :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Supervisors Bonnie Neely, Clif Clendenen and Mark Lovelace supported the motion; supervisors Jill Duffy and Jimmy Smith opposed it. It came down to choosing between a last-minute revision to the Human Rights Commission's recommendation or going with what...
Tags: Human Rights Commission
Hearing begins on UPEI mandatory retirement
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Human Rights Commission panel will start a hearing Tuesday on whether mandatory retirement at the University of Prince Edward Island is discriminatory. The Confederation Bridge has re-opened to all traffic after travel restrictions were put in place...
Tags: mandatory retire, prince edward, panel wills, commission panel, Human Rights Commission, wills start
Amnesty urges govt to respect Indigenous Rights
Auckland :: New Zealand | 2 months ago
Credibility The organisation calls on the government to announce its clear and unambiguous support of the Declaration and to reflect its provisions in domestic legislation. This will send an important signal to the Maori, iwi and hapu communities in New Zealand,...
Tags: Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Council, New Zealand, Auckland
Revolt against Phillips at equality watchdog grows
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility A fierce row at the Government's Equality and Human Rights Commission escalated yesterday as it emerged that half of the commissioners who until recently sat on the quango's board are expected to have resigned by the end of this week. Two resigned in...
Tags: Human Rights Commission
Radio New Zealand: State control of prisons urged by Human Rights Commission
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 months ago
Credibility The Human Rights Commission says the management of prisons should remain with the state. Parliament's Law and Order Select Committee is considering a bill which would allow prisons to be managed privately. The Government has already signalled the next...
Tags: Human Rights Commission
Human Rights In New Zealand
Auckland :: New Zealand | 7 months ago
Credibility A review of human rights in New Zealand is being held in Geneva tomorrow (Thursday 7 May) at the fifth session the United Nations' Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group. "While New Zealand has a reputation for leading human rights internationally,...
MCA: Charge cops in Cheras fracas
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | 11 months ago
Credibility The MCA has called for action to be taken against the errant police officers found to have used excessive force on two people in the May 27, 2008, Bandar Mahkota Cheras fracas. Its political education bureau head Gan Ping Sieu said the errant officers...
Tags: Human Rights Commission, Bandar Mahkota Cheras, cheras fracas, Suhakam, MCA
China assails UN report that alleges torture
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility China reacted angrily Monday to a United Nations report that says the government tortures political and criminal prisoners, calling its authors biased and driven by a political agenda. The report, issued Friday by the UN Committee Against Torture, documents...
Tags: torture, Human Rights Commission, China
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