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Activist probing Guinea massacre denied entry
Banjul :: Gambia | 8 days ago
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Gambia — A human rights activist says he's been denied entrance to Guinea, where he planned to investigate a massacre of opposition supporters earlier this year. Mabassa Fall denounced the move by Guinea's ruling junta, saying "there can be no justice...
Tags: Guinean, human rights, denied entrance, opposition supporters, rights activist, supporters earlier, Gambia, Banjul, Least Developed Countries, Guinea, The Gambia, African Union member states, African countries, Economic Community of West African States, Social Issues, War Conflict, Politics
US court hailed for naming new judge on Marcos funds
Manila :: Philippines | 8 days ago
Credibility US Court of Appeals decision to rebuke the district judge who handed down the historic 1995 ruling awarding $1.9 billion to victims of human rights violations in the Marcos era. Commissioner Ricardo Abcede said the appellate court�s decision was about...
Tags: Merrill Lynch Inc., Marcos, Arelma Inc., PCGG, Philippine National Bank, Philippines, Ricardo Abcede, human rights, used courts, philippine government, Manila, Camilo Sabio, Government of the Philippines, Merrill Lynch, Sandiganbayan, Law Crime
Human Rights center in jeopardy
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility The University of Iowa's Center for Human Rights is celebrating its 10th anniversary, but at the same time, it is busy raising money to make sure there's an 11th. The center will lose most of its funding, including all the money for its small staff,...
Tags: Gregory Hamot, Center for Human Rights, UI Provost Wallace Loh, Des Moines, Hamot Medical Center, Jef Elbers, Human rights, Education, Business Finance, Labor
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Moratorium on Executions
Moscow :: Russia | 8 days ago
Credibility Russia ’s Constitutional Court extended the country’s moratorium on the death penalty on Thursday, though it stopped short of fully abolishing capital punishment. In a statement , the Constitutional Court argued that permitting capital punishment would...
Tags: Russian, death penalty, Russia Kills, capital punishment, Constitutional Court, Europe, penalty ban, european convention, Valery Zorkin, Russia, Moscow, National anthems, National Anthem of Russia, Interfax, Religion Belief, Aleksandr Kolchak, Admiral, Kolchak, Drama films, Russian films, White Russians, Penology, Russian law, UN moratorium on the death penalty, Capital punishment in Russia, Human rights, Criminology, Social Issues, Law Crime, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Penalty
Economic slump no excuse to erode rights: Amnesty
Canberra :: Australia | 9 days ago
Credibility The global economic crisis must not be used as an excuse to unwind human rights for the millions of people now thrown back into poverty, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan said Thursday. Poverty was linked closely to human rights abuses,...
Tags: Irene Khan, human rights, Australia, Canberra, Immigration detention, Refugee, UNITY, Forced migration, Amnesty International, Social Issues
Pro-Israel activists protest Iranian ambassador's appearance at Berlin school
Berlin :: Germany | 9 days ago
Credibility The decision of a private school, Königin-Luise-Stiftung, to host the Iranian ambassador to Germany, Ali Reza Sheikh Attar, Monday for a German-Iranian Teacher's Conference prompted protests from groups critical of Iran's human rights record and its anti-Israeli...
Tags: Frank Olie, human rights, Germany, Berlin, Kurdish people, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran, Fertile Crescent, Ethnic groups in Iran, Ethnic groups in the Arab League, Education
Lisa Markwell: Private lives are a thing of the past
Lagos :: Nigeria | 9 days ago
Credibility It is now safer to assume that nothing is really private any more. The news that our mobile telephone billing information has routinely been sold by T-Mobile employees to the highest bidder is just the latest in the chip, chip, chipping away of our closely...
Tags: Mark Lowe, Ms Wimmer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr Lowe, Nigeria, Lagos, Privacy, Hillary, Human rights, David Miliband, Mobile phone
Govt To Consider Human Rights In Policy Making
Lipí :: Czech Republic | 9 days ago
Credibility She said consideration for human rights would get better when government officials and legislators acknowledged its importance. "Legislators need to be educated on human rights to ensure they don't violate laws during the policy-making process," she said...
Tags: rights principles, Czech Republic, Lipí, International human rights law, International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Civil and political rights, Human rights, Rights, International law, Social Issues
Inquiry Into Deadly Guinea Crackdown Begins
Conakry :: Guinea | 9 days ago
Credibility They were appointed by the Secretary-General last month to lead the investigation into human rights violations that occurred on 28 September in the capital, Conakry, when at least 150 people were killed and many others raped. “During the meeting, the...
Tags: Commission, Guinea, Conakry, Moussa Dadis Camara, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human rights, Politics, Kabinￃﾩ Komara
Kennedy, Catholic Church, and Politics of Compromise
Boston :: MA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility US Representative Patrick Kennedy's confrontation with Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin over abortion and health-care reform has soaked up quite a bit of ink. But the fight is just the most dramatic fallout of a larger effort by the nation's Catholic...
Tags: Catholic Church, Ted Kennedy, care reform, John F. Kennedy, Patrick J. Kennedy, abortions political, Boston, Abortion, Fertility, Nancy Pelosi, Pro-choice, Pro-life movement, Human rights, Bioethics, Abortion debate, Politics, Social Issues, Religion Belief
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