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TURKEY: NGOs Unite to Demand Say in Human Rights Bill
Ankara :: Turkey | about 14 hours ago
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With protests building up against this lapse, 41 non-government organisations (NGOs), representing various ethnic, religious, sexual and other minorities, have formed the Anti-Discriminatory Coalition and served the government a Nov. 26 deadline to make...
Tags: human rights, Alevi Institute, democratic initiative, told ips, Turkey, Ankara, Alevism, Politics, Islam in Turkey, Social Issues, Alevi
CLIMATE CHANGE: Fears Forest Proposals Are 'Human Rights Disaster'
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, is a world away from the thronging canopy suspended over the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon. But it's here...
Tags: REDD, Ugandan National Forestry Authority, forest dependent, human rights, Copenhagen, dependent communities, rights disaster, climate change, IPACC, forest managers, Denmark, Environment, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, Biodiversity, Recycling, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee, Kyoto Protocol, Deforestation
A Chinese human rights activist was refused to re-enter China
Mr Feng Zhenghu, a Chinese human rights activist, was refused to re-enter China on November 2. He was forced to return to Japan, but he refused to enter Japan. Since then on, he has been living at Japan's Narita Airport. It is reported that Mr Feng...
Tags: Chinese activist, Japan, Feng Zhenghu, human rights
House forms committee on women
Manila :: Philippines | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Philippines�A new committee will be formed in the House of Representatives to provide extra attention to the welfare of women and to protect them from abuse and violence, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman disclosed Wednesday, the International Day for the Elimination...
Tags: human rights, allnews, House of Representatives, Edcel Lagman, Philippines, Manila, Social Issues, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Violence against women, Prospero Nograles
Women Leaders Urge Clinton: Condemn Anti-Women Violence in Honduras
"Given Secretary Clinton's commitment to women's rights and her pledge to fight violence against women, we are asking her to speak out about the dangerous and appalling situation faced by Honduran women." Jody Williams, Nobel Laureate More than...
Tags: Honduras, military coup, de facto government, elections, Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize, Guatemala civil war, Mairead Maguire, Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jody Williams, womens rights, Nobel Laureate, War Conflict, Rachel Vincent, Lisa VeneKlasen, Honduran, allnews, Washington, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Human rights in Honduras, Chronology of events of the 2009 Honduran coup d'ￃﾩtat, Honduran constitutional crisis, Politics, human rights, Social Issues
International human-rights lawyer seeking Canadian support for multiple causes
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility An international human-rights lawyer is quietly trying to enlist Canadian political and diplomatic clout in support of causes ranging from a jailed Russian billionaire to a Singapore politician. Robert Amsterdam is lobbying cabinet ministers, MPs and...
Tags: Singapore, international human, rights lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, Canada, Ottawa, Human rights, Russian law, Chee Soon Juan, Politics, Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Lock-step surrender of individual rights
Napa :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Dear editor, The ongoing organized attempt by the Democratic party of Napa to flood the opinion page of the Register with praise of Rep. Thompson and approval of government-run health care is sad. The wording committee could have demonstrated a little...
Tags: Napa, Logic, Human rights, Syntax, Politics, Outline of self, Redundancy, Self-determination, Linguistics, Semantics
Joint Letter on Defamation Case against Usman Hamid of KontraS Indonesia
Joint Letter on Defamation Case against Usman Hamid of KontraS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department of State 2201 C St., N.W. Washington, DC 20520 November 23, 2009 Dear Secretary Clinton, ...
Groups want Burundi to end ban on forum
Bujumbura :: Burundi | 1 day ago
Credibility A trio of groups, including Human Rights Watch, said Wednesday Burundi should end a ban on the Forum for the Strengthening of Civil Society. HRW Africa director Georgette Gagnon said. "Along with the threats against two highly respected activists, this...
Tags: Burundi, Bujumbura, Politics, Human rights abuses, Outline of Burundi, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Culture of Burundi, National Forces of Liberation, Gatumba, Impunity
Africa: All Are Partners in Upholding Human Rights
Washington :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility All Are Partners in Upholding Human Rights 24 November 2009 All those who espouse Commonwealth principles are committed to advancing human rights, the Secretary-General has said, whether they work together or separately, from different points of strength,...
Tags: Washington, Human rights, Trinidad and Tobago, Political history of Canada, Commonwealth of Nations, Kamalesh Sharma
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