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DOJ, DILG sign rules to probe, prosecute slaying of political activists, journalists
Manila :: Philippines | 3 months ago
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Philippines The Aquino administration has come up with a plan to prioritize the investigation of the murders of political activists and journalists, and to more effectively prosecute these cases...The high incidence of extrajudicial killings in the
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UN to launch investigation into legality of drone strikes and civilian casualties
The UN will launch a formal investigation into the legality of drone strikes and the casualties that result from them. http://original.antiwar.com/chris-woods/2013/01/24/un-launches-major-investigation-into-civilian-
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Rights group finds reason to probe Davao killings
Davao :: Philippines | 9 months ago
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The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said it had found a pattern of selective and systematic extrajudicial killings of 206 individuals accused or suspected of committing various offenses by a vigilante group in Davao City from 2005 to 2009. CHR
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UN wants U.S. to justify increased use of attack drones
Christof Heyns a UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution issued a report that has called on the U.S.to justify its increasing use of drones in attacks. Heyns claims that the attacks take some innocent lives
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On the Media: A grim reminder from WikiLeaks
Baghdad :: Iraq | over 1 year ago
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From March 2006 until today, Schofield had not been able to put the story out of mind. And now, despite repeated denials by U.S. military officials of any misdeed, a diplomatic cable newly released by WikiLeaks corroborates the newsman's concerns. "
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Leaked UN letter may be trouble for US/Iraq talks
Baghdad :: Iraq | over 1 year ago
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Negotiations to keep U.S. troops in Iraq came under new strain Friday in the wake of WikiLeaks' release of a U.N. letter alleging that an Iraqi family was handcuffed and shot in the head in a 2006 raid by American forces — not accidentally killed in
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WikiLeaks: Iraqi kids killed in US raid
Tikrīt :: Iraq | over 1 year ago
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A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that US troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial
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Tara Murray: These attacks are illegal – until Obama declares war
Karāchi :: Pakistan | almost 2 years ago
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There exists no legal justification for Barack Obama's use of drones in Pakistan and other states where there is no declared war. Yet his Administration, in an effort to justify its behaviour, has argued that because the US is at war with al-Qa'ida,
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Wikileaks: Alston ‘urged ICC to take up case’
Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 years ago
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Stories Related Downloads Prof Philip Alston had also asked donor countries, and particularly the US, to pressure the Kenyan government to undertake reforms to end impunity. Two years after Prof Alston presented his report, cases of extra-judicial
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Alston gets Dutch school doctorate degree in human rights
Former UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Prof. Philip Alston of the New York University School of Law, received an honorary doctorate degree from the prestigious Maastricht University in the Netherlands, along with five other
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