News tagged with “philip alston”. Found:
13 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 13 tagged news reports
US drone strikes may break international law
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility
ADVERTISING ABOUT US JOIN US CONTACT US FAQ RSS SITE VIDEO Search US drone strikes may break international law Oct 28, 09 11:07am US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against...
Tags: international law, U.N., Philip Alston, United States, arbitrary executions, drone strikes, human rights, Pakistan, rights investigator, investigator warns
Murders Committed By Colombian Security Forces
Soacha :: Colombia | 5 months ago
Credibility Victims are often buried anonymously in communal graves, and the killers are rewarded for the results they have achieved in the fight against the guerrillas,” Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said in a statement issued...
Tags: Philip Alston, Colombian Army, extrajudicial executions, army killing, innocent civilians
Gloria Arroyo Appoints Raul Gonzales As Presidential Legal Adviser
Manila – Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales is set to assume the post of presidential legal counsel, according to Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. The controversial actions and decisions of Gonzales, 75, at the DOJ have...
Tags: justice, secretary, raul gonzales, philippine, politics, human rights, extrajudicial killings, summmary executions, United Nations, special rapporteur, philip alston, gloria arroyo, agnes devanadera, jesus dureza, dacer-corbito double murder case
Geneva: Kenya backs down on police killings
Geneva :: Switzerland | 6 months ago
Credibility The team representing Kenya at a United Nations human rights hearing in Geneva on Wednesday dropped its plan to attack rapporteur Philip Alston and owned up to police killings. In a compromise hammered out in stormy negotiations late into the night on...
Tags: Philip Alston, Geneva, United Nations Special Rapporteur
US should disclose civilian safeguards
Geneva :: Switzerland | 6 months ago
Credibility A UN human rights expert on Wednesday called on the United States to disclose safeguards it has put in place to avoid civilian casualties during deeply troubling air attacks by remote-controlled drones. Targeted killings carried out by drone attacks...
Tags: UN Human Rights Council, drone attacks, Philip Alston, civilians casualties, deeply troubling, Afghanistan, special rapporteur
Alston pushes for protection of witnesses
Nairobi :: Kenya | 6 months ago
Credibility It says a unit to protect witnesses against attacks by those they accuse of committing crimes “exists only on paper”. Prof Philip Alston warns that in the absence of a trusted and functional witness protection programme, many people will be unwilling...
Tags: Philip Alston, Kenya, Prof Alston, human rights, final report, prof philip
Arroyo getting dragged in opposition infighting - Palace
Manila :: Philippines | 7 months ago
Credibility President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is ending up as collateral damage" caused by infighting in the political opposition, a Malacañang official lamented Saturday. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said the latest case of Mrs. Arroyo being caught in the infighting...
Tags: Cerge Remonde, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philip Alston, Mrs. Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Philippines, secretary cerge, press secretary, president gloria, Malacañang
Kenya stung by UN report on killings
Nairobi :: Kenya | 9 months ago
Credibility Wednesday's report by Philip Alston, a UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, said the Kenyan police chief and attorney-general should be fired because of hundreds of alleged murders by security forces, a Press TV correspondent...
Tags: Philip Alston, judicial killings, Kenya
Kenyan police accused of widespread killings
Nairobi :: Kenya | 9 months ago
Credibility Kenyan police of widespread extrajudicial killings, and called Wednesday for the removal of the East African nation's police commissioner and its attorney general. "Killings by the police in Kenya are systematic, widespread and carefully planned...Special...
Tags: Kenyan Army, Philip Alston, United Nations, police force, Raila Odinga
Alabama executions "highly problematic": U.N. envoy
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The criminal justice system in the U.S. state of Alabama needs to be improved to ensure that no innocent people are executed but officials there seem indifferent to the problem, a U.N. envoy said on Monday...Alabama has the highest U.S. per-capita rate...
Tags: Alabama, Philip Alston, justice systems, Mr. Alston, Texas Cited, U.S, U.N., criminal justice, United States, death penalty
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
