9 September 2008

UN Rights Chief Knocks West for Threatening Walk-Out of ‘Durban II Racism’ Conference, Wins Praise from Islamic States

NEW YORK, USA, September 9, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ - After new UN rights chief Navanethem Pillay addressed the 47-nation Human Rights Council for the first time today, independent human rights ( Read more... )

 


Written by Parwiz Shamal    Tuesday, 02 September 2008 15:14

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Labour warned over limits to free expression

* Duncan Campbell

* The Guardian,
* Friday August 15 2008

The government has been accused of creating laws that have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK in a sharply critical report from the United Nations' committee on human rights. The report calls for the reform of Britain's ( Read more... )

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Chinese Rights Activist Zeng Jinyan Disappears


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Last update - 15:14 07/08/2008

IDF colonel and soldier charged in shooting of bound Palestinian

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent

Israeli human rights organizations on Wednesday blasted the Israel Defense Force's decision to remove an officer from his current post and reassign him, over an incident in which a soldier ( Read more... )

Foreign Activists Manage to Pierce China's Broad Security Apparatus

By Edward Cody

Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, August 7, 2008; 8:18 AM

BEIJING, Aug. 6 -- China's intense efforts to block any protest that would mar the Olympic Games were challenged Wednesday by foreign activists equally bent on diverting attention to issues as varied as ( Read more... )

Israel's legal system has laid the groundwork for an apartheid regime

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Last update - 09:32 03/08/2008

By Gideon Levy

The Olmert affair has come and all but gone. A few more invoices here and some daggers there will be hurled at the hemorrhaging political corpse hanging in the town square, and Ehud Olmert will disappear ( Read more... )

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted.

"There must be a complete and independent investigation of what happened in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other places where terrorist ( Read more... )

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:09:30

A Palestinian human rights group has brought war crime charges against former high ranking Israeli officials in a Spanish court.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed lawsuit in the National Criminal Court of Spain against the Israeli officials who authorized the al-Daraj bloodshed.

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Elderly Palestinian couple hit with guns by Israeli soldiers

July 20th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Hebron Region, Video, Photos

On Friday the 18th of July settlers from Karmeel disrupted an old couple in the village of Um al Khaer. This happened at about 11.15 am, when the couple and a donkey were on their way back from the fields after having ( Read more... )