Archive for the ‘Human Rights Abuses’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
By: Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Interreligious Understanding
Professor Marshall Breger, Catholic University of America
Suhail A. Khan, Institute for Global Engagement
The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
We are here as a single voice that comes from the three Abrahamic faiths, because we are seeing a new slogan ripple from downtown Manhattan across the US. Its timing particularly resonates as some of us have just returned from an unprecedented tour of concentration campsin Europe, where we stood side by side with a delegation of the most influential US Imams and Muslim leadership. Together, those of us who are Jewish and Muslim, came face-to-face with the unambiguous lesson that religious demonization can and does lead to unimaginable violence and horror.
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
(Aug. 23) — As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations and aid groups reported.
The Associated Press reported that four baby boys were also raped in the attacks that began in a key mining district on July 30. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters today the rebels blocked a key road during the raping and looting spree.
The eastern Congo is known as the “rape capital of the world” where savage mobs use sexual violence to subdue the population and vie for control of the “conflict minerals” used to make cell phones and laptops around the world.
Posted in AFRICA, Congo, Corporate (ir)responsibility, GENDER HATE, GENOCIDE, Genocide Denial, Hate Crimes, Human Rights Abuses, Human Trafficking, Rwanda, Terrorisim, United Nations, War Crimes | No Comments »
Friday, August 20th, 2010
VOA News 12 August 2010
A leading international human rights group is calling on the United States and other countries to support a United Nations panel investigating alleged rights abuses during Sri Lanka’s civil war.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Ron Corben | Bangkok 10 August 2010
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma has met with human rights groups and former political prisoners during a visit to Thailand. The information he gathered from the meetings is expected to be part of a report to the United Nations.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
The United Nations Security Council has extended its peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s western Darfur region for another year [until July 31, 2011].
The 15-nation council agreed unanimously on Friday to the mission’s extension, telling Unamid, the joint African Union/UN peacekeeping force, to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.
It also condemned a recent surge of violence in Darfur and called on the Sudanese government to stop hindering the work of Unamid.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Published: Friday, Jul 30, 2010, 17:06 IST
Place: Kochi | Agency: PTI
Describing honour killings as a great social menace, National Human Rights Commission chairman justice KG Balakrishnan today said effective police investigation is needed to probe such criminal cases, only a few of which get reported.
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
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LONDON: Amnesty International urged Pakistan on Monday to tackle human rights violations ahead of a visit to Britain by President Asif Ali Zardari, which has become clouded by a diplomatic row over terrorism. On the eve of President Zardari’s arrival in London, Amnesty International said the worsening security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had left thousands of civilians dead and over a million displaced, and urged Islamabad to take action. “The conditions are right for Pakistan to show it is serious about political solutions to the human rights violations, poverty, and a constitutional rights vacuum in the northwest,” said Amnesty International Asia-Pacific head Sam Zarifi. “President Zardari should take this opportunity to announce specific, major reforms, like the abolition of the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) that treat northwestern Pakistan like a human rights-free zone,” he said. The FCR is a colonial-era law that applies only to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. afp |
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday alleged that the government and Vedanta had failed to protect Orissa’s indigenous communities from health hazards of mining, but the mining major hit back saying the claims were based on an “outdated document”.
In a report released on Tuesday, Amnesty alleged that the 8,000 strong community, mainly ‘adivasis’ (tribals) in Orissa’s Lanjigarh suffered violations of human rights to water and health, due to pollution by Vedanta’s aluminium refinery.
“Vedanta Aluminium Ltd’s alumina refinery has led to water and air pollution, seriously undermining the quality of life and threatening the health of nearby communities, some of whom live only a few hundred yards from the refinery’s boundary walls,” the Amnesty report said.
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Matthew Kalman
JERUSALEM (July 28) — As the European Union announced new, tougher sanctions this week against Iran, a blue-chip coalition of lawyers and human rights activists reiterated its demand that Iranian leaders be brought before the International Court of Justice for incitement to genocide and the brutal repression of their own citizens.
The Responsibility to Protect Coalition, chaired by former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler and supported by a who’s who of international law experts, says the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “a clear and present danger to international peace and security … and to its own people.”
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
By Guillaume Lavallee (AFP) – 4 days ago
KHARTOUM — Two German aid workers kidnapped in June when gunmen swooped on their offices in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region were freed on Tuesday and are in good health.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced their release in Berlin.
“Both men… will be brought to Khartoum in the course of the day. They are well, considering the difficult circumstances,” he said.
The men work for Technische Hilfswerk (THW), the disaster relief arm of the German interior ministry. The foreign ministry gave no details on the circumstances surrounding their release.
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