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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
MOSCOW — President Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much-heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with an embattled Russian opposition newspaper. Obama also said he applauded President Dmitry Medvedev's efforts to reform Russia's creaky judicial system, according excerpts released by Novaya...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Villages Group blog reports that the sentencing of Ezra Nawi, an Israeli human rights activist in the South Hebron area convicted of trying to prevent home demolitions, has been postponed - and for a strange reason.
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
July 5, 2009 · Host Liane Hansen speaks with Sarah Mendelson, Director of the Human Rights and Security Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Security, about human rights in ...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | yesterday
4 July 2009 –Myanmar’s future must be rooted in respect for human rights, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, voicing his deep disappointment that the South-East Asian nation’s Government refused his request to meet with Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar was one of the first to United Nations Member States to [...]
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Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Ezra Levant: Canadian Human Rights Commission Horror Stories'Ezra Levant explains the situation surrounding a teacher and a pastor that was heard by the Commission. Steven Boissoin, the pastor in question, found out the hard way that in Canada your freedom of speech is surpassed by another person's right to not be offended. A costly lesson in this case.'
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The New Nation (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Staff Reporter At least 20 people, including seven policemen, were injured when the members of a human rights body clashed with the police outside the Indian high commission protesting the construction of Tipaimukh dam in India's Manipur state. Witnesses said activists of 'Lamppost', a newly surfaced local rights group, tried to demonstrate in front of the High Commission at about 10:30 am. On-duty...
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baithak (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Apartheid Australia is currently involved in the Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 2.3 million) and the Afghan Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 3-7 million) and has special race-based, Apartheid-style laws that grossly violate the human rights of its most vulnerable Indigenous inhabitants, those of the Northern Territory (annual death rate about the same as for Australian sheep). Now...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to meet Kremlin critics while visiting Russia shows Washington is no longer willing to ignore democracy and human rights to cut deals with Mos...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Israeli human rights activist Joseph Dana reports on a visit to the southern Hebron Hills to accompany local Palestinian sheep herders to their lands near the illegal settlement of Maon - where they are frequently attacked by Israeli settlers.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Thirty-three Tamil political prisoners detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) in Welikada magazine prison for the last thirteen years without any inquiry or charges against them in the courts of law have appealed to human rights organizations to take up their cases with authority concerned and obtain their early release. All of them, including some women, are residents of North, East...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with the embattled opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with the embattled opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
MOSCOW -- Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with the embattled opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
In the slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, about 1 million poor people pay up to 30 times more for water of dubious quality brought to them in old tanker trucks than middle-class citizens pay for clean and safe water provided by the local public water utility via standard household connections. Some may be shocked by these disturbing disparities in the developing world, but a lack of access to safe,...
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Tea and Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Times : For the 31 years I’ve been alive, my country has suffered from constant war. After September 11, 2001, many of us thought that — with the overthrow of the Taliban — we might finally see some light. But we’re still faced with a foreign occupation and a government filled with warlords who are just as bad as the Taliban. Afghan women like me, who vote and run for office,...
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abdulruff | 06/29/2009
Defenseless Palestinians Seek Justice! - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** US-led West so far has offered all sorts of support to fascist Israel in its genocides in destructions in Palestine while they criticize lack of democracy in Islamic world. By reigning in the protection of the powerful western powers, Israel goes on rampage in Palestine and terrorizes the Arab world. The crudely pathetic existence...
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readrightandblew | 06/07/2009
Huffington Post Suck Ups~ Readrightandblew.blogspot.com William Bradley: Repositioning America: Obama's Cairo Speech as the Ultimate in Event Marketing Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again. Willy, I think that feeling was just gas- it happens when you allow people...
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patrickguillard | 12/10/2008
The issue of Human Rights in China is delicate because it constitutes the 4th EU commercial partner.
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