Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System: The Political Economy of Human Rights in a Changing World (Studies in Human Rights)
Sify (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Sri Lanka's former top military officer who resigned last week promised on Friday to "fight for democracy" amid reports he will challenge the president at upcoming elections.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cuba has sharply criticized a recent report on human rights violations in the country prepared by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
THIS article is in response to Joseph Kisarale's story, "Police suspects should not be tortured" in The New Vision of November 13. His article was in reference to the Police forcing suspects to sit underneath the seats on the Police pick-ups.
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
(New York) - The new Japanese government should take a leadership role in helping to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, Human Rights Watch and three other nongovernmental organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. read more
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Cuba's regime has failed to improve its dire record on human rights under the leadership of Raúl Castro, imprisoning scores of people for exercising basic freedoms...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Cuba's regime has failed to improve its dire record on human rights under the leadership of Raúl Castro with Cubans continuing to be stripped of basic rights and freedoms, a Human Rights Watch report said
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
National land policies should ensure respect of human rights through fair resolution of land conflicts and activities that improve livelihoods.
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Following is a statement from the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington on the Human Rights Watch report. The Miami Herald translated from the Spanish original: Cuba does not recognize the legality nor the moral authority of HRW as an organization that defends human rights. HRW is an organization that analyzes this issue from a discriminatory, selective and above all politicized perspective. Its evaluation...
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
In a paper on how the term “apartheid” is being used to deny Israel’s right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces: The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature. It rarely deals with the massive abuse of human rights or cases of real Apartheid elsewhere in the world. In other words, it singles out Israel with [...]
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
In a paper on how the term "apartheid" is being used to deny Israel's right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces: The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature. It rarely deals with the massive abuse of human rights or cases of real Apartheid elsewhere in the world. In other words, it singles out Israel with a false accusation. For example, President Carter has spoken about...
Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Guyana government has dismissed the dossier of human rights abuses compiled by the country's opposition parties as an attempt to score political points and has even claimed that some of those persons listed as dead are actually alive.
Creekside (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Defensive Minister Peter MacKay : "A top diplomat’s account of the rampant torture and rape of Afghan detainees is not credible, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday. MacKay dismissed testimony from Richard Colvin [First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Washington] as second- and third-hand information from enemy sources : "What we’re talking about here is not only...
rediff News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Sri Lanka's former top general Sarath Fonseka, who resigned last week following a spat with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has vowed to protect democratic freedom and human rights, amid reports that he may contest the presidential polls as an opposition candidate.
France24 (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
In a landmark decision, Israel's supreme court has thrown out a law allowing privately-run prisons, arguing that running jails for profit would be a "grave" violation of inmates' human rights. "We have reached the conclusion that the very transfer of the powers to administer a prison from the state ... to the hands of private businessmen who operate for profit causes harsh and grave...
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patrickguillard | 10/22/2009
The European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded this year to MEMORIAL (Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva on behalf of the human rights organisation MEMORIAL and all other human rights defenders in Russia), EP President Jerzy Buzek announced on today. The award ceremony will take place on 16 December in Strasbourg.
bharatbook123 | 10/13/2009
Since the fall of the Miloševic regime in 2000 Serbia has focused on rebuilding its economy and its relations with Europe. Real GDP levels increased almost six fold during 2000-2008, elevating the country to middle income status as defined by the World Bank. Despite the fact that its financial system was not exposed to the financial instruments that are at the heart of the recent global financial turmoil,
bharatbook123 | 10/13/2009
Bosnia-Herzegovina has made marked economic development since emerging from war, elevating the country to middle-income status as defined by the World Bank. It is also working towards joining the EU, signing a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) which oversees closer integration with the EU and covers commitments to political, economic, trade, or human rights reform in a country in exchange
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