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January 2006
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31.01.2006
Stand by for the annual feast of films at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in London, 15-25 March which promises "a programme of 22 intelligent, inspiring and indispensable feature films and documentaries from 20 countries, articulating many of the human, environmental and geo-political stories of our times."
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Human rights] [Information & media] Image: <italic>Source</italic>: looks at the oil boom in Azerbaijan (Human Rights Watch film festival)
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31.01.2006
Organizata e të drejtave të njeriut, Amnesty International, raporton që autoritetet serbe kanë dështuar ne hulumtimin e supozuar të keqtrajtimeve të arrestuarve gjatë operacionit “Sablja 2003” që përcolli vrasjen e Kryeministrit Zoran Gjingjiq.
more...Related topics/regions: [Serbia and Montenegro] [Human rights] |
31.01.2006
Sadat mielenterveysongelmista kärsivät yhdysvaltalaiset rikoksentekijät eivät ole saaneet psykiatrista apua vaan kuolemantuomion, sanoo ihmisoikeusjärjestö Amnesty International. Järjestön mukaan Yhdysvaltojen 3 400 teloitusta odottavasta vangista 5–10 prosenttia on mielenterveyspotilaita.
more...From: Amnesty International Suomen osasto Related topics/regions: [United States] [Human rights] Image: Amnesty International
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31.01.2006
International agency Oxfam has said that rich countries must change their attitude to world trade negotiations and show leadership to deliver reforms that lift people out of poverty. It wants the EU and US to stop making excuses for not reforming agricultural trade rules and to end their unreasonable demands for developing countries to open industry and services markets.
more...Related topics/regions: [Latin America & Caribbean] [Asia and the Pacific] [Africa] [Poverty] [Trade] [Human rights] [MDGs] Image: © Oxfam International
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31.01.2006
The U.S. has the perfect opportunity to stop the genocide in Darfur when it takes over the presidency of the U.N Security Council this February. A massive call-in campaign will target the U.S. mission to the U.N. Wednesday and a rally for Darfur will take place at the White House Thursday.
more...From: Africa Action Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [Human rights] [Activism] [Governance] [Conflict] [Security] [United Nations] Image: A Darfur Call to Action Outside the White House © Africa Action
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30.01.2006
El máximo dirigente del Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (FRG), general Efraín Ríos Montt, acusado de provocar la muerte del reportero Héctor Ramírez en julio de 2003, podría quedar libre de toda culpa en este caso conocido como “Jueves Negro”.
more...From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Activism] [Corruption & transparency] [Justice and crime] [War & peace] Image: Danish Association for International Co-operation
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30.01.2006
ActionAid India's third country strategy paper of India is called Rights First. It will serve as the organisation's guide for the years 2005 to 2010 and will help ActionAid work on tribals, dalits and Muslims - which are the marginalised communities in India.
more...Related topics/regions: [India] [Poverty] [Human rights] [Social exclusion] |
29.01.2006
In occasione della 53a Giornata mondiale dei malati di lebbra, l'Aifo ha diffuso un appello lanciato da sette personalità del mondo ai Capi di Stato e di Governo per porre fine allo stigma e alla discriminazione contro le persone affette dalla malattia. L'Organizzazione mondiale della Sanità ha assunto una nuova strategia nella lotta contro la lebbra: "Il documento strategico per il triennio 2006-2010, infatti, segna una svolta nella politica dell'OMS contro la malattia, caratterizzata fino ad oggi da un approccio semplicemente statistico" - informa l'Aifo. Il nuovo approccio è centrato sulla persona e sulla comunità, adottando il principio della salute globale, da sempre sostenuto dall'Aifo. Il papa Benedetto XVI ha rivolto oggi un saluto a tutte le persone colpite dalla malattia ed un incoraggiamento ad operatori e volontari impegnati, in tutto il mondo per combattere l'hanseniasi. Ricordando l'opera di Raoul Follereau e delle associazioni che a lui si ispirano, il Papa ha sottolineato lo stretto collegamento esistente tra il persistere di questa malattia e i gravi squilibri sociali che penalizzano larga parte dell'umanità.
more...From: AIFO - Associazione Italiana Amici di Raoul Follereau Related topics/regions: [Disease] [Human rights] [Social exclusion] Image: Malato di lebbra in Africa
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27.01.2006
Tammikuun 27. päivä valittiin viime vuonna kansainväliseksi holokaustin uhrien muistopäiväksi. Suomessa päivää vietetään vainojen uhrien muistopäivänä. Tammikuun 27. 1945 vapautettiin natsien suurin kuolemanleiri Auschwitz-Birkenaussa. YK:n pääsihteeri Kofi Annan painottaa päivän merkitystä muistutuksena kansanmurhien todellisuudesta.
more...From: Suomen YK-liitto Related topics/regions: [Human rights] Image: -
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27.01.2006
Per la "Giornata della memoria" Green-Cross Italia pubblica uno scritto di Giorgio Nebbia che porta alla luce, attraverso una serie di testimonianze per così dire "commerciali", alcuni aspetti poco noti ma particolarmente indicativi della logica e della strategia che furono intraprese dai nazisti per avviare il popolo ebraico allo sterminio. "Non possiamo dimenticare, nel riproporre questo nostro speciale, che l'anno che è appena trascorso è stato denso di avvenimenti che, anche se non sono nemmeno lontanamente paragonabili all'Olocausto, hanno influenzato negativamente il panorama dello sviluppo dei diritti umani a livello globale" - scrive Elio Pacilio di Green Cross Italia. "Sono continuate le tensioni internazionali che hanno acuito le tensioni tra i popoli, sparato culture e tracciato profondi solchi tra grandi religioni. La guerra in Iraq, la perdurante tensione in Medio Oriente, i cosiddetti conflitti a bassa intensità che insanguinano l'Africa, le tensioni diplomatiche nell'area asiatica, il perdurare delle tensioni nelle Ex Repubbliche Sovietiche e l'instabilità dell'Afghanistan del dopo Talebani, sono stati, nell'anno passato, tutti drammatici capitoli aperti dei quali non si intravedono soluzioni sostenibili".
more...Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Race politics] [Conflict] Image: Il cancello di Auschwitz - da Indymedia
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26.01.2006
International development and rights activist Walden Bello explains how military interventions for 'humanitarian reasons' can cause further human rights violations, be corrupted by political goals, and set a dangerous precedent for the disregard of national sovereignty.
more...From: Focus on the Global South Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Kosovo] [United States] [Human rights] [Geopolitics] [Governance] [Conflict] [Conflict resolution] [Peace] [United Nations] Image: Humanitarian Intervention? © In These Times
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26.01.2006
Brazil's president Lula is not coming to this year's World Social Forum, being held this week in Venezuela. He has a lot of work to do at home to prepare his beleaguered party for November's elections, and his role as champion of Latin America's left may be usurped by one of three local colleagues: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner, or Bolivia's Evo Morales.
more...Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Latin America & Caribbean] [Development] [Human rights] [Civil society] [Democracy] [Geopolitics] [Governance] Image: Is Bolivia's Evo Morales ready to take Lula's place as champion of the left? © Americas Policy Program
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26.01.2006
Amnesty Internationalin mukaan eräiden Euroopan maiden toimet ihmisoikeuksien turvaamiseksi voidaan osoittaa riittämättömiksi Euroopan neuvoston tuoreen väliraportin tuloksilla. Ihmisoikeuksien turvaamiseksi järjestö kannattaa Euroopan hallitusten täyttä yhteistyötä vankienkuljetuslentojen ja pidätyskeskusten tutkinnassa.
more...From: Amnesty International Suomen osasto Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Human rights] |
25.01.2006
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 25 (OneWorld) - A red-and-black, 22-by-10-foot billboard mounted on a truck and emblazoned with the words ''Tell the truth about torture, Mr. President'' began circling the White House Wednesday as activists ratcheted up efforts to force President George W. Bush to confront U.S. treatment of terrorism suspects.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [United States] [Europe] [Human rights] [Activism] [Governance] [Arms & military] [Terrorism] |
25.01.2006
Solicitor Imran Khan talks about Islamophobia and the role it plays in human rights violations in the post-9/11 and 7/7 world, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London on 9 March.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Human rights] [Religion] |
25.01.2006
En el marco del VI Foro Social Mundial se desarrollo en el día de hoy en el Hotel Caracas Hilton, el seminario taller Sociedad civil, información y comunicación en el mundo globalizado. Los nuevos desafíos.
more...Related topics/regions: [Uruguay] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Information & media] [Communication] [ICT] [Internet] [Civil society] |
25.01.2006
Y llegamos a Caracas…..Fueron unas cuantas horas de vuelo, algunas tuvimos más, otras menos. Llegamos al aeropuerto tarde de noche y ya nos esperaban algunos voluntarios con sus camisetas rojas para ayudarnos a llenar formularios, ubicar transportes, cambios de monedas, etc. Subimos y bajamos cerros a oscuras, pasamos por barrios, calles vacías, rutas cortadas y llegamos por fin a nuestros alojamientos. Vimos caras de siempre, caras nuevas y debo admitir por un lado la nostalgia de “nosso querido Porto Alegre” pero por otro lado esa expectativa que tiene que la sede del Foro Policéntrico sea en Venezuela, por esos vientos de cambio que soplan en esta tierra como en muchos otros países de nuestra América Latina.
more...Related topics/regions: [Latin America & Caribbean] [Education] [Social exclusion] [Human rights] [Gender] [Civil society] [Democracy] Image: REPEM
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25.01.2006
As the first leg of this year's World Social Forum drew to a close in West Africa Monday, participants noted the decidedly "Afrocentric" focus of the event. Despite minor administrative glitches, participants discussed issues ranging from women's rights to the conflict in the Sudan, and shuttled between more than 800 events and activities.
more...From: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Development] [Population] [Poverty] [Economy] [Human rights] [Gender] [Civil society] [Conflict] Image: Outdoor Teach-In at World Social Forum India, July 2003 © Peter Armstrong
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25.01.2006
African leaders rightly rejected Sudan’s bid for the African Union’s presidency this year, but should not reward Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with Africa’s leadership next year as long as the human rights disaster continues in Darfur, a leading rights group said.
more...Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [Africa] [Human rights] |
24.01.2006
La punta de lanza para alcanzar la equidad en Guatemala y lograr el cumplimiento de los Acuerdos de Paz es el desarrollo rural, señaló Eduardo Aguirre, gerente de la Vicepresidencia de la República, en la conferencia inaugural del seminario “Una década de paz en Guatemala”.
more...From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Land] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [War & peace] [Peace] |
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