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February 2008

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28.02.2008 Ihmisoikeustoimijoita vastaan hyökätään Guatemalassa keskimäärin joka toinen päivä. Heitä uhkaillaan, pahoinpidellään ja jopa murhataan. Tapauksia tutkitaan kuitenkin vain harvoin, ja syylliset jäävät lähes aina rankaisematta.
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Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Human rights]
27.02.2008 Con una lettera aperta inviata al Congresso nazionale cinese la 'Coalizione mondiale contro la pena di morte' (Wcadp) chiede ai legislatori cinesi di adottare misure concrete verso l’abolizione della pena capitale. "Ogni anno, migliaia di persone vengono messe a morte ma le cifre rimangono un segreto di Stato. Due elementi che destano particolare preoccupazione a causa del continuo afflusso di denunce su processi irregolari e sul massiccio uso della tortura per estorcere confessioni" - riporta la lettera. Sebbene le autorità cinesi abbiano recentemente ripristinato il potere della Corte Suprema di riesaminare tutte le condanne a morte, le associazioni sottolineano che per valutarne l'effettiva applicazione occorre che il Congresso nazionale abolisca il segreto di Stato sulla pena di morte.
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Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Activism] [Civil society] [Democracy]
27.02.2008 It’s been more than a year now since the State of Emergency was imposed in Bangladesh. More than 250,000 people have faced arrests during this period. The Asian Legal Resource Centre has documented numerous cases of arbitrary arrests, often carried out at a scale that is difficult to fathom in many other countries.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Politics] [Democracy]
26.02.2008 The Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS) has appealed for the release of Dr Binayak Sen, a human rights activist and a pediatrician, who has been in jail for the past nine months. In its resolution the IAWS has also demanded the repeal of Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Freedom of expression] [Activism]
Lethal injection kit used to implement the death penalty.
25.02.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - The contentious debate on the death penalty -- which split the 192-member UN General Assembly last December -- is refusing to die.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Civil rights] [Geopolitics] [Law]
Image: Lethal injection kit used to implement the death penalty. © Amnesty International USA
21.02.2008 Six years after the genocidal violence against Muslims in Gujarat in western India, victim survivors want to set up a ‘Gulberg Museum of resistance’ that will preserve memories, documents and films on the state-sponsored carnage. On February 28, 2002, the Gulberg Society in the heart of Ahmedabad city witnessed the massacre of 70 persons.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Human rights] [Politics]
Protesting Congress' Military Commission Act; Sep. 2006.
20.02.2008 NEW YORK, Feb 19 (IPS) - As the United States moves towards holding death-sentence trials for six Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have plotted the Sep. 11 attacks, legal scholars and human rights advocates are questioning not only the six-year-long process and timing of the charges, but also whether the accused could ever receive fair trials.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Civil rights] [Codes of conduct] [Law] [Arms & military] [Terrorism]
Image: Protesting Congress' Military Commission Act; Sep. 2006. © CODEPINK: Women for Peace
13.02.2008 Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Judicial Reforms is organising its Second National Convention on Judiciary and the Poor on February 23-24 in Indian capital New Delhi. The convention is targeting grassroots organisations to gain a better understanding of judiciary’s approach towards the poor.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Civil rights] [Activism] [Law]
13.02.2008 Maailman terveysjärjestön mukaan joka kymmenes elinsiirto maailmassa tehdään laittomilta markkinoilta hankituilla elimillä. Pimeät elinmarkkinat toimivat erityisesti Intiassa, Kiinassa, Bangladeshissa, Nepalissa ja Pakistanissa.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
Related topics/regions: [Asia and the Pacific] [Poverty] [Health]
Detenuti a Guantanamo
12.02.2008 La pena di morte richiesta dal Pentagono per sei detenuti di Guantanamo coinvolti nell'11 settembre attualmente imprigionati a Guantánamo Bay "solleva ulteriori dubbi sulla condotta degli Usa nella guerra al terrore". Lo afferma Amnesty International che ricorda "le torture e i processi iniqui" che si svolgono all'interno del carcere militare statunitense nella Baia cubana. Nei giorni scorsi Human Right Watch aveva chiesto un'indagine sulle tecniche di tortura impiegate dalla CIA come il "waterboarding", il cui utilizzo è stato ammesso dal Direttore della CIA, Michael Hayden. "Guantánamo, già diventato un emblema di illegalità, può ora diventare la sede di esecuzioni al termine di procedimenti giudiziari che non rispettano gli standard internazionali sull’equità dei processi" - afferma Amnesty.
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Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Law] [Security] [Terrorism]
Image: Detenuti a Guantanamo
YK:n rauhanturvaajia Kongossa Iturin alueella, missä epäiltyjä sotarikoksia tutkitaan.
11.02.2008 Uusin kongolaisen sotapäällikön pidätys tämän asemasta huolimatta luo toiveita siitä, että merkittävä joukko Afrikan suurten järvien alueella sotarikoksiin syyllistyneitä poliitikkoja ja sotilaita saadaan kansainvälisen oikeuden eteen.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Congo Brazaville] [Human rights] [Conflict]
Image: YK:n rauhanturvaajia Kongossa Iturin alueella, missä epäiltyjä sotarikoksia tutkitaan. © Christophe Boulierac / DPI / United Nations
07.02.2008 KARACHI, Feb 6 (IPS) - Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani national incarcerated in the United States military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba since September 2004, suffers from a serious heart condition and may not live unless provided special care, says his lawyer.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Pakistan] [United States] [Health] [Disease] [Human rights] [Law] [Arms & military] [Security] [Terrorism]
05.02.2008 BOGOTA, Feb 5 (OneWorld) - An estimated 2 million Colombians marched here Monday in a show of opposition to the FARC guerrillas. Worldwide, solidarity protests organized through the Facebook online platform spanned 193 cities in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [ICT] [Internet] [Activism] [Arms & military] [Conflict] [Peace] [Security]
Protesting torture outside the White House
04.02.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4 (OneWorld) - Tuesday's election contests across the United States will offer voters some clear choices on controversial issues like water boarding, secret trials of terrorism suspects, and the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, say analysts.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Human rights] [Politics] [Governance] [Law] [Arms & military] [Security] [Terrorism]
Image: Protesting torture outside the White House © CODEPINK: Women for Peace
01.02.2008 E' entrata oggi in vigore la "Convenzione del Consiglio d’Europa contro il traffico di esseri umani". "Un grande passo avanti per proteggere i diritti delle persone intrappolate in un’attualissima forma di schiavitù" - commentano Amnesty, Anti-Slavery e La Strada, tre associazioni maggiormente impegnate per questa convenzione. Le tre organizzazioni auspicano che oltre ai 14 stati che hanno finora ratificato la Convenzione, gli altri 33 stati del Consiglio d’Europa (tra cui l’Italia) e l’Unione europea la "ratifichino senza ulteriore ritardo". Un auspicio espresso anche dal Segretario generale, Terry Davis, che ha ricordato come "ogni anno, oltre 600mila individui sono venduti in Europa e diventano vittime dei criminali internazionali''.
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Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Law]

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