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April 2007

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30.04.2007 "denunciamos y hacemos responsables de esta agresión violenta al Alcalde y su corporación municipal de la Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan por premeditar la agresión el 25 de abril en un oficio donde se oponen rotundamente a la instalación de la alcaldía Indígena"
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Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Indigenous rights] [Governance]
30.04.2007 International watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned threats made by Sri Lankan Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, younger brother of the president, against the editor of the Daily Mirror, Champika Liyanaarachchi. The minister also threatened to "exterminate" a journalist on the newspaper, for writing articles about the plight of civilian victims of the war.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Sri Lanka] [Human rights] [Freedom of expression] [Media]
25.04.2007 Vásquez es prófugo de la justicia costarricense desde el año 1998, un día después de haberse interpuesto una denuncia en su contra por abusos deshonestos en contra de un niño que al momento de los hechos tenía 11 años de edad.
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From: Asociacion Alianza Por Tus Derechos
Related topics/regions: [Central America] [Children]
25.04.2007 El coordinador del Bloque Popular y presidente de la Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras (FUTH), Juan Barahona, es objeto de persecución por parte de la Policía de Investigación Criminal, quienes se sienten molestos después que un juez del Juzgados de Sentencia de Tegucigalpa los encontrara responsable de allanar ilegalmente la casa del dirigente social en julio de 2005
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From: Comité de Familiares de Detenidos, Desaparecidos en Honduras
Related topics/regions: [Honduras] [Human rights]
Liberia's president is calling on world leaders to support a vigorous arms trade treaty.
24.04.2007 UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (OneWorld) - As the United Nations prepares itself to take further action on a proposal to adopt an arms control treaty, civil society groups are stepping up pressure on governments to take a firm stand.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Liberia] [Human rights] [Activism] [Civil society] [Law] [Arms & military] [Security] [United Nations]
Image: Liberia's president is calling on world leaders to support a vigorous arms trade treaty. © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
Miljenko Dereta
23.04.2007 Serbian NGOs demand from the competent authorities to act and discover the perpetrators, the background the people who ordered the attempt on the life of Dejan Anastasijevic, journalist at “Vreme” weekly, on the night of April 14.
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From: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
Related topics/regions: [Serbia and Montenegro] [Activism] [Civil society] [Corruption & transparency] [Governance]
Image: Miljenko Dereta © Dejan Georgievski
20.04.2007 Con el foro público: “La Deuda de los Estados con la justicia y la eliminación de la violencia contra las mujeres”, se clausuró el Primer Seminario Regional sobre Feminicidio, este jueves 22 de marzo en el Hotel Intercontinental de San Salvador.
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From: Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas (ORMUSA)
Related topics/regions: [Central America] [Human rights] [Gender]
Miljenko Dereta
20.04.2007 Nevladine organizacije zahtevaju od nadleznih organa Srbije da pod hitno otkriju pocinioce, istraze pozadinu napada i pronadju nalogodavce pokusaja ubistva novinara Dejana Anastasijevica, u noci 14 aprila ove godine.
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From: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
Related topics/regions: [Serbia and Montenegro] [Governance] [Law]
Image: Miljenko Dereta © Dejan Georgievski
17.04.2007 Con profunda tristeza y desconcierto les comunicamos que el día de ayer 15 de abril en las horas de la tarde, fue asesinada de manera brutal, nuestra compañera trabajadora del sexo, LIBIA MARILYN MOLINA VILLATORO.
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From: Asociación de Mujeres Flor de Piedra
Related topics/regions: [El Salvador] [Human rights] [Gender]
17.04.2007 El pasado 7 de marzo, la Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos del Perú (CNDDHH) y el Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) informaron ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), sobre los obstáculos para la implementación de las recomendaciones del Informe Final de la Comisión de la Verdad.
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From: Center for Justice and International Law
Related topics/regions: [Peru] [Human rights] [Civil rights]
16.04.2007 Challenges to a functioning administrative justice system need to be tackled to help protect individual rights and the rule of law, concludes a new report from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.
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Related topics/regions: [Kosovo] [Governance] [Law]
Legacy of Rwandan genocide
16.04.2007 Ruandan kansanmurha on käynnistänyt kehitysmaiden historian suurimman oikeusprosessin, joka jatkuu yhä. Ruandan jälleenrakennusta ja oikeudenkäyntiä tukenut Kirkon ulkomaanapu julkaisee suomalaistoimittajan kirjan tapahtumista ja sen selvittämisestä osana 60-vuotisjuhlaansa.
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From: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu
Related topics/regions: [Rwanda] [Africa] [Human rights] [Conflict resolution]
Image: Legacy of Rwandan genocide © Heidi Martin
Srebrenica survivor Beba Hadzic (right front) at the Bosfam weaving center in Tuzla, Bosnia.
13.04.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 13 (OneWorld) - In Serbia and the Netherlands, the judges may not have any doubts that the rulings they handed down were as just and fair as possible. But those who survived the mass slaughter some 12 years ago in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica are not buying it.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Bosnia] [Serbia and Montenegro] [Religion] [Arms & military] [Security] [United Nations]
Image: Srebrenica survivor Beba Hadzic (right front) at the Bosfam weaving center in Tuzla, Bosnia. © Advocacy Project
12.04.2007 Tres mujeres víctimas de la violencia de género fueron asesinadas durante la Semana Santa en Nicaragua. Una de ellas era líder de la Red de Mujeres Contra la Violencia, organización que suscribe esta carta pública dirigida a las autoridades de ese país.
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From: Red de Mujeres contra la Violencia
Related topics/regions: [Nicaragua] [Human rights] [Gender]
11.04.2007 On the tenth anniversary of the ratification of the European Human Rights Convention by the Republic of Macedonia, and the tenth anniversary of the Civil Society Research Centre (CSRC), the Centre published its latest publication Cases Versus Macedonia at the European Court of Human Rights, 2002-2006.
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Related topics/regions: [Macedonia (FYROM)] [Human rights] [Geopolitics] [Law]
10.04.2007 Appuntamento domani 11 aprile a Milano di Libera, Associazioni, nomi e numeri contro le mafie per un conferenza con rappresentanti della Fondazione “Manuel Cepeda” della Colombia nel segno di un gemellaggio tra le vittime delle mafie e dei crimini di Stato. Milano sarà la prima città italiana ad ospitare l’incontro con Ivan Cepeda, direttore della Fondazione “Manuel Cepeda”, figlio del senatore dell’Unione Patriottica ucciso nel ’94, giornalista del settimanale “El Espectador”, tra i coordinatori del Movimento Nazionale di Vittime di crimini di Stato della Colombia. L’obiettivo dell’incontro è quello di costruire un ponte tra Colombia e Italia a partire dal protagonismo della società civile.
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From: Libera
Related topics/regions: [Civil rights] [Civil society]
10.04.2007 Po povod deset-godisninata od ratifikacijata na Evropskata konvencija za covekovi prava od strana na Republika Makedonija, kako i deset-godisninata od funkcioniranjeto na Istrazuvackiot centar za gragjansko opstestvo, ICGO ja izdade svojata najnova publikacija Predmeti protiv Makedonija pred Evropskiot sud za covekovi prava 2002-2006.
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Related topics/regions: [Macedonia (FYROM)] [Human rights] [Law]
09.04.2007 El galardón será entregado a Helen Mack, presidenta de la FMM, quien ha guiado el trabajo de esta entidad desde su creación en 1993 y cuyo propósito institucional inicial fue dar apoyo técnico a los procesos judiciales que se entablaron con el fin de esclarecer y sancionar el asesinato de la antropóloga social Myrna Mack
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From: Centro de Reportes Informativos sobre Guatemala
Related topics/regions: [Guatemala] [Human rights] [War and peace]
08.04.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 6 (OneWorld) - An immigration coalition known as the Rights Working Group held hundreds of community meetings Thursday to push for immigration reform that "restores basic civil liberties and human rights, protects our core American values of fairness and justice, and defends due process for everyone."
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Migration] [Activism] [Law]
06.04.2007 Mjaft! Movement demanded from the Attorney General to explain to the Albanian citizens who tells the truth: the Prime Minister, who accused the media of being affiliated with the mafia, or the media, who retorted by advancing the same exact accusation against the Prime Minister.
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Related topics/regions: [Albania] [Activism] [Codes of conduct] [Governance]
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