Full Coverage: Human Rights

11/30/2004 Kampanja “Prevencija nasilja u adolescentskim vezama"
U okviru 16 dana aktivizma protiv nasilja nad ženama (25. 11. – 10. 12. 2004.) u suradnji sa školama, ženskim udrugama i udrugama mladih CESI će provoditi kampanju IMAŠ 100% PRAVO NA NENASILJE – prevencija nasilja u adolescenskim vezama.

11/30/2004 Stasera 300 città del mondo illuminano i propri monumenti-simbolo per dire no alla pena di morte. Lanciata nel 2002 dalla Comunità Sant'Egidio in accordo con tutti gli organismi mondiali attivi nel settore, la Giornata Internazionale delle Città contro la Pena di Morte vede quest'anno l'adesione del Presidente del Messico che ha proposto una iniziativa di riforma Costituzionale per sopprimere in modo definitivo la pena di morte nel Paese. Sono tuttora 63 i Paesi che prevedono la pena di morte (erano 66 nel 2002) mentre le esecuzioni sono aumentate passando dalle 4101 del 2002 alle 5599 dello scorso anno. In cima alla lista Cina, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam e Stati Uniti.

11/30/2004 Police chiefs, with support from federal officials, must conduct a rigorous, independent and impartial study of the impact and use of tasers before they are implicated in more deaths, says Amnesty International in a new study released today. There is a rising number of deaths in custody, nine in Canada in the last fifteen months and over 60 in the United States in the last three years, after use of the weapon.

11/30/2004 Ending "31 years in silence," the Chilean government announced Sunday it will grant government pensions and health and housing benefits to the 35,000 victims of torture under Augusto Pinochet's 17-year regime.

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11/30/2004 Solidarity will be the theme when members of civil society demonstrate outside Zimbabwean embassies on December 10th, International Human Rights Day. New legislation seeks to further restrict civil society in the country, which has seen a steady exodus of skilled professionals in recent months and years.

11/30/2004 On the eve of the International Day for elimination of violence against women, hundreds of women in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul demonstrated against domestic violence and other hardships they have borne over the past 25 years.

11/30/2004 A black day for Myanmar. As the ASEAN summit in Laos concludes with not a murmur of concern about human rights in one of its member countries, authorities in Myanmar have extended the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi for a further year without trial, a process which could continue indefinitely.

11/30/2004 Kansainvälinen ihmisoikeusjärjestö Human Rights Watch (HRW) on liittynyt kampanjaan, joka vastustaa Caterpillar-yhtiön puskutraktorien myyntiä Israelin armeijalle. HRW:n mukaan Israel tuhoaa yhtiön valmistamilla D9-puskutraktoreilla palestiinalaisten koteja, maataloutta ja teitä tavalla, joka rikkoo sodankäyntiä koskevia lakeja.

11/30/2004 Skupština Hrvatskoga novinarskog društva (HND) poduprla je prijedlog predsjednika Dragutina Lučića da se vlast ispriča novinarki Heleni Puljiz, a ako to ne učini do srijede, 1. prosinca, HND će zatražiti očitovanje Središnjeg odbora Europske novinarske federacije i mjerodavnih tijela Europske unije.

11/29/2004 Covering Iraq, Haiti, Palestine, Cuba, Colombia, women's health, and more, the director of the global rights group Madre lays out a plan "to reassert the human rights priorities of the world's women and families over the corporate profiteering, macho unilateralism, and messianic militarism that have become the driving force of U.S. foreign policy."

11/29/2004 Ongoing pollution continues to destroy the health and lives of the population of Bhopal, 20 years after the Union Carbide gas leak that some consider the worst industrial disaster ever. 20,000 have died, 100,000 suffer chronic illnesses, and the company continues to refuse responsibility, says Amnesty International.

11/29/2004 Registracija izbeglih lica iz republika bivše Jugoslavije počela je u Srbiji u organizaciji republičkog Komesarijata za izbeglice i Kancelarije UNHCR-a u SCG. Proces registracije izbeglih trajaće do 13. januara 2005. godine

11/29/2004 Inicijativu za preispitivanje stava u slučaju izbeglica iz BiH i Hrvatske koje su 1995. godine prinudno mobilisane u Srbiji Vrhovnom sudu Srbije podneli su advokati Medjunarodne mreže pomoci (IAN). Inicijativa je podneta u ime 44 izbegle osobe iz Hrvatske i BiH, koje vode sudske postupke protiv Republike Srbije za naknadu štete zbog povrede časti, slobode i prava ličnosti, zbog pretrpljenog straha i fizičkih bolova koje su im 1995. nezakonitim lišavanjem slobode i odvođenjem na ratom ugroženu teritoriju naneli pripadnici MUP Srbije

11/29/2004 The pollution, the suffering, the lack of accountability - all linger on Bhopal 20 years after the chemical disaster. Unlike the victims, Dow continues to flourish and Amnesty calls on activists to renew demands for human rights to be enforced.

11/29/2004 The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina will mark international Human Rights Day on 10 December with a series of events in Una Sana Canton, which are already underway.

11/29/2004 Misija OSCE-a u Bosni i Hercegovini obilježit će 10. decembar, Međunarodni dan ljudskih prava, nizom aktivnosti. Radeći s učenicima,Misija OSCE-a radi u lokalnim školama širom Bosne i Hercegovine, kako bi educirala djecu o Općoj deklaraciji o ljudskim pravima.

11/27/2004 Rwanda's Godeliève Mukasarasi, winner of Rights & Democracy's 2004 John Humphrey Freedom Award, arrived on the weekend to visit Halifax, Moncton, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. The presentation ceremony takes place on the eve of International Human Rights Day. A survivor of the 1994 genocide, Ms. Mukasarasi has gone on to make an invaluable contribution to the promotion of human rights and democratic development in Rwanda.

11/26/2004 « Le gouvernement canadien a des priorités différentes de celles de votre administration. »
Les Canadiens croient à la paix (74 % pensent que le Canada a pris la bonne décision en n’allant pas en guerre contre l’Irak); ils croient au système de santé public (64 % veulent exclure les sociétés à but lucratif du système de santé); ils croient à l’eau propre (97 % veulent que l’eau soit reconnue comme un droit de la personne) et au commerce équitable (60 % s’opposent aux accords commerciaux, comme l’ALENA, qui donnent aux sociétés le droit de poursuivre les gouvernements si les politiques publiques diminuent leurs profits). Paul Martin doit déclarer que ce sont les priorités des Canadiens, et par conséquent celles de son gouvernement...

11/26/2004 Human rights and humanitarian groups are calling for a full-scale investigation into the death of an 81-year-old Haitian pastor taken into custody by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after requesting asylum. While Cuban asylum-seekers are usually released to relatives, Haitians are automatically detained and usually sent back, despite increasing political turmoil and violence in their country.