Full Coverage: Human Rights

03/31/2004 Mentre il presidente Karzai chiede alla Conferenza dei paesi donatori in corso a Berlino 27,5 miliardi di dollari in sette anni per la ricostruzione, le Ong internazionali e i gruppi della società civile afghana chiedono un veloce disarmo delle fazioni ed il rispetto dei diritti umani. Ma su un punto concordano: la necessità di porre fine alla coltivazione dell'oppio che è aumentata del 12% rispetto al regime talebano.

03/31/2004 BREMEN, Mar 31 (CSM) -- The impersonal white postcards bearing the return address "Camp X-Ray" stopped arriving more than a year ago. Rabiye Kurnaz took little comfort from the short, vague messages she received from her son, who has been a detainee at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay for nearly two years, but they let her know he was alive.

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The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over a legal remedy known as ATCA (Alien Tort Claims Act) that allows non-Americans to sue those who have violated their rights at home in American courts. ATCA has been around as long as the United States, but the Bush administration is trying to get rid of it. Learn more.

03/31/2004 The UN Human Rights Committee declared this week that countries cannot use offshore facilities like Guantanamo to evade responsibility for human rights violations. "The Bush administration's trick of detaining people at Guantanamo won't work under international law," said Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth.

03/31/2004 Around 800 tea garden workers have died of starvation, with several surviving on wild roots and rats in the Indian state of West Bengal, where the closure of uneconomic plantations has rendered a million laborers jobless, says a rights group.

03/31/2004 Komiteti Shqiptar i Helsinkit, tubimet e fundit të opozitës i ka konsideruar të ligjshme dhe paqësore ashtu siç ka vlerësuar në përputhje me ligjin edhe qëndrimin e forcave të rendit. Në një vend demokratik siç është edhe Shqipëria, kushdo gëzon të drejtën e lirisë së mbledhjeve dhe manifestimeve paqësore për të shprehur pakënaqësitë e mundshme apo kërkesat e ndryshme ndaj qeverisë, institucioneve apo organeve të caktuara shtetërore.

03/31/2004 Amnesty International has criticised India for using excessive force during a protest march held by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons in the north Indian city of Srinagar, located in Jammu and Kashmir.

03/31/2004 An east India-based NGO, which works on social justice, human rights, food security, natural resource management, child rights and development alternatives seeks donations for these projects.

03/31/2004 Os 40 anos do golpe propiciaram um panorama ideológico variado, através da ótica retrospectiva de cada um. Olha-se para trás sempre a partir do presente e muitas visões – especialmente as dos que mudaram radicalmente de posição – falam muito mais do que as pessoas são hoje do que do tempo a que pretendem se referir.

03/30/2004 During his visit to Washington, Colombian president Álvaro Uribe is seeking continued U.S. investment in Plan Colombia and assurances of U.S.-backing for "Plan Colombia II." President Uribe is promoting his controversial plan to demobilize illegal paramilitary groups and highlighting recent reductions in the cultivation of coca.

03/30/2004 U Zagrebu se od 7. travnja do 7. svibnja odrzavaju "Dane kulture Roma" koje i ove godine organizira Centar kulture Roma Hrvatske "Romano Centro". Između ostalog planiraju se koncerti, tribine i filmske projekcije, a sve u svrhu približanju romske kulture građanima.

03/30/2004 Prosecuting human rights abusers is now a familiar phase in a society's passage from conflict to peaceful development. But punitive justice is only one side of transition. Just as important - to heal lives and mend societies - is reparative justice for victims. Policy options for reparations remain sketchy, however, and the need for supporting research is profound.

03/30/2004 A vent'anni dalla fine della sanguinaria dittatura (1976-1983), durante la quale 'sparirono' 30mila dissidenti, il presidente Néstor Kirchner ha devoluto ai gruppi per i diritti umani di Buenos Aires 19 ettari della "Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada" (ESMA), il complesso della Marina militare dove furono torturati e uccisi migliaia di dissidenti: ne nascerà un "Museo alla memoria". Intanto vari giudici stanno emanando sentenze che permettono di perseguire i crimini della dittatura.

03/30/2004 En 2002 et en 2003, le Canada a été le seul des 53 pays membres de la Commission des droits de l'homme de l'ONU à voter contre la reconnaissance du droit humain à l'eau. Le 22 mars, quatre ONG canadiennes, dont le Conseil des Canadiens, se sont réunies sur la colline parlementaire à l'occasion de la Journée mondiale de l’eau afin de contester cette position du gouvernement canadien.

03/30/2004 Gordon Campbell's BC Liberals campaigned on the promise of a "new era" for British Columbia - an end to the supposed excesses of the social democrats. And since "Slash Gordon" came to power, health care, welfare, education, legal aid and other services have suffered from his special attention. Now all 37 BC Women's Centres are on the chopping block.

03/30/2004 It is general knowledge that economic and social rights are preconditions for exercising civil and political rights. If one cannot survive with its income, it is much harder for them to resist pressures on him regarding ways of achieving civil and political rights. Such a person is focused on generation of income to fulfill basic needs and lacks motivation to reach rational political and civil decision on the basis of appropriate information. This is even more severe if those that provide him with income use different forms of pressures on his decision-making.

03/30/2004 'I share your dream of a Middle East replete with democracy and human rights for all,' writes a prominent Palestinian doctor to President Bush in Grassroots' Online Journal, 'but why not set a better example?'

03/30/2004 Children as young as 7 and 8 are going missing in large numbers throughout Afghanistan, and no one is sure how many or where they are going. Agencies concerned with children surmise that some are being abducted as slave laborers or beggars, while others are being used to ferry drugs across borders.

03/30/2004 "Urrej të gjithë rreth meje. Nuk dua të jetoj më. Dua të vras veten. Urrej veten time. Ju drejtova për ndihmë një kleriku. Pedofil dhe ai..".

Këto fjalë prekëse dhe tronditëse, të një 15- vjeçari shqiptar, viktimë e pedofilisë dhe përdhunimit, ishin të vendosura me gërma të mëdha në sallën ku u organizua konferenca njëditore ndërkombëtare me temë "Dhuna ndaj fëmijëve dhe grave", e cila u zhvillua në kryeqytetin grek Athinë.

03/30/2004 The European Union’s proposal for a common European asylum system violates international human rights, according to a group of leading NGOs. Refugee and human rights organisations across Europe are jointly calling on the EU to scrap one of the key elements leading to the proposed system.