Full Coverage: Human Rights

06/30/2004 The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are waging a campaign in eastern Sri Lanka to abduct former child soldiers for their forces, Human Rights Watch has said. Over the last three weeks, the armed opposition group has intensified efforts to re-recruit child combatants released by Colonel Karuna, a renegade rebel commander defeated by its forces in April.

06/30/2004 Conservative Islamists are continuing their drive against women's education by physically targeting a number of girls’ schools across the country.

06/30/2004 Education International’s Fourth World Congress, to be held in July at Porto, Brazil, will look into the role that teachers and others in the education sector can play in enhancing global progress.

06/29/2004 A Marvin Daniel Ortiz, de 16 años, le cortaron las manos. Su amigo, Juan Manuel Aguilar, de 19, mostraba indicios de haber sido golpeado. A ambos los ejecutaron, luego de largos minutos de torturas. Los sospechosos son miembros de la policía hondureña.

06/29/2004 Sanja i Muhamed Pilavdzic bili su u braku samo tri mjeseca kada su odlucili da pobjegnu sto dalje od ratnih strahota u Sarajevu. Ona je prije rata radila kao sluzbenik u TAS-u, a Muhamed, masinski inzenjer, u Vojnom vazduhoplovnom zavodu “Orao”. Prvo su se obreli u Beogradu, a onda su na poziv prijatelja dosli u Igalo. Bio je maj 2002. godine. Mladi par, koji je imao veliki broj poznanika, a Muhamed i kolega, u to vrijeme se m-nogo druzio i izlazio sa Novljanima. Bilo je to i razumljivo, jer u hotelskoj sobi Mediteranskog centra, gdje su bili smjesteni, nijesu se mogli osjecati komotno.

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06/29/2004 Après 20 jours de détention, Gustave Kalenga Kabanda, éditeur-directeur de "La Flamme du Congo", hebdomadaire paraissant à Kinshasa, a été libéré, le 26 juin 2004 en début de soirée, sur décision du parquet général près le tribunal de Grande Instance de Kinshasa/Gombe. Le journaliste a payé une caution de 20 000 francs congolais (environ 53 $US).

06/29/2004 On Tuesday 29 June, the Council of Europe has an opportunity to provide victims of trafficking with such vital protection as reflection periods and short-term residency permits with the discussion of a European Convention on human trafficking.

06/29/2004 Despite the handover of power in Iraq many serious human rights issues have yet to be resolved say Amnesty International. In particular, clarity is urgently needed on the likely fate of the thousands of prisoners and detainees currently held in Iraq as well as the role, responsibility and accountability of the multinational force.

06/29/2004 Nel giorno del passaggio dei poteri in Iraq, sono ancora molte per Amnesty International le questioni riguardanti i diritti umani da risolvere. In particolare, è urgentemente necessario chiarire quale sarà il destino di migliaia di prigionieri e il ruolo, la responsabilità politica e quella giuridica della Forza multinazionale. In un rapporto reso pubblico oggi, intitolato "Iraq: la protezione e la promozione dei diritti umani sono fondamentali nel periodo di transizione", Amnesty International ha chiesto a tutte le parti coinvolte in Iraq di prendere una posizione netta sul rispetto del diritto internazionale.

06/28/2004 Representatives from communities around the world will attend Shell's AGM on Monday 28 June in London to demand justice from the oil company, which they say is causing severe health problems and environmental damage from Nigeria to Texas, from Sakhalin to South Africa.

06/28/2004 Twelve girls returned to Nepal Sunday after a harrowing stint with a circus in India, and the nongovernmental organization that rescued them says hundreds of such children are sexually abused and made to perform risky acts in Indian circuses.

06/28/2004 Commission for Racial Equality chief Trevor Phillips is facing calls from black community leaders to come out against the single equality body. As opposition in Westminster grows, activists are hopeful Phillips will reflect the hostility of Black communities towards the governments’ proposals.

06/28/2004 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has put together various experiments on Community Policing and Outreach Programmes in different states of India.

06/28/2004 Local Amnesty International groups really do make a difference. They raise the profile of human rights in their local area and make connections with people around the world, helping them get released from unlawful detention. Find out more about groups working in your local area.

06/26/2004 Oggi, sabato 26 giugno, in occasione della Giornata internazionale per le vittime della tortura, la Amnesty International organizza a Roma una manifestazione–spettacolo per rilanciare la richiesta al Parlamento di una legge che introduca il reato di tortura nel codice penale. Lo scorso aprile la Camera aveva approvato un emendamento della Lega Nord secondo il quale, perché si possa ravvisare il reato di tortura, occorrono "violenze e minacce reiterate": emendamento che ha suscitato le proteste di moltissime associazioni.

06/26/2004 Euronet, la rete europea delle organizzazioni che si occupano di infanzia, "accoglie con molto favore l'inclusione dei diritti dei bambini nella nuova Costituzione Europea adottata il 18 giugno scorso. La tutela dei diritti dei minori è ora parte degli obiettivi interni ed internazionali dell'Unione" - afferma il comunicato del network.

06/25/2004 Suicide bombings, rocket attacks, assassinations, political wrangling: familiar fare from media covering the occupied territories. But what about the everyday conditions of people living under occupation? Inspiration for a photo essay from journalist Jon Elmer's recent stay in the West Bank and Gaza.

06/25/2004 The streets of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata will reverberate to the sounds of sexual freedom Sunday when homosexuals and rights activists from across the world take out a parade to commemorate a pioneering gay revolt in the US in 1969.

06/25/2004 Prije nekoliko dana završen je projekat pod nazivom ''Bezimena djeca'' koji je pokrenut od strane institucije ombudsmana RS i BiH, a uz finansijsku podršku UNICEF-a. Ova akcija je pokrenuta kad su ''pronađena'' dva dječaka bez imena i bez upisanih podataka u matične knjige rođenih. O ovom problemu, ali i o drugim nadležnostima institucije ombudsmana razgovarali smo sa Brankom Kolar Mijatović, ombudsmanom RS.