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December 2005

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12/30/2005 At least 14,000 minors were abducted by State and Maoists, of which 60 were killed during conflict, in the past ten months, says a report.The report presented by Child Workers in Nepal, (CWIN), at Kathmandu, Nepal said that all the minors were abducted and disappeared in between January 2005 to November, by the belligerent sides
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Related: [South Asia] [Nepal] [Civil Rights] [Governance]
Girls going to school: Waiting for your hand
12/30/2005 Now religious and spiritual leaders would be brought together to focus on the alarming fall in the child sex ratio in Rajasthan. Agencies working in the field planned to involve religious and spiritual leaders of Jains, Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs, Gurjars and Muslim community as they attain a powerful hold in their community and bestow upon the community a voice and the presence in the larger societal framework.
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Related: [India] [Gender] [Religion]
Image: Girls going to school: Waiting for your hand
Africa
12/26/2005 Questo č un invito a vedere l’Africa dalla parte giusta. Dalla parte degli africani e delle africane che difendono la vita, i diritti, la dignitą del loro continente. Dalla parte di coloro che resistono allo sfruttamento, alla rapina delle risorse naturali e umane, alle guerre e alle dittature, alle forme vecchie e nuove di colonialismo. Saranno loro a dare vita al Forum Sociale Mondiale policentrico che si terrą a Bamako, in Mali, dal 19 al 24 gennaio prossimi. Nello stesso periodo, altri due Forum si terranno a Caracas in Venezuela e a Karachi in Pakistan. Nel gennaio del 2007, poi, i movimenti sociali di tutto il mondo si ritroveranno in Kenia. Il percorso iniziato a Porto Alegre nel 2001 continua a mettere radici in tutti i continenti. L’alleanza globale per un mondo diverso diventa pił grande. Diffonde speranza concreta di cambiamento.
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From: Terre des Hommes Italia
Related: [Africa] [Civil Society]
Image: Africa
Donne africane
12/23/2005 Amnesty International esprime apprezzamento per l"approvazione, da parte della Commissione giustizia del Senato, della legge che istituisce il reato di mutilazione genitale femminile. "Questa legge era uno degli obiettivi della nostra campagna "Mai pił violenza sulle donne", lanciata da Amnesty International nel 2004 a livello mondiale" – ha dichiarato Fosca Nomis, vicepresidente di Amnesty Italia che ha sottolineato anche "l"accento che la legge pone sulle azioni di sensibilizzazione, informazione, ricerca, cooperazione, valorizzazione e coinvolgimento di tutti gli operatori". Anche "Non c’č pace senza giustizia", che da anni conduce un programma internazionale per l’abbandono della pratica delle Mutilazioni genitali femminili esprime soddisfazione.
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From: Amnesty International (sezione italiana)
Related: [Civil Society] [Law]
Image: Donne africane
Marek Antoni Nowicki
12/23/2005 Kosovo’s Ombudsperson Marek Antoni Nowicki voiced his concerns, during a farewell conference today, on the situation of human rights in Kosovo, emphasizing that they are still far from the international standards.
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Related: [Kosovo] [United Nations]
Image: Marek Antoni Nowicki
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12/23/2005 Rrjeti pėr tė Drejtat e Njeriut nė Shqipėri (AHRN) qė pėrbėhet nga organizatat kryesore tė tė drejtave tė njeriut, grave dhe fėmijėve nė Shqipėri, organizon Forumin “Mendimi Gjinor pėr Politikėn nė Shqipėri”. Ky forum organizohet nė kuadėr tė programit “Promovimi i Demokracisė nėpėrmjet Partive Politike nė Shqipėri” i cili mbėshtetet nga Olof Palme International Center nė Suedi.
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Related: [Albania] [Civil Rights] [Sexuality]
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12/23/2005 Kėshilli pėr Mbrojtjen e tė Drejtave e tė Lirive tė Njeriut me seli nė Prishtinė, ėshtė i detyruar, pėrkundėr vullnetit tė vet, qė publikisht tė njoftojė opinionin e gjerė pėrkitazi me pengesat qė ėshtė duke hasur nė realizimin e misionit tė vet pėr mbrojtjen dhe promovimin e tė drejtave tė njeriut, thuhet nė njė deklaratė pėr media.
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From: Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms
Related: [Kosovo]
12/23/2005 When Dil Bhushan Pathak, a popular newscaster in Nepal, was reading the news one night, he came across an item that caused him to skip a heartbeat. In the remote Achham district in far-western Nepal, a woman had died a painful death. She was undergoing a clandestine abortion using a traditional method - the insertion of a heated rod smeared with herbal paste into the uterus.
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Related: [Nepal] [Poverty] [Health] [Gender] [MDGs]
12/23/2005 A National Human Rights Commission report says that the number of child labourers in UP has seen an increase, the first since around 70,000 bonded children were freed at the behest of the Supreme Court in 1997.
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Related: [South Asia] [India] [Development] [Agriculture] [Labor] [Poverty] [Economy]
Marek Antoni Nowicki, ish-Ombudsperson i Kosovės
12/22/2005 Nė fund tė misionit tė tij, Ombudspersoni i Kosovės, juristi polak Marek Antoni Nowicki, tha tė mėrkurėn se respektimi i tė drejtave tė njeriut nė Kosovė ėshtė larg standardeve tė pranuara ndėrkombėtarisht.
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Related: [Kosovo]
Image: Marek Antoni Nowicki, ish-Ombudsperson i Kosovės
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12/22/2005 Studimi mė i fundit i “Qendra pėr Mbrojtjen e tė Drejtave tė Fėmijėve nė Shqipėri”- CRCA, me titull “Abuzimi i Fėmijėve nė Familje”, duke filluar nga dita e neserme do tė jetė i lexueshėm on-line dhe po ashtu mund tė shkarkohet pa pagesė.
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Related: [Albania] [Children] [Civil Rights]
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12/22/2005 The National Social Watch Coalition and ActionAid India provide the latest information and news from Hong Kong. The information has been provided in the form of two newsletters in PDF - wto news5.pdf and wto news11.pdf.
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Related: [Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China] [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Globalization]
12/21/2005 Qendra pėr Nisma Ligjore Qytetare, nga dt. 15.12.05 ka nisur zbatimin e njė programi tė ri lidhur me rritjen e aksesit tė Gruas nė sistemin e Drejtėsisė, duke ofruar ndihmė ligjore dhe psiko-sociale falas pėr gratė e vajzat e dhunuara, ose qė nuk kanė mjete tė nevojshme financiare pėr tė patur njė avokat. Ky program i ri, i financuar nga Ambasada Hollandeze nė Tiranė, ju fton tė ndihmoni me sugjerimet tuaja dhe tė bashkėpunoni pėr tė gjitha aktivitetet e parashikuara.
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Related: [Albania] [Population] [Civil Rights] [Gender] [Sexuality] [Civil Society]
12/21/2005 Freedom House, the U.S. based non-profit organization, released on Monday, December 19, its Freedom in the World 2005 report. Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia were graded free countries, based on the criteria of political rights and civil liberties. Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina are only partially free countries.
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Related: [South East Europe] [Civil Rights] [Civil Society] [Ethics & Value Systems]
Image: © Freedom House
Pondicherry fishing village after the tsunami
12/21/2005 Mothers who had lost their families and their children to the tsunami, nearly one year back, are again giving birth and bringing up new families in coastal Tamil Nadu with help from the government and local doctors.
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Related: [India] [Population] [Refugees] [Shelter & Housing] [Governance]
Image: Pondicherry fishing village after the tsunami © M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
12/21/2005 When the first big wave came in on December 26 last year, H Priyantha thought it was just that — a big wave. Then the sea pulled back. The fisherman from Balapitiya in southern Sri Lanka rushed into the sea to tie his boat — and saw the monster wave coming.
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Related: [Sri Lanka] [Aid] [Shelter & Housing] [Governance]
12/21/2005 The Home Office has admitted it was searching for an Iraqi Kurd who had been unlawfully deported to Iraq.
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From: Refugee Council
Related: [Iraq] [United Kingdom] [Refugees] [Justice and Crime]
Victims of the earthquake in Pakistan
12/20/2005 Sitting in his bed in a field hospital, Safir, 3, is coughing heavily, while his mother, Meerjan, gives him water to soothe the outbursts. The reason is pneumonia, say doctors at the field hospital run by the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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Related: [Pakistan] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Poverty] [Health]
Image: Victims of the earthquake in Pakistan
12/20/2005 Vietnamese victims of the defoliant known as Agent Orange wound up a month-long visit to the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese Americans and peace activists, to press their case for reparations from the U.S. government and the companies that made the deadly chemical.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related: [United States] [Viet Nam] [Justice and Crime] [Conflict]
12/20/2005 Accounts from detainees at Guantįnamo reveal that as recently as last year the United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were subjected to torture and other mistreatment, a human rights group said.
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Related: [United States] [Cuba] [Afghanistan] [Arms & Military]
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