Full Coverage: Human Rights
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
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Nepal] [Civil Rights] [Governance] |
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.
Read moreRelated: [India] [Gender] [Religion] Image: Girls going to school: Waiting for your hand
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12/26/2005
Questo č un invito a vedere lAfrica 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. Lalleanza globale per un mondo diverso diventa pił grande. Diffonde speranza concreta di cambiamento.
Read moreFrom: Terre des Hommes Italia Related: [Africa] [Civil Society] Image: Africa
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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 cč pace senza giustizia", che da anni conduce un programma internazionale per labbandono della pratica delle Mutilazioni genitali femminili esprime soddisfazione.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International (sezione italiana) Related: [Civil Society] [Law] Image: Donne africane
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12/23/2005
Kosovos 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.
Read moreRelated: [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.
Read moreRelated: [Albania] [Civil Rights] [Sexuality] Image: CRCA logo
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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.
Read moreFrom: 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.
Read moreRelated: [Nepal] [Poverty] [Health] [Gender] [MDGs] Image: © Heifer International
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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.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [India] [Development] [Agriculture] [Labor] [Poverty] [Economy] |
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.
Read moreRelated: [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.
Read moreRelated: [Albania] [Children] [Civil Rights] Image: CRCA logo
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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.
Read moreRelated: [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.
Read moreRelated: [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.
Read moreRelated: [South East Europe] [Civil Rights] [Civil Society] [Ethics & Value Systems] Image: © Freedom House
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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.
Read moreRelated: [India] [Population] [Refugees] [Shelter & Housing] [Governance] Image: Pondicherry fishing village after the tsunami © M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
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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.
Read moreRelated: [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.
Read moreFrom: Refugee Council Related: [Iraq] [United Kingdom] [Refugees] [Justice and Crime] |
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.
Read moreRelated: [Pakistan] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Poverty] [Health] Image: Victims of the earthquake in Pakistan
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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.
Read moreFrom: 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.
Read moreRelated: [United States] [Cuba] [Afghanistan] [Arms & Military] |
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