Full Coverage: Human Rights

07/19/2005 Ce kit est principalement adressé aux jeunes âgés entre 7 et 17 ans désirant apprendre davantage sur les droits humains dans le monde. Mais, il peut également intéresser les animateurs souhaitant développer l'éducation aux droits humains de par des actions concrètes et des jeux faciles à réaliser.

07/19/2005 Droits et Démocratie a le plaisir d'annoncer que M. Yan Christian Warinussy, de la Papouasie occidentale, en Indonésie est le récipiendaire du Prix John-Humphrey pour la liberté 2005. Monsieur Warinussy dirige l'Institut pour la recherche, l'analyse et le développement de l'aide juridique (LP3BH), un organisme voué à la défense des droits des Papous touchés par la répression exercée par l'armée indonésienne qui cherche à resserrer son contrôle sur cette région qui occupe la partie ouest de l'île de Nouvelle Guinée (territoire partagé avec l'État de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée).

07/19/2005 KUPANG, Indonesia, Jul 19 (IPS) - Devastating though it was, the Asian Tsunami brought the proverbial winds of change to Indonesia by focusing international attention on the festering conflict in Aceh province and creating conditions for a political settlement that may yet instruct other ethnic groups.

07/19/2005 Partita dal Piazzale dell'Onu di Ginevra il 16 giugno scorso arriverà domani alle 9.30 in via Trionfale a Roma per poi dirigersi verso la Città del Vaticano la marcia più lunga del mondo: due giovani eritrei, Tekle e Samuel, hanno camminato per 1.200 chilometri, raccogliendo firme per richiamare l'attenzione internazionale sulla violazione dei diritti umani in Eritrea, l'imprigionamento di migliaia di persone in carceri segrete, le torture e i maltrattamenti cui sono sottoposti. Un documento verrà consegnato al Santo Padre, alle rappresentanze delle Nazioni Unite, del Parlamento Europeo e dell'Unione Africana. La marcia è stata seguita dall'organizzazione Asper (Associazione Salviamo il Popolo Eritreo). Il mese scorso il Cipsi – coordinamento di 37 Ong - ha chiesto al Governo italiano e alla comunità internazionale un embargo totale sulla vendita di armi verso l'Etiopia e l'Eritrea.

07/19/2005 It is a scene usually reserved for Nigeria: thousands are rallying in support of impoverished villagers who refuse to let the oil multinational Shell onto their land to construct what they believe to be a dangerous pipeline. Now Shell has had the villagers jailed, but the protests in northwest Ireland are only intensifying.

07/19/2005 Šef Misije OEBS na Kosovu, ambasador Verner Vnend, pozdravio je danas inicijativu Komiteta Skupštine Kosova za pravosuđe, zakonodavstvo i Ustavni okvir, kojom se apeluje na usvajanje nacrta zakona o Kosovskom institutu za pravosuđe (KIP).

07/19/2005 InteRadio is the only publication that addresses the challenges and accomplishments of the community radio movement from an international and a communications rights perspective. The 2005 edition of InteRadio presents insights into media policy, media concentration and the legal recognition of community radio in the U.S., Latin America, Africa and Asia, as well as in the province of Quebec. The issues of the World Summit on the Information Society and the participation of women in community radio are also discussed.

07/19/2005 Some 3 million Colombians are estimated to have been displaced by the country's long-running conflict--comparable to the numbers in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Sudan--yet little is heard about their plight, and still less is being done. It is unacceptable that the issue is not on international agendas, says Médecins Sans Frontières.

07/19/2005 After evicting nearly 10,000 people from the Mau Forest complex, Kenyan officials said the evictions were simply part of the process of rectifying past misdeeds, when land titles were given away by corrupt officials as political favors. A spokesman for the Maa Civil Society Forum, however, charges that the government is targeting poor farmers, while ignoring rich landowners.

07/19/2005 A letter signed by members of the U.S. Congress calling attention to continued attacks against women, religious communities, and all Colombia's people will be sent to President Alvaro Uribe at the end of this week. Lutheran World Relief is asking you to urge your representative to sign on.

07/19/2005 The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment blocking the administration's plan to supply the Haitian National Police with arms. Although many Haitian police officers are fighting crime, the force as a whole is a cause of the violence, not a solution, says Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.

07/18/2005 Lea la carta en la que diversas organizaciones repudian el asesinato de Octavio Acuña Rubio, Secretario de AQUESEX, Defensor y Promotor de los Derechos Humanos, Sexuales y Reproductivos, Psicólogo Clínico, Activista en la Lucha por los Derechos de la Comunidad LGBT, Trabajador en la Prevención y Atención del VIH/SIDA y un velador de los derechos humanos.

07/18/2005 In a meeting with Colombian president Alvaro Uribe today, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said that ending impunity is the key for the protection of human rights in the country and urged the President not to ratify the Justice and Peace Law.

07/18/2005 La Iglesia de San Pedro Sula (norte) denunció al Estado de Honduras ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) de la OEA, por la muerte de 107 presos en el penal de esa ciudad en mayo de 2004, informó este viernes el obispo.

07/18/2005 Since former president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was ousted from power last year, people in pro-Aristide neighborhoods in the capital, Port-au-Prince, have faced extreme repression at the hands of Haitian police. U.S.-based human rights and trade union activists say they have evidence proving that U.N. military forces carried out a "massacre" in Cite Soleil on Jul. 6, and would like the U.N. to investigate.

07/18/2005 The body of Haitian journalist Jacques Roche was found in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The cultural editor with the daily Le Matin, he was kidnapped July 10. Roche, who also hosted a local television station show, was taken from his car in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Nazon, the Haitian press reported. His captors demanded US$250,000 in ransom. Haiti's capital has been plagued by a wave of violence and abductions.

07/18/2005 Asocijacija nezavisnih elektronskih medija (ANEM) najoštrije protestuje povodom serije napada i pretnji kojima je izložena članica asocijacije, Radio-televizija B92.

07/15/2005 CANBERRA, Jul 15 (IPS) - The sentencing of a former Baghdad goldsmith for helping organise a people-smuggling operation that ended in tragedy has not quelled controversy over the Australian government's role in the October 2001 drowning of 353 Iraqi asylum-seekers on their way to this country from Indonesia.

07/15/2005 Learn more about Martus, a technology tool to assist the human rights and social justice sector in the collection, safeguarding, organization and dissemination of information about human rights violations. It brings the power of technology to the field by placing a simple yet powerful tool into the hands of human rights defenders around the globe. With the Martus system, documentation of human rights violations will be safeguarded and disseminated, accelerating response to violations and in some cases preventing additional abuses.

07/15/2005 Pour cette journée, Amnistie internationale, dans le cadre de sa campagne "Halte à la violence faite aux femmes" mondiale met l'accent sur la manière dont la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) peut être utilisée pour combattre l'impunité pour les pires violences contre les femmes.