Full Coverage: Justice and Crime

12/22/2006 NEW YORK, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - Death penalty opponents and human rights organizations are hailing Florida governor Jeb Bush's decision this week to temporarily halt all executions in his state.

12/22/2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - Human rights groups reacted with skepticism Thursday after military prosecutors charged eight Marines in the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in the western Iraqi town of Haditha.

12/20/2006 Ten months after B92 started its campaign for construction of a safe house for victims of family violence, and in spite of the bad weather, the construction works on the safe house in Rakovica Municipality were initiated last Monday, December 18.

12/19/2006 "Già un solo lavoratore immigrato sfruttato per caporalato sarebbe troppo, ma ritengo comunque che il fenomeno del lavoro irregolare nelle nostre campagne sia poca cosa. Non per questo dobbiamo abbassare la guardia. Ma occorre anche trovare modalità per poter disporre, in modo legale, di un numero sufficiente di immigrati da impiegare nel lavoro" - ha affermato Gabriele Calliari di Coldiretti al dibattito su "Caporalato in Trentino?" organizzato ieri a Cles, da Migra (Osservatorio sulla discriminazione degli immigrati nel lavoro). Con meno enfasi anche Antonio Rapanà della Cgil è d'accordo. Ma ha aggiunto: «Sull'immigrazione, comunque, la nostra Provincia non ha messo in cantiere politiche di accoglienza all'altezza».

12/19/2006 Nacionalniot romski centar (NRC) e seriozno zagrizen okolu neodamnesniot slucaj na nasilstvo vrz dete sto se sluci vo Чicino selo, vo blizinata na Skopje i gi povikuva nadleznite organi da sprovidat brza i efikasna istraga za slucajot.

12/18/2006 Entre as muitas denúncias, figuram, inclusive, casos de tortura e de abuso sexual cometidos contra mulheres e mulheres militantes e simpatizantes da APPO.

12/18/2006 Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 19, 2006, at 17:00 hours, the Mediacentre Sarajevo will host the round-table discussion for journalists on the topic of Presumption of Innocence Principle and its Application in Media and Judiciary.

12/15/2006 En Guatemala hay una norma para casi cada asunto pero no hay justicia, porque si la hubiera se habría juzgado a los genocidas y violadores de derechos humanos aquí y no se pediría auxilio en las cortes españolas, subrayó la periodista Carolina Escobar Sarti.

12/15/2006 Los miembros del Patronato y Comité de Defensa de Tierra de Durugubuty (San Juan Tela), nos pronunciamos ante la persistencia en el acoso que se viene presentando contra líderes de la comunidad.

12/15/2006 Militias formed by police, ex-police officers, firemen, prison workers, and military personnel have expelled drug traffickers from the west and northern areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

12/14/2006 Povodom odluke holandske vlade da odlikuje 350 vojnika koji su 1995. pasivno posmatrali genocid u Srebrenici, Zene u crnom iz Beograda poslale su pismo udruženjima žena Srebrenice, u kome su osudile tu odluku.

12/14/2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 14 (OneWorld) - Human rights advocates are cheering the genocide conviction of former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam.

12/13/2006 Representantas de la Red Centroamericana de Mujeres en Solidaridad con las Trabajadoras de la Maquila (REDCAM), expresaron su preocupación por el aumento de ataques y asesinatos en contra de las laborantes de empresas de confección en la región, se conoció aquí.

12/13/2006 The state and city of Oaxaca in Mexico rose in protest in May against a governor seen as corrupt and repressive. The government later sent in troops to clear the city, but the struggles have broken out again.

12/12/2006 El Poder Ejecutivo de Chile determinó hoy que no habrá un funeral de Estado como ex presidente para Augusto Pinochet, y sólo recibirá homenajes como ex comandante en jefe del Ejército, según informó el portavoz gubernamental Ricardo Lagos Weber.

12/11/2006 La noticia, fue recibida a la hora del almuerzo. Pinochet ha muerto, el grupo de chilenos que se encuentra varado en La Paz, por haber perdido la conexión de su vuelo con Chile, es sorprendido con la información. Los rostros de estos chilenos se transforman, y afloran los sentimientos encontrados.

12/11/2006 In Santiago on September 11, 1973 I watched as Chilean air force jets flew overhead. Moments later I heard explosions and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky as the presidential palace went up in flames. Salvador Allende, the elected Socialist president of Chile died in the palace.

12/06/2006 El abogado hondureño, Dionisio García, de 43 años, fue asesinado la mañana de este lunes por dos sicarios que se conducían en una motocicleta, cuando se dirigía a las instalaciones de la Suprema Corte de Justicia.

12/06/2006 In response to the growing incidents of atrocities on dalits, the Stop-Atrocity IT Unit, Pune has come forward with an idea of establishing a helpline to prevent atrocities and safeguarding the basic rights of dalits in India.

12/04/2006 TEHRAN, Dec 4 (IPS) - Currently, in Iran, there are nine women sentenced to death by stoning on charges of adultery, compared to two men for the same offence -- highlighting the fact that this barbaric mode of execution is primarily a women's issue.