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2010-03-10: Headlines

• Asian Tribune: Sri Lanka protests over UK shadow foreign minister's comment 2010-03-10

  As to his raising the decision of the Commonwealth to deny Sri Lanka's bid to host the Heads of Government meeting in 2011 due to human rights concern ...

• Straight Goods: Ontario condemns dissent at universities 2010-03-10

  ... as South African bishop Desmond Tutu and former US president Jimmy Carter, as well as international jurist and UN human rights rapporteur John Dugard.

• AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Jos - Row Over Fresh Killings 2010-03-10

  Meanwhile, a civil group, the League for Human Rights, has warned that the people were gradually losing confidence in the ability of the military to offer ...

• AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Jang Indicts Army Over Jos Massacre 2010-03-10

  Meanwhile, the Director League for Human Rights, Mr. Peter Shamaki, said Jos residents were beginning to get worried that killings have continued despite ...

• AllAfrica.com: Gambia: Court Remands Rights Defender 2010-03-10

  The Kanifing Magistrate Court on March 8, 2010 remanded Edwin Nebolisa Nwakaeme, a local human rights defender and a Director of Programmes of ...

• ReliefWeb: INDONESIA: Investigation of police killings in Aceh must be conducted 2010-03-10

  The Regulation of the Chief of Police Number 8 of 2009 regarding Implementation of Human Rights Principles and Standards in the Discharge of Duties of ...

• ReliefWeb: FERGANA VALLEY: RELATIONS COOLING, UZBEK-KYRGYZ BORDER GROWING INCREASINGLY ... 2010-03-10

  Human rights are abused by frontier guards and soldiers of both countries, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan," Azamjan Askarov, a human rights activist ...

• ReliefWeb: Amidst the rubble, Haiti celebrates International Women's Day 2010-03-10

  ... public march organized by Famn Deside (Women Decide), a locally based organization with a 20-year history of promoting women's health and human rights.

• MyNews.in: Ansar Burney thanked Indian Supreme Court for releasing Pak prisoners 2010-03-10

  The United Nations Expert Advisor on human rights, Ansar Burney said it's a great success of the Ansar Burney Trust and also great success of Justice ...

• Torrington Register Citizen: Sound Off for March 10 2010-03-10

  Several of the Department of Justice attorneys in question are believed to have been instrumental in the efforts of Human Rights Watch and CREW to leak ...

• Jamaica Gleaner: Push for justice 2010-03-10

  For years, public commentators and human rights groups have been agitating for an independent body to investigate police shootings and other abuses ...

• MyNews.in: Archbishop Desmond Tutu condemns continued violence against children 2010-03-10

  Authored by experts in international law and human rights, Children and Transitional Justice: Truth-telling, Accountability and Reconciliation include ...

• Aljazeera.net: Myanmar bars Suu Kyi from polls 2010-03-10

  The law could also disqualify about 2100 political prisoners that human rights groups say the military government has jailed. Nyan Win, one of Aung San Suu ...

• Australia Network News: Human rights groups denounce new Burmese electoral laws 2010-03-10

  Under the new rules Aung San Suu Kyi will have to be expelled from her party. [Reuters] Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will have to be expelled ...

• Interactive Investor: Western sanctions fuel rare strikes in Myanmar 2010-03-10

  Many Western governments admit sanctions, imposed because of Myanmar's poor human rights record, have had only a limited impact on the rich ruling generals.

• Mail & Guardian Online: Who's protecting the people of Jos? 2010-03-10

  He said: "The current rate of crime across the nation, rising cases of extra-judicial killings, human rights violations, robberies, high-profile ...

• Winona Daily News: Lorraine Redig: Isn't this a one-vote-per-citizen country? 2010-03-10

  They short-circuit the whole economy by paying farmers and labor less than a human rights return for their production. That underpayment prevents farmer ...

• Today.Az: Who is Who in Armenian-Turkish dialogue: Armenia's miserable opportunities 2010-03-10

  Recently, Standing Commission on Human Rights and Public Affairs Deputy Chairman Rafik Petrosyan said at a press conference that if the process ...

• St. Augustine Record: Kennedy a finalist for national medal 2010-03-10

  Kennedy is nominated in the second category for having "spent a lifetime actively advocating on behalf of those suffering from denial of basic human rights" ...

• KPBS: Baja California Human Rights Attorneys Pleased With Police Response 2010-03-10

  Human rights attorneys say law enforcement authorities in Tijuana will provide protection for two women who've been threatened for pursuing ...

• Times of Central Asia: Uzbek man wins right to wear beard 2010-03-10

  ... case when a bearded man managed to meet such a requirement. Human rights violations are frequent in Uzbekistan, as well as in other Central Asian states.

• The Hindu: Funeral procession of Andhra student taken to assembly 2010-03-10

  It was late on Tuesday that the State Human Rights Commission on a petition by the Joint Action Committee of students directed police to allow the funeral ...

• Manila Bulletin: Tutoring the illiterate adult 2010-03-10

  ... women and children, infant mortality, the spread of deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, as well as to the deprivation and violation of basic human rights.

• The Daily Princetonian: Bipartisanship begins at home 2010-03-10

  But they do not disagree about basic human rights like freedom of speech, freedom from fear and the fundamental right to life. The terms of Bahati's “Anti ...

• Sowetan: President's call for debate on moral code is laudable 2010-03-10

  This means that any practice from any quarter that undermines human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms ...

• Flagpole Magazine: Music News & Gossip 2010-03-10

  Party for Your Right to Fight: The annual Athens Human Rights Festival “Battle of the Bands” will happen Apr. 3 at the New Earth Music Hall and, of course ...

• The Brown Daily Herald: Letter: Group's use of 'apartheid' appropriate 2010-03-10

  ... sole objection of BSJP's detractors, then I see that as an endorsement of BSJP's message of ending our complicity in Israel's human rights violations.

• Jamaica Gleaner: LETTER OF THE DAY - Full time we stand up to the US 2010-03-10

  I do not support wrongdoing but it would be a violation of human rights to pack a citizen of an independent nation and send him to the USA.

• MyNews.in: BURMA: Authorities persecute political opponents ahead of announced election 2010-03-10

  In recent weeks the Asian Human Rights Commission has issued appeals on a number of such cases, including the sentencing of a journalist to 13 years in jail ...

• The Nation, Pakistan: UK complained to US about terror suspect torture: ex-MI5 boss 2010-03-10

  ... in her speech: "The allegations of collusion in torture and lack of respect for human rights will wound [MI5 officers] personally and collectively ...

• RTT News: UN Chief Calls On Myanmar Junta To Release Suu Kyi 2010-03-10

  Last month, UN special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, was once more not allowed to meet with Suu Kyi. by RTT Staff Writer.

• Peninsula On-line: India's tribes pitted against corporations over land 2010-03-10

  In a recent report, Amnesty International, the human rights group, said neither government officials nor Vedanta made any meaningful attempt to inform ...

• Independent Online: Unholy row about Cape churches 2010-03-10

  If it means involving the Human Rights Commission, we'll do that. We'll ensure a report goes to a relevant body. We take this seriously as MPs," she said.

• Times of Central Asia: EU allocates €5 mln to support poverty alleviation efforts in Khatlon and Sughd 2010-03-10

  ... education (TEMPUS, Erasmus Mundus), water / environment, human rights and democracy (EIDHR), non-State actors (NSA) and SME development (CA-Invest).

• BusinessWeek: Google welcomes US relaxing software export rules 2010-03-10

  Bob Boorstin told a human rights meeting in Geneva on Tuesday that the move "is a great accomplishment" that will help activists around the world.

• Arab Times: Nigeria urged to end impunity 2010-03-10

  JOS, Nigeria, March 9, (Agencies): The US government and an international human rights group called Tuesday for Nigeria to investigate and prosecute those ...

• The Brown Daily Herald: Yue Wang '12: What to do with Uganda? 2010-03-10

  Underlying the liberal efforts to defend the basic human rights in Uganda, Mhiripiri argues, is a lamentable want of understanding of the ultra-conservative ...

• Express Buzz: Govt school by day, vice den by night 2010-03-10

  Earlier, the issue was also brought to the notice of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) but the matter is still pending.

• FirstScience: Book examines history of human rights 2010-03-10

  By Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY – Average people have helped to shape the human rights movement, Jean Quataert says in a new book about ...

• Oneindia: Telangana: OU student's body taken to AP assembly 2010-03-10

  It was only later when the State Human Rights Commission directed police to allow the funeral procession to Gun Park near the assemly at 11 pm ...

• Newton TAB: Newton resident learns namesake was largest slave trader in US 2010-03-10

  This program is presented by the Newton Human Rights Commission; co-sponsored by Traces of the Trade; Historic Newton/Jackson Homestead; the Mayor's Office ...

• Earthtimes: ANALYSIS: So long, ambassador, and thanks for all the cash 2010-03-10

  As expected, Cambodia denied a link between the two events, but analysts said they worried it showed Chinese investment could further erode human rights ...

• Legalbrief: Court permits child hysterectomy 2010-03-10

  Researcher Leanne Dowse, from the University of NSW, said the decision appeared to breach international human rights conventions.

• Savannah Morning News: Hinshaw: What we should do for Lent 2010-03-10

  Biscet, a Cuban physician and human rights activist, is serving a 25-year prison term for speaking out against the Cuban government for forced aborti ...

• Sowetan: Malema on a racist tirade 2010-03-10

  Human Rights Commission spokesperson Vincent Moaga said those who felt aggrieved by the song could approach the commission. Malema dared the police ...

• Sify: 'Black' woman's tale drives Nepal rights campaign 2010-03-10

  'While working in the far west, we found rampant economic, social and cultural discrimination,' says Chitralekha Massey, coordinator at the UN human right ...

2010-03-09: Headlines

• Panorama.am: Armenian-Americans should not allow Obama and Clinton to bury Genocide bill 2010-03-09

  These CEO's have committed not only an immoral act by placing a higher premium on profits -- blood money -- over human rights, but also ignored the fact ...

• Eurasia Review: UN Expert Richard Falk Says PA Told Him To Quit 2010-03-09

  (Ma'an) -- Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said on Monday the Palestinian Authority (PA)

• Edmonton Journal: Courageous steps up bravely 2010-03-09

  Ah, fun: there's a word you never thought you'd use about a play with a long scene set in the anteroom of the Ontario Human Rights Commission -- an act ...

• Caribbean Net News: Cuba rejects hunger striker's 'blackmail' 2010-03-09

  After Zapata's death, international human rights groups called on Cuba to release all political prisoners. But Granma said: "In this case ...

• AllAfrica.com: Congo-Kinshasa: Marching for the Women of Congo 2010-03-09

  Sylvie Muanga Mbanga, a human rights lawyer and advocate for women's rights, also shared her experiences with the crowd. She thanked the Enough Project ...

• Asia Times Online: 'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar 2010-03-09

  ... Obama surrogate memorably said during the 2008 US presidential campaign) focused solely on human rights and the fate of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

• BBC News: Hillary Clinton seeks Nigeria trial for Jos massacres 2010-03-09

  Human Rights Watch says the violence has continued because no-one has been held accountable in the past and "it is time to draw a line in the sand".

• Eurasia Review: 32310 Kairos And Lent In The 'Holy Land' 2010-03-09

  Yet, even as we wait, do we listen to the voices of the children of Jerusalem today who still wait: for justice, for peace, for basic human right ...

• Edmonton Journal: Family fights Iran, Canada for right to sue over slaying 2010-03-09

  A British case now before the European Court of Human Rights is testing the immunity of foreign officials for acts of torture in civil litigation.

• Sydney Star Observer: We're here, we're queer, we're shovel-ready! 2010-03-09

  Queer rights are human rights. All love is equal. And so, off the back of NMG's edict to consult with community, the parade was still a success.

• Reuters UK: Iran sees political motive behind German asylum move 2010-03-09

  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran criticised Germany on Tuesday over plans to grant asylum to Iranians over human rights concerns, saying European countries ...

• News.Az: Shortcomings in Armenia's justice system 2010-03-09

  ... in Armenia's justice system, concludes a report published on March 8 by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

• ANTARA: W Kalimantan to build correctional institution for drug offenders 2010-03-09

  Pontianak (ANTARA News) - West Kalimantan`s Justice and Human Rights office plans to build a special correctional institution for people convicted ...

• Irish Independent: Snoop Dogg: US rapper wins £100000 legal fight to visit Britain 2010-03-09

  The court was told that any ban affected the rapper's right under Article Ten of the Human Rights Act, to freedom of expression.

• Kelowna.com: Court ruling pressures Ottawa to save Ronald Smith from death chamber. 2010-03-09

  Mark Warren, a Canadian human rights specialist who has testified on Smith's behalf, told Canwest News Service on Sunday that the "extraordinary" phrasing ...

• India Talkies: Railways asked to compensate boy who was disabled 2010-03-09

  New Delhi, March 9 – The national human rights watchdog has asked the Railway Board to compensate a 12-year-old boy who was thrown off a train by a ticket ...

• Kelowna.com: Social media gang hopes to reboot democracy in Alberta; Growing group ... 2010-03-09

  Some left the Tory party after Bill 44, which allows parents to haul teachers in front of the human rights commission if they don't like the biology le ...

• Sun2Surf: Suhakam probing allegations against orang asli hospital 2010-03-09

  by Alyaa Alhadjri KUALA LUMPUR (March 9, 2010): The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has started investigations on allegations made against ...

• News.Az: Iran accuses US, UK of promoting terror 2010-03-09

  ... their definition of terrorism because they parroted slogans about a campaign against terrorism but then turned a blind eye to human rights violations.

• 24dash: BNP to get decision on 'whites only' rule change 2010-03-09

  The vote followed the threat of a possible court injunction over its whites-only membership by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

• PR-USA.net: Sempra Energy Ranked Among Top 100 US Corporate Citizens 2010-03-09

  ... including environmental stewardship, climate change, human rights, employee relations, financial performance, philanthropy and corporate governance.

• The Richmark Sentinel: US Calls for Inquiry into Jos Bloodbath 2010-03-09

  International humanitarian organisation Human Rights Watch joined in the call, asking Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to provide protection ...

• Sydney Star Observer: Let's go pollie shopping 2010-03-09

  We need a comprehensive law, backed by a Human Rights Charter, run from a one-stop shop, covering discrimination on any grounds: age, ethnicity, gender ...

• Hamilton Spectator: • Women are globalization's victims 2010-03-09

  Violence against women is a global human rights violation, and women and girls are susceptible to abuse and violence at every stage of their lives;

• 9&10 News: Jobless benefit extension on the line again...Toyota to probe Prius incident 2010-03-09

  JOS, Nigeria (AP) — The United States and an international human rights group are calling for action against those responsible for slaughtering more th ...

• Sydney Morning Herald: Google welcomes US relaxing software export rules 2010-03-09

  Bob Boorstin told a human rights meeting in Geneva on Tuesday that the move "is a great accomplishment" that will help activists around the world.

• Sydney Morning Herald: Appeals for calm after Nigeria sectarian slaughter 2010-03-09

  Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that some of the attackers were former residents of the villages who had fled previous inter-community conflicts.

• MSN Philippines News: Thailand to jail migrants at political rallies: minister 2010-03-09

  "Regardless of your legal status in a country, it should not affect your human rights, which include freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom ...

• Winnipeg Free Press: CSIS role demands inquiry: opposition 2010-03-09

  ... should be transferred to the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's notorious intelligence service, which has a dismal human rights record.

• Independent Online: Fifa's housing stance lamented 2010-03-09

  Raquel Rolnik, an independent investigator appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, cited reports that more than 20 000 residents were being moved from ...

• Phuketwan: Phuket's Big Puzzle: Where Are The Boatpeople? 2010-03-09

  What does that make Thailand, where far less attention is being paid to alarming breaches of human rights amid continuing secrecy and lack of proper ...

• News Today Online: Negrenses to mark women's month celebration 2010-03-09

  This National Women's Month is also a celebration of the success of the Magna Carta for Women- a comprehensive women human rights law- signed by President ...

• Sydney Star Observer: HIV+ migrant inquiry 2010-03-09

  ... High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), which argued that Australia's current policy was “discriminatory”, and “endangers a number of human rights norms”.

• Oneindia: Sex offender who killed girl after posing as teen on Facebook jailed for life 2010-03-09

  "I know there would be human rights issues, but we already know that police forces can do a good job of monitoring people's online behaviour," he said.

• Channel 4 News: Nigeria urged to restore order after massacre 2010-03-09

  By Channel 4 News Human rights groups call on Nigeria to launch an inquiry into sectarian violence as villagers bury hundreds of Christians killed in ...

• NRC International: Sanctions against Zimbabwe may be helping Mugabe 2010-03-09

  Human rights, media restrictions and land reform have seen the least improvement. The prospective deputy minister Roy Bennett of Tsvangirai's MDC party h ...

• TIME: Russian Shareholder Activist Exposes Corporate Greed 2010-03-09

  Navalny says he will now file a suit against Rosneft at the European Court of Human Rights for alleged violation of property rights.

• NDTV.com: After 21 years, he admits to running over a child 2010-03-09

  Yahya al-Asmari, 38 walked into the offices of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) on Sunday to confess to running over a child in Tabuk ...

• SLBC: The Prime Minister says the emergency law has to be implemented continuously ... 2010-03-09

  The LTTE is trying to obstruct the freedom of the country citing human rights issues. The Prime Minister reiterated that Sri Lanka is not a colony of any ...

• MSN Philippines News: Rohingya refugees 'starve to death' in Bangladesh 2010-03-09

  ... have been forced into makeshift camps where they are being left to starve to death, the report by Physicians for Human Rights says.

• Kelowna.com: Canada needs to take 'serious look' at Afghan role, report says. 2010-03-09

  "We should be defending Afghans' embryonic democracy, we should be advancing the cause of human rights and the rule of law, and not doing the opposite.

• 9&10 News: Test vote on jobless extension...Gates praises frontline troops 2010-03-09

  BOSTON (AP) — A US human rights group accuses Bangladesh of sweeping the plight of tens of thousands of Burmese refugees under the rug.

• Eurasia Review: Three US Screenings Of “Outside The Law: Stories From Guantánamo” – In Boulder ... 2010-03-09

  I admire and congratulate you for your vital work, pioneering the truth and demanding that people sit up and take notice of the outrageous human right ...

2010-03-08: Headlines

• ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Media briefed on Law on Elimination of Violence against Women 2010-03-08

  Briefing the media on the contents of the law were the Kunduz Chief Prosecutor, the Head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) ...

• Huffington Post: International Women's Day: 11 Women Who Are Changing The World (PHOTOS) 2010-03-08

  Some have fought for universal human rights, some have moved to get women more involved in politics. Nearly all have surprised the world with their bravery ...

• Asian Tribune: US Congressional Panel's Decision Against Turkey Shows Blatant Hypocrisy 2010-03-08

  It is worth noting that the same report, which was rejected by the US Government, was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council. Through such a decisi ...

• Asian Tribune: UN Move Unjustifiable Ban Ki Moon comes under Colonial Pressure 2010-03-08

  There are certain accountability processes on human rights that Sri Lanka has formerly agreed upon by virtue of its sovereign rights as a member state ...

• Online Journal: Campaign 2010: Déjà vu all over again 2010-03-08

  Of the slurs against the Justice Department by Keep America Safe and others, Ken Gude, a human rights expert with the liberal Center for American Progre ...

• Online Journal: Wake up, Americans, before it's too late 2010-03-08

  ... is exploding, as well, hot flashing countries whose actions aren't nearly as threatening as our own ATROCITIES and human rights abuses. But this is WAR.

• Los Angeles Times: Toyota workers raised quality, safety concerns with bosses in 2006 memo 2010-03-08

  In 2008, the National Labor Committee, a US human-rights advocacy group, released a 65-page report titled "The Toyota You Don't Know," detailing what ...

• Philippine Information Agency: CCPD extends aid to kins of slain soldiers, wounded victims in Agusan del Sur ... 2010-03-08

  The church group said the cruel act is a "clear violation of human rights". The CCPD said this series of atrocities must be put an end.

• Australian Stage Online: Caroline Craig 2010-03-08

  It is a tiny play that deals with huge human rights issues in microcosm. It is inspired by the true story of Nhem En, a photographer who worked under ...

• The People's Voice: US - China: Provoking the Creditor, Hugging the Holy man (Washington's Road ... 2010-03-08

  While US military occupation forces brutally violate human rights of millions of citizens in occupied or targeted countries, and threaten the civil right ...

• Associated Press of Pakistan: Commonwealth has put women high on its agenda: Sharma - 2010-03-08

  The Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality, 2005-2015, is well under way, with programmes on Gender and Democracy; Gender and Human Rights;

• Tibetan Review: Police looked on as granny buried alive by property developers 2010-03-08

  ... force homeowners out of their property, the report cited a recent report by Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), an NGO based in Hong Kong, as saying.

• Salem-News.Com: Rachel Corrie's Parents Seek Civil Justice From Israel Over Their Daughter's Death 2010-03-08

  A human rights observer and activist, Rachel, 23, tried nonviolently to offer protection for a Palestinian family whose home was threatened with demoliti ...

• Sydney Morning Herald: Dozens die in Nigeria violence 2010-03-08

  (them) simultaneously," Shamaki Gad Peter, head of League for Human Rights in Jos, told AFP as he toured Ratsat village. "At the moment, there are about 100 ...

• The Namibian: Notable Quotes 2010-03-08

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said sanctions against Zimbabwe should not be lifted until human rights and media censorship concerns are addressed.

• San Antonio Express: Detention center on cusp of change 2010-03-08

  But detainees still complain of mistreatment and human rights abuse, and some have resorted to hunger strikes to call attention to conditions there.

• Salt Lake Tribune: Karzai gets an earful in former Taliban town 2010-03-08

  At least 35 civilians have been killed in the operation, according to the Afghan human rights commission. Spokesman Nader Nadery said insurgent bombs killed ...

• Winston-Salem Journal: Karzai hears complaints of Marjah elders 2010-03-08

  At least 35 civilians have been killed during the Marjah operation, the Afghan human rights commission said yesterday. Nader Nadery, a spokesman for ...

• MiamiHerald.com: Insulza merits new term 2010-03-08

  Given the lack of political freedoms and the violations of human rights in Cuba today, its request would surely be denied.

• Thaindian.com: China should allow international agencies to see Panchen Lama: Tibetan parliament 2010-03-08

  Human rights groups dubbed the child as “the world's youngest political prisoner”.Tsering further said that if such statements about the Panchen Lama ...

• KOLD-TV: Robert Park recovering from psychiatric care 2010-03-08

  Park, 28, entered North Korea this past Christmas to deliver a letter, demanding an end to concentration camps and human rights abuses.

• MyNews.in: Supreme Court's decision on her house arrest another travesty of justice 2010-03-08

  The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (Altsean-Burma) strongly condemn the decision by Burma ...

• MyNews.in: Global economic crisis exposed human rights violations 2010-03-08

  The top United Nations human rights official said that the economic and financial crises have exposed existing violations and increased the number ...

• iCBSE News: Prevention of Sexual Harassment : A New Policy in IGNOU 2010-03-08

  The right of women to protection from sexual harassment and the right to work with dignity are recognised as universal human rights by international ...

• Little About: China says missing Panchen Lama living in Tibet 2010-03-08

  ... of Gendun for the 15 years since he vanished and was described by human rights groups as the youngest political prisoner in the world, reports The Times.

• Global Voices Online: FOKO: The Power Of Storytelling 2010-03-08

  ... such documented examples of offenses against human rights often result in economic sanction that in turn could lead to the downfall of the regime ...

• Pocono Record: Mona Charen: Hopeful foreign policy runs course 2010-03-08

  The administration has been similarly accommodating toward China, starting with Secretary Clinton's February 2009 declaration that human rights issues ...

• AsiaOne: Some 50 refugees in S.Korea diplomatic missions 2010-03-08

  Up to 30 of the total have stayed more than one year in the Beijing embassy or consulates elsewhere, said the Citizen's Coalition for Human Rights ...

• Earthtimes: Amnesty says Cambodian government must combat rising rape problem 2010-03-08

  By : dpa Phnom Penh - The human rights group Amnesty International said Monday the Cambodian government has failed to address crimes of rape and sexual ...

• Charleston Post Courier: Chavez' nefarious methods 2010-03-08

  Some idea of what this means comes from a new human rights report. It says journalists, opposition leaders, farmers, trade unionists and dissidents ...

• Kashmir Media Service: Inclusion of Kashmiris vital to meaningful talks on Kashmir 2010-03-08

  They expressed grave concern over the stepped up human rights violations by Indian troops in the occupied territory. “India should release all the illegally ...

• Kashmir Watch: :. Rhetoric and reality 2010-03-08

  It neither moved for the scraping of AFSPA and other draconian laws nor was in a position to take other measures for ending the human rights abuse ...

• Baruch College The Ticker: Rally protests cuts in education 2010-03-08

  Speakers from other coalitions and social movement organizations also addressed human rights, such as housing and health care. Following the rally near ...

• MyNews.in: Soldiers at Checkpoint Shot at Truck Carrying Burmese Migrants 2010-03-08

  Human Rights Watch has obtained photos showing that the truck was riddled with bullet holes. "The government needs to carry out an immediate investigati ...

• YLE News: Amnesty: Finland Fails to Protect Women against Sexual Violence 2010-03-08

  Human rights group Amnesty has slammed the Nordic countries—especially Finland—for failing to combat sexual violence. Amnesty says the Nordics have gaps ...

• The Aurora Sentinel: Cole: Terror trials a chance to show what America's made of 2010-03-08

  If anything, the Cuban prison has given enemies fodder to plan and attempt unthinkable acts as a retort to our disregard for basic human rights.

• ScandAsia.com: Women's Demonstration 2010-03-08

  “Women's rights, mother's rights are human rights”, “Government has to support and protect mother's rights”, and “When men and women are equal society ...

• MyNews.in: Ansar Burney demanded release of Indian Prisoners 2010-03-08

  The Chairman Ansar Burney Trust International and Pakistan's former Federal Minister for Human Rights, Ansar Burney has made a passionate appeal with ...

• postzambia.com: 'Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress For All' 2010-03-08

  Having become conscious of their human rights and of the injustices perpetrated against them in all these sectors, there is need to team up with them ...

• Daily News & Analysis: The Indian woman continues to lack basic human rights: Priyanka Chopra 2010-03-08

  From infant foeticide, lack of education to child marriage, the Indian girl child and woman still continues to deal with the lack of basic human rights ...

• Globe and Mail: Culture wars await reopening of Quebec legislature 2010-03-08

  Jean Charest's Liberals faces another predicament in dealing with the human-rights complaint of an immigrant Egyptian woman who was expelled from language ...

2010-03-07: Headlines

• Patriot Post: Appointments Are the President's Prerogative 2010-03-07

  I don't like that Obama appointed Jennifer Daskal, formerly of Human Rights Watch, to be the DOJ's national security division attorney -- given her ...

• Middle East North Africa Financial Network: Rove: Bush did not 'lie' US into war 2010-03-07

  ... itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change, and deal with Iraq's horrendous human rights violations.

• Trinidad & Tobago Express: Cases of 'bullying' US politics 2010-03-07

  For what is at stake seems much more than the individual human rights of Coke, notorious narco-trafficking don and muscle-wielding 'godfather' as he may ...

• Worldmeets.us: President Ahmadinejad Calls September 11 Attacks a 'Big Lie' 2010-03-07

  ... on opposing the Islamic Revolution, and he charged them with having committed the most barbarous crimes and atrocities under the guise of human rights.

• CounterCurrents.org: Mordechai Vanunu's Nobel Stand 2010-03-07

  Human Rights Watch's report similarly stated, “We have declared this a massacre that was intentional using very highly accurate missiles and explosives.

• CounterCurrents.org: A Tale Of Two Richards 2010-03-07

  Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied ...

• Irish Independent: Israel a handy whipping boy for the Left 2010-03-07

  It would be easier to take these gestures of concern for Israel's human rights record more seriously if the same people who continually protest about ...

• E-Pao.net: Organisations working on HIV in NE come under one umbrella 2010-03-07

  Human rights violation of people living with HIV/AIDS take place in several forms, he said adding that they are denied or terminated from job ...

• Cocorioko: Overheard conversation between Mr. Melvin Lisk and Mrs. Lilian Lisk 2010-03-07

  ... the Speaker of Parliament, the National Ombudsman, the Human Rights Commission, the United Nations in Sierra Leone and all Diplomatic Missions as well ...

• Pittsburg Morning Sun: Our brother's keeper? 2010-03-07

  I would like us to be as good as other countries on human rights. We still rank 37th in the world in health care, look it up if you don't believe me.

• Cocorioko: THEOSWALD HANCILES COLUMN ; Our fish..Our Freedom of Information 'Law' 2010-03-07

  furiously argued that their clients' human rights have been violated, they were re-charged, and, a fresh trial started at Court No 11, to be presided over ...

• TwoCircles.net: Dalits have low awareness about legal rights : Expert 2010-03-07

  ... extremely low awareness about legal rights and judicial remedies which is impeding welfare and human rights objectives, a rights activist said Saturday.

• E-Pao.net: SSA job fraud alleged 2010-03-07

  ... RTI and human rights activist Wahengbam Joykumar has questioned why the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati district Nidhi Kesarwani and former Deputy ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Dmitry Medvedev's Russia still feels the cold hand of Vladimir Putin 2010-03-07

  He is now languishing in jail after being sacked and accused of fraud, while a human rights activist who took up his cause, Vadim Karastelyov ...

• Women's eNews: Afghan Women Fear Violence in National 'Peace' 2010-03-07

  "The Taliban established a terrible record of violating human rights during their rule and they have done nothing since then to indicate they will act ...

• Malay Mail: Sentenced without chance to defend, says Zulkifli 2010-03-07

  "I was punished without being the chance to defend myself according to the principles of human rights and the values of justice as championed by the PKR ...

• Packaging & Converting Essentials: Domino Joins FTSE4GOOD Index 2010-03-07

  ... environmental sustainability, developing and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders and upholding and supporting universal human rights.

• Yemen Observer: International Women's Day message 2010-03-07

  Today on International Women's Day let us go forward united in the conviction that women's rights are human rights, that all human beings are born free ...

• ISNA: Ahmadinejad: September 11 attack is a "big lie" 2010-03-07

  ... out by the world Arrogance are unprecedented, today massive killings and terrorist measures are carried out under the flag of human rights by them.

• Toronto Sun: Freedom to read means freedom from censors: Shanoff 2010-03-07

  Human rights bodies stubbornly refuse to recognize freedom of expression as worthy of protection. A Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal ordered a religiou ...

• Ha'aretz: Hebron boy, 13, jailed for days because father can't afford bail 2010-03-07

  The boys' mother told the human rights organization B'Tselem that the younger child was "tired and scared, and his pants were wet because he had urinated ...

• Grand Forks Herald: HIGHER EDUCATION NOTES: Entrepreneur Challenge ... Mars series Monday ... 2010-03-07

  The UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies will host Zhiyuan Guo, a highly respected legal scholar and judge from China.

• MiamiHerald.com: These are true masters of the universe 2010-03-07

  The Dalai Lama continues to struggle for the human rights of the Tibetan people, now decades under Chinese control. Tutu confessed that he admires Gyatso ...

• Tampa Tribune: In Latin America, two steps forward, one step back 2010-03-07

  Many human rights groups bitterly opposed Uribe and much of the aid. Jose Miguel Vivanco, head of Human Rights Watch, equated the state of Colombi ...

• Webnewswire.com: Large agribusiness hurting small landholders, says UN rights expert 2010-03-07

  “Agribusiness companies must not contribute, directly or indirectly, to human rights abuses through their relationship with suppliers,” Mr. De Schutter ...

• Pakistan Christian TV: Thomas More Society Mourns the Death of ND88's Linda Schmidt; Prosecut ... 2010-03-07

  Once again, we urge Notre Dame to put human rights ahead of property rights and publicly request that the prosecutor drop these obnoxious charges."

• Barcelona Reporter: Actor Willy Toledo: “In Spain, also violated human rights”. And denounce ... 2010-03-07

  Actor Willy Toledo: "In Spain, also violated human rights". And denounces "secret prisons" for immigrants in Spain Speaking on Telecinco, the actor ...

• ISNA: Iran condemnes Zionist regime sacrilege of Al-Aqsa Mosque 2010-03-07

  Mehmanparast said, "these brutal attempts, which are violation of human rights regulations, are aggressive and provocative." The recent attempts have been ...

• Arab Times: Let them say what they like while we do what we like 2010-03-07

  They have been clamoring for patriotism, protection of public funds and human rights, but their pronouncements are actually aimed at serving personal ...

• Express Buzz: CHRI calls for public debate on police Act 2010-03-07

  THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has urged the Government that the proposed Kerala Police Act should be passed only ...

• Korea Times: Dalai Lama and Aung San Suu Kyi 2010-03-07

  The United States also wants to prove to the free world that it is a champion of human rights. The 70-minute meeting between President Obama and the Dalai ...

• MiamiHerald.com: Museum highlights modern-day slavery problem in Florida 2010-03-07

  ... FBI director Robert Mueller has lauded it; and its new museum has earned praise from human rights groups like Amnesty International.

• St. Cloud Times: Interim city attorney ready for challenges 2010-03-07

  Staehling also will be in charge of the Human Rights Office. The City Attorney's Office started overseeing that office after the director stepped down ...

• The Temasek Review: Straits Times downplay GIC's disastrous $9.5 billion dollar loss 2010-03-07

  What makes you think despite years of using spin doctors and PR crap, the world media/bodies still ranks Singapore very low on human rights, quality of life ...

• Thaindian.com: India, Bangladesh frontier forces begin talks Sunday 2010-03-07

  ... 17 of them this year, According to Odhikar, which monitors human rights violations in Bangladesh and its border areas, at least 904 unarmed Bangladesh ...

• Webnewswire.com: UN sets up human rights group to look into situation of Haiti's disabled 2010-03-07

  Today's announcement comes after a group of UN human rights experts last month appealed for the needs of the disabled in Haiti to be included in the relief ...

• Express Buzz: TD men beat up pro-T lawyers 2010-03-07

  Late in the evening based on the complaint given by few lawyers the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) Chairman B Subashan Reddy ordered the Assistant ...

• Merinews: Roma persuaded to leave voluntarily 2010-03-07

  ROMA MIGRANTS are returned by force to places where they are at risk of human rights violations, according to Thomas Hammarberg, European Commissioner ...

• Richmond Times Dispatch: Gay-rights groups assail Cuccinelli's opinion on bias 2010-03-07

  Bob McDonnell to introduce legislation amending the state Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

• Freedom Newspaper: Press Release: CHRI: Grave Concerns over Rwanda's Elections!!! 2010-03-07

  Despite grave representations by CHRI and others about the appropriateness of Rwanda's readiness for membership, given its record on human rights and ...

• The Ledger: Ultimate Bush Insider Lifts Veil on Presidency 2010-03-07

  ... itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change and deal with Iraq's horrendous human rights violations.

• The Associated Press: China says it's up to the US to improve relations 2010-03-07

  The new tensions join recurring friction over human rights and commerce, with US critics accusing China of deliberately undervaluing its currency to boost ...

• TECH.BLORGE.com: Chinese Internet hack attacks will increase over time 2010-03-07

  Other attacks have targeted human-rights groups, which apparently occur on a monthly basis. Despite the amount of research put into locating the culprits ...

• China Post: Ma suggests Marines revise hymn for equality 2010-03-07

  “In line with the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), I ratified two international human right ...