Merkel, who was prevented from meeting journalists and a human rights lawyers, ended her official visit in the southern city of Guangzhou, Xinhua news agency reported. Merkel, who held talks with Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao during her...
Georgette Gagnon, director of human rights for the UN's Kabul mission, said: "To the Afghan people, the credibility and value of a negotiation process and progress toward peace will be measured by reduced civilian casualties and real improvements...
Colombo: Pointing to a smear campaign against it by international rights groups, Sri Lanka on Saturday said it is confident of facing the UN Human Rights Council at its next session later this month as it has a clean slate. Human rights envoy...
Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratchet up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday. | Taliban-affiliated militants were responsible for more than three-quarters of the civilian deaths in 2011, the fifth year in a row in which the death toll went up, the U.N. said.
Tim Lister, CNN: Across Afghanistan, civilians live in fear that they will become part of a grim and ever growing tally -- as innocent casualties in a decade of conflict. And according to a United Nations report released Saturday tracking civilian casualties, that rate of such deaths rose yet again in 2011. | IEDs alone killed 967 Afghan men, women and children in 2011.
Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.
Taliban-affiliated militants were responsible for more than three-quarters of the civilian deaths in 2011, the fifth year in a row in which the death toll went up, the U.N. said.
The Syrian army unleashed a massive attack on the city of Homs early Saturday, bombing the protest hub and killing at least 260 people in a bloody 'massacre', activists and witnesses said.
Her husband claims he doesn€™t know where she is, antigraft investigators say they€™re still searching and the immigration department says no Southeast Asian government has reported her presence in their country.
Police fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters on Saturday in the third day of deadly clashes in Cairo, as anger at the ruling military boiled over after 74 people died in football-related violence.
LAHORE, Feb 3: The South Asian Free Media Association (Safma) on Friday called for implementation of recommendations of a judicial commission on journalist Saleem Shahzad's murder. At a roundtable discussion at the South Asia Media Centre...
He has formed a new Human Rights Commission, opened previously closed doors to international diplomats and their corporate sponsors, and relaxed laws to promote more international investment and development. The timing has been impeccable.
By Christopher Johnson ALBERTA, Canada - South Korea-based Asiana Airlines, one of the largest carriers in Asia , says they've been a victim of a "third party" accused of rights violations and extorting money from passengers detained at Narita...
China is key to Harper's Asia efforts. | As Prime Minister Harper heads for China in a few days, Canadians, by and large, have a general understanding of what he will be seeking from the Chinese: a commitment to sustain the strategic relationship between our two countries beyond the leadership change in China this fall; steps to broaden and facilitate the economic relationship; pursuit of the discussion on human rights and good g...
If the Supreme Court rejects his appeal, Assange will have exhausted all his options in Britain but he could still make a last-ditch appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Another member of Assange's legal team, top human...
Chinese police blocked a prominent human rights lawyer from attending a Beijing dinner hosted by German leader Angela Merkel, the lawyer said on Friday, the latest example of restrictions on unorthodox views in a sensitive year.
"Yet at the same time violence in the Kachin state has worsened with reports of serious human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law," said Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for human rights .
According to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights the complaint was received on August 22 and the allegations were "accepted for investigation" on January 11. The complaint alleges "discrimination against Asian -Americans on the basis...
Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was the first defendant to be tried by the tribunal. He was commander of Phnom Penh's top secret Tuol Sleng prison -- code-named S-21. He admitted to overseeing the torture of his prisoners before sending them for execution at the "killing fields." | In July 2010, the tribunal's lower court convicted Duch (pronounced DOIK) of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder.
Hamill, Canadian Stuart Glass and Englishman John Dewhirst were on the yacht Foxy Lady when it went off course, possibly due to a storm, and came to a small island in Cambodian waters. The men took shelter there, but were discovered and later killed by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. | Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court today rejected the appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav "Duch"
Post Publishing PCL.: Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town.
He admitted to overseeing the torture of his prisoners before sending them for execution at the “killing fields.” In July 2010, the tribunal's lower court convicted Duch (pronounced DOIK) of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder.
Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by his alias, Duch, was appealing his 2010 conviction and 35-year sentence arguing that he was just following orders of senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime. | The judge, in announcing Duch's sentence in 2010 saiid he took into consideration that the defendant had expressed remorse, admitted responsibility and cooperated with the court. The judge also took into account the "coercive environment"
Asked if Asian-American applicants face bias at top colleges, Hernandez said "after 10 years of doing this [counseling] and four years in Dartmouth admissions, I don't think it's intentional, but I think there is discrimination. If you look at the numbers, you can basically see that [if you are applying to many selective colleges]"
Post Publishing PCL.: German Chancellor Angela Merkel met China's president on Friday as she seeks to lift Beijing's confidence in Europe where the sovereign debt crisis threatens to tip the region into recession. | Merkel's meeting with President Hu Jintao came a day after talks with Premier Wen Jiabao, who said Beijing was looking at ways it could contribute to Europe's bailout funds and warned of an "urgent" need to solve the debt crisis.
The United States is gently pressing Kazakhstan to do more to reform its political system in the wake of parliamentary elections that failed to meet international standards and a violent crackdown on labor protests in the country's oil-rich western region. | But Clinton also had a mild rebuke for Kazykhanov on the Zhanaozen events and the January 15 parliamentary vote.
Robert Speer: Korematsu was the most famous resister against the government's forced internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, hiding out from the authorities and even having plastic surgery done on his eyelids to disguise himself as a non-Asian. When caught, he became the central figure in the American Civil Liberties Union's legal challenge, Korematsu v. United States, to the mass internment. | The case went all the way to the U.S.
Wrangling at the United Nations on Wednesday came as fierce clashes across Syria killed 59 people, mostly civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In New York, Britain's envoy said some progress had been made in talks to persuade Russia...
"This is a law that has been used to promote mob violence and intimidation against those who do not agree... vigilante groups," said the letter, copies of which were also sent to the United Nations and Human Rights Watch.
Merkel's trip to China comes just days after deadly unrest hit the nation's Tibetan-inhabited areas, with the leader saying human rights would be on her agenda. "Germany has always advocated an open, political dialogue, including on controversial...
Human Rights Watch has written to the government warning that forced evictions would violate international law while rights group Lumanti has called on the government to give the squatters more time. "Given an alternative, they are ready to move.
Keywords: “This is not a national security case; it's a sad case of the South Korean authorities' complete failure to understand sarcasm,” Sam Zarifi, Asia -Pacific director of the human rights group Amnesty International, said in a statement on Thursday.
That's significantly lower than Chinese (381535 or 18%), South Asian (207160 or 10%), or Filipino (78890 or 4%) populations. On the other hand, while you might not even interact with a black person at work, at home, or among friends, there's something...
Referencing the numerous recent instances where China's involvement in Africa has drawn either formal sanctions or criticism from human rights groups, Slane noted that Beijing will not hesitate to use whatever leverage is at its disposal in order...
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) annual report for 2011, extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances remained rampant in 2010 and 2011, particularly in Balochistan, and created an extremely high-risk environment...
South Korea had temporarily halted lending because of the military junta's abysmal human-rights record, exhibited by the regime's brutal clampdown on anti-government protests in 2007. Before 2005, South Korea had provided aid and grants worth...
Nematullah Sarfraz, for CNN: Police in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz are looking for a man they say strangled his wife after she bore him a third child that was not a son. | The couple had three daughters, the last of whom was born three months ago, said Khanabad district police chief Sufi Habib. | After the youngest daughter was born, Mohammed blamed his wife for not being able to deliver a boy, Habib said.
An international human rights watchdog said Wednesday it has information that sympathetic Philippine military personnel were thwarting attempts by civilian authorities to capture a former army general accused of kidnapping two student activists. | Retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan has been on the run since he was charged in December with kidnapping two left-wing activists in 2006. The students remain missing.
Pakistani fighter jets bombed the hideouts of two militant commanders along the Afghan border Wednesday, killing up to 31 insurgents, government and security officials said.
Asian Human Rights Commission News (press release): PHILIPPINES: Podcast 2012-02-01
Keywords: (Hong Kong, February 1, 2012) In this episode of cast, the AHRC comments on how the policemen who are investigating the killing of court judges and lawyers have been using the "lack of witnesses and evidence" as justification of their neglect...
And perhaps that is why Kashmiris have this instinctive kindness in dealing with people. Perhaps that is how they can so cheerfully hold you by both hands and welcome you.