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2010-03-15: Headlines

• Independent: Black and Asian youths still victims of rough justice 2010-03-15

  In one of the most comprehensive studies of youth justice in recent years, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says that black and mixed-race ...

• msnbc.com: Newly powerful China defies Western nations 2010-03-15

  During a trip to the United States in 1997, he took the politically risky move of announcing that China welcomed continued US engagement in Asia — including ...

• The News International: World at a Glance 2010-03-15

  The order followed the release of the Department's 2009 Human Rights Report, which said Philippine government agencies had carried out extrajudicial ...

• E-Pao.net: Gandhi to Sharmila campaign concludes 2010-03-15

  The Gandhi to Sharmila campaign was launched by the Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) in association with Just for Peace Manipur.

• Kashmir Media Service: Yasmeen Raja appeals UR to help resolve Kashmir dispute 2010-03-15

  “The settlement of the longstanding dispute was vital to the peace and stability in South Asia,” she emphasised. Denouncing the continued human right ...

• New Yorker: Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks 2010-03-15

  The Promise: Honoring iconic figures of the civil-rights era. Readings by Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates, and more events involving New Yorker ...

• New Yorker: Goings on About Town: On the Horizon 2010-03-15

  The exhibition “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68,” at the Bronx Museum, commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the death ...

• Indian Express: Asian youths face discrimination in UK criminal justice system 2010-03-15

  Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found that Asian and Black teenagers accused of crime in Britain face discrimination under ...

• BBC News: Police stop and search powers 'target minorities' 2010-03-15

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission said it could not rule out legal action against some forces. Its research found black people were at least six ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Ethnic minorities nine times more likely to be stopped and searched 2010-03-15

  ... Crime Correspondent The Equality and Human Rights Commission said that forces that continue to “disproportionately” target black and Asian Britons ...

• Phuketwan: MediaWATCH: Protesters March on PM's Compound 2010-03-15

  Tomas Ojea Quintana cited ''systematic violation of human rights'' when he visited the country in February, fueling an international outcry against ...

• Global Times: Sri Lankan politician criticizes US human rights report 2010-03-15

  A senior politician from Sri Lanka's ruling coalition on Sunday criticized the United States over the US State Department's 2009 Human Rights Report.

• Vancouver Sun: Myanmar's generals take no chances on electoral overthrow 2010-03-15

  Tomas Ojea Quintana says the junta has failed to end human rights abuses such as the conscription of child soldiers, slavery, discrimination against ...

• News-Medical.net: US State Department releases annual human rights review 2010-03-15

  The 2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which includes an assessment of 194 countries, "described abuses in Asia, the Middle East ...

• Silver City Sun News: What should US do in Burma? 2010-03-15

  The official, Tomas Ojea Quintana, special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, will recommend the establishment of a commission of inquiry to investigate ...

• Zee News: Kim Jong-il has $4 bn in European banks: Report 2010-03-15

  ... are now in Luxembourg, or have recently been transferred from Luxembourg to other tax havens," Ken Kato, the director of Human Rights in Asia, said.

• Vox Bikol: Vox Bikol Columnist in International Women' Rights Workshop 2010-03-15

  Enhancing regional cooperation in the field of human rights and democracy among the countries in South East Asia constitutes a main priority for SIDA in ...

• DeHavilland: Today - EHRC raise concern over stop and search incidents 2010-03-15

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission says there's little evidence that the tactic of some police forces in disproportionately targeting black and Asi ...

• Daily Mail: Police face legal threat over stop and search for 'unfairly targeting ethnic ... 2010-03-15

  The Government's equality watchdog claimed today that black and Asian Britons were still being unfairly targeted. The Equality and Human Rights Commissi ...

• Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am: Genocide Resolution approved by Swedish Parliament: full text 2010-03-15

  The report was voted on in the Subcommittee of the UN Committee for Human Rights with the voices 14 against 1 (4 abstentions) in August, 1985.

• Daily Echo: Equality bosses threaten to sue county's police 2010-03-15

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission may now take legal action against Hampshire and other forces for breaching race relations laws.

• Socialist Alliance: Asia-Pacific calls for protests during Obama's visits to Guam, Indonesia ... 2010-03-15

  The US is planning to re-support KOPASSUS (Indonesia's special forces), which is notorious for human rights violation in East Timor and Indonesia.

• Kashmir Media Service: JKPM expresses concern over stepped up HR violations in IHK 2010-03-15

  Appealing the international human rights organisations including Amnesty International (AI) and Asia Watch (AW) to impress upon India to stop rights'

• This is Nottingham: Police 'unfairly targeting' ethnic minorities 2010-03-15

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) reviewed all 42 police forces in England and Wales and found that most are using stop and search power ...

• Global Voices Online: China: Debating hukou reform 2010-03-15

  As for [the migrant workers] having more than one child issue…what, now you guys don't talk about human rights and freedoms?

• Vancouver Sun: Banning niqab will only increase women's isolation and inequality 2010-03-15

  In countries like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, human rights campaigners have fought against forced veilings. These laws are unequivocally wrong ...

• The Press Association: Legal threat over police searches 2010-03-15

  However, police services should strive to work fairly and effectively while respecting basic human rights and discrimination law. Only then can they be ...

• AsiaOne: Actress and activist turned legislator reports doctor for sexual harassment 2010-03-15

  The member of the House of Representatives, who is a seasoned human rights activist and renowned feminist, reported Rasyidin to the West South Sulawesi ...

• Gay NZ: Wellington mayor launches Outgames countdown 2010-03-15

  The Outgames is a week of competition in sixteen sports, a major human rights conference, visual and performing arts events and parties, to be held ...

• Sydney Morning Herald: Echoes of empire and Bollywood 2010-03-15

  I've read that Malacca, or Melaka as it is now more properly known in Malay, will be one of Asia's hottest travel destinations this year.

• The Chosun Ilbo: N.Korea 'Expands Counter-Intelligence Force in China' 2010-03-15

  The men are said to be in charge of exposing contacts leaking inside information outside the border and also collecting data on North Korean human right ...

2010-03-14: Headlines

• Bangkok Post: Law drafts abound in China's parliament 2010-03-14

  ... trial for up to four years, according to the last major reform in 2004 -- a situation that has long drawn criticism from international human rights groups.

• History News Network: Immigrant Loyalties During the Great War and Today 2010-03-14

  Jews, who had had no nation of their own for two thousand years, endured limited civil rights in most of the countries of Western Europe ...

• MWC News: 'Red Shirts' rally in Thai capital 2010-03-14

  Sunai Phasuk, a consultant for Human Rights Watch in Thailand, said: "Vejjajiva has already made his decision that he is not going to surrender to pressure ...

• Firedoglake: Petraeus Reportedly Wanted To Put West Bank, Gaza Under Central Command 2010-03-14

  First he's against torture and for the closure of Guantanamo and now he opens the door to an American military involvement in the Israeli-Palestini ...

• The Guardian: Asylum deportation flights need rights monitors, EU says 2010-03-14

  Deportation flights should carry human rights monitors to check on the safety of failed asylum seekers who have been forcibly removed ...

• PR-CANADA.net: IAOP Survey Finds Corporate Social Responsibility Increasingly Important ... 2010-03-14

  Outsourcing buyers consider employee practices as the more important CSR criteria, putting labor, fair operating practices and human rights higher th ...

• Jakarta Globe: Obama to Connect Dots During His Visit 2010-03-14

  For more than a decade, the Leahy Act, prohibiting the United States from training military units with a history of human rights abuse, has meant th ...

• Edmonton Sun: Racism link suspected 2010-03-14

  Outraged, the co-worker raised the issue with senior management and filed a human rights complaint. The source said he was sure Burns was looking for h ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Is China's Politburo spoiling for a showdown with America? 2010-03-14

  "At a time when the world is suffering a serious human rights disaster caused by the US subprime crisis-induced global financial crisis, the US government ...

• Japan Focus: American Police Training and Political Violence: From the Philippines Conquest ... 2010-03-14

  7 These comments exemplify the ends justifies the means philosophy underpinning the abuse of human rights, which was characteristic of later interventi ...

• Khaleej Times: Qattami Lauds UAE's Human Rights Role 2010-03-14

  DUBAI — Humaid Al Qattami, UAE Education Minister praised on Sunday the role the Emirates Human Rights Association in trying to create an awareness on ...

• ABS CBN News: Arroyo orders response to US rights allegations 2010-03-14

  The order followed the release of the US State Department's 2009 Human Rights Report, which said Philippine government agencies had carried out ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Kim Jong-il keeps $4m 'emergency fund' in European banks 2010-03-14

  He has no choice but to respect human rights, give up his nuclear weapons and beg the international community to release the funds because he needs th ...

• Yonhap News: More than 80 percent of Koreans back death sentence: poll 2010-03-14

  ... 83.1 percent said capital punishment is necessary to prevent such heinous crimes, while 11.1 percent were against it for human rights reasons.

• Media Newswire: Human Rights Committee Concludes Consideration of Uzbekistan's Third Report ... 2010-03-14

  Turning to questions regarding Mr. van Boven's anti-torture report, he said, while it was no secret that human rights mechanisms depended on assistants ...

• E-Pao.net: Sharmila's campaign echoes at Delhi 2010-03-14

  The event jointly organized by various civil society organisations comprising of Other Media, South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Saheli, INSAF ...

• Arab Times: Debt bondage of domestic workers starts in S, E Asia 2010-03-14

  In its recent “Report on Human Rights Practices” on Kuwait, the US State Department's Bureau of Democracy pointed out that some migrant workers ...

• AFP: Ahead of visit, Obama reconsiders Indonesia military 2010-03-14

  "Indonesia's democratic reforms over the past decade have been pretty remarkable and its greatly improved human rights record has enabled us to engage more ...

• TMCnet: Kuwait Times Muna Al-Fuzai column: The power of Google 2010-03-14

  Information at fingertips is what Google offers to users, regardless of whether they are businessmen, students or human rights activists.

• ISRIA: Italy - Speech by Minister Frattini at the Opening Conference for ... 2010-03-14

  An agenda in step with the times: security and fundamental human rights - As regards our transatlantic relationship, Italy is working bilaterally ...

• The Nation, Pakistan: HC would welcome mediation of Saudi Arabia in Indo-Pak dialogues: Mirwaiz 2010-03-14

  Mirwaiz said that nine thousand Kashmiris are missing since last twenty years and appealed that Human Rights, Asian Watch and other International ...

• Maktoob Business: UAE goes on human rights PR offensive 2010-03-14

  DUBAI - The UAE, under fire for abusing workers from poor countries, has sent officials to Arab and Asian countries to improve relations and raise awarene ...

• Express Buzz: End emergency, reconcile with Tamils, Lanka told 2010-03-14

  Why isnt Navi P not involved in this lack of Human rights ? This is a case of Tamils in Toilet Nadu raping Tamils !......Are the Tamils raping their own ...

• Eye of Dubai: Fair & Lovely Alliance with Dubai Foundation for Women & Children Seeks ... 2010-03-14

  The foundation's primary mission is to offer victims of violence immediate protection and support services in accordance with international human right ...

• Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier: Dalai Lama's visit near, Cedar Valley residents still learning from Buddha 2010-03-14

  Buddhism began in India and spread throughout Asia and beyond. It remains a distinctly minority religion in Iowa and the United States.

2010-03-13: Headlines

• Emirates News Agency: Respect for Law and Human rights team visits foreign embassies - WAM 2010-03-13

  WAM Abu Dhabi, 13th March 2010 (WAM) -- A joint team from the administrations of the culture of respect for the law and human rights at the Secretari ...

• ReliefWeb: Human Rights Committee Concludes Consideration of Uzbekistan's Third Report ... 2010-03-13

  For his part, he pointed to gaps in prohibiting torture in Uzbekistan, suggesting the absence of an authoritative international definition of torture was ...

• Consortium News: 30 Years of US Mistakes in Afghanistan 2010-03-13

  According to Human Rights Watch, "The law gives a husband the right to withdraw basic maintenance from his wife, including food, if she refuses to obey h ...

• Amnesty International USA: Attack on Pakistani humanitarian workers 'major setback' to human rights 2010-03-13

  All armed groups to immediately end such attacks," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific director. "Those suspected of carrying the attack ...

• India Today: Pak a difficult neighbour, says Chidambaram 2010-03-13

  He dispelled the popularly-held notion of human rights activists and community-based groups that Naxalites are pro-poor and development.

• New York Times: China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet 2010-03-13

  China's human rights community is the frequent object of government surveillance and oppression. China has denied any role in the Google attacks and h ...

• China Post: China hits back, tells US not to 'politicize' yuan policy 2010-03-13

  Also on Thursday, the US State Department slammed China's human rights record in an annual report, highlighting increased repression in the restive Tibet ...

• The Swazi Observer: Women want liberation 2010-03-13

  When it suited us men, we have told women to stop stressing about their human rights because God and ancestors have always wanted that women be subservient ...

• Sudan Tribune: Sudan develops relations with Eastern Asia instead of missing time with ... 2010-03-13

  Due to human rights abuses and suppression of public freedoms, the regime of General Omer Al-Bashir has been during the last twenty years under ...

• Sunday Observer: Govt ready to effect Constitutional changes - Minister Maithripala Sirisena 2010-03-13

  Earlier too the Government had to face various allegations levelled by the UN Security Council and the UN Human Rights Council. But in every such occasi ...

• Arab Times: 'Govt corruption remains a problem' 2010-03-13

  Following is the full text of the 'Report on Human Rights Practices' on Kuwait issued by the US State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Right ...

• Sri Lanka Guardian: War Crimes, Human Rights: A home Grown Solution 2010-03-13

  Cooperate with the Asian region and the global South on matters of human rights. It is not enough to countervail Western pressure; it is necessary to adhere ...

• Ottawa Citizen: Veils institutionalize women's inferiority 2010-03-13

  This is contrary not only to our Constitution but also to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations in 1948.

• IT Chuiko: World Day against Internet censorship 2010-03-13

  In turn, the Nordic countries unlimited access to the Internet is already considered one of the fundamental human rights. According to Reporters Without ...

• Eurasia Review: U.S. State Department Report Takes UzbekistanTo Task 2010-03-13

  The US State Department noted some modest improvements in human rights conditions in Central Asia in its annual Human Rights Report ...

• Axis of Logic: Three Kings - The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II 2010-03-13

  Beyond that, it is also at the heart of other problems involving human rights, international law, the US government, and corporate power among others.

• Pakistan Times: Kashmiris' inclusion in Pakistan, India talks urged 2010-03-13

  Urging people to protest peacefully against the continued human rights violations committed by Indian troops and policemen, he termed the arrest of ...

• Nepal Monitor: Four Serious Problems in Nepal's Human Rights: US Report 2010-03-13

  In 2008 a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report found more than 200 cases of torture or abuse in police custody of boys and girls as young as 13, mostly during ...

• Arab News: Saudi mediation could resolve Kashmir issue, says Mirwaiz 2010-03-13

  He left for Geneva on Saturday night to attend a meeting on human rights. Farooq welcomed the statement made in Riyadh by India's Minister of State ...

• Financial Express Bangladesh: India now goading Russia to play important role in Afghanistan 2010-03-13

  China rejected criticism of its human rights record by the US State Department as hypocritical and published its own report about human rights in the US.

• Central Chronicle: China should respect Tibetans' human rights 2010-03-13

  "Further repression will breed precisely the kind of instability the Chinese government fears," said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Hum ...

• Today's Zaman: US State Dept says Afghanistan, Iraq rights worsen 2010-03-13

  The report on the state of human rights in 194 countries around the world also described abuse in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

• Forex Pros: Reuters World News Highlights at 1000 GMT, Mar 13 2010-03-13

  GENEVA - The United Nations must act to protect North Koreans from military rulers who are committing "harrowing and horrific" human rights violati ...

• Pacific Free Press: Law as Warfare: Israel, Cheney and 'Lawfare' Attack Human Rights NGO's 2010-03-13

  Generations of bar leaders stared down from the walls—many of them key players in the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, the Genocide ...

• Sunday Leader: Trade Picking Up 2010-03-13

  ... industry to take the hit, with fears that they may well go down, in the event Colombo loses the gsp+ duty free concession on alleged human rights abuse.

• San Francisco Bay View: Just what Haiti needs: Rwandan police 2010-03-13

  12, 2010, Haitian lawyer and human rights activist Marguerite Laurent pointed to little known oil reserves and mineral riches to explain the already ...

• Global Times: Sri Lanka's war hero to face trial before key polls 2010-03-13

  The UN and human rights groups all over the world were up in arms accusing the government of war crimes. While the government strongly denied the accusati ...

• Gaea Times: GOP says Democrats have wasted a year in 'bitter, destructive' drive to reform ... 2010-03-13

  ... Ilonggo..knowing ... mbk_center #Russia: State Dept human rights report = 'non objective opus aimed at solving political issues of US establishment.

• Austin American-Statesman: Census forms start arriving on Monday amid fears immigrants could be missed 2010-03-13

  Civil rights organizations such as the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

• NewsOK.com: Proposed DNA bill goes too far 2010-03-13

  Denney said her constituents "want these creeps off the streets” and that "if you act like a citizen, you deserve civil rights.

• Spero News: China: Beijing to restrict NGO activities 2010-03-13

  The closure last July of Beijing-based civil rights group Open Constitution Initiative, which received grants from the Yale University law school ...

• San Jose Mercury News: Calif. lawmakers weigh labels for fur garments 2010-03-13

  Nobody would be forced to sign a waiver giving up their civil rights as part of a contract for goods and services under legislation scheduled Tuesday before ...

• Toronto Star Blogs: Eyes on the prize. 2010-03-13

  The GOP hammerlock on the South that we trace to LBJ's famous assertion at the time he signed the Civil Rights Act into law - that he was surrendering ...

• The Japan Times: Untamed past taken by the tail 2010-03-13

  These dreams are not only dreams of the children but dreams of Korea, dreams of Asia, and Lee effortlessly intertwines the stories of her family life ...

• Irish Times: BIOGRAPHY: JOHN MONTAGUE reviews Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual ... 2010-03-13

  ... a subterranean level to the Nazi occupation, complete with cells, torture chambers, an execution room, and ordinary-looking offices for those in charge.

• Arirang News: RFA: N. Korea Has Increased Number of Counter-intelligence Officials in China 2010-03-13

  These men are said to be in charge of exposing contacts, leaking inside information outside the border and also collecting data on North Korean human right ...

• Spero News: Uzbekistan: Baptist pastor sentenced to 10 years in prison 2010-03-13

  Prison and torture for those who practice their religion without authorization. By Asia News Tashkent (AsiaNews/F18) - The Baptist pastor Toharia Haydarov ...

• MyNews.in: China: Accountability Overdue on Tibet Protests 2010-03-13

  On the second anniversary of the March 2008 protests in Tibetan areas, the Chinese government should release those detained without charge, Human Right ...

2010-03-12: Headlines

• Bangkok Post: Burma abuse may be crimes against humanity: UN expert 2010-03-12

  Burma's "severe human rights abuses" -- including deaths in custody, rape and torture -- were also highlighted in a separate report released Thursday by ...

• Bangkok Post: UN urges war crimes probe in Burma 2010-03-12

  Burma's "severe human rights abuses" -- including deaths in custody, rape and torture -- were also highlighted in a separate report released Thursday by ...

• Asian Tribune: US Human Rights Report on Sri Lanka insinuates, Rajapaksa brother ... 2010-03-12

  (End Quote) “The law makes torture a punishable offense and mandates a sentence of not less than seven years' imprisonment. Human rights groups alleged th ...

• Common Dreams: Indonesia: US Should Justify Training Counterterrorism Unit 2010-03-12

  "US training for Kopassus could someday improve its human rights performance, but only if those trained have a real incentive to stop committing abuses," ...

• Media Monitors Network: Decade of the Drone: America's Aerial Assassins 2010-03-12

  Citing the above-mentioned think tank, the Radio Australia report said there have been 64 drone strikes in South Asia in the past fourteen months compared ...

• Registan.net: Romancing Hekmatyar (and other related monsters) 2010-03-12

  There's no question these are nasty men, but they don't strike me as particularly worse on human rights issues than say, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammad Qasim ...

• AllAfrica.com: Africa: Low-Cost Prosthetics Provide Hope to Amputees in Developing Countrie ... 2010-03-12

  The WHO states that not being able to continue with daily activities infringes on a person's human rights for an adequate standard of living.

• Online Journal: Arresting Taliban to cover America's backside 2010-03-12

  In addition to the various modes of torture employed at Guantanamo, we can safely assume that darker methods like psychotropic drugs and electroshock ...

• Antiwar.com: State Dept Report: Human Rights in Iraq, Afghanistan Worsen 2010-03-12

  It did however point out other problems with the nation, including human trafficking, restrictions on press and religion, torture and poor prison conditi ...

• Amnesty International USA: Sri Lanka urged to end witch hunt against the media and NGOs 2010-03-12

  The Sri Lankan government should end its harassment of journalists and activists and take steps against those making threats, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty ...

• The Guardian: Protect the drug giants' patents - and harm the health of the poor? 2010-03-12

  But it also threatens the poorest of the poor, in Africa and other parts of Asia. Look in an African health centre and all the drugs are Indian-made.

• Reuters: Torture, abuse mark Uzbekistan's rights record: US 2010-03-12

  Other Central Asian countries' human rights record also remained poor last year, it said, while adding that there were "modest improvements in some areas" ...

• Kashmir Watch: :. US Engagement Must to Resolve the Kashmir Conflict: Dr. Fai 2010-03-12

  A new negotiating formula is thus urgently required both in the name of international peace, security and human rights. The element that has been missing ...

• ISRIA: South Africa - Lecture by Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane at the Legon Center ... 2010-03-12

  We know that Ghana supports the decision that required the setting up of a Human Rights Council and a Peace Building Commission. It also supports the fact ...

• Free Internet Press: Killer App - Drones Are Lynchpin In Obama's War On Terror 2010-03-12

  The left wing of the Democrats doesn't think so, and neither do many legal scholars and human rights activists. Besides, no one can say how many civili ...

• Aljazeera.net: China backlash at US rights report 2010-03-12

  China has hit back at the US over human rights, telling Washington to get its own house in order before criticising others and blaming US policy for ...

• News dominica: 2009 Human Rights Report: Dominica 2010-03-12

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment While the constitution prohibits such practices, there were reports that police used ...

• Aljazeera.net: Myanmar's Suu Kyi denounces new law 2010-03-12

  Meanwhile, a UN special envoy for human rights in Myanmar called for an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity by the military ...

• Washington Post: The polling memo everyone is reading 2010-03-12

  Do you think that the many civil rights acts should have been shelved because it was not popular at the time or because one party would lose some seats ...

• India Today: Jihadi terror, Naxalism twin threats for India: PC 2010-03-12

  The home minister said that civil rights groups and NGOs were naively under the impression that the Naxalites are pro-poor. "The Naxalites don't want ...

• Party for Socialism and Liberation: Women's oppression: Not 'a thing of the past' 2010-03-12

  Women have played an integral part in every struggle for progress, including civil rights, labor rights, immigrant rights, and against imperialist war.

• Times of Central Asia: UN human rights body to hear situation in Uzbekistan 2010-03-12

  Human Rights Watch also said that the Uzbek government was continuing to intimidate and persecute civil society activists and that torture and mistreatment ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: China arrests more than 1000 people for endangering state security 2010-03-12

  About 1050 people were charged with threatening China's state security in 2009, according to new figures from a Hong Kong-based human rights group.

• Scoop.co.nz: ASIA: Discrimination on Religious Grounds 2010-03-12

  Mr. President, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders identified speaking overseas on the human rights situation in their ...

• Inspire Magazine: Fresh evidence of crimes against humanity in Burma 2010-03-12

  A team returned from a fact-finding visit to the Thai-Burmese border last week with fresh evidence of gross human rights violations in eastern Burma th ...

• Palm Beach Daily News: Rory Stewart tells Four Arts audience United States policy, Afghanist ... 2010-03-12

  He is the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University — a post the Tory politician is leaving soon to run for the British ...

• Bangkok Post: Other world leaders should meet Dalai Lama: envoy 2010-03-12

  ... of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Tibetans," a White House spokesman said.

• MediaGlobal: Low-cost prosthetics provide hope to amputees in developing countries of ... 2010-03-12

  The WHO states that not being able to continue with daily activities infringes on a person's human rights for an adequate standard of living.

• Kashmir Media Service: Shawl pays glowing tributes to Dr Ayub Thakur 2010-03-12

  Professor Shawl denounced the gross human rights violations perpetrated by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir. “The inclusion of real leadership of Kashmiri ...

• EUobserver.com: France and Germany eye top job in EU diplomatic corps 2010-03-12

  A second one is to handle "global affairs" such as climate change, human rights and democracy promotion. A third one is to manage EU relations ...

• PressReleaseNetwork.com: IAOP Survey Finds Corporate Social Responsibility Increasingly Important ... 2010-03-12

  Ø Outsourcing buyers consider employee practices as the more important CSR criteria, putting labor, fair operating practices and human rights higher th ...

• India Today: Pakistan is a difficult neighbour, says Chidambaram 2010-03-12

  He dispelled the popularly-held notion of human rights activists and community-based groups that Naxalites are pro-poor and development.

• Jakarta Post: US `to secure energy investment' in Indonesia 2010-03-12

  Siswanto said that US energy interests would overwhelm sensitive issues, such as the progress of human rights in Papua, which has been one of Congress' ...

• Mizzima.com: US 'deeply disappointed' with Burma's electoral law 2010-03-12

  “The new law's assault on opposition parties is sadly predictable,” Brad Adams, Asia Director at Human Rights Watch said in a press release.

• Mizzima.com: Protesters plan to paralyse Bangkok: city could burn 2010-03-12

  This gives the military sweeping powers that many human rights groups, including the International Commission of Jurists feel are unnecessary ...

• DAWN.com: US reports widespread rights violations in occupied Kashmir 2010-03-12

  According to a study by the South Asia Forum for Human Rights and the Centre for Law and Development, thousands of habeas corpus cases were pending in ...

• Beatrice Daily Sun: Myanmar's Suu Kyi denounces new election laws 2010-03-12

  The United States and human rights groups have warned that the junta is running out of chances to make the elections appear credible.

• AsiaOne: Google honours Iranian women bloggers 2010-03-12

  Google and RSF said Tan, a contributor to the Chinese language human rights blog 64tianwang.com, had urged "Internet users to mobilise to establish ...

• Novinite.com: US Department of State 2009 Human Rights Report on Bulgaria* 2010-03-12

  Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment The constitution and law prohibit such practices; however, police sometimes ...

• Phuketwan: UPDATE MediaWATCH: Bangkok Eyes Roving Reds 2010-03-12

  ... Many governments have used the internet to curtail freedom of expression at home, the US state department says in its latest annual human rights report.

• Thomsons Online Benefits: South Koreans 'not taking enough leave' 2010-03-12

  When the government forces you to do it, I would say it violates human rights in a sense." The IMF has classed South Korea as the fifth-fastest growing ...

• AsiaOne: Myanmar's Suu Kyi calls for united response to 'unjust' law 2010-03-12

  A UN expert said Thursday that human rights violations in Myanmar may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry.

• AsiaOne: Rights group puts Australia on Internet watchlist 2010-03-12

  ... there was an "alarming trend" of government interference in online freedom, not only in countries that are judged to have poor human rights records.

• National: Rachel Corrie's parents: 'She didn't expect to die that day' 2010-03-12

  The Corries, who maintain a close relationship with the Nasrallahs, the Gazan family who Rachel tried to protect, also hope to highlight human rights abuse ...

• Bangkok Post: China slams US on human rights, yuan 2010-03-12

  China on Friday slammed US criticism of its human rights and currency policies, alleging a campaign of defamation as relations between the two giant power ...

• Taiwan Today: A life less ordinary 2010-03-12

  In fact this is more than compensated for by the author's impressive efforts at shedding light on the generalissimo's activities in Taiwan and Asi ...

• India PRwire: Gallery Espace presents 'A Cry from the Narrow Between' 2010-03-12

  He has shown worldwide in Asia, US, Europe and the Middle East. About Tejal Shah - Born in 1979, she is a visual artist working with video, photography ...

• Daily Mirror: WHY HALF THE SKY IS NOT ENOUGH 2010-03-12

  This is a figure that is far higher than that of South Asia, and even parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. The resultant increase in the number of women ...

• Thaindian.com: Pakistani apex court unhappy with Zardari case 2010-03-12

  Islamabad, March 12 (IANS) The Pakistani Supreme Court Friday expressed unhappiness over the lack of action in reopening a Swiss money laundering case ...

• Hurriyet Daily News: Recognition of Armenian 'genocide' puts chill in Sweden-Turkey relations 2010-03-12

  One does not invade other countries, rape their women, torture the men, steal their resources. That doesn't happen any more does it?

• Deseret News: US should no longer ignore problems in Latin America 2010-03-12

  While two wars in Asia and a dangerous confrontation with Iran dominate President Barack Obama's foreign policy worry list ...

• Sydney Morning Herald: What Indonesia can teach Burma 2010-03-12

  Burma is the most glaring bit of evidence for the critics of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, ASEAN. To them, the regional grouping's inability ...

• Thaindian.com: Kidnapped Brit toddler's father under scanner for plotting abduction in Pak 2010-03-12

  We are investigating that he might be trying to torture his wife mentally,” The Sun quoted a Pakistani police official, as saying.

• VOVNews.vn: Australia announces ALA scholarships 2010-03-12

  The Australian Government will offer 200 scholarships to potential leaders in the Asia-Pacific region to undertake postgraduate study in Australia in 2011.

• Southgate Amateur Radio Club: ICPO Bulletin (11-19 March 2010) 2010-03-12

  Hugh will call for EU, NA, SA, Asia etc. per propagation. Callsigns will be posted. QSL via K6HFA. More info soon.... [NG3K] 12/03/2010: Ray ZL4TY (home ...

• Armenia Diaspora: Obama and the Denial of Genocide 2010-03-12

  As recently as the 1980s, the Bulletin of the Department of State claimed that "Because the historical record of the 1915 events in Asia Minor is ambiguou ...