Full Coverage: Human rights

28.12.2004 The Human Rights Watch travelling film festival kicked off in September 2004 and running through May 2005 presents works of fiction, documentary and animated films with a distinctive human rights theme. The festival intends to showcase the heroic stories of activists and survivors from all over the world seen through the eyes of courageous filmmakers.

27.12.2004 Developing a culture of human rights in government and society could help curb violation of rights due to arbitrary killings and torture, lack of justice for victims and violence against women, feels Dr Sima Samar, the head of Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.

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23.12.2004 The head of the Mostar field office of the Children Rights Department, Stjepan Prskalo, discussed the reasons behind the decision of the Ombudsman of BH Federation to close the Department, at the press conference held yesterday in Mostar.

23.12.2004 As two more Belmarsh detainees are moved to Broadmoor. the Royal College of Psychiatrists warns the government that decline in mental health is likely to be caused by indefinite detention and lack of legal redress.

23.12.2004 In a bid to curb the glaring gender disparity in the sex ratio in the western Indian state of Gujarat the state government is planning to institute a cash prize for those blowing the whistle on doctors and parents indulging in sex-determination tests.

23.12.2004 The Sri Lanka rebel group, Tamil Tigers, is abducting and recruiting school children to push them into brutal military training even though active fighting with the government ended in 2002, says the Human Rights Watch.

22.12.2004 The Serbian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights protests the increased use of personal disqualifications based on the nationality of an individual. The latest such example was published in an article in the "International" daily of December 20, under the title "Branka Prpa Absolves the NATO Murederers."

22.12.2004 Recent three- and five-week online workshops on web design and using the internet for human rights and development work brought new skills to advocates in dozens of developing countries. "This workshop is evidence of what we can achieve by using the technology we have at our disposal," said Sheree Trotman from Barbados.

22.12.2004 Just weeks after the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended the complete abolition of the death penalty and days after neighboring Senegal did away with the practice, Sierra Leone's High Court sentenced ten to death for treason Monday.

21.12.2004 Join an interesting debate on reservation for the marginalised classes in job opportunities in India. Should non governmental organisations and the corporate sector in India inplement reservations for the marginalised and the oppressed classes.

21.12.2004 Amnesty calls on the international community to pay more attention to the deteriorating situation in Nepal where the National Human Rights Commission has insufficient resources to fulfil its role.

21.12.2004 U.S. courts are stripping undocumented workers of their rights, charges a coalition of over 20 labor, civil rights, and immigrants' rights organizations who have requested a hearing on the issue before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

20.12.2004 The U.S. oil company Unocal agreed to a settlement last week in a long-standing case brought on behalf of Burmese villagers who claim the company knowingly benefited from murder, rape, torture, extortion, forced labor, and the forced relocation of whole villages allegedly perpetrated by the Burmese military during construction of the $1.2 billion Yadana pipeline.

20.12.2004 A cultural association from Italy is journeying across the globe to promote ideals of peace, brotherhood and harmony across varied culture and people. This group academicians and performing artistes travels across cities on their caravan upholding non-violence through their latest project from Gandhi to Capitini: A road to non-violence.

20.12.2004 Iran claims that execution of women by stoning is no longer permitted. Amnesty continues to unmask cases and makes a desperate appeal to UK campaigners to take action to prevent an imminent execution by this inhumane method.

19.12.2004 Pradipna Raj Panta reviews the history of labour migration to and from Nepal, from the days of the British Gurkha regiments to contemporary pressures of instability and poverty in the country.

19.12.2004 The Editor of the Country Guide reviews the history of labour migration to and from Nepal, from the days of the British Gurkha regiments to contemporary pressures of instability and poverty in the country.

19.12.2004 The Albanian authorities must establish how a 17-year-old received fatal injuries while in pre-trial detention and bring to justice those responsible for his death. Amnesty International today expressed its grave concern at the failure of the Albanian prosecuting and judicial authorities to account for the fatal injuries suffered by Eriguert Ceka in Rreshen (Mirdita region) police station in July 2004.

17.12.2004 Le 18 décembre est célébrée la Journée Internationale des Migrants. C'est l'occasione, dans le monde entier, de réaffirmer et de promouvoir les droits des migrants.