Full Coverage: Human rights

30.04.2004 Our partner organizations, Local Democracy Agencies (LDA) from Pec/Peja, Prijedor, Sarajevo and Kraljevo presented their activites at the Civitas Fair that is being held in Padua between 29th of April and 2nd of May in Padua, Italy.
As Association of Local Democracy Agencies gives a great example of regional cooperation and decentralized cooperation, supporting democratic processes and capacity building in the South East Europe region we talked with the Director of the Association of LDA, Mrs. Antonella Valmorbida.

29.04.2004 A major U.S.-based human rights group has strongly deplored the conviction for criminal defamation of a former political prisoner who claims that she was sexually abused by the former Chilean police chief while she detained by the Army after the bloody 1973 military coup d'etat against President Salvador Allende Gossens.

29.04.2004 Amnesty International a demandé des éclaircissements de toute urgence au Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP, équivalent du procureur général) ce mardi 27 avril 2004, après que la presse se soit fait l'écho de déclarations selon lesquelles il aurait menacé de placer sous surveillance et de poursuivre les participants à un débat télévisé traitant d'affaires criminelles en cours.

28.04.2004 The Council of National Minorities of Croatia adopted the Report on Budgetary Expenditures for NGOs and national minoritiesÂ’ institutions for 2003, and adopted the Expenditure Plan for 2004.

27.04.2004 Three alleged IRA members who have spent more than 2 years in prison were cleared yesterday of charges that they had trained leftist Colombian guerrillas.
But James Monaghan, Martin McCauley and Niall Connolly were convicted on the lesser charge of travelling with false passports.

27.04.2004 À la veille de l'audience au cours de laquelle la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l'homme statuera sur les exceptions préliminaires en rapport avec un cas de torture au Mexique, Amnesty International exhorte le gouvernement mexicain à collaborer à la procédure, et à honorer ainsi ses engagements, affirmés à plusieurs reprises, en matière de droits humains.

27.04.2004 Amnesty international has released a new report detailing the organisations findings on its first visit to Libya 15 years ago. The report -- released on the day of Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi's visit to the European Commission in Brussels, his first to Europe in 15 years -- reveals a pattern of on-going human rights violations, a continuing failure to investigate and resolve past abuses, and a climate of fear in which most Libyans are afraid to raise concerns over current and past violations.

26.04.2004 Un rapporto di Human Right Watch documenta decine di attacchi delle milizie arabe Janjaweed sostenute dall'esercito governativo di Khartoum. "La pulizia etnica nel Darfur ha già ucciso 30mila persone e causato 900mila sfollati'' - afferma l'ambasciatore USA Richard Williamson davanti alla Commissione per i diritti umani dell'Onu. Ma la dichiarazione della Commissione Onu non ne parla.

26.04.2004 In yet another move to curb information rights, the Chinese government plans to start using video cameras and spy software in internet cafes in Shanghai. The move is meant to ensure that youngsters do not access banned sites.

26.04.2004 In a flagrant violation of human rights and Constitutional guidelines, last week the Bangladesh government arrested nearly 15,000 people in the capital Dhaka, in a bid to foil an agitation by the country's opposition party.

26.04.2004 Chairperson of the Global Campaign for Education, Kailash Satyarthi has sought large donations during the education week at a World Bank meeting and criticised countries for failing to provide education to the children.

26.04.2004 Children from all over the world will raise their voice against exploitation of children at the Children's World Congress to be held in Italy in May 2004.

26.04.2004 The issue of child soldiers has triggered a controversy in Sri Lanka, where the future of 1000 children released by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) over the past two weeks, remains uncertain.

23.04.2004 An Indian NGO is constructing a home for over 200 destitute children in the west Indian state of Maharashtra so that children can have access to health, awareness, education and self-reliance.

23.04.2004 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 23 (OneWorld) – The nomination by Indonesia’s most popular political party of an accused war criminal to run for the presidency could mark a serious setback to Bush administration hopes of normalizing military relations with East Asia’s second most populous country.

22.04.2004 The London-based Haiti Support Group, a solidarity organisation working alongside Haiti's popular, democratic movement since 1992, continues to be very concerned by moves by armed irregular forces to establish themselves as de facto administrative authorities.

22.04.2004 For the first time ever, Indians will vote in an all-electronic election, with nearly 7,25,000 electronic voting machines doting each voting station in the country.

21.04.2004 The ages of children in various countries for the right to education, for being prosecuted, for getting married is a revealing story.

21.04.2004 The Nepal media's involvement in pro-democracy agitations by political parties and subsequent police arrests has stirred a controversy in the volatile Himalayan kingdom, where the fine line between politics and the Fourth Estate seems to have blurred.

21.04.2004 Amnesty International has written to the Nepalese army chief protesting against the disappearances of civilians after they were picked up by the army for questioning.