Full Coverage: Human rights

31.01.2006 Stand by for the annual feast of films at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, in London, 15-25 March which promises "a programme of 22 intelligent, inspiring and indispensable feature films and documentaries from 20 countries, articulating many of the human, environmental and geo-political stories of our times."

31.01.2006 International agency Oxfam has said that rich countries must change their attitude to world trade negotiations and show leadership to deliver reforms that lift people out of poverty. It wants the EU and US to stop making excuses for not reforming agricultural trade rules and to end their unreasonable demands for developing countries to open industry and services markets.

31.01.2006 The U.S. has the perfect opportunity to stop the genocide in Darfur when it takes over the presidency of the U.N Security Council this February. A massive call-in campaign will target the U.S. mission to the U.N. Wednesday and a rally for Darfur will take place at the White House Thursday.

30.01.2006 ActionAid India's third country strategy paper of India is called Rights First. It will serve as the organisation's guide for the years 2005 to 2010 and will help ActionAid work on tribals, dalits and Muslims - which are the marginalised communities in India.

26.01.2006 International development and rights activist Walden Bello explains how military interventions for 'humanitarian reasons' can cause further human rights violations, be corrupted by political goals, and set a dangerous precedent for the disregard of national sovereignty.

26.01.2006 Brazil's president Lula is not coming to this year's World Social Forum, being held this week in Venezuela. He has a lot of work to do at home to prepare his beleaguered party for November's elections, and his role as champion of Latin America's left may be usurped by one of three local colleagues: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner, or Bolivia's Evo Morales.

25.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 25 (OneWorld) - A red-and-black, 22-by-10-foot billboard mounted on a truck and emblazoned with the words ''Tell the truth about torture, Mr. President'' began circling the White House Wednesday as activists ratcheted up efforts to force President George W. Bush to confront U.S. treatment of terrorism suspects.

25.01.2006 Solicitor Imran Khan talks about Islamophobia and the role it plays in human rights violations in the post-9/11 and 7/7 world, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London on 9 March.

25.01.2006 As the first leg of this year's World Social Forum drew to a close in West Africa Monday, participants noted the decidedly "Afrocentric" focus of the event. Despite minor administrative glitches, participants discussed issues ranging from women's rights to the conflict in the Sudan, and shuttled between more than 800 events and activities.

25.01.2006 African leaders rightly rejected SudanÂ’s bid for the African UnionÂ’s presidency this year, but should not reward Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with AfricaÂ’s leadership next year as long as the human rights disaster continues in Darfur, a leading rights group said.

24.01.2006 Senior members of the Communist Party of India, along with Pakistani-born British writer and filmmaker Tariq Ali, will lead anti-US protests, labelled Anti-Imperialist Day, in New Delhi on Tuesday. The aim is to mobilise public opinion to demand withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, oppose military action against Iran, North Korea and Syria and express solidarity with the Palestinian people.

20.01.2006 Amnesty International's new campaign is rallying Americans before the upcoming State of the Union address to encourage President Bush to be honest with Americans about the government's use of torture at home and abroad.

19.01.2006 Terrorism and bombing campaigns, lawlessness, kidnapping and targeted killings continue to wreak havoc on Iraqi civilians, with the rights of women, children, detainees and religious leaders grievously violated, according to a new United Nations report.

19.01.2006 Britain, the US and Canada are undermining the global defence of human rights, Human Rights Watch says in its World Report 2006.

19.01.2006 Drawing on past experiences in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Africa Action explains how the international community should intervene in Darfur: from a more robust mandate for the African Union to U.N. deployment and, most importantly, the role the U.S. should play in stopping the genocide.

19.01.2006 New Jersey's Acting Governor Richard Codey will appoint a commission to conduct a review of how the death penalty is imposed and what factors--including race and poverty--affect who is sentenced to death.

18.01.2006 Illegal weapons are seemingly everywhere in Haiti, but Oxfam is ready to help bring the situation under control. The organization is preparing to launch a national campaign on the issue along with women's and human rights groups as well as the government and the United Nations.

18.01.2006 The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H published its 2005 annual report which presents, among other, disturbing findings on prevalent ethnic discrimination in the country, especially in the field of labour legislation.

18.01.2006 African leaders must do more to protect human rights - with rape, torture and unlawful killings continuing in many parts of the continent and widespread impunity for violations, a leading rights group said ahead of an African Union meeting in Sudan.

18.01.2006 While Vietnam has some of the strongest labor laws on paper, the recent influx of private companies has seen policy enforcement slide. But 40,000 striking workers can remind the government really quickly whom it's beholden to.