Full Coverage: Civil rights

29.03.2005 Il a été arrêté parce qu’il portait la voix des 70 000 nigériens qui sont descendus pacifiquement dans la rue le 15 mars dernier pour protester contre une loi de finance aux effets catastrophique pour la grande majorité de la population.

25.03.2005 University officials have agreed to almost all of the demands by 22 Georgetown students staging a hunger strike since early last week calling for "living wages" for those who work at the university. The strikers have gained the support of major labor and religious organizations during the course of their campaign.

24.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 24 (OneWorld) - A novel coalition of conservatives and liberals normally at each other's throats over the nature of government and free speech have made common cause to oppose key parts of the USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law.

18.03.2005 The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday passed the "Real ID Act," which a broad coalition of civil and human rights groups say "would undermine the rule of law, have a profound negative impact on immigrants and asylum seekers, and do little to protect American lives." They believe the bill is a severe anti-immigration proposal couched in the language of homeland security.

17.03.2005 In a chilling foretaste of security plans for the Gleneagles G8 summit, Charles Clarke has today approved a 2 mile exclusion zone to protect the Derby meeting of G8 environment and development ministers.

16.03.2005 More than 100 beloved children's characters, from Big Bird to Barney, appear in a new music video for the song "We Are Family," promoting themes of tolerance and diversity. Distribution of the video and other educational materials to 60,000 schools across the U.S. began last week.

16.03.2005 Amnesty International's report to be presented to election monitors in Zimbabwe is unequivocal in its assessment that citizens will be unable to participate in a free and fair democratic process.

12.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 11 (OneWorld) - Millions of Americans could be plunged into financial ruin if a bill giving credit card companies long-sought relief from unpaid loans gets final Congressional approval, a broad array of consumer protection, economic justice, and civil rights groups warned.

11.03.2005 As the anti-terror bill nears the end of its tormented passage, a leading human rights lawyer traces the long history of habeas corpus, the protection of the individual against arbitrary detention.

08.03.2005 Esperanza Amaris Miranda aurait été enlevée par trois hommes armés le 16 octobre 2003 alors qu’elle se trouvait à son domicile. Ces hommes - qui appartiennent, semble-t-il, à un groupe paramilitaire soutenu par l’armée - l’ont contrainte à monter dans un taxi et ont démarré. Lorsque sa fille, âgée de vingt et un ans, s’est accrochée à la portière du véhicule en mouvement, les hommes en sont descendus et l’ont rouée de coups de pied. Quelques minutes plus tard, le corps d’Esperanza a été abandonné sur la chaussée. Elle avait été tuée par balle.

07.03.2005 Almost 63 percent of the citizens believe that the economic and social human righst are violated in Montenegro, and one half of the polled citizens in a recent poll organized by Centre for Monitoring – CEMI believes that the state institutions resist the recommendations of the Ombudsman. CEMI implemented a project for monitoring of the work of the Ombudsman, and the complete report was presented yesterday at a round-table discussion held in Podgorica, yesterday.

04.03.2005 TORONTO – Les coalitions pour la santé de l’Ontario et de la Colombie-Britannique ont confirmé récemment que les partenariats public-privé (les « P3 ») sont bien en vie dans le système de santé public du Canada.

03.03.2005 The decision by the US Supreme Court outlawing the execution of child offenders - those who were under 18 at the time of the crime - finally brings the USA into line with an unequivocal principle of international law, Amnesty International said, welcoming the ruling.