Full Coverage: Civil rights

28.04.2005 Chaque année, les membres du SCFP dans tout le Canada organisent des activités, le 28 avril, pour reconnaître leurs consoeurs et confrères victimes d’accidents du travail mortels et non mortels et de maladies professionnelles. Nous vous encourageons à prendre quelques minutes, le 28 avril prochain, à 11 heures, pour réfléchir sur le prix ultime que les travailleuses et travailleurs doivent payer pour gagner leur vie

26.04.2005 Spain has joined the troupe of European countries moving towards equal rights for gay and lesbian couples as its legislature began the process to legalize same-sex marriage. The law would afford same-sex couples the same pension, inheritance, and adoption rights currently enjoyed by heterosexual couples.

19.04.2005 GAZA, Apr 19 (IPS) - Two dates in the Middle East that once seemed set in stone are now being challenged as Israel considers delaying its Gaza disengagement and Palestinians mull over postponing their elections.

15.04.2005 The presence of xenophobia and intolerance towards the members of other nations, minorities and social groups has been on a rise in Serbia in the past year. Such was the estimate presented at the promotion of the Human Rights in Serbia and Montenegro 2004 report prepared by the Belgrade Human Rights Centre.

12.04.2005 The UNHCR has signed an agreement with Nepal under which it will send observers to monitor respect for human rights in Nepal, where both government forces and Maoist rebels have been accused of widespread abuse.

08.04.2005 Race, not wealth, remains the most significant factor in determining where people live in the United States. Minority homebuyers are often "steered" away from white communities by brokers, and there has been a decline in enforcement of fair housing regulations, reports a national consumer rights organization.

06.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 6 (OneWorld) - Civil rights and social justice groups are deploying along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep tabs on so-called ''Minuteman'' volunteers on the lookout for undocumented immigrants crossing the desert into the state of Arizona.

06.04.2005 Taxpayers money funding the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for BP continues to fall on stony ground. In Turkey, international standards for land acquisition have not been followed and local activists are ill treated by Turkish police.

05.04.2005 2005 got off to a bad start for human rights organizations in Guatemala. In January alone, rights groups or their workers suffered three break-ins, two murders, a bomb scare, threatening phone calls and several death threats.

05.04.2005 When 120,000 U.S. residents of Japanese ancestry were put in camps during World War II, Fred Korematsu refused to go. Forty years later U.S. courts agreed that the internment of Japanese-Americans was not a matter of military necessity, but was based on "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership." In 2004, Korematsu spoke out against detaining foreign nationals without legal process at Guantanamo Bay, calling it "all too familiar." He died last week, at age 86.