Full Coverage: Civil rights

30.09.2005 Having lived and worked in Iraq the past two years, U.S. peaceworker Mary Trotochaud opens a window into the lives of occupied Iraqis who, despite their disillusionment with the U.S. occupation, are still hopeful for a peaceful and democratic society.

29.09.2005 Coinciding with the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year in Kosovo, the Children’s Rights Team (CRT) within the Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo announces the re-launch of a Kosovo-wide “Children’s Rights Awareness Campaign”.

28.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Multibillion-dollar White House plans to aid recovery from Hurricane Katrina have spawned complaints by a broad array of civil rights, economic justice, and environmental groups even as congressional investigators look into possible corruption.

27.09.2005 Krusevo and Prilep will be the starting point of the caravan that will travel throughout Macedonia, with the intent to collect 10,000 signatures for the petition to adopt a Law on Protection of Rights and Dignity of Disabled Persons. The initiative was started by Polio Plus, in cooperation with 23 other associations of persons with special needs.

27.09.2005 Federal contractors involved in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts have been exempted from requirements that ensure employment opportunities for women and minorities. "The exemption could hurt the very people most affected by Hurricane Katrina, effectively shutting them out from the opportunity to participate in rebuilding their own neighborhoods," civil rights advocates said.

22.09.2005 In the past, when the U.S. Senate has tried to enact legislation adding sexual orientation and gender to federal hate crimes laws, House conservatives have put up a roadblock. Last week, the House passed just such a bill, leaving it in the Senate's hands now.

19.09.2005 For the International Day of Peace 2005, Campaign for the Conscientious Objection in Bosnia and Herzegovina is once again organizing traditional activities for this day.

19.09.2005 As the Palestinian struggle for equal rights faces a crossroads, a new strategy to secure recognition of equality for all within Israel might lead the way toward a more democratic and secular country, says Todd May.

15.09.2005 In four days of Senate hearings, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice nominee John Roberts has "failed to distance himself from the anti-civil rights positions he has advocated," said the executive director of the nation's premier civil and human rights coalition Thursday, announcing its opposition to his confirmation.

15.09.2005 Mukhumd, one of more than 1,000 Uzbeks who sought asylum in neighboring Kyrgyzstan after the May 13 Andijan massacre, describes the Uzbek secret service agents who have traveled across the border to pursue him. “He shudders at every knock on the door of the house of his relatives--where he stays.”

14.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 14 (OneWorld) - People flooded out by Hurricane Katrina could yet be sunk by debt under a new U.S. bankruptcy law that makes it harder for Americans to seek bankruptcy protection, consumer advocates and lawmakers have warned.

14.09.2005 Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina has drowned out what may be two of the most consequential human rights court decisions in recent U.S. history: rulings that George W. Bush has the authority to indefinitely detain Jose Padilla, a Chicago native arrested in the United States and dubbed an "enemy combatant," and recent appeals to bring Guantanamo Bay cases to the civilian courts.

12.09.2005 A dawn vigil kicked off a week of action by young women and many others around the country who believe John Roberts is not fit to lead the nation's highest court. Concerned citizens from around the country will lobby their senators on Thursday.

09.09.2005 With the nomination of John Roberts--a conservative judge who argued against Roe v. Wade, and against affirmative action--for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the individual rights and freedoms that we cherish are at stake, says the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and urges you ask your senator to be vigilant in considering Roberts' candidacy.

05.09.2005 At the initiative of the associations of Czech, Slovenian, Roma and Ukrainian communities in Prijedor, the first “Evening of National Minorities” was held last Friday, September 2. The event was envisioned as an opportunity for the citizens of Prijedor to get together and for the national minorities to present their culture and customs.

01.09.2005 On August 26, two inspectors of the Serbian Ministry of Interior visited, once again, the offices of Women in Black in Belgrade. They took a statement from Stasa Zajovic, WIB coordinator, on the allegations of the criminal charges brough up against the organization in February 2005.

01.09.2005 The Papua New Guinea government must stop police beating, raping and torturing arrestees, many of who are children, a leading internbational rights group says in a new report.