Full Coverage: Civil rights

31.10.2006 MEXICO CITY, Oct 30 (IPS) - The Mexican government justified on Monday the violent storming by federal police of social protests in the capital of the southern state of Oaxaca, saying it had restored peace and order. But the evidence tells a different story.

28.10.2006 Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left's most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)

28.10.2006 Guy Delva has worked as a journalist for over 20 years in his native Haiti, for numerous radio stations, Le Nouvelliste newspaper, and as a correspondent for the Caribbean News Agency and the BBC World Service. He heads the Haitian Journalists’ Association and is a dedicated defender and promoter of journalists’ rights.

27.10.2006 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 27 (IPS) - Sitting on a red plastic stool behind the iron bars that form a caged courtyard outside Cell 74, Mirza Tahir Hussain, though only 36, looks like an old man. His white untrimmed beard, the long salt-and-pepper hair and a slight shuffle in his gait expose a life of constant worry.

27.10.2006 JOHANNESBURG, Oct 27 (IPS) - Various African researchers and civil society groups have given a mixed response to the launch of a five-million-dollar prize for African leaders who relinquish power and promote good governance.

25.10.2006 Concerning trade union rights, on the 3rd October, Turkey received a strong message delivered by Olli Rehn, the Finnish European Commissioner, who is responsible for enlargement. According to him Turkey needs to ensure that full Trade Union rights are respected in line with EU standards and ILO Conventions.

24.10.2006 India is a poignant example of how food sufficiency at the aggregate level has not translated into food security at the household level. The revised thrust of the World Food Programme will be to bring the hungry, malnourished, and vulnerable within the ambit of human development.

23.10.2006 With the Commonwealth Games 2010 in sight and the experience of the exploitation of the construction workers during the Asian Games 1982 in hindsight, the Social Jurist, a civil rights group, has set up a separate unit namely, Labour Rights Group to monitor the conditions of the construction and other workers in Delhi and and provide totally free legal assistance & support.

21.10.2006 October 2 marked another anniversary of the 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco Square, a former prehispanic marketplace in Mexico City. Students and others were gunned down by soldiers and government agents

16.10.2006 Udruženje VESTA iz Tuzle je počelo realizaciju projekta "Kampanja za poštivanje prava djece i žena u BiH putem mreže K.R.I.K (Koordinatora za Razvoj i Implementaciju Kampanja)". Cilj projekta je obezbjeđivanje platforme za zagovaranje prava osjetljivih grupa građana i podizanje svijesti javnosti o njihovim potrebama u Bosni i Hercegovini.

16.10.2006 On the eve of World Anti-Poverty Day, more than 4,544 children from across the country gathered at the Constitution Club under the banner of Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, network of over 1000 NGOs to mark the United Nation’s call to STAND-UP against poverty. The campaign, NINE IS MINE, led by children urged the government to allocate three per cent and six per cent of the GDP towards health and education respectively as a matter of right for every child.

13.10.2006 Argentines are searching for a missing 77-year-old witness whose gripping testimony of torture helped convict a former police officer of crimes committed during Argentina's military dictatorship.

13.10.2006 Interview with lawyer Jaime Madariaga de la Barra.
In the mid-1990s, members of southern Chile’s Mapuche community began a process of recovering their ancestral lands by occupying lots — mainly owned by lumber companies — to convert them into farmlands.

13.10.2006 Following the successful mobilization and weeklong padayatra in September to undertake the Social Audit of NREGA in Ananthapur, it is now proposed to undertake a week of campaign in Medak district of the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh.

13.10.2006 A landless Dalit labourer saw three members of the family die of hunger. He received his job card for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on October 6, a day after they died.

10.10.2006 ROME, Oct 10 (IPS) - In the 13 years since its birth in Italy, the global campaign to abolish the death penalty has convinced more than half the countries in the world of its cause.

09.10.2006 A year after an earthquake devastated northern Pakistan, killing more than 73,000 people, the United Nations envoy for the recovery effort said a funding shortfall means too many of the estimated 3.5 million people affected by the quake still lack access to basic services such as clean water, sanitation and housing.

09.10.2006 The civil society index (CSI) project in China was implemented by the non-governmental organisation, the Research Centre of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing. It was the 25th country report in a set of 50 being produced by the Johannesburg-based Civicus.

06.10.2006 Recente informe da organização Anistia Internacional revela novos indícios de que as autoridades do Estado do México não só não têm investigado seriamente as acusações das mulheres de San Salvador Atenco

06.10.2006 Granby Street in Hartford, Connecticut has been renamed Marcus Garvey Way after the late Jamaican-born legendary black leader.