Full Coverage: Civil rights

28.02.2006 A lawyer who fought to end racial segregation in U.S. housing in the 1970s calls the problem "the hardest issue in America relating to race relations," but offers a proposal for eliminating the "black ghetto."

23.02.2006 En cette année électorale (les élections législatives et l’élection présidentielle auront respectivement lieu les 12 et 28 mai), Amnesty International appelle les parties au long conflit armé qui touche la Colombie à respecter le droit des candidats et des électeurs, des personnes déjà titulaires d’un mandat électif et des journalistes.

23.02.2006 American companies are under attack from Congress for helping the Chinese government suppress free speech but it's the U.S. government that really has the power to affect change, argues former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

22.02.2006 Entrevista com Dr. Belisario Santos Jr. A MP e o Decreto recém-promulgados pelo Presidente, diminuindo o prazo de blindagem dos arquivos, representam um avanço significativo na questão do acesso aos documentos de órgãos públicos?

20.02.2006 A recent interim ruling by the World Trade Organisation's dispute settlement body (DSB) on European de facto moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops and food has generated a debate worldwide.

17.02.2006 The Women and Child Development Ministry (WCDM) is working on to set up a central nodal agency on the lines of Narcotics Control Bureau for coordination of all activities on prevention and combating trafficking of women and children at the national level.

17.02.2006 Confirming what Amnesty International has repeatedly said, the U.N. issued a report concluding that the U.S. is in violation of the Convention against Torture and must bring detainees to trial or release them. Amnesty maintains that Guantánamo is "just the tip of the iceberg", and calls for other facilities to be opened to independent scrutiny.

16.02.2006 The prime focus of the education policy, the Sarva Shiksha Yojana—meant to provide primary education to every child—is yet to bear noticeable fruit, but the government is already thinking ahead. Expecting the improvement in primary education to create a demand for secondary education, the Centre is expected to spend 25 per cent of the education cess on secondary education in 2006-2007. Mrs ILA PATNAIK, express this view in indian express.

16.02.2006 Children born out of a marriage between a tribal woman and a non-tribal upper caste man cannot claim status of Scheduled Tribe and seek employment in the Government under the reserved category.

16.02.2006 In announcing Professor S. Thorat’s appointment as chairman of the University Grants Commission, every newspaper made it a point to announce that he was a dalit. In contrast, nobody inquired what the caste of the earlier chairman was when he was appointed. Poor Thorat! He will not be judged for his scholarship or administrative acumen; he will be judged as a dalit.
Prof P.V.Indirense expresed this view in Indian expresss.

14.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 14 (OneWorld) - They went to sleep as Syrians and woke up stripped of their citizenship and their rights to study, work, or marry as they wish.

14.02.2006 Are the decisions that were taken at Hong Kong being implemented? The developing countries need to be extremely careful and guard against pressure being mounted again. They will have to work much harder in order to be able to create a level playing field in international trade. Uttam Gupta outlines the rules of engagement that developing countries must adopt during the next few months

14.02.2006 Emphasising the need to move towards a knowledge-based curriculum, private schools from across the country today called for consultation on the proposed Right to Education Bill. Noting that there were a lot of things about the proposed Bill that were still unclear, and in some cases even a little ``unfair'' on the private schools, the conference of Federation of Independent Schools in the Capital saw schools demanding a wider consultation on the matter.

14.02.2006 With global trade talks flagging, the European Union is getting ready to push for new bilateral deals to give European companies a bigger share of the world’s fastest-growing markets, especially in Asia.

13.02.2006 In the face of recent crackdowns on Russian civil society, Amnesty International urges the E.U. to address the Russian Federation’s human rights abuses. Despite not being on the agenda of the G8 meeting that took place in St. Petersburg this weekend, the E.U. cannot ignore Russia's violations under the European human rights framework, says Amnesty.

11.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 11 (OneWorld) - Terror victims are being denied sanctuary under U.S. counter-terrorism laws even as next year's federal budget threatens to push ever greater numbers to seek safe haven in the first place, refugee advocates said this week.

10.02.2006 Finance minister P Chidambaram allocated Rs 22,268 crore for the ministry of human resource development in Budget 2005-06, with the bulk of the money, Rs 12,536.53 crore going to the department of elementary education and literacy.

10.02.2006 If the 2% education cess was the government's great hope for financing basic education in India, then perhaps it's time for a rethink. In the first eight months of the current fiscal, the government has raised Rs 2,400 crore through the cess. It amounts to only one-third of the Budget estimate of Rs 6,975 crore for the year.

09.02.2006 More than 10,000 Bangladeshis were arrested without warrants in a three-day political crackdown this month, with the poor being particularly targeted, an Asian rights group claimed yesterday.

07.02.2006 As the Bush administration ratchets up its domestic spying capabilities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting 'research' reports on direct-action environmental groups produced by right-wing think tanks.