Full Coverage: Civil rights

31.01.2007 Network of Civil Society for Peace (NCSP), Kaski, staged a goodwill rally in Pokhara, Nepal urging the Terai residents to continue their agitation peacefully.
The rally, which commenced from Srijana Chowk, passed through New Road and Chipledhunga before converging into a corner meet after reaching Bhimsen Chowk.

29.01.2007 Last Thursday, January 25, the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities was promoted at the Members of Parliament Club in Skopje.

25.01.2007 NEW YORK, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - Government leaders across the world must stop using anti-terror laws as a tool to suppress opposition movements and deprive ordinary citizens of their due civil and human rights, say international civil society groups attending the World Social Forum in Kenya this week.

25.01.2007 Bebac non-governmental organization launched a campaign to improve the status of pregnant women in Serbia, inviting the general public and the competent state institutions to respect the moral and civilized rules for treatment of pregnant women.

25.01.2007 Five people have died and a curfew has been imposed in a district in Nepal's plains region after a clash between Maoists and activists for regional autonomy left a student dead.

25.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon's domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database.

22.01.2007 Izbori u Srbiji protekli su u skladu s međunarodnim standardima, saopštila je Međunarodna izborna posmatračka misija (IEOM). Izbori su građanima Srbije pružili istinsku mogućnost da biraju iz čitavog spektra političkih platformi i sprovedeni su u skladu sa zahtevima OEBS-a i standardima Saveta Evrope koji se odnose na demokratske izbore. Ipak, ostaju pojedine odredbe izbornog zakonodavstva koje je potrebno razmotriti, navodi se u saopštenju.

13.01.2007 NEW YORK, Jan 13 (OneWorld) - The launch of a new electroshock device to be sold to the public--just days after the deaths of two men who were stunned by police officers using similar products--has brought new calls for a moratorium on the sale and use of such instruments.

08.01.2007 Perhaps the most powerful and surprising people's movement of 2006 had many leaders; Renee Saucedo was a driving force behind efforts in San Francisco.

05.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 5 (OneWorld) - A coalition of more than 60 labor, social justice, and immigrants rights organizations issued a statement Thursday calling for an immediate halt to community and workplace raids aimed at detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants.

02.01.2007 BAGHDAD, Jan 2 (IPS) - The execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein carried out at the start of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha has angered Iraqis and others across the Middle East.