Full Coverage: Democracy

29.07.2005 Alors que le pays se prépare pour les élections, quelque 170000 armes légères se trouvent entre les mains d’anciens militaires et de groupes de criminels, qui s’en servent pour bafouer les droits fondamentaux. C’est ce que révèle Amnesty International dans un nouveau rapport publié ce jeudi 28 juillet 2005.

29.07.2005 Around 170,000 small arms are being used by former military personnel and criminal gangs to commit grave human rights abuses as the country prepares for elections, Amnesty International said in a new report issued today.

28.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 28 (OneWorld) - Civil rights activists are demanding that the federal government reauthorize the 1965 Voting Rights Act, saying voters' most fundamental democratic right would be routinely denied if the law is allowed to lapse.

28.07.2005 MANS expressed their support to the proposal of new the Law on Preventing Conflict of Interests that, according to them, represents significant improvement to the existing legislation. MANS believes that its implementation will finally bring real results in eliminating conflict of interest and the ongoing campaign against the corruption.

27.07.2005 With general elections scheduled for October, the interim Government of Haiti and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today wrapped up a two-day workshop bringing together all political factions and civil society to discuss the environment, the budget and anti-poverty strategies, with a view to making a peaceful transition, the UN mission said.

26.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

25.07.2005 Many fear the current draft of Iraq's constitution would set back the once-powerful women's movement in the country by 50 years or more, subordinating women's human rights guarantees to subjective interpretations of Islam under Sharia law. Furthermore, says MADRE Associate Director Yifat Susskind, varying religious interpretations of the law could increase tensions among groups, further endangering Iraqis and undermining democracy.

22.07.2005 The chairman of the Central Elections Commission, Ilirjan Celibashi said that all the decisions taken by this institution during and after the Elections of July 3 were lawful and impartial.

22.07.2005 Le Groupe d'observation de la Tunisie organisé par l'IFEX vient d'inaugurer un nouveau site web qui passe en revue de manière détaillée la situation de la libre expression dans ce pays et qui met le gouvernement au défi de cesser de bloquer l'Internet pendant la période précédant la tenue, en novembre 2005, du Sommet mondial de la société de l'information (SMIS).

21.07.2005 Women's rights advocates, civil rights groups, and environmentalists are all voicing their concern with President Bush's Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' record. Roberts argued for an extreme anti-abortion group, against Roe v. Wade, and against affirmative action, reports the Feminist Majority Foundation.

19.07.2005 Droits et Démocratie a le plaisir d'annoncer que M. Yan Christian Warinussy, de la Papouasie occidentale, en Indonésie est le récipiendaire du Prix John-Humphrey pour la liberté 2005. Monsieur Warinussy dirige l'Institut pour la recherche, l'analyse et le développement de l'aide juridique (LP3BH), un organisme voué à la défense des droits des Papous touchés par la répression exercée par l'armée indonésienne qui cherche à resserrer son contrôle sur cette région qui occupe la partie ouest de l'île de Nouvelle Guinée (territoire partagé avec l'État de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée).

19.07.2005 KUPANG, Indonesia, Jul 19 (IPS) - Devastating though it was, the Asian Tsunami brought the proverbial winds of change to Indonesia by focusing international attention on the festering conflict in Aceh province and creating conditions for a political settlement that may yet instruct other ethnic groups.

19.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 19 (OneWorld) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has amassed at least 3,500 pages of internal documents from political protest groups in what the targets say amounts to political surveillance of some of President George W. Bush's leading critics.

19.07.2005 Sali Berisha, noviot albanski Pramier, izbran na poslednite Parlamentarni izbori, odrzani na 3 juli, 2005 godina, veti namaluvanje na danocnite davacki za mali i sredni pretprijatija, kako i zgolemeno prisustvo na zanite vo vladiniot kabinet.

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19.07.2005 Sali Berisha, the apparent new Prime Minister after the July 3 Parliamentary Elections in Albania, promised tax cuts for small and medium enterprises, as well as greater representation of women in the Government Cabinet.

18.07.2005 Since former president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was ousted from power last year, people in pro-Aristide neighborhoods in the capital, Port-au-Prince, have faced extreme repression at the hands of Haitian police. U.S.-based human rights and trade union activists say they have evidence proving that U.N. military forces carried out a "massacre" in Cite Soleil on Jul. 6, and would like the U.N. to investigate.

18.07.2005 Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced from power in a 2004 coup widely considered to have been supported by the U.S., but what was the cause of his dramatic falling out with Washington? "Privatization, privatization, and privatization," Aristide says in an interview with journalist Naomi Klein, detailing how his economic policy ran counter to U.S. interests, eventually costing him his presidency.

14.07.2005 KARBALA, Iraq, Jul 14 (IPS) - It should have been a little more than an hour's drive south from Baghdad. But it took an hour just to exit the checkpoints, with U.S. military hummers intermittently veering into oncoming traffic.

14.07.2005 At the Conference organized yesterday by the Institute of International Studies, the Dutch ambassador to Albania, Seeder van Voorst tot Voorst, criticized several Albanian political parties that continue to prematurely announce victory for their allies in the proportional lists of July 3 General Elections.

13.07.2005 A working meeting of the representatives of the Nansen Dialogue Centre Banja Luka and Prijedor NGOs was held yesterday in Prijedor, under the project to initiate the cooperation of non-governmental organizations and media from Prijedor and Sanski Most.