Full Coverage: Law

30.05.2006 The manner in which the court resolved the case of Neelam Ludhani has raised hopes that it could have a positive impact for the situation of women in Pakistan, irrespective of religion, aside from the signals it has sent out on the issue of conversions.

29.05.2006 In the village of Methinkot in Nepal, para-legal committees have been able to raise awareness on a wide range of women's issues. "Women are coming to us for solutions," says 34-year-old Chandra Khanel, one of 15 PLC members here.

29.05.2006 The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro is alarmed by recent activities of the Republican Broadcasting Agency (RBA) Council. While the OSCE acknowledges the fact that an independent regulatory body should be entrusted with the authority to allocate broadcasting licences, it calls on the Council to respect national law and international standards, as well as decisions of judicial bodies such as the Supreme Court.

28.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (OneWorld) - Executives at Yahoo's annual shareholders meeting Thursday turned down a request from the human rights group Amnesty International, which is demanding the world's most visited Web site stop censoring the Internet and referring dissidents to the Chinese government.

26.05.2006 Poverty means all sorts of deprivations. In the context of Bangladesh, one such impediment is for the poor not having the resources to seek justice.

25.05.2006 Yesterday, in Zagreb, the Centre for Peace Studies organized a round-table discussion on the draft-Law on Security and Intelligence System of the Republic of Croatia. The draft has already passed the first reading at the Sabor (Croatian parliament), and the text is now in the process of preparation for the second reading. CMS estimates that there are several disputable points and, yet, there was not wider public debate on the proposal.

24.05.2006 Interview with Nicaraguan lawyer Vilma Núñez de Escorcia.
Below are extracts from an interview by Noticias Aliadas collaborator Suzanne Timmons, with Nicaraguan lawyer Vilma Núñez de Escorcia, who presided over the hearings in the Permanent Tribunal of the People.

24.05.2006 MPs in Nepal have unanimously approved a landmark plan to drastically curtail the powers of King Gyanendra, including stripping him of control of the army.

24.05.2006 The High Court is being asked today to decide whether London's Critical Mass Cycle Ride - part of a global phenomenon in which cyclists in more than 300 cities take to the streets once a month in a celebration of safe cycling - is unlawful.
* World Naked Cycle Day

24.05.2006 The NINA news agency reported last week that the four biggest B&H humanitarian organizations: Merhamet, Caritas, La Benevolencia and Dobrotvor, demanded again that humanitarian organizations are exhempt from the obligation to pay Value Added Tax (VAT).

15.05.2006 Last Wednesday, May 10, 2006, Transparency International Croatia organized a round-table discussion in Zagreb, to discuss the topic of “Financing of Political Parties and Election Campaigns”.

10.05.2006 The amendments that introduce the term «hate crime» in Croatian Criminal Code, proposed by the Legal Team of Iskorak and Kontra Associations, were adopted by the Sabor (Croatian parliament) Committee for Human and National Minority Rights at its session of yesterday, May 9, 2006. The amendments were adopted by a majority of votes, while the Committee Members from the Croatian Democratic Union abstained from voting.

10.05.2006 The Ars Aevi Centre for Contemporary Arts from Sarajevo and the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) presented, last Monday, May 8, the series of appeal poster “Identify!” (Srebrenica: Podrinje Identification Project) in Dubrovnik, at the facilities of the Otok Gallery, ran by the Lazareti Art Workshop. The posters were created by the Ideology Creative Team from Sarajevo.

10.05.2006

President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Justice A.S. Anand

E-governance is strong tool for ensuring corruption-free administration, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said here on Tuesday. He was delivering the inaugural address at a conference on `Effects of Good Governance and Human Rights,' organised by the National Human Rights Commission. He urged that "All courts should follow Supreme Court and make judgments available online"

08.05.2006 I read your posting "Nepal's Dilemma: Amnesty for Maoists?". The Maoists are perpetrators of human rights [abuses]. They are responsible...

06.05.2006 Even as the Narmada dam case comes up for hearing in the Supreme Court for the third time in a month, on May 8, 2006, NBA activists along with the Delhi Solidarity Group (a support group of the NBA constituting Delhi based activists and NGOs) appeal to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to uphold the human rights of affected people in the Narmada valley.

06.05.2006 At a press conference on “Human Rights Implications of Forced Evictions and Displacement: An International Perspective” organised by the Housing and Land Rights Network in Delhi, speakers, including Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, pointed out the rampant violations of human rights being carried out across the country in the name of development.

05.05.2006 The European Movement in Serbia condemned the lack of adequate cooperation of the Government of Serbia with the International Tribunal in the Hague, which resulted in a suspension of negotiations on the Stabilization and Association Agreement and the proces of EU integration.

04.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 4 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's efforts to plead innocence to charges of using torture before a key United Nations committee have been complicated by a new report from an influential human rights group suggesting otherwise.

02.05.2006 While on the one hand, the judges sympathise about violence against women, on the other hand women lawyers are disrespected in the very temple of justice. Indira Jaising in Rediff.com, raises an issue of great importance to women -- the right to be treated with dignity at the workplace.