Full Coverage: Human rights

30.04.2007 International watchdog Reporters Without Borders has condemned threats made by Sri Lankan Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, younger brother of the president, against the editor of the Daily Mirror, Champika Liyanaarachchi. The minister also threatened to "exterminate" a journalist on the newspaper, for writing articles about the plight of civilian victims of the war.

27.04.2007 Initiated by the affiliates of Global Campaign for Education (GCE) the Global Action Week aims to make sure that governments ensure the right to free and quality primary education, to highlight its violation inspite of government promises, local meetings to know the reality of the accessibility of education and create human chains around the world for education.

25.04.2007 Faced with unemployment in their failing tea estates, about two years ago, tea pluckers in the rolling highlands of this southern state responded by forming cooperatives to buy out their former employers Tata Tea and turn the gardens into profitable enterprises.

24.04.2007 UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (OneWorld) - As the United Nations prepares itself to take further action on a proposal to adopt an arms control treaty, civil society groups are stepping up pressure on governments to take a firm stand.

20.04.2007 KRITI: a development research, praxis and communication team will be releasing a Hindi version of their publication From Thought to Action: Strategies to combat Violence against Women, entitled Aurato ke Khilaf Hinsa: Dhrishtikon aur Rannitiyan at the Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, on the 4th of May 2007 from 6.30 pm onwards. The book shares findings from an in-depth field-based study and suggests possible interventions.

20.04.2007 Ungana-Afrika, a regional ICT for development organisation addresses the challenge of ICT in development sector and its expansion through the network of ICT consultant and eRiders, as non-governmental and other development organisations in Southern Africa confronting the crisis of main-steaming ICTs into their operations.

18.04.2007 The headquarters of Mizzima News Agency in New Delhi, India, run by exiled Burmese journalists was shut down by the Delhi Police and municipal authorities who claimed that the office was conducting "commercial activities" from a residential area.

17.04.2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that if the United Nations can make its operations more streamlined and efficient in the fields of development, humanitarian assistance and environment it will benefit both developed and developing nations. He added that this is important for fulfilling the MDG goals.

17.04.2007 Indian communities facing environmental and health damages due to Coca-ColaÂ’s bottling operations in Kerala plan to protest and question the company's shareholders and management at its annual general meeting at Wilmington, Delaware, US.

16.04.2007 Balraj Puri from the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) says that terrorism in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has dwarfed the human rights of orphans, widows, handicapped, weaker sections, displaced persons and many others. He says that it is a high time that people took notice of these rights also.

16.04.2007 Well known activist Medha Patkar released a report - Dalits & The NCMP - which has been published by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan. The report highlights the status of Dalits in the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) with a focus on livelihood, education and budgetary resources. Read press release by WNTA

13.04.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 12 (OneWorld) - On February 18, 2005 an Iraqi man was driving his vehicle from his house to work at his farm. On the way, U.S. forces shot him when they passed, damaging the vehicle and killing the man. His case is among the hundreds detailed in internal Pentagon documents released today.

11.04.2007 Prof Prabhat Patnaik provides a simple model of the current pattern of IndiaÂ’s economic growth process, to reckon with the fact that even an accelerating growth rate may leave the unemployment problem completely unresolved, or even accentuated, as labour productivity rises at a faster rate than investment

11.04.2007 On the tenth anniversary of the ratification of the European Human Rights Convention by the Republic of Macedonia, and the tenth anniversary of the Civil Society Research Centre (CSRC), the Centre published its latest publication Cases Versus Macedonia at the European Court of Human Rights, 2002-2006.

10.04.2007 As Bangladesh marks its 36th Independence Day, a new report laments the rapid shrinking of liberal space in the country due to intense political polarisation and a growing cult of violence. War-torn Sri Lanka is also slammed for its large number of disappearances and recruitment of child soldiers

10.04.2007 With two of every three children facing some form of physical abuse, an official study, "Child Abuse: India 2007," has suggested that the issue be placed on the national agenda. Fifty percent of the abusers are people known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.

09.04.2007 A UK-based development organisation Womankind Worldwide has released a report - Tackling Violence against Women: A Worldwide Approach – that shares the stories, struggles, and strategies of people in Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Ghana, Peru, India and the UK who have come together to stand up for the rights of women.

05.04.2007

04.04.2007 Globalization is a buzzword that has gained increasing importance all around the world. A very significant feature of the global economy is the integration of the emerging economies in world markets and the expansion of economic activities across state borders.

03.04.2007 PESHAWAR, Apr 3 (IPS) - "Lack of security in Afghanistan is the main obstacle standing in the way of our going back," said an Afghan vegetable-seller, straddling a muddy narrow lane in Kacha Garhi, the oldest refugee camp in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), with a push-cart.