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Haider Rizvi , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3 (IPS) - Global efforts to combat climate change will lead nowhere as long as the indigenous peoples' representatives have no say in discussions to lay out future plans, say activists who are attending the international conference on climate change being held in the Polish city of Poznan...
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Dec 04, 2008
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Ulrich Knapp , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 (IPS) - People in seven majority Muslim countries favour a more active United Nations with broader powers, while simultaneously viewing the world body as dominated by the U.S. and failing to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a global network of...
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Dec 03, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor told the United Nations on Wednesday to be prepared to arrest Sudan's president on genocide charges ...
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Dec 03, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Fondation Hirondelle - Switzerland FONDATION HIRONDELLE - HIRONDELLE NEWS AGENCY IN ARUSHA INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA MALI/CONVICTS TWO RWANDA GENOCIDE CONVICTS TRANSFERRED TO MALI AMID TIGHT SECURITY Arusha, 3 ...
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Dec 03, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
British Red Cross Society - UK Today in Oslo, Norway, over 100 nations will sign an historic agreement banning the use of those cluster munitions that have caused decades of suffering for civilians. For too long these weapons ...
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Dec 03, 2008
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(author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk
Source: Reuters By Wangui Kanina NAIROBI, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The masterminds of Kenya's post-election violence may be barred from politics or face lengthy jail sentences under a draft law to set up a special ...
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Dec 03, 2008
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Baradan Kuppusamy , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (IPS) - After winning a gruelling 13-year court battle to avoid being jailed on charges of maliciously publishing false news, Malaysia's best-known human rights champion seeks a political career to continue defending migrant workers and other vulnerable sections of society....
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Dec 03, 2008
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Stephen Leahy , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 3 (IPS) - International lust for the enormous mineral and resource riches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) abetted by international indifference has turned much of country into a colossal "rape mine" where more than 300,000 women and girls have been brutalised, say activists....
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Dec 03, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Human Rights
The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today called on the country's Government to ensure urgently a fully functioning independent human rights commission, warning that serious rights concerns persist, ranging from the death penalty to the prevalence of rape, despite some recent progress....
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Dec 03, 2008
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William Fisher , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights
NEW YORK, Dec 3 (IPS) - As a group of retired military leaders prepared to urge U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to quickly put an end to the harsh interrogation practices inflicted on security prisoners, a new United Nations report charged that Iraqi authorities were committing "grave human rights violations" in their...
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Dec 03, 2008
