Human Rights Activists

Source: www.voanews.com --- 29 days ago
Representatives of Russian Human Rights organization, Memorial, and Moscow Branch of Human Rights Watch paints a complex picture of propaganda, suffering, ongoing threats to civilians in breakaway region ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 23 days ago
Central Asia -- map, undated (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Today, six prominent Human Rights Activists from Central Asia visited Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's (RFE/RL) Washington, DC office and gave a briefing about the challenges their societies face in ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 21 days ago
Venezuela expelled two Human Rights Activists hours after their New York-based group reported that "discrimination on political ... ...

Source: www.jpost.com --- 18 days ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 19 days ago
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Source: www.nationmultimedia.com --- 1 day ago
Humanrights Activists yesterday criticised the recent announcement by a number of doctors that they would not.... ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 1 day ago
Oslo - Human Rights Activists from China, Russia or Vietnam topped speculations on the eve of the announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The five-member Nobel Committee advises nominators not to announce their proposals but there ar... ...

Source: www.hrw.org --- 24 days ago
Honored for Courage in Exposing Abuse and Seeking Justice Five brave and selfless advocates of Human Rights from Burma, Congo, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan have been awarded the prestigious 2008 Human Rights Defender Awards, Human Rights Watch said today. All five have been persecuted and threatened for their work. One winner, Saudi lawyer Abd al-Rahman al-Lahim, is, which Human Rights Watch urges the Saudi government lift so that he may receive his award in person in London. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 20 days ago
Statement by sons finally closes book on Rosenberg case VENEZUELA:  Venezuela has expelled two Activists from the US-based Human Rights Watch organisation who criticised President Hugo Cháve... ...

Source: www.ipsnews.net --- 20 days ago
CARACAS, Sep 19 (IPS) - Human Rights organisations criticised the deportation of representatives of the New York-based Human Rights Watch, who presented a report asserting that democracy and tolerance have been undermined during the government of President Hugo Chávez. ...

Source: vietamreview.blogharbor.com --- 19 days ago
The People's Democratic Party dangdanchunhandan@yahoo.com http://ddcnd.org/main/ - Highlight the Human Rights Situation in Vietnam - Total of 97 years in jail to silence pro-democracy Activists Vietnam – September 17, 2008 – In the last week, with the visit of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in Hanoi for bilateral talks on Human Rights and several other issues. Hanoi authorities have cracked down hard on Vietnamese dissidents. Many pro-democratic Activists were detained, imprisoned and sentenced for exercising their Rights to freedom of expression. On September 10, 2008, Writer Nguyen Xuan Nghia in Hai Phong, Poet Tran Duc Thach in Nghe An, Mr. Ngo Quynh in Ha Noi, Mr. Pham Van Troi in Ha Tay and Mr. Nguyen Van Tuc in Thai Binh, were all arrested and incarcerated at prison B14 in Ha noi. On September 10, 2008, Mr. Nguyen Van Hai, resident of Sai Gon, and also known as the dissident blogger Dieu Cay who has written on the disputed islands of Spratly and Paracel, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for trumped up charges of tax evasion. On September 15, 2008, Mr. Luong Van Sinh, a farmer from the Binh Thuan province, who lost his land and property to corrupted government officials, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. Mr. Sinh was accused of committing an "act to disrupt the public's security", a violation of Vietnamese criminal code, Article 258. Vietnam is a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights ...

Source: www.csw.org.uk --- 37 days ago
At the height of the Beijing Olympics news has emerged of a secret directive heralding a nationwide campaign to crack down on four groups considered to be “unstable social elements” by the Chinese authorities. ...

Source: www.calvert.com --- 38 days ago
Calvert Works with SRIs and Human Rights Activists to Pressure Government of Uzbekistan to Stop the Use of Forced Child Labor ...

Source: internationalstudies.wordpress.com --- 33 days ago
Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights on September 26, the Division of International Studies will publicly launch the UW–Madison Human Rights Initiative. Building on UW–Madison’s tradition as a champion of Human Rights and international service, the initiative redefines traditional Human Rights to include economic, social, and cultural Rights, setting it apart [...] ...

Source: diystartupnews.com --- 37 days ago
Ever wanted to know what is really happening in the world. this is the place for you to find links and images from around the web and to find a community of like-minded souls ready to do something positive about it. http://www.protectthehuman.com/ ...

Source: www.rediff.com --- 9 days ago
A time may come when Human Rights Activists, liberals, intellectual elite, eminent persons, secularists and other lumpen elements may argue that it is okay for the State to fund the activities of such violent groups who according to them mean well to "liberate" those people who vibe on the same wavelength with them! ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 8 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Canadian Human-Rights Activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words. ...