Rights Group

Source: www.voanews.com --- 4 hours ago
International human Rights organizations say arrest of Du Daobin, writer and former political prisoner, is another example of freedom of speech violations ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 1 day ago
Executions jumped by a third in Iran and quadrupled in Saudi Arabia last year, causing the total number of executions around the world to rise yet again in 2007, a human Rights Group reported Thursday. It said China remained far in front as the world's top executioner. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
Children's Rights Inc., the Group behind a nearly 20-year-old class action lawsuit that forced the District's child welfare system to once go into receivership, will ask a federal judge to hold the city in contempt for continuing to fail children, the executive director said today. ...

Source: news.smh.com.au --- 17 hours ago
A Nobel-prize-winning Rights Group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the Group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted. ...

Source: www.boingboing.net --- 1 day ago
Glyn sez, "The Open Rights Group's websites front page and the portions of the EFFs website (Deeplinks blog, Our work and Press room) are being blocked by Radialpoint Parental control software. We would be interested in knowing what other software out there also blocks the EFF and ORG." This is the software used by Virgin Media, the cablemodem ISP in the UK, for parents who want to screen their kiddies from all that is moist and pink. Link (Thanks, Glyn!)... ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 1 day ago
Human Rights Watch says many residents cannot return for fear violence could erupt again ...

Source: www.military.com --- 7 hours ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 21 hours ago
Ein News Jul 24 2008 7:44PM GMT ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 1 day ago
Kathmandu - An international human Rights organization Thursday criticised Nepal for arbitrarily arresting hundreds of Tibetans protesting against China and restricting their right to demonstrate. The New York based Human Rights Watch said Nepal must... ...

Source: www.pacificmagazine.net --- 20 hours ago
The Indonesian government should immediately release more than a dozen Papuans detained for raising the Papuan “Morning Star” flag in Fakfak, a... ...

Source: www.dailystar.com.lb --- 20 hours ago
Two detained members of the opposition who signed the Damascus Declaration demanding democratic and radical change in Syria were released on Thursday, a human Rights Group said. Mahmoud Najjar, arrested in the northern town of Aleppo last month, and literature student Hassan Qassem, held two weeks ago in Aleppo. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
KATMANDU, Nepal : A New York-based human Rights Group has alleged that Nepal arbitrarily arrested hundreds of Tibetans protesting against China and restricted their right to demonstrate, according to a report ... ...

Source: www.thememriblog.org --- 16 hours ago
Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Center released a statement on July 19 protesting a bill seeking to toughen punishment for crimes ‎deemed to "disrupt public security" and to "intensify the scheme of punishment for disrupting the mental ... July 24, 2008, 10:26 pm ...

Source: www.wjla.com --- 7 hours ago
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Source: legaltimes.typepad.com --- 1 day ago
Human Rights First named Elisa Massimino its new executive director and chief executive officer. She has been the organization’s Washington director for more than a decade. In her 17 years with the human-Rights advocacy Group, Massimino has led a campaign... ...

Source: www.hackinthebox.org --- 1 day ago
Chinese police have arrested a prominent Internet dissident for violating his probation terms, accusing him of posting articles on overseas websites and receiving guests without permission, a Rights Group said.China has been cracking down on dissent in the run-up to next month's Beijing Olympics, fearing any unrest could embarrass the country while the world is watching.Du Daobin, from the central province of Hebei, was given a suspended sentence for subversion in 2004 having been detained by po ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
A leading animal Rights groups is launching an internet petition to demand Pope Benedict XVI stop wearing fur during religious ceremonies at the Vatican. ...

Source: www.impunitywatch.com --- 9 hours ago
By Ariel Lin Impunity Watch Reporter, Asia KATMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of riot policemen took seven senior officers hostage in a revolt southwest Nepal on Saturday. The rebelling policemen told reporters they were protesting ill treatment of lower-ranking officers by their supervisors, low-quality food they are given and other police... ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
By Joe Bavier KINSHASA (Reuters) - A 6-month-old peace deal in eastern Congo is "meaningless" because it has failed to protect civilians against murder and rape, a leading human Rights Group said on Monday. Nearly two dozen rebel and militia movements signed a January 23 peace accord with Congo's government to end a decade of conflict in North and South Kivu provinces. The deal included a ceasefire and a pledge by all groups to respect international human Rights law and protect civilians. ...