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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:24:00 GMT
Call for genocide condoned by ANC steeped in hatred [Read Full Story ]
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:24:00 GMT South Africa Star
Tanzania: Musician's Genocide Appeal Thrown Out [Read Full Story ]
(Dar es Salaam) Arusha THE International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Appeals Chamber today reaffirmed a 15-year-jail sentence imposed on Rwanda's renowned musician and composer Simon Bikindi for his role in the 1994 genocide. Presiding Judge
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:09:00 GMT AllAfrica.com
PM Meles says report on Ethiopias human rights out of reality, based on lies [Read Full Story ]
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:51:00 GMT Walta Information Center
N. Korea rejects U.N. recommendations on human rights [Read Full Story ]
. Korea rejects U.N. recommendations on human rights GENEVA, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea rejected an array of U.N. recommendations on how to improve its human rights conditions, including putting an end to public executions, claiming the suggestions
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:44:00 GMT Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies
Amnesty International urges Ma to end death penalty [Read Full Story ]
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:40:00 GMT Taiwan Today
Human rights are for all: Govt [Read Full Story ]
Correctional Services Deputy Minister, Hlengiwe Mkhize, has urged communities to accept offenders who had completed their sentences back into society, saying her department strives to strike a balance between victims and offenders’ rights. Speaking at
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:32:00 GMT NewsToday.co.za
Ex-general Links Gays In Army To Genocide [Read Full Story ]
A retired U.S. general says Dutch troops failed to defend against the 1995 genocide in the Bosnian war because the army was weakened, partly because it included openly gay soldiers. The comment by John Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired from
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:30:00 GMT Manila News.Net
Jos: MOSOPP Seeks Protection from Genocide [Read Full Story ]
From Senator Iroegbu in Abuja, 03.19.2010 Plateau With no solution in sight to the ethno-religious crises in Plateau State, which recently claimed more than 500 lives, the Movement for the Survival of Plateau People (MOSOPP) has called for protection
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:58:00 GMT This Day Online
Iran takes down human rights websites - accuses them of espionage (Update) [Read Full Story ]
Iran takes down human rights websites – accuses them of espionage. (IMG: H.Saber /Flickr) Update: The Tech Herald recently got the opportunity to speak with Ahmad-Batbi, a spokesman for HRA-Iran.org, and hear his side of the story surrounding the
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:48:00 GMT Tech Herald
Human Rights Chief Wants Killings Investigated [Read Full Story ]
Kampala The statutory rights body has condemned the killing of three civilians allegedly by security forces at Kasubi tombs and called for a ban on non-uniformed individuals to wield guns. Mr Med Kaggwa, chairman of Uganda Human Rights Commission, said
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:40:00 GMT AllAfrica.com
Amnesty International supporting Iranian Prisoners of Conscience,Payvand News of Iran [Read Full Story ]
Quicklink submitted by Abbas Sadeghian, Ph. D. (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) View Ratings | Rate It Read the rest of the story HERE: Tags for This Quicklink: Prisoners (754) Iran Election (190) Political
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:31:00 GMT OpEdNews.com
U.S. will undergo human rights scrutiny [Read Full Story ]
Quicklink submitted by Sheila Samples (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) View Ratings | Rate It Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that, for the first time, the United States will submit itself to a
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:31:00 GMT OpEdNews.com
Desmond Tutu - In Africa, a step backward on human rights [Read Full Story ]
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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:29:00 GMT OpEdNews.com
I. Muradyan: the USA will recognize the Genocide [Read Full Story ]
“The American society and the establishment understand very well that they should recognize the Armenian Genocide, and this should be done so that the US dispositions, policy and interests didn’t suffer”, - the political scientist Igor Muradian
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:24:00 GMT Aysor.am
MPA Civil Liberties Panel Publishes "Post G20" Report laying Out Future Recommendations On Policing To Maintain Public Order [Read Full Story ]
The MPA Civil Liberties Panel report 'Post G20', investigating the Met?s current public order policing strategies and making recommendations for a way forward, is published today 18 March. It will be presented to the full Authority for final ratification
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:48:00 GMT Egov Monitor
Tensions between UN and Sri Lanka over war crimes [Read Full Story ]
Home » World News » Asia » Sri Lanka A diplomatic row has erupted between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations over plans by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, announced earlier this month, to establish an expert panel to investigate human
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:45:00 GMT World Socialist Web Site
Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States [Read Full Story ]
On March 13, China’s Information Office of the State Council published a report titled, “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009.” This document was clearly intended as a rebuttal to the annual US State Department Country Reports on
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:44:00 GMT World Socialist Web Site
Germany is a 'major proliferation center' in torture tools market, Amnesty report says [Read Full Story ]
European Union legislation designed to stop the trade in equipment which is solely used for torture is being ignored. That warning is the thrust of a report just released by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation. The subject was also
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:41:00 GMT Deutsche Welle
ADVICE TO PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN CONTINUE DENYING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [Read Full Story ]
It is a well-known fact that Turkish leaders are exceptional diplomats. However, as soon as they hear the words , Greece, Cyprus or Kurdistan, these diplomats lose their "cool" and resort to emotional outbursts and undiplomatic actions that harm their
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT Armtown.com
ROBERT FISK: LIVING PROOF OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [Read Full Story ]
It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who died of
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT Armtown.com
UN genocide court rejects Rwandan musician's appeal RWANDA GENOCIDE [Read Full Story ]
A United Nations (UN) court trying the masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on Thursday upheld a 2008 conviction of a musician sentenced to 15 years for using a public address system to incite the killing of ethnic Tutsis. The appeals chamber of the
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:19:00 GMT Polity.org.za
UN genocide court rejects Rwandan musician's appeal [Read Full Story ]
A United Nations (UN) court trying the masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on Thursday upheld a 2008 conviction of a musician sentenced to 15 years for using a public address system to incite the killing of ethnic Tutsis. The appeals chamber of the
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:05:00 GMT