News Archive
| 10.12.08 | Zimbabwe: High Court Orders Police to Find Mukoko Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said High Court Judge Anne-Marie Gowora had ordered police to advertise in the media and to search for Mukoko in all areas that police have jurisdiction over. read more | |
| 09.12.08 | Zimbabwe: Abductions continue Harare - Suspected state agents in Zimbabwe abducted an official from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), bringing to at least 19 the number of MDC supporters and civil society activists to have been whisked away without trace in recent weeks, an MDC official confirmed Tuesday.... read more | |
| 08.12.08 | Zimbabwe: Update on disappearance of Jestina Mukoko and 16 others Jestina Mukoko, director of the organization Zimbabwe Peace Project, continues disappeared since last Wednesday, Dec. 3 when she was arrested at her home. The petition to the High Court to clarify the whereabouts of Jestina has not yet been resolved since three judges have refused to chair the... read more |  |
| 07.12.08 | Iran-Iraq: Repatriation of remains of soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war Baghdad/Tehran (ICRC) – The remains of nearly 250 Iraqi and Iranian soldiers were repatriated today at the Shalamjah border crossing, near Basra, under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). read more |  |
| 07.12.08 | UNWGEID: 86th Session concluded GENEVA -- The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances concluded its 86th session, which was held from 26 November to 4 December 2008 at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. read more |  |
| 06.12.08 | Zimbabwe Press Release: Jestina Mukoko disappeared 3th of December, early in the morning, gunmen kidnapped Jestina Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), organisation that documents human rights abuses across the country. read more |  |
| 01.12.08 | Nepal: Approved the bill on disappearance Nepal has approved the bill on disappearances, and soon will be presented to the parliament, Human rights organisations still have some concerns about this bill and are trying to amend it before it becomes law. read more | |
| 01.12.08 | Algeria: The families of the disappeared abused in front of the Ministry of Justice Family members of the disappeared from the districts of Blida, Tipaza and Boumerde were received by police in plain clothes and riot police during a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Justice last 23rd of November. Continue reading the letter sent to Linking Solidarity by Fatima Yous,... read more | |
| 25.11.08 | Colombia: (AI) Congress must not approve seriously flawed “Victims’ Law” Amnesty International on the 24th November, called on the Colombian Congress not to approve the draft “Victims’ Law”. This draft followed the government’s watering down of the original bill, which would have gone some way towards guaranteeing reparation to the victims of the country’s 40-year... read more | |
| 25.11.08 | Thailand: Disappearances in south remain a concern BANGKOK, 24 November 2008 (IRIN) - Deaths and disappearances in Thailand's southern border area remain a concern for rights groups, with at least four disappearances reported this year by the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP). read more |