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| 27.08.09 | Sri Lanka: Bishop sees little hope of missing priest being alive The bishop of Jaffna believes the chance that a priest who disappeared three years ago might still be alive is "remote." read more | |
| 25.08.09 | Honduras: IACHR reports possible disappearances On the 21st of August, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report that shows a pattern of serious violations under the current government, possible disappearances being one of them. Continue reading the original report available in the link below. read more | |
| 25.08.09 | Namibia: Ya Nangoloh to Sue Swapo Paper The executive director of the National Society for Human Rights, Phil ya Nangoloh, is suing Swapo's mouthpiece, Namibia Today, for N$250 000 after he was called a "pathological liar". read more | |
| 24.08.09 | Kashmir: APDP refutes govt. figures of disappeared persons Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has strongly reacted to the statement by government in assembly session that 110 persons disappeared in valley and said that the government was largely indifferent to cases of enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 24.08.09 | Colombia: 210 thousand complaints for disappearances Last 21st of August the Justice and Peace Unit of the Attorney General of Colombia reported that since 2006 has so far received 210 thousand complaints for disappearances. Of these 210,000 cases 2,494 corpses have been recovered and 630 were returned to their families. Click on the link below to... read more | |
| 22.07.09 | Uganda should charge or release secretly detained persons As lawyers filed petitions for habeas corpus, Human Rights Watch called upon Ugandan authorities to charge or release secretly detained persons read more | |
| 17.07.09 | Russian human rights defender killed Human rights organisations, including Aim for human rights, are shocked to hear that yet another prominent human rights activist from the Russian Republic has been murdered. Wednesday morning, Natalia Estemirova (50) was kidnapped in front of her house in the Chechnian capital Grozny. Several hours... read more |  |
| 06.07.09 | Namibia: Remembering Lubango Last Saturday, 4th July, the the NGO Breaking the Wall of Silence (BWS) observed the Day of Remembrance in honour of those Namibians who either died or went missing in Swapo jails in exile during our war of national liberation. Here an article published prior to the occasion. read more | |
| 06.07.09 | Nepal: Prime Minister urged to commit to combating enforced disappearances Amnesty International representatives visited Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Wednesday and called on him to ratify a human rights treaty aimed at combating enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 03.07.09 | Bosnia-Herzegovina: TRIAL submits a General Allegation to the UNWGEID TRIAL (Track Impunity Always - Swiss association against impunity) has submitted to the UNWGEID a General Allegation about the existing obstacles to the implementation of 1992 Declaration in BiH, requesting the Group to transmit the allegations to the government of BiH and to invite it to give its... read more |