Noticias
| 20.05.08 | Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka: The Government must strengthen the justice The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), following the review of Sri Lanka’s human rights record at the 2nd session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), expressed dismay at the Sri Lankan government’s complacent responses to mounting criticism... [Leer más] | |
| 15.05.08 | CIDH expresa preocupación por extradición de paramilitares colombianos Washington, D.C., 14 de mayo de 2008 – La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) expresa su preocupación por la extradición de líderes paramilitares de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), que limita seriamente el esclarecimiento de graves crímenes perpetrados durante el conflicto... [Leer más] | |
| 15.05.08 | CIA refuses to release info on secret detentions NEW YORK(IPS/GIN) - The Central Intelligence Agency has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit demanding the disclosure of more than 7,000 documents related to the agency's programs of secret detentions, renditions and torture. [Leer más] | |
| 15.05.08 | Extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances during Arroyo term A total of 903 cases of extrajudicial killings and 193 cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance have been reported since President Arroyo assumed office, the human rights group Karapatan said on Tuesday. [Leer más] | |
| 09.05.08 | Germany: Press for Human Rights Reform in Russia (Moscow, May 9, 2008) – Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier should press Russia to immediately end impunity for human rights violations in Chechnya and cease harassment of and restrictions on civil society in Russia, Human Rights Watch said today. Steinmeier will travel to Russia on... [Leer más] | |
| 24.04.08 | Digging Up the Dirt A forensics team is tracking down South Africa's disappeared—and reopening some very cold cases. [Leer más] | |
| 24.04.08 | Public Statement: Call upon the government of Pakistan to withdraw all cases against lawyers The Pakistan NGO Support Group urges the new government of Pakistan to immediately withdraw all the cases against lawyers, journalists and political activists, because they were targeted for peaceful protest. [Leer más] |  |
| 22.04.08 | Sri Lanka 'ignoring rights abuse' A team of international legal experts have stepped up criticism of Sri Lanka, saying that repeated calls to improve its human rights record have been ignored. [Leer más] | |
| 22.04.08 | Uganda rebels kidnap 350 people: Amnesty KAMPALA (Reuters) - Congo, Sudan and Central African Republic must join forces to free more than 350 people kidnapped in recent weeks by Ugandan rebels, an international human rights group said on Tuesday. [Leer más] | |
| 22.04.08 | El Gobierno Uruguayo reanudará la búsqueda de los desaparecidos de la dictadura El Gobierno uruguayo emitirá en los próximos días un decreto por el que se ordenará retomar la búsqueda de los restos de los detenidos-desaparecidos durante los años de la dictadura militar (1973-1985). [Leer más] |