News Archive
| 16.03.09 | Human Rights Council Discusses reports on Countering Terrorism, Torture and Involuntary and Enforced Disappareances On the past 10 of March the Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue on the reports of Martin Scheinin, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism; Manfred Nowak, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading... read more | |
| 16.03.09 | Tibet: Tibetan Groups Urgently Appeal for UN Intervention President of the Geneva-based Tibetan U.N. Advocacy group Ngawang Choepel, is pleased by the amount of evidence presented to the High Commissioner of Human Rights by human rights organisations in their reports of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, torture, and enforced disappearances.... read more | |
| 09.03.09 | International Convention: Uruguay and Kazakhstan ratify Uruguay and Kazakhstan make 10 the number of countries that have ratified the international Convention against Enforced Disappearances. Until now only four of those 10 countries have recognized the competence of the Committee read more | |
| 02.03.09 | Saudi Arabia: Disappearance of Abdullah Al Nuaimy, former Guantanamo detainee Nuaimy Al Abdullah, a Bahraini, was detained by the United States of America Camp in Guantanamo Bay for more than 4 years before being released without trial on 05 November 2005. On 29 October 2008 he travelled to Saudi Arabia by road. He was arrested at the border, and has disappeared since then. read more | |
| 02.03.09 | Pakistan: Resolve Hundreds Of Baluch 'Disappearances' In a public statement the organisation Amnesty International asks the Pakistani government to immediately act on its commitment to trace hundreds of Baluch victims of enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 02.03.09 | Guatemala: Time for justice for Guatemala's war victims (AI) Amnesty International has called on the Guatemalan Congress to approve a law for a National Search Commission for the Disappeared as an essential step to implement the recommendations made by the country’s Historical Clarification Commission 10 years ago. read more | |
| 02.03.09 | Phillipines: Urgency to pass human rights bill against disappearances House Deputy Minority Leader Satur Ocampo (Bayan Muna) has called for the immediate passage of two major House Bills that would address the prevailing climate of impunity on human rights violations and raise government human rights policy and accountability to internationally-accepted standards.... read more | |
| 26.02.09 | Kenya: UN Special Rapporteur findings on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions in Kenya Between June and October 2007 the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights documented that in police death squad operations, approximately 500 people were killed or disappeared by the police.The Special Rapporteur further reports that in the Mt Elgon district the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF)... read more | |
| 19.02.09 | Turkmenistan: AI says dozens of people subjected to enforced disappearances An Amnesty International document on Turkmenistan says that people continue to be of risk of human rights violations in Turkmenistan, including enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 16.02.09 | Kashmir: Omar urged to honour his promise regarding HR abuses in IHK Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will 'consider' the memorendum send to him by noted human rights activists in which they urge him to address the human rights abuses taking place in occupied Kashmir. read more |