News Archive
| 03.12.09 | Nepal: Envoys visiting Bardiya Nearly a dozen ambassadors based in Kathmandu are visiting Bardiya on December 8 in a joint effort to draw the attention toward human rights violations by state and then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) during the conflict. read more | |
| 03.12.09 | Guinea: Evidence of new arrests, harassment and illegal detentions by security forces Guinea’s security forces are continuing to arrest and harass activists and others, following a massacre during a political protest on 28 September, Amnesty International found during a recent visit to Guinea. read more | |
| 03.12.09 | Kashmir: 2700 unmarked graves discovered In occupied Kashmir, 2,700 unmarked graves containing over 2,943 bodies across 55 villages in three districts, Bandipore,, Baramulla and Kupwara have been discovered. The Srinagar based human rights group, International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice for Kashmir (IPTJ) in its report... read more | |
| 23.11.09 | Supreme Court of Pakistan resumes hearings on enforced disappearances The Supreme Court in Pakistan has resumed hearings in disappearance cases. The hearings were put on a hold after the declaration of State of Emergency on the 3d of November 2007. read more | |
| 23.11.09 | UNWAD urges Lebanese authorities to reveal fate of prisoner The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has urged Lebanese authorities to investigate the disappearance of Syrian human rights activist Nawar Abboud. read more | |
| 05.11.09 | Lebanon: Ruling aids families of "Disappeared" A decision by Lebanese judicial authorities on November 4, is an encouraging first step toward recognizing the right of families of victims of enforced disappearances during the 1975-1990 war era to know what happened to them, five international human rights groups said today. read more | |
| 05.11.09 | Italian court convicts CIA agents for extraordinary rendition An Italian court has convicted 23 people, among which 22 CIA agents, in their role in the abduction of Abu Omar in Italy. read more | |
| 29.10.09 | Filipino Refugees in the Netherlands (FREN) PRESS RELEASE: Mother pleas for life of missing son and other desaparecidos Mother pleas for life of missing son and other desaparecidos (Amsterdam, 27 October) Today marks the 905th day of the disappearance of Jonas Burgos, an agriculturist and land rights activist who was forcibly abducted by armed men in broad daylight in Quezon City in the Philippines. He would have... read more | |
| 29.10.09 | Uruguay confronts its past A Uruguay court has sentenced former military ruler Gregorio Alvarez to 25 years in prison for murder and human rights violations. Judge Luis Charles found Alvarez guilty of the crime of “forceful disappearance” and “aggravated homicide” of 37 left-wing activists in 1978. read more | |
| 29.10.09 | Indonesia: Human Rights Commission Calls for investigation on Missing Activists The National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to issue a decree on the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal in connection with the 1997 forced disappearance of pro-democracy activists. read more |