News Archive
| 24.09.09 | Sri Lanka: World Leaders Should Demand End to Detention Camps World leaders in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh should call on the Sri Lankan government to immediately release more than 260,000 displaced persons illegally confined in detention camps, Human Rights Watch has said. read more | |
| 22.09.09 | Philippines: Mother braves uncertainty to find abducted son At 56, yesterday was Wilma Rodriguez’s first trip out of town. She has always considered herself as a homebody, going out only to attend mass or buy food and other needs. Now, however, she needs to leave the comforts of her home in Rodriguez, Rizal to find her missing son, Noriel. This article has... read more | |
| 22.09.09 | The Netherlands remember about the disappeared in Belarus On the 16th of September in a twin-city of Minsk, Eindhoven, an action took place commemorated to the 10th anniversary of the involuntary disappearances of Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky. The action consisted of ceremonial commemoration of the disappeared Belarusians, demonstration of a... read more |  |
| 15.09.09 | Belarus Free Theatre makes debut in Washington On the 10th anniversary since public leaders Anatol Krasouski and Viktar Hanchar’s disappearances, an American first night of the play based on real events is to take place in Davis Performing Arts Center, Washington, US. read more | |
| 14.09.09 | Kashmir: APDP demands setting up commission Srinagar, September 11 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), demanding setting up of an independent commission to probe the custodial disappearances, has vowed to continue to fight till whereabouts of the missing persons are made known. read more | |
| 08.09.09 | 'Aim for human rights' publishes primer on Convention 'Aim for human rights' has just launched “Art. 1.1: No one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance”, a guide to the International Convention for the Protection of All Person from Enforced disappearances. This colourful and easy-to-read publication aims to facilitate de understanding of the... read more |  |
| 08.09.09 | U.S. Tried to Soften Treaty on Detainees From 2003 to 2006, the Bush administration quietly tried to relax the draft language of a treaty meant to bar and punish "enforced disappearances" so that those overseeing the CIA's secret prison system would not be criminally prosecuted under its provisions, according to former officials and... read more | |
| 04.09.09 | Chile: Arrest warrants issued against at least 120 Pinochet agents The arrest warrants issued by a Chilean judge against at least 120 people – all of whom had worked as military or security personnel – constitute an important step towards justice in a country that hasn't paid sufficient attention to its past, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. read more | |
| 03.09.09 | USA: Attorney General orders ‘preliminary review’ into CIA detention cases – full investigation long overdue Amnesty International demands again a full investigation into the CIA secret detention cases, this time with the occasion of the publication of the CIA Inspector General’s review of CIA counterterrorism detention and interrogation “activities” which took place yesterday. read more | |
| 03.09.09 | Nepal: 'disappearances' law 'must meet international standards' Nepal 'disappearances' law 'must meet international standards' Prominent human rights organizations submitted a memorandum to the Government of Nepal on Sunday. In it, they requested that the latest draft Disappearances bill be amended to make it comply with international law and standards. read more |