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| 16.03.10 | China: Gao in Prison for ‘Subversion’ Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been sentenced to prison on charges of subversion, according to the Chinese foreign minister. Gao is well-known for the length of his state-enforced disappearance, his published account of torture at the hands of Chinese security forces, and the unusual... read more | |
| 16.03.10 | NGO calls on international community to look into disappearances in Tindouf, Algeria Geneva - The International Agency for Development expressed on Monday its concern over the persistence in the Tindouf camps of enforced disappearances, and urged the international community to exert pressure on Algeria so that it assumes its responsibility regarding these human rights violations. read more | |
| 16.03.10 | UN human rights group looking into 200 cases of enforced disappearances 15 March 2010 – A United Nations human rights group today will begin reviewing more than 200 cases of disappearances around the world, as the body commemorates its 30th anniversary. read more | |
| 11.03.10 | Ingushetia: Demonstration to Protest Against Kidnappings of Compatriots On March 6, several hundred protestors in Ingushetia’s Plievo settlement, which is situated in the vicinity of Nazran, the republic’s largest town, blocked local highways and demanded that authorities investigate the kidnapping of Mikail Pliev. Ingushetia’s leading opposition figure. read more | |
| 11.03.10 | Afghanistan: Repeal Amnesty Law The Afghan government should urgently act to repeal a law that provides an amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch has said. read more | |
| 11.03.10 | HRC: Interactive dialogue on Arbitrary Detention, Enforced Disappearances and Internally Displaced Persons Last 9th of March the Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue with with the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on arbitrary detention, and the Representative of the Secretary-General on the... read more | |
| 11.03.10 | Zimbabwe: Call on Government to ratify conventions Human Rights Forum Zimbabwe will hold a meeting on the 12th of March to call on the government to ratify both the Convention against Torture and the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The meeting is co-sponsored by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and will take... read more |  |
| 04.03.10 | FEMED: Press release at the occasion of 30 years UNWGEID The press release is entitled: "30 years after the WGEID's creation: stop enforced disappearances", and was released by the Euro-Mediterannean Federation against Enforced Disappearances. read more | |
| 01.03.10 | UNWGEID 30th Anniversary Source:UNWGEID read more |  |
| 25.02.10 | Colombia: Amnesty International release report on human rights violations Amnesty International released a report on human rights violations committed against indigenous people in Colombia. These include killings and enforced disappearances. read more |