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| 20.05.08 | UN remembers Algeria’s disappeared The UN committee responsible for the application of the international convention against torture is asking Algeria to "send it as quickly as possible a list of the people who disappeared during the 1990s". read more | |
| 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... read more | |
| 15.05.08 | IACHR expresses concern about extradition of Colombian Paramilitaries Washington, D.C., May 14, 2008—The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses its concern about the extradition of paramilitary leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), which seriously limits the ability to shed light on grave crimes perpetrated during the armed... read more | |
| 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. read more | |
| 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. read more | |
| 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... read more | |
| 24.04.08 | Digging Up the Dirt A forensics team is tracking down South Africa's disappeared—and reopening some very cold cases. read more | |
| 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. read more |  |
| 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. read more | |
| 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. read more |