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| 25.05.09 | Philippines: Search for Filipino activist continues Eight months after the enforced disappearance of indigenous rights activist and founding member of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) James M. Balao in the Cordillera region of the Philippines, his colleagues brought Balao's case to the United Nations. read more | |
| 25.05.09 | Sri Lanka: United Nations Human Rights Council to hold a special session The Human Rights Council will hold a special session to address the human rights situation in Sri Lanka on Tuesday, 26 May starting 3 p.m. in Room XX, the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Human Rights organisation Amnesty International has... read more | |
| 25.05.09 | Sri Lanka: Tamil Children "being abducted" The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers says a number of children in camps for people displaced by Sri Lanka's Tamil conflict have been abducted. The coalition (Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in between others) has have verified reports of disappearances in the Vavuniya area... read more | |
| 19.05.09 | Sri Lanka: Human Rights Defender Abducted A human rights defender identified as Stephen Sunthararaj was abducted by five men whilst travelling in his lawyer's car in Colombo on May 7, the London based Amnesty International (AI) said in a statement fearing that he may have been subjected to enforced disappearance because of his work as a... read more | |
| 12.05.09 | EDIEC Newsletters Approximately every two months we publish the EDIEC Newsletter with the most relevant news and publications in that period. read more | |
| 06.05.09 | Update: Jestina Mukoko and 17 other activists are jailed again In Harare a judge revoked the bail of 18 Zimbabwean human rights and political activists 2 months after they had been conditionally released. Among these activists is Jestina Mukoko, Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project. The activists are accused of trying to topple the Mugabe regime. The... read more | |
| 21.04.09 | New in EDIEC: Sentence on Alberto Fujimori Fujimori Sentence on former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori Fujimori by the Supreme Court to 25 years prison for the offences of aggravated kidnapping, murder, grievous bodily harm and crimes against humanity in the cases of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. (In Spanish) read more | |
| 20.04.09 | Indonesia: Human Rights orgs. request the ratification of the Convention against disappearances IKOHI and KontraS, supported by the Madres de the Plaza de Mayo of Argentina, AFAD, and Amnesty Internasional request the National Commission of Human Rights to give special attention to the great slowness of the process to sign the Convention on Protection of All Persons from Enforced... read more | |
| 20.04.09 | Russian Federation: No progress in Chechnya without accountability Amnesty International warns that the normalization is not possible without accountability for the human rights violations perpetrated in the region during the last 10 years, even when Russia announced that normality has return to the territory. read more | |
| 16.04.09 | Nigeria: Police ‘disappear’ four in Port Harcourt On the 16th of March, Amnesty International warned that police in the Niger Delta region are increasingly using illegal and violent means to tackle suspected militants and criminals in the area – including enforced disappearances, torture, and illegal killings. read more |