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| 26.02.09 | Kenya: UN Special Rapporteur findings on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions in Kenya Between June and October 2007 the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights documented that in police death squad operations, approximately 500 people were killed or disappeared by the police.The Special Rapporteur further reports that in the Mt Elgon district the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF)... read more | |
| 19.02.09 | Turkmenistan: AI says dozens of people subjected to enforced disappearances An Amnesty International document on Turkmenistan says that people continue to be of risk of human rights violations in Turkmenistan, including enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 16.02.09 | Kashmir: Omar urged to honour his promise regarding HR abuses in IHK Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will 'consider' the memorendum send to him by noted human rights activists in which they urge him to address the human rights abuses taking place in occupied Kashmir. read more | |
| 12.02.09 | Sri Lanka: UN Experts deeply concerned at suppression of criticism and unabated impunity UN experts including chairman of UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances express deep concern at the deteriorating human rights situation in Sri Lanka, particularly with regard to the situation of human rights defenders. read more | |
| 12.02.09 | Russia: AI says implement recommendations of Human Rights Council The Russian authorities must accept and implement the recommendations put forward by other states and adopted today by the UN Human Rights Council with a view of improving the country’s human rights situation, Amnesty International said. read more | |
| 12.02.09 | Mexico: AI alternative report to Human Rights Council The Mexican government is providing the UN with an incomplete assessment of the human rights situation in the country, according to an Amnesty International's alternative report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council as it reviews the human rights performance of the Latin-American country on 10... read more | |
| 09.02.09 | Nepal: Mandira Sharman analizes the issues of a Commission through ordenance Mandira Sharman (Advocacy Forum) analyzes in this article the problems that could appear if the Commission on disappearances gets approved through ordenance. Advocacy Forum suggests that government and political parties invoke provision 3 of Article 51 of the interim constitution to call a special... read more |  |
| 09.02.09 | Peru: Doris Caqui nominated as social leader The Human Rights Defender, and wife of a victim of enforced disappearance Doris Caqui Calixto has been nominated for the condecoration Women Order of Merit 2009 read more |  |
| 09.02.09 | Zimbabwe: Jestina and others still in detention Jestina Mukoko is still incarcerated in solitary confinement in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. An application to the High Court for her release on bail failed when the judge ruled on technical grounds that she could not apply for bail. The judge refused to grant leave to appeal to the Supreme... read more |  |
| 03.02.09 | Nepal: Government vows to push through an ordinance to resolve disappearances Despite loud opposition, the Maoist-led coalition government of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has vowed to push through an ordinance to resolve the cases of hundreds of people ‘disappeared’ during the decade-long people's war waged between Maoist rebels and the forces of the former... read more |