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| 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 | |
| 03.02.09 | China: Disappearance of Human Rights Lawyer In a press release the organisations Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Human Rights in China demand the Chinese government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of Gao Zhisheng, a leading human rights lawyer who disappeared two weeks ago. The three organizations stressed that Gao was... read more | |
| 03.02.09 | Peru: Fujimori accused of crimes against humanity Alberto Fujimori was responsible for crimes against humanity committed by the police under his regime, said one of the lawyers of the prosecution at the beginning of the final allegations in the trial of former Peruvian president (1990-2000). Continue reading this article in Spanish read more |  |
| 03.02.09 | Cuba ratifies the Convention against Disappearances Yesterday, 2nd of February 2009, the Cuban government placed the instruments of ratification of the International Convention against Enforced Disappearances at the headquarters of the UN in New York. 81 countries have signed this convention, and with Cuba eight countries have ratified it. Still... read more |