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| 18.04.08 | UN rights review relief for Bahrain BAHRAIN has emerged largely unscathed from United Nations scrutiny of its human rights performance. Recommendations from an examination in Geneva are limited to improving women's rights and prospects, better protection for maids and citizenship rights for the children of Bahraini women married to... read more | |
| 17.04.08 | Council of Europe Failing on Russia Urgent Need for Vigorous Monitoring in the North Caucasus A statement published today by a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on "alarming" human rights violations by security forces in the North Caucasus reaffirms the need for increased monitoring in the region,... read more | |
| 08.04.08 | Honduras ratifies the international Convention against Enforced Disappearances Honduras ratified the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances on the 1st of April, 2008 read more | |
| 08.04.08 | Creación nuevo comité de Familiares por la presentación con vida de los Detenidos Desaparecidos en México La Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos (FEDEFAM) y Asociacón de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos y Víctimas de Violaciones a los Derechos Humanos en México (AFADEM) presentan el nuevo Comité de Familiares por la Presentación con Vida de los... read more | |
| 07.04.08 | India: UN Rights Council Should Tackle Impunity (New York, April 07, 2008) � The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) should insist that the Indian government take strong steps to hold accountable members of its security forces responsible for torture, arbitrary detentions, killings, and 'disappearances', Human Rights Watch said today. The... read more | |
| 07.04.08 | EU: Seize New Opportunities to Press Russia on Chechnya (Brussels, April 7, 2008) – The European Union should seize every opportunity to press Russia to end human rights abuses in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus and ensure perpetrators are brought to justice, a coalition of leading human rights groups said today. read more | |
| 05.04.08 | Kashmir: Facts underground The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons have located upto a thousand unnamed graves across the northern district of Indian administered Kashmir, which hold bodies claimed by police to be of foreign militants. The group which released a report �Facts Underground� last week in Srinagar... read more | |
| 04.04.08 | IACHR presents 2007 Annual Report Washington, April 4, 2008 — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) releases its 2007 Annual Report today. The Chairman of the IACHR, Dr. Paolo Carozza, presented the report on Thursday to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS). read more | |
| 04.04.08 | SRI LANKA: International experts pull out but government backs human rights inquiry COLOMBO, 4 April 2008 (IRIN) - The pull-out of an international expert group supervising a key human rights investigation has dented the credibility of the inquiry, said activists, but the government is confident the perpetrators will be brought to justice. read more | |
| 04.04.08 | Remove RP from UN rights body--activists MANILA, Philippines -- Human rights advocates are pushing for the removal of the Philippines from membership in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNCHR) and the imposition of sanctions for what they called unabated extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances under the Arroyo... read more |