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| 22.05.08 | Turkey: Some 800 victims of enforced disappearance remembered Yakınlarını Kaybedenler Derneği (YAKAY-DER) and the International Committee against Disappearances (ICAD) organise two sit-down strikes, a photo exhibition and panel discussions with the relatives of missing persons. read more | |
| 20.05.08 | Sri Lanka y la ONU por Por Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Como los latinoamericanos conocen muy bien, existe un puñado de crímenes que un Estado puede cometer, que por su naturaleza consisten en eliminar personas consideradas como enemigos políticos, para nunca saber más de ellos. Nuestra región sufrió terriblemente durante la guerra sucia de los años ’70... read more | |
| 20.05.08 | Nobel Prize Winners tell UN: Vote Sri Lanka off Human Rights Council (New York, May 19, 2008) – Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize from three continents called on UN members to reject Sri Lanka’s candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council, the NGO Coalition for an Effective Human Rights Council said today. Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Adolfo Pérez... read more | |
| 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 |