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Mugabe calls for friendly relations with the West and urges lifting of sanctions
October 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Zimbabwe wants new and friendly relations with Western countries who have been critical of it in the past, President Robert Mugabe announced today. Keep reading →
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Tagged: africa, human rights, mugabe, zimbabwe
Immigration: the European Court of Human Rights opens proceedings against Italy
September 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has informed us (Secondo Protocollo Italy) today that it has opened the proceedings No 47645/09 against the Government of the Italian Republic granting our complaint on refusal of asylum seekers. You can read the press release here Keep reading →
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Tagged: european court for human rights, gaddafi, immigration in italy, immigration law, italian law, secondo protocollo italy
Kurdistan world: opposition participation and significance of election; a view on the last Kurdistan elections
September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Aso Ali – According to literature of democracy and pluralism, the importance of people participation in political arena generally and election especially is not just to make a good government which is some time not the case at all. It is true that when people have a say in putting those who rule them in power, the government has more legitimacy in form of a political capital on which the ruling group depends in its rule. But more that, in the modern world election is seen as an effective channel through which the resentment and discontent of the public with the incumbents can be expressed peacefully. It is this demobilization of mass dissatisfaction with a certain ruling group which periodic elections are intended to perform. Here, we can repeat what founders of modern democracy have said: democracy replaces bullet with ballot. Keep reading →
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Tagged: elections in kurdistan, kurdistan
Woman’s Case Reflects Prisoners’ Treatment In Iran
September 6, 2009 · 1 Comment
(From AP)-The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran’s disputed presidential election. Keep reading →
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Tagged: abuse, human rights in iran, iran
The Guardian: Ministers under fire for locking up immigrant children
August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470 minors were being detained with their families. Keep reading →
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Tagged: human rights, immigrant children, immigration law
Great Britain – Islam: frustrated love and forced marriage
August 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The story of my friend Amina highlights the need for a modern Islamic marriage contract. But the Muslim Council of Britain has chickened out. By Ed Husain Keep reading →
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Tagged: forced marriage, islam in great britain, Shariah, women rights
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests
August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has expressed outrage at reports that a 17 year-old Senegalese man will stand trial on 24 August for sexual acts “against nature” and that two other men were convicted on identical charges during the week of 10 August, 2009. Keep reading →
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Tagged: gay and lesbian human rights commision, gay in senegal, senegal
Meeting Southern Sudan’s former child soldiers
August 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This post is written by Pernille Ironside, a child protection specialist for UNICEF, who serves as the organisation’s global focal point on the use and recruitment of children by armed forces and groups. She is currently based at UNICEF Headquarters in New York.
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Tagged: child soldiers, south sudan, unicef
Refugee story: the house of despair
August 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A filthy squat in Calais is home to 50 Eritreans who daily try to cross the Channel seeking asylum in Britain. Here are their stories Keep reading →
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Tagged: eritrea, great britain, italy, refugee