Global Issues News Headlines for “Human Rights Issues”

Rights-Mexico: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.

Botswana-Politics: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.

Climate Change: The Danish Example

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

Chile: Mapuche Detainees Claim They Were Framed

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

'This lie has got to end,' said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.

Q&A: 'Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot'

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.

Haiti: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a 'tok-tok-tok-tok' sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.

Rights-Laos: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.

Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia

2009-11-20T00:00:00-08:00

Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.

South Sudan: Media Give Us a Fair Deal - Women

2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

The guns have gone silent — except for sporadic conflict in parts of the vast South Sudan region, such as the Eastern Equatoria State. It may not be the absolute end of the conflict in the region, but it is a reason for renewed hope.

Kosovo: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing

2009-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovo’s parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be seen anymore - a good example of how slow and painful the process of discovering the fate of the missing is.