News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1731
IRAQ: More Than Two Million Refugees Waiting to Come Home
- Inter Press Service
The government of Iraq and the international community must establish safe conditions for the return of 2.6 million displaced Iraqis, says a new field report by the non-profit group Refugees International.
POLITICS: Officially Absent, Cuba Looms Large at Americas Summit
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama may be the star attraction at the three-day meeting, but the U.S. embargo on Cuba which has not been invited to attend remains a major issue at this weekend’s Fifth Summit of the Americas to be held for the first time in an English-speaking Caribbean country.
RIGHTS: UN Protects Israel From Racism Charges
- Inter Press Service
As the wreckage from Israel's recent siege on Gaza continues to smoulder, international civil society organisations are assembling this week in Switzerland to address Israel's crimes of military occupation and racism.
RIGHTS-US: Abu Ghraib Victims Can Sue Interrogators
- Inter Press Service
In a ruling that could have widespread implications for government contractors overseas, a federal court has concluded that four former Abu Ghraib detainees, who were tortured and later released without charge, can sue the U.S. military contractor who was involved in conducting prisoner interrogations for the Pentagon in Iraq.
MIDEAST: West Bank a Time Bomb Waiting to Explode
- Inter Press Service
Tension between Israel and Palestinians is rising sharply as reflected in a number of increasingly bloody and violent confrontations since Israel's devastating war in Gaza at the beginning of the year.
GREECE: 'Culture of Control' Taking Over
- Inter Press Service
The government of the right-wing New Democracy has announced massive security measures that legal experts warn can corrode social and political rights.
HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Scientists Reveal Effects of Herbicide
- Inter Press Service
Glyphosate, the herbicide used on soybeans in Argentina, causes malformations in amphibian embryos, say scientists here who revealed the findings of a study that has not yet been published.
SRI LANKA: Economic Crisis Ramping Up, As War Winds Down
- Inter Press Service
Government troops are closing in on the last remnants of Tamil Tiger resistance in northern Sri Lanka as an upsurge of more that two years of fighting winds down. But, the country’s economic woes aren’t over. More and more pressure it being put on President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s cash-strapped administration.
POLITICS: U.N. Staff Seeks Answers in 2007 Algiers Bombing
- Inter Press Service
Why is the U.N. keeping its report on the 2007 terrorist attack in Algeria secret? The world body’s staff union says it wants to know.
POLITICS: Errant Drone Attacks Spur Militants in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisations, which has been touted by proponents as having eliminated nine of the 20 top al Qaeda leaders, is actually weakening Pakistan’s defence against the insurgency of the Islamic militants there by killing large numbers of civilians based on faulty intelligence and discrediting the Pakistani military, according to data from the Pakistani government and interviews with senior analysts.
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