News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1736
EUROPE: Made in Israeli Settlements, But Never Mind
- Inter Press Service
European Union officials are seeking evidence to support claims that fruit and vegetables from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are being exported under false pretence.
POLITICS: Cleared of Terrorism, Canadian Stranded in Khartoum
- Inter Press Service
The murky post-9/11 sharing of information between western security and intelligence agencies and Sudan's notorious human rights-abusing regime appear to be at the heart of a year-long marooning of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik at his country's embassy in Khartoum.
RIGHTS: U.S. Judge Gives Bagram Prisoners Right to Appeal
- Inter Press Service
In what could become an historic decision, a federal judge has ruled that non-Afghan citizens rendered by the U.S. to Bagram prison in Afghanistan have a constitutional right to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
MIDEAST: Big Powers Moving In on Gaza
- Inter Press Service
Nine NATO member states agreed last month to utilise naval, intelligence and diplomatic resources to combat the alleged flow of arms into the Gaza Strip. Some Egyptian commentators see the move as a surreptitious means of cementing foreign control over the region.
MIDEAST: All Unclear Over Israeli Policy
- Inter Press Service
How genuine is Israel's new leadership about peace when the Prime Minister says that he will go a long way towards striving for a settlement with the Palestinians, but purposefully omits to endorse an independent Palestinian state; and, when his foreign minister warns, 'If you want peace, prepare for war', a blunt statement on which the prime minister stays studiously silent?
POLITICS: In Reversal, U.S. to Engage With Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration’s decision this week to seek a seat on the world’s top human rights body has affirmed the hopes of many activist groups that the United States will take a far more multilateral approach to diplomacy than in the past.
MEXICO: Military Justice System under Fire
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government, legislators and human rights organisations are calling for a review of the outdated military justice system, accused of letting human rights violators off the hook. But only activists seem to actually be doing anything to bring that about.
DR-CONGO: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott 'Blood Minerals'
- Inter Press Service
The world’s mass consumption of cell phones, laptops and other electronics fuels widespread sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a new study released Wednesday by the non-profit Enough Project that echoes what many human rights activists and humanitarian workers have been saying for years.
MEXICO: Indigenous Women on the Offensive
- Inter Press Service
Two years ago, Eufrosina Cruz was kept from running for mayor of her home village by the 'traditions and customs' of her indigenous community in southern Mexico, just because she is a woman.
MIDEAST: Israeli Military Cloaks Abuses
- Inter Press Service
The Israeli army's Advocate General has summarily closed an internal investigation into allegations stemming from accounts by soldiers of abuses against Palestinian civilians committed during Israel's recent war on Hamas in Gaza.
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