News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1738
AUSTRALIA: 'Chinese Asylum Seekers' Rights Were Violated'
- Inter Press Service
A yet-to-be released report by Australia’s human rights watchdog into the 2005 treatment of a group of Chinese asylum seekers held at the immigration detention here has concluded that serious breaches of civil and political rights were made by the immigration department.
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: Khmer Rouge Custodial Torture Exposed
- Inter Press Service
On a recent morning, tourists who visited a former high school in this city, turned into an infamous torture chamber during the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge regime in the mid-1970s, were in for a surprise the presence of a man who lived to tell the tale.
MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Pondering Risks Covering Conflict, Crime, Corruption
- Inter Press Service
The main issue before the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) meeting over the weekend in the central Punjab city of Faisalabad is the threat faced by journalists in this conflict-ridden South Asian country.
U.S.: Washington Urged to Seek 'Positive Engagement' With ICC
- Inter Press Service
A bipartisan, blue-ribbon task force is urging the United States to formally announce a policy of 'positive engagement' with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and send an observer to its 2010 Review Conference.
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Verdict Strengthens Dirty War Impunity
- Inter Press Service
For decades, prosecutors, historians, activists and the families of victims of the political violence of the late 1960s and the 1970s in Mexico have blamed former president Luis Echeverría for the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Tlatelolco square in the capital and the disappearance of hundreds of people in the country’s 'dirty war' on leftists and other dissidents.
U.S.: Obama Affirms New Focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
In what marks a significant escalation in U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama Friday outlined what he called a 'comprehensive, new strategy' for the two countries to fight al Qaeda and its local allies.
MIDEAST: Path to Peace Needs New Realism on All Sides
- Inter Press Service
With Benjamin Netanyahu now close to announcing his government line-up in Israel, the issue of whether and how to include Hamas in Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking is moving to the top of the Middle East agenda.
MIDEAST-US: Freezing Out Hamas No Longer Viable, Pundits Say
- Inter Press Service
A new report from a New York-based think tank and delivered to U.S. President Barack Obama by a signatory who is also a current adviser recommends that Washington forcefully reinsert itself into the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, calling for 'a more pragmatic approach to Hamas.'
Q&A: Cambodians Look Beyond Khmer Rouge Trials
- Inter Press Service
While the trial of the notorious jailor of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime is expected to break new legal ground in Cambodia, justice is not all that people here expect to come out of the war crimes tribunal.
EAST TIMOR: Case Backlog Worries New Prosecutor General
- Inter Press Service
East Timor’s new prosecutor general, Ana Pessoa, says that she is ready to 'strengthen’’ her office through ‘’first of all trying to understand why there are so many pending cases'.
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