News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1740
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Tough Terror Laws Part of Routine Policing?
- Inter Press Service
Civil libertarians are concerned that significant powers wielded by authorities in order to conduct investigations into terrorism-related activities are being normalised and made available for less serious crimes.
COLOMBIA: Growing International Support for Peace
- Inter Press Service
The Nasa indigenous people who live in southwestern Colombia risked their very lives when they took it upon themselves to blow up munitions and weapons they discovered on their lands.
RIGHTS: Death Penalty Losing Favour Around the World
- Inter Press Service
Though most of the world is moving a step closer to the abolition of the death penalty, death sentences continue to be handed out in the hundreds around the globe, says a new report from Amnesty International (AI).
AFGHANISTAN: Long Drought Raises Spectre of Famine
- Inter Press Service
The battle to contain the growing political and military turmoil in Afghanistan may be temporarily overshadowed by an impending threat to millions of people in that strife-torn country: food shortages and starvation.
POLITICS-US: Censorship Seen in Exclusion of Foreign Scholars
- Inter Press Service
A leading legal rights group charged Tuesday that the Barack Obama Justice Department is using immigration law to censor debate by selectively barring U.S. entry to foreign scholars.
MIDEAST: Israel Under Pressure Over Divided Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
By late Saturday afternoon hundreds of heavily armed Israeli security forces on horseback and on foot had arrested over 20 Palestinians, assaulted a handful of people, and prevented numerous festivities from taking place.
RIGHTS-US: Detainee Offered Freedom for Silence on Torture
- Inter Press Service
A British court ruled Monday that U.S. authorities had asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture in exchange for his freedom.
AFRICA: Pope on Condoms Out in the Cold
- Inter Press Service
Political leaders, activists, scientists and even Catholic bishops all joined in the chorus of criticism against the stance taken by Pope Benedict with respect to the use of condoms to curb the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
POLITICS-US: Veils of Secrecy Lifting in Washington
- Inter Press Service
As President Barack Obama’s Justice Department issued sweeping new guidelines to reverse the secrecy policies of former president George W. Bush, a federal judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to produce unedited summaries of some 3,000 documents related to its admitted destruction of 92 videotapes of prisoners being subjected to extremely harsh interrogation techniques.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Hopes Pinned on Reinstated Justices
- Inter Press Service
As he resumes office as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Tuesday, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will doubtless mull over the years since Mar. 9, 2007 when he was first unceremoniously sacked by then president Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
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