News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1742
RIGHTS-BURMA: Junta Lets UN Continue Helping Muslim Rohingyas
- Inter Press Service
For now, the United Nations’ refugee agency has been given breathing room to operate in a western corner of military-ruled Burma, where humanitarian programmes offer some comfort to the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
BRAZIL: Landmark Ruling Confirms Indian Reservation
- Inter Press Service
Chanting 'Anna Pata, Ana Yan' (Our Land, Our Mother), members of indigenous organisations and activists celebrated a Brazilian Supreme Court ruling Thursday that confirmed the borders of a huge indigenous reservation in the Amazon jungle and set an important precedent for future land disputes.
PARAGUAY: The Lot of Domestics - Unceasing Work that Goes Unnoticed
- Inter Press Service
Olga is 39 and María is just 14, but both of them are looking for the same thing while they stay at a centre run by missionary sisters in the Paraguayan capital: a position as a live-in domestic.
POLITICS-US: New Calls for a More Tolerant Intl Order
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. should stop focusing on universalising Western democracy and instead work on constructing an international order that grants full legitimacy to responsible non-democratic states, argues an influential new paper that has become widely discussed in Washington foreign policy circles.
MIDEAST: Israeli Soldiers Condemn War on Gaza
- Inter Press Service
Based on testimony from Israeli soldiers who took part in the recent war in Gaza, Israel is being confronted directly with the serious charge that permitted rules of engagement allowed for the killing of Palestinian civilians and widespread destruction of Palestinian property.
FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
- Inter Press Service
Carole is an 18-year-old student of African descent at a high school in central Paris. She is currently studying for the baccalauréat, an exam at the end of secondary school. When she graduates, she would like to leave France as soon as possible, preferably for the United States.
MIDEAST: Israelis Using 'Excessive' Force Against Protesters
- Inter Press Service
The critical wounding of a U.S. activist has highlighted the excessive use of force by Israeli forces.
FRANCE: Rights Junior Minister Loses Out to Economic Interests
- Inter Press Service
Rama Yade, France’s secretary of state for human rights, is not having an easy time on a number of fronts.
FIJI: Caught Between Coups and Corruption
- Inter Press Service
The December 2006 coup, Fiji's fourth in less than 20 years, was dubbed a 'cleanup campaign' by military commander Frank Bainimarama, now Fiji's interim prime minister.
PHILIPPINES/US: Women's Groups Back Recanting Rape Victim
- Inter Press Service
Nicole, the Filipina who accused a United States serviceman of raping her in 2005, has recanted her testimony, but women’s groups supporting her in the case do not see this development as a defeat.
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