News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1746
Q&A: Gitmo Uighurs Highlight a Complex Ethnic Problem
- Inter Press Service
Although United States President Barack Obama was quick to order the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay soon after assuming office, the question of what to do with the roughly 175 current inmates who are unlikely to be prosecuted by the U.S. remains.
Q&A: 'Campaign of Fear Is Atrocious' Ahead of Salvadoran Vote
- Inter Press Service
'I would not say that the media in Latin America contribute to fomenting civic culture, overall. They generally head in the opposite direction,' says Rafael Roncagliolo, a Peruvian sociologist, journalist and election consultant.
POLITICS: Legitimacy of Global Court Questioned Over Sudan
- Inter Press Service
The ongoing political crisis in Sudan is expected to worsen in the face of a rash of threats and warnings following the indictment last week of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
MIDEAST: Hot Air Brings no Winds of Change
- Inter Press Service
Last November, on the day marking the assassination of Israel's peace-making leader Yitzhak Rabin, the now outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Israelis something which, for decades, not even Rabin had dared say - we must end the occupation of the Palestinian territories and return to the 1967 borders.
RIGHTS-US: Profiling Still Plagues Muslim Communities
- Inter Press Service
On the heels of a recent poll that found that American Muslims experience emotional turbulence due to the stereotypes and suspicion of Islam since the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, two major Muslim-American organisations issued scathing indictments of the tactics of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security.
AFGHANISTAN: ‘Jihadis suffocate our voices’
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan has one of the highest percentages of female lawmakers in the world but their voices are rarely heard. A new political party, National Need, devoted to women’s rights, has announced plans to run for the next parliamentary polls. IPS spoke to its head, Fatima Nazari, member of parliament (MP) from Kabul province.
AFGHANISTAN: Women Lawmakers Battle Warlords
- Inter Press Service
Whenever lawmaker Fatima Nazari rose to speak, she says the parliament’s chair snubbed her. Whenever one of her female colleagues made a suggestion, it was brushed aside. Sometimes certain notorious warlords would speak multiple times before a female member of parliament (MP) could speak once.
MEDIA-EAST TIMOR: Minister, Editor Wrangle On Over Exposé
- Inter Press Service
East Timor's justice minister says she will file a civil liability case against newspaper editor Jose Belo, if criminal defamation charges do not make it in court.
RIGHTS-US: Time to Ratify Women's Treaty, Groups Urge
- Inter Press Service
Rights activists in the United States are urging their newly-elected government to support global initiatives aimed at protecting women’s rights.
MEDIA-THAILAND: Police Target Websites Unflattering to Royalty
- Inter Press Service
As if the country’s draconian lese-majeste laws are not harsh enough, Thailand’s thought police have another weapon, the computer crimes law, to curtail the space for free expression.
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