News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1749
ISRAEL: Slowly Beating Back the Persecution Psyche
- Inter Press Service
A new study shows that Israelis are moving towards an understanding of the Palestinian position on the conflict, even though a vast number still hold on to simplistic notions about good Israelis and bad Arabs.
LABOUR-PHILIPPINES: Meltdown - Women Most Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
Shaynar Bacon was working as a cashier in a shopping mall in Mindanao, southern Philippines, when she learned that an electronics manufacturing firm in Taiwan was looking for workers.
RIGHTS-PERU: 'No Thanks' to Donation for Memorial Museum
- Inter Press Service
Heduardo, one of the most scathing caricaturists in the Peruvian press, published a cartoon showing President Alan García more interested in a 'museum of amnesia' than a proposed 'museum of memory.'
RIGHTS-US: Lawsuits Challenge Charity Blacklisting
- Inter Press Service
In two court cases that could test the limits of the Barack Obama administration’s executive authority as well as its commitment to transparency, human rights lawyers are challenging the government’s right to use information obtained through warrantless wiretapping as evidence and to shut down charitable organisations without allowing them to defend themselves.
IRAQ: Stumbling From One Conflict to Another?
- Inter Press Service
When U.S. President Barack Obama announced his plan last week to pull out all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by September 2010, the news did not generate much enthusiasm among Iraqi Kurds.
SOUTH ASIA: Terrorists Aim for Destabilisation, Media Attention
- Inter Press Service
South Asia seems to be caught in a vortex of violence as the countries that form this region - from Sri Lanka at the southern-most tip, Bangladesh to the east, Nepal crowning the north, Pakistan along the west and India in the middle - deal with internal nightmares that their governments routinely blame on neighbours.
RIGHTS-US: El-Marri Lawyers Seek Supreme Court Review
- Inter Press Service
Lawyers for imprisoned 'enemy combatant' Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri are vowing to press the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case even though al-Marri was suddenly transferred to the civilian justice system after more than five years in solitary confinement in a military brig.
RIGHTS-US: El-Marri Lawyers Seek Supreme Court Review
- Inter Press Service
Lawyers for imprisoned 'enemy combatant' Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri are vowing to press the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case even though al-Marri was suddenly transferred to the civilian justice system after more than five years in solitary confinement in a military brig.
MIDEAST: Israel Boycott Movement Gains Momentum
- Inter Press Service
'Standing United with the People of Gaza' is the theme of this week's Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which kicked off in Toronto and another 39 cities across the globe Sunday.
EGYPT: Solidarity With Gaza Brings Jail
- Inter Press Service
Magdi Hussein, secretary-general of Egypt's suspended Socialist Labour Party, has been sentenced to two years in prison by a military tribunal. Hussein, along with two others, was charged with 'infiltrating' into the Gaza Strip following Israel's recent campaign against the coastal enclave.
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