News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1753
CHILE: Gov't Unleashes Anti-Terror Law on Mapuche Activist
- Inter Press Service
'They burst in aiming machine guns at us. They found him in the hallway, they grabbed him by the hair, they threw him on the floor and they beat him up,' Ida Huenulef told IPS, describing the arrest of her son Miguel, the first indigenous Mapuche activist to be charged under the Anti-Terrorist Law by the government of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
POLITICS: Rights Group Calls for Israel/Hamas Arms Embargo
- Inter Press Service
A prominent international human rights organisation has called for an arms embargo against both Israel and Hamas after finding evidence that both sides used foreign-supplied arms to commit war crimes during the recent conflict in Gaza.
COLOMBIA: A Hundred-Year War on Drugs
- Inter Press Service
The anti-drug, anti-insurgent Plan Colombia is, paradoxically, at the heart of the tragedy involving Awa indigenous people who were murdered this month by the FARC guerrillas.
CHINA: Cracks Appearing in the 'Great Firewall'
- Inter Press Service
While the Internet boom in China has given citizens new avenues for self-expression, the government's tight control and censorship of content has made it difficult for the web to act as a platform for any major political dissent.
KOSOVO: In Mitrovica, Ten Minutes Is a Long Drive
- Inter Press Service
It was a bus ride from one part of the city to another. Or was it.
Q&A: 'Hamas Won't Give In To Blackmail'
- Inter Press Service
At the eleventh hour, just as a permanent ceasefire painfully mediated by the Egyptians after weeks of intensive shuttle diplomacy was about to take effect, Israel suddenly changed its preconditions for a settlement with Hamas.
EGYPT: Israel Ditches the Go-Between
- Inter Press Service
Senior Egyptian officials have indicated that the new demands raised by Israel for ceasefire could affect the peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas being brokered by Egypt.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Burma's Muslim Rohingyas - The New Boat People
- Inter Press Service
It happened decades ago when this region was gripped by the fallout of the United States’ war in Vietnam. But the ‘boat people’ phenomenon is back, and this time it has to do with Burma’s Muslim Rohingyas fleeing harsh realities at home.
MIDEAST: Border Politics Slows Aid to Gaza
- Inter Press Service
Egyptian authorities are continuing to prevent humanitarian aid from crossing the border into the Gaza Strip, according to local sources.
IRAQ: Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can
- Inter Press Service
Seventy percent of Iraq's doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest.
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