News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1754
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Year Later Apology to Lost Generations Looks Hollow
- Inter Press Service
One year after the historic apology made to indigenous Australians by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on behalf of the nation, conjecture remains over whether enough has been done to support the acknowledgement of wrongs inflicted on the first Australians.
Q&A: Fighting 'the Dark Side of Globalised Society'
- Inter Press Service
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, known for prosecuting alleged tyrants, terrorists and perpetrators of corruption, believes that progress toward a global justice system began in 1996, with the trials in Madrid of Argentine and Chilean torturers, and especially with the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in October 1998.
MIDEAST: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege
- Inter Press Service
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama must take a leadership position in championing human rights in the Middle East and North Africa by using U.S. economic and trade leverage and confronting the growing global threat of authoritarianism being promoted by Arab regimes, advocates say.
MIDEAST: 'EU Paying for Gaza Blockade'
- Inter Press Service
European Union aid has been given to an Israeli oil company which has reduced the supply of fuel to Gaza as part of an economic blockade internationally recognised as illegal, Brussels officials have admitted.
MIDEAST: Peace Talks on Hold Amid Dual Power Struggles
- Inter Press Service
Negotiations for the political endgame of the recent Gaza war have proven much more difficult than - presumably - the Israeli cabinet imagined last December, when it took the final decision to start the war.
POLITICS: Rhetoric and Reality Clash on Obama's First Foreign Visit
- Inter Press Service
On his first foreign visit as U.S. president, Barack Obama's rhetoric of 'hope' and 'change' came face to face with the hard, divisive policy realities of climate change from Canada's tar sands, a growing insurgency in Afghanistan and the sputtering world economy.
CHINA: Khmer Rouge Trials Raise Ghosts of the Past
- Inter Press Service
The skeletons are tumbling out of China’s cupboard of buried memories. The 30th anniversary of China’s brief but bloody war with Vietnam may have gone unmarked but for the fact that Feb.17 also saw the start of the trial of the chief torturer of Cambodia’s grisly Khmer Rouge.
POLITICS: The U.S. is Back in Geneva
- Inter Press Service
United States diplomats are back in force at the U.N., after having distanced themselves from the world body for several years. This week they contributed to successful mediation between Georgia and Russia, although they did not help resolve a stalemate on gay rights.
U.S.: Calls Mount for Obama to Appoint 'Truth Commission'
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen U.S. human rights groups Thursday joined a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and a retired top diplomat in calling on President Barack Obama to appoint a non-partisan commission of leading citizens to examine and report on the treatment of detainees held by the United States during President George W. Bush's 'global war on terror.'
RIGHTS-US: Court Passes the Buck on Fate of Chinese Muslims
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder prepared for his first trip to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, next week, human rights advocates suffered a stinging defeat when a federal appeals court ruled that 17 Chinese Muslims scheduled for release from the Caribbean detention centre could not enter the U.S. and must remain in custody.
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