News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1756
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Ordeal Ends for Sons of Alleged Guerrillas
- Inter Press Service
Antonio and Héctor Cerezo, whose parents have been accused by the Mexican authorities of founding a guerrilla group, walked free out of prison this week after serving seven-and-a-half year sentences. According to human rights organisations, they were victims of state revenge.
US-VENEZUELA: Washington's Praise of Poll Suggests Detente
- Inter Press Service
Praise by the U.S. State Department for Sunday's referendum in Venezuela suggests that President Barack Obama is hoping to ease long-strained relations with President Hugo Chavez, according to regional experts here.
Q&A: Truth Brings Reconciliation
- Inter Press Service
The guns have been silent for 10 years across what was Yugoslavia, but more than 130,000 violent deaths still cast a long shadow on the region.
MIDEAST: Israel Braces for Wave of Lawsuits
- Inter Press Service
Israel is bracing for a wave of lawsuits accusing the Jewish state of substantial human rights violations during its 22-day military assault on Gaza which left more than 1,300 Palestinians dead and nearly 5,000 wounded, more than half of them civilian.
KOSOVO: Unsteady on its First Birthday
- Inter Press Service
Young people took to the streets of Pristina well before midnight brought in the 17th of February and the first anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence. They yelled and danced, waving the Albanian and occasionally the U.S. flags.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: New Beginning Uncertain - Top Analysts
- Inter Press Service
Almost three months after the terrorist attacks on India’s commercial hub of Mumbai, which soured relations between India and Pakistan, the prospect for renewed cooperation between the nuclear-armed neighbours looks dim, two eminent analysts from the region conceded at a policy dialogue here.
PAKISTAN/INDIA: Taliban As Common Enemy
- Inter Press Service
Since being elected to office five months ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has often declared that Pakistan’s single biggest challenge stems from ‘religious’ militants.
POLITICS-US: Democrats Divided Over 'Reckoning' for Bush
- Inter Press Service
With growing public support for a public investigation of crimes that may have been committed by the administration of former president George W. Bush in waging its 'global war on terror', policy makers and legal experts are deeply divided on how to proceed - and President Barack Obama seems ambivalent about whether to proceed at all.
MIDEAST: Hamas Pushed to the Wall Over Ceasefire
- Inter Press Service
Israel is toughening its negotiating stance with Hamas as the two try to hammer out a permanent ceasefire agreement.
BOOKS: Was Bush Doctrine Just a Little Bit of History Repeating?
- Inter Press Service
Was the foreign policy of George W. Bush an aberration in U.S. history, a turn away from the traditional guiding principles of U.S. foreign policy towards messianic ambitions of permanent supremacy and universal democracy?
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