News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1768
MIDEAST: Not Quite a Political Ceasefire Between Hamas and Fatah
- Inter Press Service
Reconciliation between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah is looking increasingly problematic as the two groups exchange serious accusations of treason, torture and extra-judicial killings.
IRAQ: Tentative Hope Rises Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Uncertainty and tension are running high in Baghdad ahead of the provincial election due Jan. 31. But this time fears are also touched by a new hope.
Q&A: Bolivia Limits Size of Estates in Land Reform Struggle
- Inter Press Service
Voters in Bolivia, one of the countries with the highest concentration of land in the world, decided in Sunday’s referendum to limit the size of large landed estates, or 'latifundia', to 5,000 hectares.
SRI LANKA: India Speaks Up For Embattled Tamils
- Inter Press Service
As humanitarian agencies warned of a major crisis unfolding in Sri Lanka, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee made a quick dash Colombo to extract promises concerning the safety of some 250,000 ethnic Tamils trapped in fighting between separatist rebels and government troops.
AUSTRALIA: Complicit in East Timor Occupation - Records
- Inter Press Service
Recently declassified government records from 1978 are a further indictment of Australia’s complicity in Indonesia’s 24-year occupation of East Timor.
POLITICS: Gaza Tensions Shadow U.N. Holocaust Ceremony
- Inter Press Service
The president of the United Nations General Assembly was a last-minute no-show at the U.N.'s annual ceremony commemorating the Holocaust, following an intense lobbying campaign by pro-Israel organisations to have him removed from the programme.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: 'Wake Up, World!' - SOS from the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message 'SOS Amazon' to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).
US-EUROPE: Few Welcome Mats for Guantanamo Detainees
- Inter Press Service
International human rights groups have expressed mixed reactions to the European Union's lukewarm pledge to accept some detainees from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes.
ZIMBABWE: Government Scheme to Access Forex Blocks Small Business
- Inter Press Service
The ZANU-PF government’s efforts to gain access to foreign exchange (also known as forex) by imposing an expensive licensing system on Zimbabwean enterprises, enforced with the threat of prosecution, is undermining one of the last remaining means of survival in the collapsing country.
THAILAND: Don Challenges Lese-Majeste Law - Risks Jail Term
- Inter Press Service
In a country where the culture encourages people to bow, worship and even grovel before authority, Giles Ungpakorn has always been an exception.
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