News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1771
MEXICO: Vigilante Group Threatens to Kill ‘One Criminal a Day’
- Inter Press Service
A supposed new paramilitary group’s threat to kill a criminal every 24 hours in Ciudad Juárez has further fanned the flames of the violence in that border city, which gained notoriety over the past decade and a half for the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women and has more recently seen an increase in drug-related murders.
POLITICS-US: Gaza War Lends Urgency to Obama's Mideast Agenda
- Inter Press Service
On Thursday, his second full day in office, Pres. Barack Obama took some bold steps that could have wide and positive repercussions in the Middle East.
CHINA: Melamine Milk - Penalties Disappoint Victims' Parents
- Inter Press Service
Days before families across China sit down for the Chinese New Year’s feast, the country’s leaders have moved to restore public confidence in the safety of their repast. A Chinese court has sentenced two men to death and awarded stiff sentences to others implicated in the country’s worst food-tampering scam.
POLITICS: Few Govts Seen to Take the Foreign Policy High Road
- Inter Press Service
Nationalism, both as an internal and an external consideration, has been a major factor in geo-political wrangling in the 21st century. But strangely, the populations of most countries don't necessarily see their governments as carrying out estimably moral foreign policies, according to a new poll.
LABOUR: 'Meltdown Leaves Migrant Workers Prone to Abuse'
- Inter Press Service
The global recession is causing a heightened sense of job insecurity among millions of migrant workers making them more vulnerable to abuse, say migrant rights advocates.
PERU: Furnaces Used to Remove Evidence of Dirty War Killings
- Inter Press Service
The discovery of more and more bodies of victims of Peru’s dirty war on the grounds of the Los Cabitos military base, which served as a torture and extermination centre during the 1980-2000 armed conflict, have substantiated the accounts of political prisoners who managed to survive.
Q&A: 'A Lot of the Gaza Story Is Being Left Out'
- Inter Press Service
The war of words continues in Gaza, in spite of the ceasefire. Nancy Snow, propaganda expert, talks to IPS about information spin strategies and whether we, the public, have learnt any lessons from Iraq.
POLITICS: Hamas Fights on Uneven Battlefield
- Inter Press Service
In the 1967 movie classic the 'Battle of Algiers', which recreated Algeria's war of independence against France, a handcuffed and shackled insurgent leader, Ben M'Hidi, is brought before a group of highly-partisan French journalists for intense interrogation.
ECUADOR: Indigenous Groups Protest Government Policies
- Inter Press Service
Since the start of his term in January 2007, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has had touchy relations with the indigenous peoples' movement, in spite of the fact that it backed his election. But passage of a mining law has deepened the rift between them and triggered protests.
MIDEAST: Cornering of Civilians Unprecedented, Says UN Official
- Inter Press Service
Israel's refusal to allow civilians any exit route from Gaza as its defence forces rained bombs down on schools and houses appears unprecedented in modern warfare, a United Nations investigator has said.
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