News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1772
MIDEAST: Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
- Inter Press Service
Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realised it was gone - completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
U.S.: Rights Groups Applaud Move to Halt Gitmo Trials
- Inter Press Service
U.S. and international human rights groups Wednesday praised President Barack Obama's directive to immediately suspend the work of military commissions established by his predecessor, George W. Bush, to prosecute suspected terrorists at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and pressed for its earliest possible closure.
CUBA-US: Whose 'Opportunity?'
- Inter Press Service
The new U.S. administration headed by Democratic President Barack Obama is creating hope in Cuba for an easing of tensions in relations between the two countries, although there is scepticism in this regard in some academic circles.
VENEZUELA: Journalists Face Escalation of Violence
- Inter Press Service
With chilling calm, the killer dismounted from the motorbike, pulled out his gun and shot Ores Sambrano through the head as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The journalist was on his way to a video store on a busy avenue in Valencia, an industrial town 100 kilometres west of the Venezuelan capital.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Crisis as Opportunity for 'Another World'
- Inter Press Service
A World Social Forum (WSF) revitalised by a global crisis that has awakened new interest in the proposition that 'another world is possible' - now perceived as either less utopian or more urgently needed - will take place from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1 in Belém, in northern Brazil.
COLOMBIA: Hostage Release Plan at a Standstill
- Inter Press Service
'Operation Mistrust' could be the name of the efforts surrounding the planned unilateral release of six hostages by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which has run aground a month after it was announced.
MIDEAST: Move On From Conventional Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
In his inauguration address Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama made no direct reference to Israel's three-week campaign in Gaza; nor did he mention the urgency of addressing the old bugbear of international relations - how successfully to forge a Palestinian-Israel peace.
MIDEAST: Too Many Pieces to Pick Up
- Inter Press Service
A pillow, a belt, a child's school bag and pages of a torn copy of the Quran lie in the wreckage of the Al-Da'aa family home in Zeitoun, a neighbourhood of Gaza City. Twenty-four members of the family were killed when an F-16 fighter jet dropped a bomb on their house. Nine bodies still lie under what is now just a massive pancake of concrete, metal wires and death.
MIDEAST: Egypt Bent at the Border
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of houses inside the Gaza Strip were destroyed by air strikes and artillery during Israel's recently concluded military campaign. Areas along Egypt's border with the hapless enclave, meanwhile, have not been immune from the devastation.
PAKISTAN: Obama Inauguration Brings Hope, Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
As billions of people around the world tuned in to participate electronically in Barack Hussein Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, the message of hope that he symbolised resonated with Pakistanis - though some shrugged it off as part of a system that is unlikely to change.
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