News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1777
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: No Accountability For Anti-Terror Errors
- Inter Press Service
Despite the Kevin Rudd-led government committing to introduce all ten recommendations of the inquiry into Australian authorities’ bungled terrorism investigation of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, civil rights groups are concerned at the lack of accountability for mistakes made.
POLITICS-US: Olmert's Claims Revive Spectre of 'Israel Lobby'
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. State Department fiercely denied claims made by Ehud Olmert about his influence over President George W. Bush, in an incident that has stirred up old debates about the role of the Israeli government and the so-called 'Israel lobby' in formulating Middle East policy in Washington.
EL SALVADOR: Spanish Judge to Investigate Murders of Jesuit Priests
- Inter Press Service
A Spanish judge’s decision to investigate 14 Salvadoran military officers for the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador is a 'sign of hope against impunity,' according to lawyers and activists.
MIDEAST: Anger Begins to Knock at the Borders
- Inter Press Service
A number of armed attacks have taken place on Israel's borders with Palestinian territories in the last six days as Arab public anger over the death and destruction wrought on Gaza spills over from massive street demonstrations.
POLITICS: Gaza Killings Trigger Call for War Crimes Probe
- Inter Press Service
With hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, killed during nearly three weeks of fighting in Gaza, there is a growing demand either for an international tribunal or an international commission to investigate charges of war crimes committed by Israel.
MIDEAST: Ceasefire Moves Fading Away
- Inter Press Service
A week after the unveiling of a Franco-Egyptian ceasefire proposal aimed at stopping the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian resistance faction Hamas and on the face of it Israel, are still discussing the fine print of an agreement.
RIGHTS-US: Fate of Guantanamo Detainees Still Murky
- Inter Press Service
Human rights groups are hailing reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. But they are urging him to provide details on when and how it will be done and what will happen to those now imprisoned there.
MIDEAST: Israel in No Mood to Brook Dissent
- Inter Press Service
The war on Gaza is widening. Not so much on the battleground inside Gaza as inside Israeli society. The Israeli army continues the battering of Hamas, but on another front Israelis are firing on their own democracy -- and from within the very halls of democracy itself.
U.S.: Bush Foreign Policy Legacy Short of Disastrous
- Inter Press Service
While in a farewell press conference Monday George W. Bush once again expressed the belief that his eight-year presidency, particularly his foreign-policy record, will be vindicated by history, the portents are not particularly good.
HEALTH-NEPAL: On Course to Achieve MDG on Maternal Health
- Inter Press Service
Impoverished Nepal has dramatically reduced maternal mortality cases from 540 per 100,000 live births in 2001 to the present 280 -- a feat experts attribute chiefly to the legalisation of abortion.
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