News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1779
POLITICS-THAILAND: Town and Country Divide Runs Deep
- Inter Press Service
Vendors at a bustling municipal market in this provincial city are fairly open about the need for Thailand to have a proper democracy with regular elections. In fact many of them wear red shirts to announce their political choice.
MIDEAST: Tehran Opts for 'Moral Support' in Gaza War
- Inter Press Service
Although the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli leaders have depicted the ongoing crisis in Gaza as part of a larger struggle against Iran and its 'proxies', Tehran's involvement with the Palestinians is rather limited.
MIDEAST: Israel Fighting Also the UN
- Inter Press Service
A United Nations report that Israel ordered civilians into a building and then shelled it marks yet more evidence of widespread targeting of civilians in the Gaza assault.
POLITICS: In Washington, All Roads Lead to Tehran
- Inter Press Service
As the war in Gaza approaches its third week, a chorus of influential voices in the U.S. media has cast the conflict as a proxy war in which the real enemy is not Hamas but Iran.
RIGHTS: Aid Groups Dispute Israeli Claims in Gaza Attacks
- Inter Press Service
As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organisations.
MIDEAST: Mourn the Cat That Died
- Inter Press Service
On the phone from Gaza, Zahrah Salem shares the news she has just seen, that so many at the White House were 'deeply saddened' by the death of the cat India Willie. Why, she asks, is nobody at the White House deeply saddened by the death of so many children in Gaza.
MIDEAST: Israel Ignores U.N. Security Council Resolution
- Inter Press Service
International aid organisations, including the U.N. humanitarian agency in Palestine, are calling for the immediate implementation of the Security Council resolution passed late Thursday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
EUROPE: Political Chill May Outlast the Big Freeze
- Inter Press Service
As Russia suffers from the financial crisis and Ukraine heads towards bankruptcy, nobody can tell who is to blame for a spat that threatens to freeze Central Europe and the Balkans.
MIDEAST: Gaza, and Israel's Wars of Forced Regime Change
- Inter Press Service
The war that Israel launched on Gaza Dec. 27 is the seventh war of choice Israel has launched against its neighbours since 1973, the last year in which it fought a war that was forced upon it.
MIDEAST: Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December
- Inter Press Service
Contrary to Israel's argument that it was forced to launch its air and ground offensive against Gaza in order to stop the firing of rockets into its territory, Hamas proposed in mid-December to return to the original Hamas-Israel ceasefire arrangement, according to a U.S.-based source who has been briefed on the proposal.
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