News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1792
POLITICS: U.N. Hopes to Jumpstart Quartet Talks
- Inter Press Service
The U.N. Security Council is calling for intense international efforts to conclude diplomatic negotiations aimed at creating a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine.
GENDER-KENYA: Renewed Campaign to Protect Women's Land Rights
- Inter Press Service
Pressure is mounting to include a National Land Policy that ensures equal access to land between women and men in Kenya's new constitution.
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Badawi's 'Toothless Bills' Harm Reform Agenda - Critics
- Inter Press Service
By tabling two of three reform bills, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has shown his hand and, not surprisingly, both have run into strong opposition within and outside parliament.
MEDIA-PHILIPPINES: Journo Killings Threaten Press Freedom
- Inter Press Service
Three years after Marlene Esperat was shot dead in her living room, she continues to symbolise the plight of journalists in the Philippines who are increasingly being victimised or murdered in a country which prides itself on having a free press.
POLITICS: Staunch Critic of Israel at U.N. Reports Death Threats
- Inter Press Service
The outspoken president of the General Assembly, Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, who recently described Israeli policies in the occupied territories as tantamount to 'apartheid', says his life is under threat.
ARGENTINA: Bringing Films and Filmmaking to Indigenous Communities
- Inter Press Service
With the assistance of experts from Bolivia, indigenous communities in the northeastern Argentine province of Chaco are learning how to make films, as a means of helping the rest of the world understand their way of life and the problems they face.
IRAQ: Looking After Pockets, Not Patients
- Inter Press Service
A nurse at Baquba General Hospital asked Ahmed Ali, who co-authored this report, for a bribe to look after his sick baby. It was hardly an exceptional demand. Patients around Iraq have begun commonly to speak of the need to bribe medical staff to get some form of care.
POLITICS: Thai Elites Install Their Man as Premier
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year after his party suffered its third consecutive electoral defeat, Abhisit Vijjajiva rode to victory to become Thailand’s new prime minister, the third this year. It was not a choice of the voters, though.
POLITICS: Thailand's Poor Discover Vote Power
- Inter Press Service
Prateep Ungsongtham recalls a vastly different mood a decade ago when she tested the political pulse of the urban poor living in Klong Toey, Bangkok’s largest slum.
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: New Laws May Curb NGO Activity
- Inter Press Service
Cambodia could be the latest Asian country to adopt tighter laws governing the activities of local and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) -- a move many believe will put further pressure on the country’s already fragile democratic space.
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